Enterprie Architect and RequisitePro

[Emiliano]

Hi,
I have a problem to import a project created with RequisitePro under Enterprise Architect. There is a facility or workaround to manage a project that work currently on RequisitPro with EA ?

[dbax]

Depending on the ReqPro version that you have there is an open source ReqPro add-in for EA that will allow you to import requirements from Requisite Pro to EA. It is not fully developed but it provides a solid start. You can always extend it with an additional functionality.
You can get it from here:
http://eareqpro.cvs.sourceforge.net/eareqpro/

Regards,

Bax

[ArtF]

Along the same lines is there a link or import from DOORs?  Thanks much.
                     ART

[«Midnight»]

Art,

Sparx has an add-on product to import - one direction only, not round trip - from DOORS.

Open the Products page (use the link at the top of any forum page - and check DOORS Link in the Products section of the left-side menu.

[ArtF]

Thanks much, appreciate it.
             ART

[OilyRag]

Emiliano,

what you are asking is possible, to an extent. I have done it using a c# add-in to EA that I wrote that uses the ReqPro automation interface to read the ReqPro database content. However, there are problems. For example, attributes of requirements (eg. Difficulty, Priority, Status, etc) are so customizable in ReqPro that when you copy them into EA, there may not be a good mapping to a value in EA's attribute values. Ofcourse, you can try and align EAs attribute values to ReqPro's as you go, since EA is fairly customisable too. Then there may be issues like, in ReqPro, a given attribute is multi-select, but in EA, it is only single-select. I tried to keep things simple in my add-in. I just copied structure and element names and notes, and a few simple attributes into EA.

I cannot share this add-in with you because it belongs to the company I work for, but feel free to ask me any questions about this approach should you decide to tackle the problem in a similar way.

[Emiliano]

Thanks very much, appreciate it.
 

[«Midnight»]

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I cannot share this add-in with you because it belongs to the company I work for, but feel free to ask me any questions about this approach should you decide to tackle the problem in a similar way.
 

Hi Oily,

Is the ReqPro API part of the core product, or is there a version requirement.

Thanks much,
David

[OilyRag]

David,

I'm not sure what you are asking so  I will just ramble a bit.

I have the Rational Suite v7 on my desktop PC. RequisitePro is part of that suite of tools and with RequisitePro installed, you automatically get the extensibility interface. It comes as a COM object that you can see and use (reference) when developing a .NET assembly in c# or visual basic (or other language).  I know the extensibility interface existed prior to v7 of the Rational Suite, because I used to use an earlier version of the suite, and it was that which I began developing against. During the add-in's development I upgraded to v7 of the suite and I did not notice any changes to ReqPro's object model or interface.

Does that help? If not, you will probably have to enquire at IBM Rationals web site (a bit of a nightmare to navigate unfortunately).

[«Midnight»]

Yes, thanks.

That's exactly what I wanted to know.

David

[J. Love]

Does the MDG Link add-in work with DOORS FastTrack product as well?  We have been using EA and are installing FastTrack at the end of this month for requirements management.  I'm trying to figure out how to get these two tools to play nice together as part of the SDLC.

--Jenn