Author Topic: Requisite Pro intergration/import (Read 17545 times)

Bokkie · « **on:** May 05, 2006, 06:24:19 am »

Hello all,

I have found some topics about Requisite Pro intergration - pointers to something called EAreqpro. I have googled for this but no results. Is this thing alive, renamed or just an idea?

thomaskilian · « **Reply #1 on:** May 07, 2006, 11:16:11 am »

Never heard of that, but there are some relevant thread about RP here on this board.

Bokkie · « **Reply #2 on:** May 08, 2006, 12:33:26 am »

EAreqPro is mentioned on this board:
http://www.sparxsystems.com.au/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1040610926;start=5#5

thomaskilian · « **Reply #3 on:** May 08, 2006, 03:22:11 am »

Ooops. That post is 3 years old. I'm here since about 2 years and there was no 2nd mentioning about this product.

Bokkie · « **Reply #4 on:** May 08, 2006, 03:43:19 am »

So there is no integration with or import from RP?

«Midnight» · « **Reply #5 on:** May 08, 2006, 04:05:15 am »

Careful Bokkie,

This may be one of those cases where the answer is "Of course there is. Just as soon as you've written it! Please send us all a copy."

Outside of that approach I fear you are correct.

David

nara_c · « **Reply #6 on:** May 10, 2006, 02:59:39 pm »

Actually there is a way. A year or so ago I migrated the requirements for a large product development effort from ReqPro to EA. I had over 300 main requirements with subrequirements. But you need the RaQuest tool for it, far as I am aware.

You can do this by creating a view in RaRuest with all the requirements and all the attributes displayed, then export it to a CSV file.

Next you need to open RaQuest and define an import format and then use it to import the requirements.

ONE CAUTION: Make sure you back up your DB before this operation. Since there will be a lot of trial and error in the imports.

In my experience I had to do a fair bit of data massaging in Excel before I got it to the state where the import was smooth. I beleive since then the Import feature in RaQuest has been enhanced a bit so you might find it simpler.

Ralph Mücke · « **Reply #7 on:** February 02, 2007, 06:24:50 am »

Is there in the meantime some progress on this issue :-)

I'm seeking for a IBM Rational RequisitePro (RP) connector too.

Has some one written this in the meantime ;-).

Best Regards Ralph
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Bokkie · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2007, 11:30:07 pm »

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Is there in the meantime some progress on this issue :-)

I'm seeking for a IBM Rational RequisitePro (RP) connector too.

Has some one written this in the meantime ;-).

Best Regards Ralph
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I've started work on a C# plug-in. It does some imports but is unfinished. Perhaps this is interesting as an open source project?

nara_c · « **Reply #9 on:** February 06, 2007, 02:03:37 am »

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I'm seeking for a IBM Rational RequisitePro (RP) connector too.
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Ralph,

Have you tried the "CVS Export/Import" option to import RequisitePro requirements to EA. Might need some experimentation but I suspect you can get much of the main requirements into EA using this approach.

ReqPro allows you to export a list as a CSV file and also allows you to create custom list views. I remember using this feature way back to import some requirements into EA using RAQuest (see earlier post in this thread).

To understand what the format should be, create a set of dummy requirements in a EA package and then export them using a newly defined export template. Open in Excel and study the format and then use this to create the ReqPro List view. Now when you export your ReqPro requirements from the view as CSV you should be able to import into a package in EA.

A bit manual at the moment but one way to address this issue. If you managed to create suitable CSV templates it might be good to post it on this site for other to use.

Unfortunately I do not have access to ReqPro, else might have done this in my spare time.

Good luck and post back your experience in case you try this out.

Cheers
Nara

Ralph Mücke · « **Reply #10 on:** February 07, 2007, 05:42:34 am »

Open source ... cool idea ... better then having nothing or to do everything alone. Do you habe a space / place for this? Please keep me updated.

CSV Import / Export . Good point. This seem to be manual daily work back and forth. But the merge problem ... hmhm

nara_c · « **Reply #11 on:** February 07, 2007, 02:26:23 pm »

Ralph,

It appears you want to maintain your requirements in ReqPro and the rest of your modelling in EA - Kind of on the lines of the ReqPro - Rose model.

I assumed you wanted a one time import into EA like I did a while back and so my suggestion will not work for your needs. Like you pointed out, too much maintenance.

Have you considered migrating the requirements to RaQuest (the requirements tool for EA) as EA & RaQuest work off the same model file (single repository)?

Cheers
Nara

Ralph Mücke · « **Reply #12 on:** February 07, 2007, 11:39:30 pm »

Hi Nara,

I seeking of a kind of online sync'er between EA and RequisitePro.

I didn't know about RaQuest. The point for me against it is, that it is an Extra Product with extra licenses and maintenance costs. So, I excluded it already, but was thankful for the information.

The manual sync is a starting point to cope with.

The professional version of a sync'er is actually soething were compnies earn a hell a lot of money with. So, I don't expect get something for free here

Bokkie · « **Reply #13 on:** February 07, 2007, 11:50:35 pm »

I have a plug-in that can perform an import and keeps a reference to the reqpro requirement - although a bit limited and uncomplete. It might suit your needs. Perhaps I can put it somewhere on e.g. sourceforge. Would be nice if people could contribute to it also. Any ideas?

Ralph Mücke · « **Reply #14 on:** February 08, 2007, 01:00:47 am »

Hi,

I'm kompletly new on such topic (create an Open Source project). I will definitly ask some developers to join such activity. I guess sourceforge is a good idea.

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