topic Re: Suspect flags in Systems/Software Engineering

Suspect flags

kkomarla — Wed, 02 May 2018 22:49:26 GMT

Hello All,I have a document in Doors which has been converted to RIF via Atego Requirements Synchronizer 2.4. This RIF file has been now pushed to Integrity using RIF Utility 2.5. In the meantime the Doors requirement document has been updated; now I would have to export Doors document

Re: Suspect flags

JoeBartlett — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 17:06:57 GMT

Hello Karthik,

At this time I do not believe the ReqIF (Requirements Interchange Format) standard supports the concept of Suspect flags. See http://www.omg.org/spec/ReqIF/Current/ for the most up to date ReqIF definition.

Re: Suspect flags

kkomarla — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 14:59:20 GMT

Hi Joe,

Thanks for the ReqIF definition link. I shall spend some time with the documents to understand ReqIF better.

Re: Suspect flags

VolkerEckardt — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:25:55 GMT

Hello Karthik,

just to add some ideas: The suspect feature in Integrity is driven by significant changes in an item (node). The traced item (node) will become suspect when the upstream item receives this change.

To my knowledge, if you import a document again into the same (existing), and if some field values have changed, Integrity shall react with suspect flags appearing in the downstream traced items(nodes).

(e.g. if you re-import an input document with changes in it, the related requirement document nodes shall become suspect)

Is this what you want?

Volker

Re: Suspect flags

kkomarla — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:05:09 GMT

Hi Volker,

Thanks for the hint, I will look into the trace relationships.

But what I am concerned about is, "A Doors document is pushed into integrity implementing RIF utility, after this a front end user modifies the Doors document now how would i know that the Doors document is updated (other than manually looking into the document or getting a notification)? Secondly, if we know that the document is updated, how would i trace what exactly has been changed."

Once i know what has been updated or changed, only then i will proceed with migration of this document i.e. from Doors to Integrity.

Karthik

Re: Suspect flags

VolkerEckardt — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 08:38:47 GMT

Hi Kartik,

what about using the Integrity History Compare Reports?

This report will list differences between two timestamps of the document.

to find the changed nodes, what about using the filter and select all "suspect" Trace status types? Then you see all changed nodes only.

Does this help?

Volker

Re: Suspect flags

kkomarla — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:51:08 GMT

The second point sure does help. I will start testing these shortly.

Thanks and Regards,

Karthik