The Rational® Rhapsody® Gateway add-on product
is often used to define specific requirements to support your analysis.
This
add-on product makes it possible for Rational Rhapsody to
hook up seamlessly with third-party requirements and authoring tools
for requirements traceability. In addition, it describes importing
requirements using the Rational Rhapsody Gateway and using use-case
diagrams to show the main system functions and the entities
that are outside the system (actors). The use case diagrams specify
the requirements for the system and demonstrate the interactions between
the system and external actors.
When the Rational Rhapsody Gateway analyzes your
project information including requirements, documents, and database
modules, the software provides the following analysis results:
- Navigation features between the Rational Rhapsody Gateway
and interfaced tools
- Requirements captured at high level accessible
in an authoring tool
- Filter capabilities for more targeted display and
results for reports
- Requirements traceability graph
- A list of elements violating default rules and
customized rules
- Additional information within the Rational Rhapsody Gateway
environment including attributes, links, and text
The Rational Rhapsody Gateway Add On includes
the following features:
- Traceability of requirements workflow on all levels,
in real time
- Automatic management of complex requirements scenarios
for intuitive and understandable views of upstream and downstream
impacts
- Creates impact reports and requirements traceability
matrices to meet industry safety standards
- Connects to common requirements management and
authoring tools including Rational DOORS®, RequisitePro®, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, ASCII, Adobe FrameMaker, Code, and Test files
- A bidirectional interface with the third-party
requirements management and authoring tools
- Monitoring of all levels of the workflow, for better
project management and efficiency
Use Rational Rhapsody to model the physical
and logical structures of the design using SysML blocks, associations,
interfaces, ports, and flow ports.
You can group structural items together in the model using these
SysML elements:
- Package diagrams show the model organization
- Block definition diagrams show the composition and classification
of the structural elements
- Internal block diagrams show the interconnection and interfaces
between parts of a block