Integrated Requirements Management and Traceability

Rhapsody is a completely integrated requirements management and traceability solution. No matter how complex the project, the integrated requirements modeling capability allows users full coverage of
  • requirements capture,
  • requirements traceability and
  • requirements analysis.
Requirements are captured using SysML Requirements Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Statecharts.

Second, requirements traceability is realized by Rhapsody’s ability to create traceability links from the model to the requirements, automatically creating traceability documentation.

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Rhapsody lets engineers and designers create SysML diagrams for model-based requirements.

Third, Rhapsody Gateway presents a detailed view of requirements traceability information to the engineer using an easy to use interface. Further detailed analysis of the requirements traceability information can be performed using Rhapsody Gateway. Designers can see the upstream and downstream impact of requirements on any level and view model or requirements changes graphically in a flexible, adaptable format that works with the user’s own process.

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Using the Rhapsody Gateway tool, change impact is highlighted
and clearly portrayed for easy understanding.

The Rhapsody Gateway has an innovative requirements management component designed to provide a seamless bi-directional interface to the 3rd party requirements management tools already in the user’s hands, including working with DOORS, Requisite Pro, Word and Excel. The Gateway is a complete traceability solution that allows users to link Rhapsody with the original requirements, allowing them to view and analyze coverage of these requirements and examine the upstream and downstream impacts that the requirements changes have made, in real-time, at any level of the design.