Online Help:

Also use the Help on Rational Requisite Pro and the tutorial

TO LIST FUNCTIONAL AND NON FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS

BY PRIORITY AND PRACTICALITY

  • Click NEW > PROJECT >

  • Select TRADITIONAL TEMPLATE / COMPOSITE TEMPLATE
  • Click OK

  • Enter the name of the project
  • Click BROWSE to select the directory to save the project
  • Select MSAccess for the database
  • Type the description in the Text box
  • Click OK
  • Click YES

  • After the project is created Click CLOSE to close the window

  • Select Project (Click on the minus sign near your Project name to make it a plus)
  • Click FILE > PROPERTIES >
  • The project Properties dialog box appears

NOTE: There are five existing requirement types in Requisite Pro.

The Feature requirement type is similar to Functional requirement and we will use that type. But we have to create a non functional requirement type.

To create a non functional requirement type:

  • When you click on requirement type tab, the following screen appears

  • To add a new requirement type, click Add.

The Requirement Type dialog box appears.

  • In the Initial Requirement # text box, type or modify the number to be used for the first requirement of the requirement type you are creating or modifying. Requirements are automatically numbered as they are created, starting with the number in this text box. The default number is 1, but you can change the number to any positive integer.
  • If you want to allow requirements of this requirement type to be used in cross-project traceability, select the Allow External Traceability check box.
  • In the Requirement Must Contain text box, type or modify a single word or phrase that must be included in every requirement of this type that is created, up to 32 characters. This field is optional, and is not case sensitive.
  • In the Requirement Tag Prefix text box, type or modify the prefix for a requirement type (for example, SR, GUI), up to 20 characters.
  • Select a Requirement Color and a Requirement Style to be used in documents for requirements of this type. The default is blue, Double Underline.
  • Click OK in each dialog box.

NOTE: Deleting requirement types

You can delete a requirement type if there are no requirements of the type in the project and if document types do not reference it as a default requirement type. You must have the project open in exclusive mode, and if security is enabled, you must have project structure permission to delete a requirement type.

  • Select the project in the Explorer and click File > Properties.
  • Click the Requirement Types tab.
  • Select the requirement type you want to delete.
  • Click Delete.
  • Click OK.

Note: The default attributes for each requirement type may not be required for your project. Hence you must modify the attributes of a requirement type

  • Click ATTRIBUTES in the Project Properties dialog box
  • Select the requirement type (FEAT: feature requirement type)
  • Click ADD

The Add attribute dialog box appears:

  • Enter the label of the attribute – ‘Practicality’
  • Select List (Single value)
  • Enter each value followed by <ENTER> in the text box for LIST VALUES (High, Medium, Low)
  • Click OK
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  • Click OK
  • Create a similar Practicality attribute for Non Functional requirement Type.

How to Create requirements:

Click your Project name in Explorer

  • All the packages are displayed
  • To create a package ,Right Click on Project name
  • The following dialog box appears

Enter the name and description of your new package

  • Right Click on the newly created package < NEW < VIEW

  • Enter a name for your view
  • This view is saved in database
  • Description is optional
  • Select the requirement type u want to modify (Here FEAT)
  • Click OK
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  • Click on the View just created
  • Click on the funnel icon (with arrow going left and right) in the toolbox
  • Select the attributes which you don’t want to display from the left window titled (ATTRIBUTES TO DISPLAY)
  • When you select in left window, those attributes get deselected from the DISPLAY ORDER window
  • Click OK
  • Click on <click here to create a requirement> to create a new requirement
  • Enter name and description of requirement
  • Click inside the corresponding Attribute column to set the value of the attribute.
  • Keep adding requirements like this
  • Click FILE > SAVE VIEW to save the view

Similarly add another view for Non functional requirements

  • Right Click on the package < NEW < VIEW

Select Non Functional requirement type this time.

  • Click on this view
  • Click on the funnel icon
  • and change the attributes as above.
  • Save that view.
  • Add the requirements in this type.

TO SAVE A COPY OF VIEW

  • Click FILE > SAVE VIEW AS

  • Enter name
  • Select Package
  • Description is optional
  • Click OK
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Deleting a requirement

  • Select the Requirement
  • Click on ‘Edit’
  • Click on ‘Delete’
  • Click Yes
  • To remove a column from the displayed view, right-click an attribute label and click Hide from View.
  • (To redisplay a column, click View > Displayed Attributes.)

To modify a requirement

  • Double-click requirement name


Click on the corresponding tab and Modify the requirements

OR

  • Click an attribute value, requirement name, or requirement text,
  • To change the value of the attribute, click on the attribute value.
  • A drop down menu of the choices of attribute value will appear
  • Select the attribute value
  • To accept the changes, click outside the row or press ENTER.

To change the parent or requirement type

  • Highlight the requirement
  • Click on Requirement > Change parent or Change type
  • Enter the new value

Sort requirements according to an attribute

To change the filter or sort order, double-click an attribute label or right-click the attribute label and select Query Attribute on the shortcut menu. To temporarily sort requirements by attribute value in ascending or descending order, select Sort Ascending or Sort Descending on the shortcut menu. (This sorting is not saved when you save a view, and the sort order is reset if you create or modify a query.)

Printing views

You can print any active view. When you print a view, you can choose to print the entire matrix or selected items.

  • Open a view.
  • You can print the entire view or selected requirements or relationships in the view. To print selected requirements or relationships, do one of the following:

In an Attribute Matrix, click a requirement.

  • Click File > Print.
  • If you are printing selected requirements or relationships, click Selection.
  • Make any other necessary changes to the Print dialog box, and then click OK.

You can print just the short description of the requirements, or both the short and full text of the requirements.

There are two ways of printing all the details (the full text of the requirements) in the view

  • Open a view.
  • Resize the feature rows to see the description text like below. This can be done by placing mouse pointer on a row separator and pulling it down.
  • Save the view by going to File  Save View
  • Now this view can be printed by going to File Print
  • To see/print a detailed view every time you load a view, click on the Refresh View Funnel

Another way of printing requirements along with the full description:

  • Open a view
  • Go to FileExportExport to word
  • A window will pop up which looks like this
  • Enter the file name and target folder to save the word file and click save.

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