Rational® Requirements Composer is a suite
of requirements definition and business prototyping tools. Its graphical
editors enable you to quickly develop requirements, construct use
cases, build glossaries, create business processes and design user
interface sketches and storyboards.
When you define requirements with IBM®Rational Requirements Composer, you can
elicit, capture, elaborate, discuss, and review requirements using
a variety of requirements definition techniques and collaboration
capabilities. Rational Requirements Composer integrates
with IBM Rational RequisitePro®, IBM Rational DOORS,
and the Jazz-based products IBM Rational Team Concert™ and IBM Rational Quality Manager. Rational Requirements Composer also integrates
with IBM Rational Software Architect and other Rational Software Delivery
Platform products.
With
Rational Requirements Composer,
business analysts and software development teams use an integrated,
diverse set of requirements definition techniques to develop requirements:
- Capture background information, stakeholder needs, project objectives,
and other information in textually rich documents.
- Express current and proposed processes and specify system usage
as business process
diagrams and use-case
diagrams.
- Sketch the user interface and
show screen flows and storyboards.
- Create links from
elements in one artifact to other project artifacts, or, link to external
Web sites.
- Review artifacts as a team and embed comments.
- Create a project glossary and
create terms that are integrated with project artifacts.
- Create requirements from
document text and other elements and add requirements to Rational RequisitePro, or, import
requirements from Rational RequisitePro.
Rational Requirements Composer is
supported by a an Eclipse based client and by a Web based client.
Rational Requirements Composer project page on jazz.net
Rational Requirements Composer product page on IBM developerWorks