Requirements documents

You can use Rational® RequisitePro® requirements documents to develop textual elaborations of your elements and your use-case descriptions, flows of events, special requirements, and conditions.

RequisitePro documents use Microsoft® Word and provide a context for developing requirements and communicating product design. Each requirements document addresses a particular requirement type, such as product features, use cases, and supplementary specifications. A requirements document differs from a Word document in that you can access requirement attributes and other information directly from within the requirements document.

Requirements documents are displayed in the Requirement Explorer view with a Word icon . You can open a requirements document and navigate directly to a requirement from within Rational Software Architect; however, you cannot create a requirement in a document from within Software Architect. To work with a document, open RequisitePro and edit the document from within that tool. To add existing requirements from the RequisitePro database to a document, use the RequisitePro copy and paste functions.

Parent topic: Requirement concepts and artifacts

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