Is there a way to compare ompare links from different baselines

Hi everyone

Is there a function which will allow me to compare links from different baselines?

My scenario includes:

Baseline 1.0
Module A
Object A1
Object A2

Module B
Object B1
Object B2

Satisfies Linkset
Object A1 satisfies Object B1
Object A2 satisfies Object B2
Baseline 2.0

Module A
Object A1
Object A2

Module B
Object B1
Object B2
Object B3

Satisfies Linkset
Object A1 satisfies Object B3.
Object A2 satisfies Object B2

I'm hoping there is a function that will show the changes between the links from baseline 1.0 to 2.0 i.e.:

  • Link between Object A1 and Object B1 has been deleted
  • Link between Object A1 and Object B3 has been created
Appreciate your help in advance
~Chanos

Looking through the documentation it seems that there is a related topic however I wasn't 100% sure... http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=417947&tstart=0
SystemAdmin - Fri Mar 16 01:16:10 EDT 2012

Re: Is there a way to compare ompare links from different baselines
MarcioAB2 - Sat Apr 14 17:12:13 EDT 2012

Looking for the same answer.

Thank you
Marcio

Re: Is there a way to compare ompare links from different baselines
DOORSWizard - Mon Apr 16 07:01:19 EDT 2012

MarcioAB2 - Sat Apr 14 17:12:13 EDT 2012
Looking for the same answer.

Thank you
Marcio

This probably isnt't the exact answer you were looking for but I believe it should at least help. I am a big believer of managing links in DOORS using Link by Attribute (feature of DOORS to use Links > Link by Attribute to create links based on a text attribute field of your choosing as opposed to the drag and drop linking that has to be done one link at a time). If you are using this feature then you can rather easily (using DXL, but it wouldn't be very complicated perhaps just 2 skip lists containing the object ID as the key and the value of the attribute as the date) compare the values between the two baselines for the text attribute you are using to contain the absolute numbers of the requirements you are linking to.

So for example

Object A would have a Link_<parent module name> value of 123 in Baseline 1.0
Object A would have a Link_<parent module name> value of 245 in Baseline 2.0

Then you can easily compare the value of a given attribute from two different baselines. This is just one of a multitude of reasons I believe the Link by attribute feature of DOORS is far superior to the drag and drop functionality.

Re: Is there a way to compare ompare links from different baselines
SystemAdmin - Wed Apr 18 08:31:34 EDT 2012

DOORSWizard - Mon Apr 16 07:01:19 EDT 2012
This probably isnt't the exact answer you were looking for but I believe it should at least help. I am a big believer of managing links in DOORS using Link by Attribute (feature of DOORS to use Links > Link by Attribute to create links based on a text attribute field of your choosing as opposed to the drag and drop linking that has to be done one link at a time). If you are using this feature then you can rather easily (using DXL, but it wouldn't be very complicated perhaps just 2 skip lists containing the object ID as the key and the value of the attribute as the date) compare the values between the two baselines for the text attribute you are using to contain the absolute numbers of the requirements you are linking to.

So for example

Object A would have a Link_<parent module name> value of 123 in Baseline 1.0
Object A would have a Link_<parent module name> value of 245 in Baseline 2.0

Then you can easily compare the value of a given attribute from two different baselines. This is just one of a multitude of reasons I believe the Link by attribute feature of DOORS is far superior to the drag and drop functionality.

Or open the baseline and create a trace column for each version. See attached picture.

And if there are more than 5 objects you might want to export this to MS Excel or such and do a compare there....

/sekrbo
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