Importing Requirements Updates from Excel
Is there anyway to round trip Requirements from Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) to excel?
I am on a project where we have a team which has no access to the Jazz environment and has to work in Excel. We can import their initial requirements through the Excel CSV import but there is no way to manage any updates they might make.
Does anybody know of an Excel Reqif that will work. The documentations says that RRC can round trip requirements export import in ReqIF.
Please advice.
I am on a project where we have a team which has no access to the Jazz environment and has to work in Excel. We can import their initial requirements through the Excel CSV import but there is no way to manage any updates they might make.
Does anybody know of an Excel Reqif that will work. The documentations says that RRC can round trip requirements export import in ReqIF.
Please advice.
One answer
Currently there is no way to update existing artifacts from Excel / CSV files. As you write: You can only create new artifacts when importing from CSV.
There are plans regarding this functionality for newer versions of DNG, which are not yet fully confirmed:
See the following plan item on jazz.net:
Excel - import / Export (Round Trip Capability) (101722)
Indeed ReqIF (Requirements Interchange Format) can be used to import and export requirements and also provides a round-trip capability.
A CSV to ReqIF converter tool may of course help out, but I never looked into that myself.
I did find a reference suggesting such a tool exists in the following Blog:
http://blog.nomagic.com/requirements-interchange-format-reqif-importer/
This blog references a page that suggests talks about a converter tool:
http://www.pyrrho.com/en/ReqIF/ReqIF-Intro.htm
There are plans regarding this functionality for newer versions of DNG, which are not yet fully confirmed:
See the following plan item on jazz.net:
Excel - import / Export (Round Trip Capability) (101722)
Indeed ReqIF (Requirements Interchange Format) can be used to import and export requirements and also provides a round-trip capability.
A CSV to ReqIF converter tool may of course help out, but I never looked into that myself.
I did find a reference suggesting such a tool exists in the following Blog:
http://blog.nomagic.com/requirements-interchange-format-reqif-importer/
This blog references a page that suggests talks about a converter tool:
http://www.pyrrho.com/en/ReqIF/ReqIF-Intro.htm
Comments
Recent milestones for the release currently under development includes "round trip CSV" which should accomplish what you need. You can look at the RDNG Milestone Download pages (New & Noteworthy tabs) for more information.
Hi Daniel. You got my hopes up. But I am a little lost as to your references. What is the RDNG Milestone Download Page? Could you provide a link?
I can see the functionality included in the plan item noted by Diana - what what do I do with it? It is available and Can we use it?
Thanks