Is it possible to link Sparx EA diagramme to a requirement in DOORS NG ?
Hello,
Let's suppose I manage requirement with DOORS NG, and I design project diagrams architect with Sparx Entreprise Architecture.
What's the solution to link a diagram to requirement in DOORS NG ?
I read this : https://jazz.net/forum/questions/177379/how-to-associate-designs-from-sparx-sytems-enterprise-architect-to-requirements-in-doors-ng
Ralph Schoon said that it's very expensive to develop OSLC !
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smartfacts is a commercial solution to bring Non-Rational tools like EA and other modeling tools into the Jazz world. We are using the mechanisms of OSLC as well as the Jazz/DNG API. No matter if it is expensive, hard or might have other downsides - OSLC is a good choice because via OSLC Jazz will provide so much more value as your links will be subject to all jazz concepts and mechanisms like link explorer, docu engine, suspecness, validity, GCM, etc., etc.
We cover three perspectives:
1. You work with DNG and want to have access to any EA model in any version, search and select, link and consume EA model artifacts in DNG and manage tracebility DNG>EA; you can see diagrams and properties of element within DNG
You wont find much on the web on this so far. If you are interested just contact me (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoph-bergner-aa78b024/) and I will show you the details.
There is an OSLC integration available for SPARX EA.
The EA OSLC integration is not what you are looking for.
Taken from: https://community.sparxsystems.com/news/tag/oslc
"Enterprise Architect 11 currently supports OSLC to access and manage requirements only. Requirements can be accessed with an XML content through the use of urls from a browser. A client application can be implemented to access web services from Sparx Enterprise Architect in order to run queries or create new requirements."
So accessing your architectures from DNG is not possible.
We are also using EA for architecture and design and DNG for RM. The only possible solution that we found is linking to exported EA-html-diagrams. It is complicated and therefore not done all the time.
In EA-html-exports, each object has a unique stable URL/ID. This can be added to "Realized by" or "Satisfied by" link in DNG. In EA (live, not export) you have to add the URL of the artifact from DNG.
This is not comfortable and can only be used for providing traceability, but not checking the completeness of traceability.
If someone has a better solution, I would be very happy to hear.
By the way: the company "lieberlieber" provides addins for EA for working with DOORS. I don't know if they also support DNG.
Thanks for your reply,
Could you please explain to me what you mean by : The solution that you found by linking to exported EA-html-diagrams in more details. ?
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In our system EA has the possiblity to export the project to HTML.
And in the export, there is a field called LINK URL.
I don't know how much of it is build-in, and how much is configured by us.
The last part of the URL is an ID, which is stable, so if you export it again (maybe in a newer version), it will be the same ID again.
This ID is added in DNG as a link.
And the DNG artifact ID is added to EA component.
We defined some views, which should represent some dedicated artifacts from DNG.
Hope that helps.
Thanks you Christian,
Good solution for linking model to test but, finally we cannot diplay the model in DOORS NG ?