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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM Engineering - Requirements Management DOORS Next
Categories Feature
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 25, 2025

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Link Validity Should Be Top Down Only, or Have Options To Be

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Let's say I have two modules in DOORS Next. System Spec and Software Spec. Software links to System via Satisfies / Satisfied By. Link Validity is turned on.

The way it works out of the box is that if two artifacts in each of those modules are linked to each other, and that link is set to be valid, if the content of either of the artifacts changes, the link validity is set to unknown.

The way it *should* work according to Systems Engineering V principles is that only a change to the System Requirement should set the content back to unknown. If the software requirement changes it should still be a valid link.

This has implications linking from ETM to DN as well. The link from requirement to test case, if set to valid, should only be set back to unknown if the requirement artifact changes. If the test artifact changes, no one cares, and it's a bunch of busy work to set it back.

Idea priority Low
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
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    |     Mar 28, 2025
    As indicated in the documetation topic
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/lifecycle-management/7.1?topic=applications-link-validity
    The link validity indicates whether the meaning of a link is satisfied by the content of the two artifacts that are connected by the link.
    The validity summary shows you at a glance the status of all the links to relevant artifacts so you know which downstream artifacts you must examine to verify intended meaning of a link.
    Tests are downstream of requirements, models, and designs.
    Requirements are considered symmetric to each other.

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