Description

New Import option for DNG Advanced ReqIF Import: Enable or disable “Allow Artifact Type of an Artifact modification”.

• When the option is enabled, DNG Advanced ReqIF Import shall be able to modify the Artifact Type of artifacts

• When the option is disabled, DNG Advanced ReqIF Import shall not be able to modify the Artifact Type of artifacts

  • Even when the option is disabled / Artifact Type modification is not allowed, DNG ReqIF Import shall still try to import other data like normal if possible, e.g.:

    • If the Artifact Type and the Artifact Type in DNG have attributes in common (which have also been selected for import), then these attribute values shall still be imported

DNG shall also make this DNG Advanced ReqIF Import option available via the DNG OSLC API. The corresponding DNG OSLC API shall be public and documented.

Motivation / Reason

The reason for a ReqIF roundtrip exchange is that the other side is supposed to do some changes to the data.

Depending on the use case different sides of the exchange will not want to import certain changes to the data, even if those changes are present in the ReqIF (either because the other side of the exchange erroneously did these changes or the data inside the ReqIF was changed due to the import / export tools being used).

One prominent example is the exchange of requirements between an OEM and a Supplier. The OEM will never want to import any changes to the Artifact Types of artifacts, as the Supplier is not supposed to change any of these aspects of the data.

The Supplier might have intentionally changed the Artifact Type of an artifact or their import / export tool might have changed the Artifact Type of artifacts during the exchange (e.g. because the RM-Tool the Supplier uses does not support multiple Artifact types (e.g. DOORS Classic)). Regardless of the reason, the OEM will never want to import such changes to the Artifact Type of artifacts.

To prevent the import of unwanted data / unwanted changes to DNG by the import, the user must be able to select what type of data in the ReqIF shall be imported and which type shall not be imported. In other words, the user must be able to select what kind of changes the DNG Advanced ReqIF Import is allowed to do.

ReqIF Ranking

12

Idea History

This idea has been copied from the following RFE:

https://jazz.net/jazz03/web/projects/Requirements%20Management#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=139891

Creation date of original RFE:

Mar 4, 2021

This RFE is derived from the following PMRs:
https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002UxCynAAF (TS005065700)
https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5003p00002TqON7AAN (TS004643587)