Tool Mentor: Setting Up Rational RequisitePro for a Project
Purpose
This tool mentor describes how to set up Rational RequisitePro® for a project.
This section provides links to additional information related to this tool mentor.
Overview
You create a new project in RequisitePro using a project template. All of the
project templates that are included with RequisitePro (except the Blank template)
include predefined document types, requirement types, and attributes that are
used by the project you create. You can use the Use-Case Template to create
a project; with this template, you can use all the features of the RUP. In your
new project, you can immediately begin creating new requirements documents in
Microsoft® Word or individual requirements in views. Refer to the introductory
topics at the top of the Let's Go RequisitePro help application for more information
on getting started in your RequisitePro project.
If you have licensed a Rational Suite or other Rational products, you can integrate
your RequisitePro project with your work in those products.
- For information on integrating RequisitePro with Rational Rose®, refer
to Tool Mentor: Managing Use Cases with
Rational Rose and Rational RequisitePro.
- For information on adding a RequisitePro project to a Rational project,
refer to the Rational Suite Administrator's Guide on the Rational Solutions
for Windows Online Documentation CD. You must add a RequisitePro project to
a Rational project if you want to integrate RequisitePro with Rational ClearQuest®.
- For information on setting up the integration between RequisitePro and ClearQuest,
refer to the Rational Suite Administrator's Guide on the Rational Solutions
for Windows Online Documentation CD. For step-by-step instructions on associating
ClearQuest records with RequisitePro requirements, refer to Tool
Mentor: Managing Stakeholder Requests Using Rational ClearQuest and Rational
RequisitePro.
About the RequisitePro Use-Case Project Template
The Use-Case Template provides the following RequisitePro requirements types,
which map to the most important traceability items as defined in Concepts:
Traceability. The template also provides additional requirement types that
are commonly used on projects.
RUP
Traceability Item |
RequisitePro Requirement Type |
User/Stakeholder
Needs (from Vision) |
STRQ:
Stakeholder Request requirement type. A Need is identified by
marking it with a priority. ("High" priority indicates a
"need".) |
Product
Feature (from Vision) |
FEAT:
Feature requirement type |
Supplementary
Requirement (from Supplementary
Specifications) |
SUPL:
Supplementary requirement type |
Use
Case |
UC:
Use-Case requirement type |
Use
Case Section (sections of a detailed use
case) |
UC:
Use-Case requirement type-as child requirements of a parent use case
(see Hierarchical relationships overview in the
RequisitePro online Help). |
Design
Element (from the design
model) |
Managed
in Rose. See Integrated Use-Case Management in
the RequisitePro online Help. |
You have the option of introducing a separate requirement type for the Use
Case Section rather than using hierarchical use-case requirements. This
is useful if you want your project's Use Case Sections to have different attributes,
access privileges, or traceability rules (for example, to ensure that Test Cases
are traced to Use Case Sections and not to Use Cases).
Tool Steps
To set up RequisitePro for a project, follow these steps:
- Create a project in
RequisitePro
- Set up project security
- Click File > New > Project. The Create Project dialog
box appears.
- Click the Use-Case Template icon, and click OK. The RequisitePro
Project Properties dialog box appears.
- Type a name for the project. The Directory text box shows the directory
in which the project files will be stored. Either accept the default directory
or click the Browse button to navigate to another directory.
- In the Database list, click the appropriate database to use with
the project. If you choose Oracle or SQL Server, click Properties;
complete the appropriate information in the Database Properties dialog box;
and click OK.
- Type a description for the new project, and click OK to close the
dialog box.
- At the prompt asking you whether you want RequisitePro to create a new project
directory, click Yes. RequisitePro creates the new project.
- Click Close to close the Create Project dialog box. Your new project
includes predefined document types, requirement types, and attributes. To
review or modify these, select the project in the Explorer and click File
> Properties and click the corresponding tabs.
Because RequisitePro allows multiple users to access the same project documents
and database simultaneously, project security is crucial. You can enable or
disable security in a project, depending on the needs of the group. With security
enabled, users belong to groups, and RequisitePro administrators assign group-specific
permissions. The permissions determine the amount or kind of access users have
to projects.
All RequisitePro users can create a new project. When you create a new project,
you are considered the project administrator and are automatically placed in
the Administrators group. After you create the project, you (and other project
administrators) can define other users and groups.
If security is not enabled, any user can open the RequisitePro project. When
you first open an unsecured project, RequisitePro allows you to log on as the
user name in the Default Project Logon field in the Options dialog box
(click Tools > Options), as your Windows logon name, or as a user
name of your choice. The user name is added to the project Administrators group
list.
Any project administrator can enable security, modify User and Administrator
lists, and assign passwords for other users. If security is enabled, the Project
Logon dialog box appears each time a user opens the project.
To set project security in RequisitePro:
- Click File > Project Administration > Security. The Project Security dialog box appears.
- Select the Enable security for this project check box.
Three default groups are added to the Groups list: Deleted Users,
Administrators, and Users.
To add a user group:
- In the Project Security dialog box, click the Add button
below the Groups list. The Group Permissions dialog box appears.
- Type a name for the group.
- Select the group project permissions.
- Edit the document and requirement type permissions.
- Click OK.
To add a user to a group:
- In the Project Security dialog box Groups list, select the group that you
want to contain the user.
- Click the Add button adjacent to the Users of Group list.
The Add User dialog box appears.
- Type a user name, new password, and verification password.
Note: The New Password and Verify fields are encrypted,
displaying a symbol for each of the 14 maximum characters. Remember: user
names and passwords are case-sensitive.
- If the user has an e-mail address, type it in. This e-mail address is
necessary for participating in RequisitePro discussions via e-mail.
- Click OK. The Project Security dialog box reappears. The
user is added to the group list.
- Click OK.
For More Information
Refer to the topic Setting
project security (Index: project security > setting) in the RequisitePro
online Help.
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