Appendix F: IBM DOORS Requirements Management Tool

Gavin Arthurs

History of DOORS

Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) is a requirements management tool. Requirements are managed as separate artifacts consisting primarily of text and a configurable number of attributes. In addition to requirements, DOORS provides a mechanism to configure, create, and analyze traceability links between requirements. This dual capacity to behave like a document-style word processor and provide querying and viewing like a database provides DOORS with its unique character that differentiated it from other solutions in the market of the time. These features, along with a powerful built-in customization facility (via DOORS scripting language, DXL), ...

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