The integration of IBM Rational DOORS with Helix ALM brings the business and product development, quality teams together to accelerate product development and efficiently scale agile practices.
Helix ALM – DOORS Integration Overview
In an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) environment, the choice of systems, and the collaboration between the cross-functional teams play a great role in delivering quality solutions. While the choice of systems impacts the productivity of a team, the cross-functional collaboration helps the teams get complete context of the business requirements.
Best-of-breed systems such as DOORS and Helix ALM bring rich functionalities to the ecosystem. By integrating DOORS with Helix ALM, enterprises can keep the business, development, and quality team focused on customer priorities, quality of the deliverable, and accelerate the product development cycle.
How Helix ALM – DOORS integration is beneficial for an enterprise
- Trace the requirement breakdown and associated test cases
- Get complete context of the business requirement and receive real-time updates when there is a change in the plan
- Coordinate on the delivery timelines seamlessly with concurrent updates on changes
- Coordinate on the delivery timelines seamlessly with concurrent updates on changes
- Get full traceability into the Quality Assurance (QA) reports
With Helix ALM + DOORS integration, enterprises can:
How OpsHub Integration Manager integrates Helix ALM and DOORS
OpsHub Integration Manager integrates DOORS and Helix ALM bidirectionally. It ensures that all historical and current data is available to each user, in that user’s preferred system, with full context, in real-time. All ‘requirements’ from DOORS automatically synchronize to Helix ALM and all the defects associated with the ‘requirement’ synchronize back to DOORS.
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Use Case: Helix ALM integration with DOORS
Problem statement: The product management team uses DOORS and the development team uses Helix ALM. As these systems are not integrated, the product management team doesn’t have visibility into how a customer requirement is being developed. Any change made to the delivery timelines or nature of the requirements also needs to be manually communicated to the development team.
Solution: When DOORS and Helix ALM are integrated using OpsHub Integration Manager, the coordination between the product management and development teams will be seamless.
- The Product Manager logs a ‘story’ in an existing ‘epic’ in DOORS.
- The Product Manager then re-prioritizes the existing stories within that ‘epic’ in DOORS.
- The new ‘story’ synchronizes to Helix ALM along with the defined priority.
- In Helix ALM, the priorities of other stories also change according to the updates made to the stories in DOORS.
- The development team starts work on the story marked as ‘Critical’ in Helix ALM. They change the status of the story to ‘In Progress’ when they start work.
- The status of the ‘story’ changes to ‘In Progress’ in DOORS as well – the Product Manager is notified that the development work on the critical story has started.
- The quality control team also reprioritizes this story for writing test cases.
Benefits of integration for Helix ALM and DOORS users
Helix ALM users
- Access to the business requirements within Helix ALM and real-time update for any changes, enhancements
- Complete context of the customer requirements and priorities
- No manual efforts needed to keep product management teams updated on the QA cycle and reports
DOORS users
- Traceability for business requirements throughout the ALM tool chain
- Visibility into the progress of development work & the QA cycle
- Reduced dependency on manual communication for business decision making