Once again, we come up against a failing of DOORS Classic. How do you manage links?
As an example, the database administrator decides at the start of the project to have a single link set for all ‘satisfies’ links. Later the decision is made to have separate link modules for each sub project. The original ‘satisfies’ module has to be split into multiple link modules and the links from each requirement placed into one of the new link modules. To do this using classic DOORS is very labour intensive (and error prone).
This utility does this splitting for you. It is very simple. It copies or moves the links from any module pair to another other set of modules though any link module. In the above use case, the administrator will need to open up each module in turn and move the links into the correct link module.
It is run from within the source module and has 2 mutually exclusive options:
- Move the links OR
- Copy the links
It also has 2 toggle modes:
- The ‘Dry Run’ mode (default) where it analyses the links and displays a list of proposed changes. This enables a review to be made before the links are actually made. If this mode is switched off, then the links are created.
- The log results mode that displays the results in the DOORS interaction window.
Rather than browsing every time, each link, source or target module cut and paste directly into the relevant box.
Note that it assumes that the link set pairings have already been created for the new links although future enhancements of the tool could build these automatically. It could also be adapted to be run from the main DOORS window and perhaps select groups of modules for the same action.