IBM Rational Rose Integration

You need to have either Optimal Trace Enterprise or Professional installed in advance of integration and requirements captured and stored as a Optimal Trace project.

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"Less technical users can use Optimal Trace to easily capture business and system requirements in a structured way. The integration (to Rational Rose) provides an easy way for less technical users to communicate business requirements to developers designing complex systems with Rational Rose." —Bill Taylor, director of developer marketing, IBM/Rational Software.   Hear what Hugh Cumming, CIO of ADP Canada has to say about Requirements and Optimal Trace - more

The Optimal Trace-Rose integration is the answer to the common disconnect between the business analysts capturing requirements in Word and the technical team working in Rose. Once installed, the integration enables a new import/export menu option in the core Rose environment. Once the requirements are captured in Optimal Trace, projects can be opened by the technical team within Rational Rose at the click of a button and all the information and business logic is carried over, ensuring that requirements will be met.

On import, the Rational Rose integration automatically generates the use case diagram and the UML activity diagram from the Optimal Trace requirements project. This integration means that the link between the two products is seamless, thus giving complete traceability from business requirements through to system design and implementation.

Any changes made to the Rose model can be subsequently pushed back up into Optimal Trace using a visual merge capability. Full round-tripping and bi-directionality becomes reality meaning that your design is finally in lockstep with the requirements.

Rational Rose UML Activity Diagram after an import from Optimal Trace

Rational Rose UML Use Case Diagram after an import from Optimal Trace

For a full demonstration of the integration capabilities of Optimal Trace into Rose and other environments contact us.

About IBM/Rational Rose

Rational Rose software is the award-winning model-driven development tool that is part of Rational Software's comprehensive and fully integrated solution designed to meet today's software development challenges. If you're a software developer, project manager, engineer or analyst looking for proven ways to build better software faster, Rational Rose is your answer.

For more information about Rational Rose, log onto http://www.rational.com/.

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