Chapter 15 Working with the PowerDesigner Plugin for Visual Studio

Exporting RQM Requirements to a Team Project

Once you have created a requirements model you can export your requirements to a Team project as work items. The exported requirements retain a memory of their place in the requirements hierarchy:


To begin an export, you must be connected to a Team System server and have created a Team project to receive your requirements.

You can export requirements from a single RQM to many Team projects by running the export wizard multiple times, but you cannot export the same individual requirement to more than one project.

Steps To export requirements to a Team project:

  1. Review the Team Explorer pane to ensure that you are connected to a Team System server, and that you have created an project to receive your requirements.
  2. Select Team→Requirements→Export (or click the Export Requirements tool) to open the Export Requirements wizard.
  3. The Team Project screen allow you to specify to which project you will export your requirements and, optionally, an Area and/or Iteration, if these have been defined for the project.


    Note that, although you cannot select multiple projects to export to on this screen, you can relaunch the wizard as many times as necessary to export your requirements to a variety of projects.
  4. Click Next to continue. The Requirements Selection screen allows you to specify which requirements you want to export. All requirements are shown except those that have already been exported to another project, or to another area or iteration of the present project.


    Specify a requirement to export by selecting its checkbox. If you select the Export leaf requirements only checkbox, then only those requirements without children will be exported.
  5. Click Next to continue. The Work Item Type screen allows you to specify the type of work item to which your RQM requirements will be exported. You can select an existing type or create a new one.


    This screen also allows you to specify how the properties of the RQM requirements will be mapped to the fields of the designated work item type. Certain fields, such as the Title and Description are hard-coded and cannot be changed. You can choose a Work Item Field for the other properties by clicking on the entry, and then selecting the appropriate field (or Add, in the case of a new work item type) from the list.

    If you select to create a new work item type, you must create a new field for each of the Requirement Properties you want to export by clicking in the Work Item Field column and selecting Add from the menu, and specifying a Name for the field.

    Note that any mappings set at this stage cannot be changed for subsequent exports, although you can specify additional property-to-field mappings.
  6. Click Finish to begin the export. When it is complete, you can view the work items that you have created by accessing one of the standard queries in the Team Explorer, or writing your own.

 

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