Chapter 15 Working with the PowerDesigner Plugin for Visual Studio

Navigating between RQMs and Team Projects

PowerDesigner provides various methods for navigating between an RQM and a Team System project

When working in the Model Explorer, you can, at any time, double-click the file named after your Team server and project (auto-generated in the Files folder):


Doing so will navigate to the linked Team Project in the Team Explorer:


To navigate to a particular requirement work item (linked via a traceability link to an RQM requirement), right-click the requirement in an RQM document view, and select Team Foundation→Work Item Properties from the contextual menu:


A Traceability Links Matrix View can list all the traceability links between your requirements and work items.

Steps To create a Traceability Links Matrix to track requirement work items:

  1. Select Requirements → Create a Traceability Matrix View.
  2. In the Matrix View toolbar, click the Change Traceability Matrix Type tool, and then select the External files radio button in the dialog box.
  3. Click OK. The Matrix View will display a column for each of the Team System projects to which you have exported requirements, with a check mark in the cell of each requirement that is linked to a work item by a traceability link:


For more information about the Traceability Matrix View, see the Requirements Modeling guide.

You can also view the links to work items by opening the property sheet of a requirement and clicking the Traceability Links tab. Select the link and then click the Properties tool to go to the associated work item:


 

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