The Migration Toolkit for DOORS is SodiusWillert’s newest data migration solution. Keep reading to learn more about the new product’s feature highlights.
IBM DOORS has rich expressions for your data, including tables, rich-text, OLE objects, images, and tables. IBM DOORS Next has similar concepts, but they are not the same. The Migration Toolkit for DOORS does the hard work of recreating these artifacts as they would natively in DOORS Next:
DOORS Next has a new flexible schema design to support your requirements management process. With it comes a flexible type scheme with different modules and requirements types. The Migration Toolkit for DOORS mapping for migrations focuses on how to map to your new target scheme in DOORS Next, including:
Migrations don’t focus on individual modules; they are usually entire projects or collections. The migration toolkit supports the selection of DOORS Projects and Folders as the containers of modules intended to be migrated to DOORS Next.
This definition of a unit of migration allows for cohesive migration events, including the following features:
The idea of moving an entire repository at once is a rare activity, both technically and organizationally. With the Migration Toolkit for DOORS teams are enabled to define cohesive units of migration.
The migration toolkit provides the ability to migrate your teams incrementally with the following features:
Migrations and mappings can be complicated, so it is important to understand what to expect when planning for a successful tool migration.
The Migration Toolkit for DOORS provides a collection of checks and warnings that allow engineers to check their migration before execution. By executing the mapping on the real data (but not performing the migration), a quick review of behavior and potential issues can be observed and reviewed even before executing, providing the following insights: