Integrated Chipware Integrates RTM/Rational Rose

Integrated Chipware announced the RTM/Rational Rose Integration, an integration of its flagship requirements traceability and management software, RTM WORKSHOP, with Rose, Rational's award-winning set of visual modeling tools. The integration provides a complete solution for comprehensive and fully integrated project development.

The RTM/Rational Rose Integration enables engineers to export analysis and design model elements into the RTM requirements management database, where they can then allocate requirements to those elements. The integration also allows engineers to export data from any data set, including use cases, classes, packages, processors and devices, as well as from the standard Rose diagrams themselves.

The RTM/Rational Rose Integration provides an unparalleled level of communication between the various functional elements of the project development lifecycle. RTM is tightly integrated to Oracle's database technology, and this database acts as the communication backbone of the project by capturing and maintaining the relationship between all data provided in each phase of the lifecycle.

The integration includes a synchronization feature that detects and displays new, changed and orphaned elements. The synchronization feature provides facilities for deleting orphans from RTM, exporting new elements and updating or replacing changed elements.

The RTM/Rational Rose Integration allows engineers to work with requirements interactively. After adding a new class in Rose, a simple right click on that class provides an option to export the class to RTM. In addition, RTM can be launched in a mode that provides immediate allocation of requirements to any class.

The RTM project schema, together with the RTM/Rational Rose Integration, provides unparalleled flexibility for tailoring its usage to existing processes. For example, if an engineer has separate RTM classes for customer requirements and engineering requirements, he can export use cases to a Rose class linked to both. The customer requirements can then be allocated to use cases, while the use case data can flow down to engineering requirements. Data can also be linked from RTM and Rose directly to test cases.

Use cases developed in Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker, or any word processing package can also be imported into RTM and linked into the system. The captured use cases are visible from within RTM and Rose or over the Web.

"The RTM/Rational Rose Integration provides engineers with an unprecedented level of synergy between the formal analysis, design, and requirements management aspects of a project. Whether the goal is general process improvement or simply improving the efficiency of your development organization, the RTM/Rational Rose Integration is the right choice for you," said Steve Hodges, CEO, Integrated Chipware.

Contact Hugo Sanchez, Director, Product Marketing, of Integrated Chipware, 703-736-3516 or hugo@chipware.com, Web site: www.chipware.com.