Creating custom values for specifications and requirements

On the Application Profile landing page, you can create and modify specifications and requirements. You can customize some menu items on these forms to better represent the methodology and terminology of your project.

Requirement and Specification status values

Both requirements and specifications have a Status value that indicates its current implementation status in the project development cycle.

To add custom values to the list of standard status values, create a field value in one of your application rulesets:

• Applies To : For specifications, enter Rule-Application-UseCase; for requirements, enter Rule-Application-Requirement
• Field Name : For specifications, enter pyCategory; for requirements, enter pyStatus
• Field Value : [Your custom value for this field]

To prevent the standard status values from appearing as menu choices at all, save copies of these field values into one of your application rulesets and change the availability from Available to Blocked :

Requirement importance values

Requirements are assigned an Importance value which indicates its priority relative to other requirements in the application.

To add custom values to the list of standard status values, create a field value in one of your application rulesets:

• Applies To : Rule-Application-Requirement
• Field Name : pyImportance
• Field Value : [Your custom value for this field]

To prevent the standard status values from appearing as menu choices at all, save copies of these field values into one of your application rulesets and change the availability from Available to Blocked :

• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.1-Critical
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.2-Very Important
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.3-Important
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.4-Desirable
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyImportance.5-Useful

Requirement category values

To add custom values to the list of standard requirement Category values, create a field value in one of your application rulesets:

• Applies To : Rule-Application-Requirement
• Field Name : pyCategory
• Field Value : [Your custom value for this field]

To prevent the standard status values from appearing as menu choices at all, save copies of these field values into one of your application rulesets and change the availability from Available to Blocked :

• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Business Rule
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Change Control
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Enterprise Standard
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Functional
• Rule-Application-Requirement.pyCategory.Non Functional