Requirements Management, Requirements Capture and Model Based Systems Engineering with Cradle from 3SL
Cradle provides a full lifecycle support framework from requirements capture through model driven systems engineering to implementation, testing and support. Enabling you to develop better projects from concept . . . to creation.
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Welcome to the 3SL Cradle-5.7
Evaluation Start-Up

Open the following Microsoft® Word® document:

Car Park Requirements (for document loader)

This document has a number of draft requirements listed, some with images. The document already has a hierarchy of requirements organised according to the default style headers (heading 1, heading 2 etc.)

Open Document Loader by clicking: Start => Cradle => Document loader:

This opens the Document Loader Interface:


The login details are the same as for Workbench or Toolset.

Click on the open document button:

and browse for this document:CarParkRequirements-loader.doc

Ensure that the default type is set to 'Requirement' (for the purposes of this exercise)

Click OK and the Document Loader will 'read' the document and (if formatted correctly) will create a hierarchy of items, in this case requirements:

To view the document view of the captured document click on the : button.

From here you can explore the hierarchy. if you click on any node in the left column, the associated section of the document becomes highlighted in the document view. Have a look and a play.

This allows you to check in the document which items to capture into your Cradle database.

 

To capture items you may tick the boxes (by clicking in them) to select them.

Or to select everything for capture click this button: to tick all nodes.

Then when you are ready to capture your document into Cradle, click this button:

You have now captured the requirements into your Cradle® Project. Document Loader has already created the hierarchy from the layout of the document.

 

You may now go straight to part 3. Importing diagrams from toolset.

Steps:

  1. Create a project using the Cradle MenuDone
  2. Capture Requirements from a Microsoft® Word® document
    using Document Loader. You Are Here..
  3. Import Diagrams in Toolset or WorkBench
  4. Manually link Requirements to Functions
  5. Produce matrix from Requirements to Functions
  6. Produce matrix from Functions to Architecture
  7. Create User Requirement Document in Publisher.
  8. Produce a final document showing links from Requirements to Functions, links from Functions to Architecture and transient links from Requirements to Architecture and the Final Specifications.

 

 

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