requirements quality analyzer (doors edition): deployment guide

Requirements Quality Analyzer (DOORS Edition) : Deployment Guide

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RQA (DOORS Edition) Deployment Guide

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Contents

Introduction

Deployment architecture

Server Installation

Server Setup

Client installation



Introduction

Requirements Quality Analyzer (DOORS Edition) relies on DOORS to

store and manage requirements. Thus, to run RQA it’s necessary to have

access to a DOORS Server installation and DOORS client already

installed in the final user computer.

RQA is a server/client application, so there are two different installers:

Requirements Quality Analyzer Server

Requirements Quality Analyzer Client

RQA Server relies on a database, so it’s supported by different Database

Management Systems (DMS). Due to this reason there’s are as many

Requirements Quality Analyzer Server installers as DMS are supported.

The currently supported DMS are:

Microsoft Access

Microsoft SQL Server




A typical DOORS deployment architecture consists on:

A server holding the DOORS DB to where Quality Assurance, Project Managers and Business Analysts access to manage their requirements.

Many DOORS clients in the Quality Assurance, Project Managers and Business Analysts workstations.

So Requirements Quality Analyzer will fit in this way:

One Requirements Quality Analyzer Server in a server also provided with a DOORS client installation (for computing time consuming quality tasks). Reachable from any DOORS client installation.

As many Requirements Quality Analyzer Clients as wished along with a DOORS client installation.

This deployment layout, can be modified taking into account the client necessities, for example, if there are only 1 RQA Client, it can be installed along the RQA Server in the same machine.




DOORS DB

repository

RQA: Quality

Repository and

configuration

DOORS Client

Installation Network

RQA Client

Installation Network

RQA Server

Installation

Business Analyst

Project Manager

Quality Assurance

DOORS Repository Server

DOORS Quality Analyzer Server



Server installation

Prior to proceed to the server installation make sure you have this

hardware:

Intel Xeon Quad or higher (or similar from other manufacturer).

4GB RAM (We recommend 8 GB due to batch processing tasks)*

1 GB hard disk drive empty space after the installation of the software pre-

requisites. (We usually recommend 500GB hard disk drive in RAID)

Network connection

And this software already installed:

Windows 2003 Server / Windows 2008 Server (32 or 64 bit)

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1

DOORS Client with valid licensing

In case of the SQL Server option:

SQL Server 2005 / SQL Server 2008



Server installation

Depending on the selected database management system selected for

holding the quality database, it will be necessary to restore a quality

database backup (Microsoft SQL Server case)

If this happens follow the following steps:

Restore the backup as usual.

Once the backup is restored, the next step is to create at least 2 users and

logins:



Server installation (SQL Server)

Restore provided

backup

Create at least 2 users

and logins:

System administrator and

backup profile user: should

have db_owner privileges,

in order to take control of

the regular backups and

other possible measures.



Server installation (SQL Server)

User for the RQA

Server: should have

db_datareader and

db_datawriter

permissions in the new

database. This user will

be the one which the

RQA Server will use to

configure the tool and

manage the

connections granted to

the RQA clients



Server installation

Selected the suitable database management system for the RQA

deployment, must select the suitable RQA Server installer:

Access: RQA Server Access.exe

SQL Server: RQA Server SQLServer.exe

Start the installation:

Select the installation language windows: this window will provide the

option for selecting the installation language, NOT the working language,

that it will selected with the Quality Database that will be set up later in

this process



Server installation

Then the welcome window will be displayed:

Click on Next >



Server installation

The following window displays the user license agreement:

Read the license agreement and choose the I accept the agreement option

Click on the Next > button



Server installation

Then the installation wizard asks for a hard disk path to where install the product:

Select your appropriate folder either writing it on the textbox or clicking on the

Browse … button and then click on the Next > button



Server installation

Then the installation wizard asks for a start menu folder to where create the shortcuts to the product:

Select the suitable folder by either writing it on the textbox or clicking on the Browse … button and then click on Next >



Server installation

Finally the wizard display a summary with all the selected options:

Then click on the Install button



Server installation

The installation starts and copies all the product files on the hard disk



Server installation

When the installation finish the wizard displays this final window:

Finish the installation by clicking the Finish button



Server Setup

Once the installation finished, please launch the RQA Server

A licensing window will be prompt:



Server Setup

Please fill up the form and send the computed email to

[email protected]

A valid Key will be sent to your email, just copy-paste in the Key field and

click on the OK button

mailto:[email protected]



Server Setup

The RQA Server login window will appear:

In this window, the OK button is disabled because the Quality Database is

not set up.

Setup by clicking on the Setup button.



Server Setup

The quality database configuration window will appear.

In the case of Access database it will look like this:



Server Setup

Fill the fields in the following way:

Database path: choose the quality database, here take into account two

important issues:

The quality assessment is inherit to the language stored in the selected quality

database. Select the database with the language used to write your

requirements.

The quality database should be shared, so any other client wishing to connect

the database has access to it. We suggest moving it into a shared folder and

then fill the Database path with this new location.

In case that authentication is needed for the database, not the case for the

provided quality databases, fill the User, Password and Confirm password

credentials provided for the quality database



Server installation

In the case of SQL Server, it will look like this:



Server installation

Fill the fields in the following way:

Server: the machine name (and instance name if necessary) where the quality

database has been restored.

Database name: the name of the quality database.

Take into account that the quality assessment is inherit to the language stored

in the selected quality database. Select the database with the language used to

write your requirements.

User: the name of the user created in the database to grant access to the

clients.

Password and Confirm password: the password provided for the User

provided in the last field.



Server installation

Once the database parameters are set up successfully we click on the

Login button and we will come back to the login window where now, the

OK button should be enabled.

If the OK button keeps disabled, please check that you have access to the

selected quality database and your credentials allows you to interact with that

database

Now we provide the default RQA Server credentials

User: Admin

Password: (left it blank)

Now you should be able to log in and go to the following window.

For further server set up go to the User’s Guide provided with the

product.



Prior to proceed to the client installation make sure you have this

hardware:

Intel Core D / Intel Core Duo or higher (or similar from other manufacturer).

1 GB RAM (2 GB Recommended)

100 MB free disk drive space after the operating system installation

Network connection to reach the RQA server

And this software already installed

Windows XP SP2 (or higher) / Windows Vista / Windows 7 (32 or 64 bit)

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1

DOORS client installed with valid licensing



Client installation

In the contrary to RQA Server the RQA client DOES NOT depends on the quality database management system. So there only will be provided one installer:

DOORS Quality Analyzer Client.exe

Start the installer

An installation language selection window will be prompt

This will be the language only for the installation windows, the quality will be assessed in the language set up in the RQA Server.

Select the preferred language and click on Accept



Client installation

Then the wizard will be ready to guide you in the installation process.

First of all, a welcome window will be display:

Just click on the Next > button



Client installation

Then the User License Agreement will be displayed

Read the license agreement and choose the I accept the agreement option

Click on the Next > button



Client installation

Then the installation wizard asks for a hard disk path to where install the product:

Select your appropriate folder either writing it on the textbox or clicking on the Browse button and then click on the Next > button



Client installation

Then the installation wizard asks for a start menu folder to where create the

shortcuts to the product:

Select the suitable folder by either writing it on the textbox or clicking on the

Browse … button and then click on the Next > button.



Client installation

Finally the wizard display a summary with all the selected options:

Then click on the Install button



Client installation

The installation starts and copies all the product files on the hard disk



Client installation

When the installation finish the wizard displays this final window:

Finish the installation by clicking the Finish button



Client installation

For further server set up go to the User’s Guide provided with the

product.

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