DoorScope: a free Rational® DOORS® viewer

April 14, 2012 - PRLog -- We are pleased to announce the availability of DoorScope as freeware. DoorScope can be used in the specification review process. Specifications can be exported from DOORS® and viewed with links, object attributes and change history (including tables, images and richtext).  Objects can be annotated and marked with their review status. There is also a fulltext search facility. DoorScope is a single executable and runs natively on Windows without installation (i.e. it can be downloaded and run without the help of a system administrator).

DoorScope enables the following use case: one person with access to a DOORS® client extracts the interesting documents (i.e. modules including links, attributes, richtext, images, tables and change history) from the DOORS® database and deploys them using an independent format to many people who can read and comment the documents without needing access to the original DOORS® database and without installing DOORS®.

To do this, DoorScope includes two parts: the DoorScope Extractor and the DoorScope Viewer (see the screenshots at http://doorscope.ch/doku.php?id=screenshots)

The DoorScope Extractorexports the data of one or more DOORS® formal modules to DSDX files. DSDX is a compact binary format which includes every data of a single DOORS® module; as a speciality it includes also the text and attributes of the linked source and target objects, so in fact you have everything needed to enjoy a DOORS® module including its links in one DSDX file (i.e. you don't have to worry about links and link modules as you do with the DOORS® PAR or DMA format).

The DoorScope Viewer is a Windows executable with a nice GUI to analyze and review the linked and structured documents extracted from DOORS®. It works on DSDB repository files. A repository includes an arbitrary folder structure and all documents imported from the DSDX; it also includes the individual review status and comments set by the user.

A company using DOORS® can make use of DoorScope Exctractor and then either send the individual DSDX or a properly compiled DSDB to its suppliers, who then can run DoorScope Viewer and use all the data without needing a DOORS® installation.

Visit http://doorscope.ch/doku.php for details.