Import the test results and doors links back to doors with NI Requirement Gateway

Question

Hi together,
I will try to explain my problem:
We are using TestStand, DOORS and the NI Requirement Gateway.
We created a test specification in DOORS, TestStand used the DOORS IDs to connect the TestSteps in Teststand with the requirements in DOORS.
TestStand runs the test and creates XML-results, the NIRG is able to import these XML-results back to DOORS and creates a new(!!!) DOORS module, parallel to the said test spec.
This module contains some attributes like the single test steps, the results (pass,fail, whatever, ...) but now I am missing a relationship between the DOORS test specification and these results of the XML file or better, the XML-import in the new DOORS Module.
We want to manage our test results only(!) in DOORS so it should be possible to link(!) automatically the results of the XML to the DOORS TestSpec cause we are able to transfer the DOORS-IDs or other attributes (i.e.. The "un"unique NI ID#") too!
in ASCII-art:
DOORS_TestSpec -> NI_TestStand -> NI_Result -> DOORS_Result  <--------- with LINKS to the DOORS_TestSpec!!!!!!!!!
Next Step is the DOORS Analyze Tool but we need the links to follow them and to show us the results.
Would be nice to know if somebody else knows the problem or perhaps someone has an other solution. Thanks for your time!
Greet

Answer 1

Regarding your statement "We will generate a chunk of XML-Results, so we are not able to link all the requirements by hand", are you concerned about having to update the path to the XML files each time you run the test?  In this case, I would recommend creating a directory to store only the most recent report (the report path can be modified in the TestStand report options), and set the XML report project in Requirements Gateway to point to this directory.  In your TestStand sequence, you could call code which moves the previous report file into a backup location so that only the newest file is in the specified directory.  THis would prevent you from needing to modify the Requirements Gateway project to access the latest report; reanalyzing would reload the project with the new file.  The traceability information will therefore always be up to date, and you can see that the DOORS requirements are being covered by the test results.
I agree that there is not really a good solution for importing the XML reports into DOORS, but I think you can acheive the result you are looking for using the report files directly.
Al B.
Staff Software Engineer - TestStand
CTA/CLD