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We performed a comparison between IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation and Parasoft Development Testing Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"The most valuable features are the versioning of requirements and the possibility to reuse them.""IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is easier to expand to build a backend with several servers, so you can also use it to scale up to several hundreds of users without major problems.""The "Link by Attribute" feature is useful for making links without needing to use the web interface manually.""My company contacts the solution's technical support, and they are good and responsive.""As far as maintaining our requirements so that we can have copies of them, it's good. I can print it out if necessary.""It's web-based, so you don't have anything to install.""One of the most valuable features is how you can tailor the modules.""The tool's most valuable feature is displaying requirements in a tabular format. This means you can see everything laid out in columns and rows. It is more aesthetic compared to other tools. The traceability matrix helps to view things better. It comes with different linking rules."

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"The most valuable feature is code coverage.""It really helps developers execute scenarios through DTP and share reports/results across the teams."

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Cons
"I have come to the conclusion that if you are considering migrating from DOORS to DNG, don't! Instead of spending 100's to 1000's of hours doing migrations, invest those hours in a DXL programmer to make DOORS do what it isn't doing for you now.""There is room for improvement in the APIs that they have exposed for integration.""IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation has room for improvement compared to other tools like Polaris and Jama Connect. These tools offer more flexibility and options for developers, which IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation lacks. For example, you can define your link rules in Jama Connect, but you can't do that in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation.""It offers a bad user experience and the usability is poor.""Be very careful how you load your DNG server. There are limits to the number of artifacts a server can handle.""The only additional feature would be if it had dynamic linking to other MBSE tool sets or industry-leading tools.""It does have a tendency to condense the requirements. It kind of puts them in a tree format. Sometimes those trees are a little difficult.""Both the data storage and reporting for this solution need improvement."

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"Parallel execution: It would help it multiple executions could be done at the same time.""The solution's speed has room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "You are going to need a beefy server and a fat network pipe to it in order to make DNG and its companion tools work well for users."
  • "The cost of maintenance is €20,000 to €30,000 ($22,000 to $33,000 USD) and there are no additional fees."
  • "Users can buy a three-year license for about 12,000 Euros."
  • "The price of this solution is very high, and it increases year after year."
  • "If the product price were not reasonable enough, our company would not use IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:My company contacts the solution's technical support, and they are good and responsive.
    Top Answer:I cannot discuss the product's price since it is meant to be confidential and kept between our company and IBM. If the product price were not reasonable enough, our company would not use IBM Rational… more »
    Top Answer:IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is not a very user-friendly product. From an improvement perspective, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation needs to be made a very user-friendly product.
    Top Answer:The most valuable feature is code coverage.
    Top Answer:The solution's speed has room for improvement.
    Top Answer:We use the Parasoft Development Testing Platform to verify code coverage for static analysis in our unit tests.
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    Also Known As
    RDNG, Rational Requirements Composer and IBM RRC
    Parasoft Concerto, Parasoft DTP
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    Overview

    IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation (DNG) is a web-based requirements management tool developed by IBM. It is designed to help organizations capture, manage, and trace requirements throughout the entire product development lifecycle. DNG is part of the IBM Rational solution suite and offers a range of features to support requirements management and collaboration among project teams.

    IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation Features:

    • Requirements Capture and Management: DNG allows users to capture and organize requirements in a structured manner, providing a central repository for requirement artifacts.
    • Traceability and Impact Analysis: The tool enables traceability by establishing relationships between requirements, test cases, design artifacts, and other project artifacts. This allows users to analyze the impact of changes and ensure requirements coverage.
    • Collaboration and Review: DNG facilitates collaboration among stakeholders by providing features for discussion, commenting, and reviewing requirements. It allows teams to collaborate in real-time and provides a historical record of discussions.
    • Change Management and Version Control: DNG supports change management by tracking requirement changes, maintaining version history, and providing capabilities for managing baselines and variants.
    • Reporting and Analytics: The tool offers reporting and analytics capabilities to generate custom reports, track project progress, monitor requirements coverage, and gain insights into project metrics.
    • Integration and Open APIs: DNG supports integration with other tools and systems commonly used in the software development lifecycle. It provides open APIs that allow organizations to integrate DNG with their existing toolchain and processes.

    IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation Benefits:

    • Centralized Requirements Management: DNG provides a central repository for managing requirements, ensuring a single source of truth and promoting consistency and clarity across the organization.
    • Improved Collaboration and Communication: The tool facilitates collaboration and communication among stakeholders, allowing teams to work together effectively, address conflicts, and align on requirements.
    • Enhanced Traceability and Compliance: DNG enables traceability between requirements and other project artifacts, supporting compliance with industry standards, regulations, and quality frameworks.
    • Efficient Change Management: With DNG, teams can effectively manage changes to requirements, track version history, and analyze the impact of changes on the project.
    • Increased Productivity and Efficiency: The tool automates manual tasks, provides workflow support, and offers streamlined collaboration features, improving productivity and efficiency in requirements management.
    • Reporting and Decision-Making: DNG's reporting and analytics capabilities provide stakeholders with valuable insights into project status, progress, and metrics, enabling informed decision-making.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Hubert Zenner, Technical Sales Specialist at a computer software company, says that "IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is easier to expand to build a backend with several servers, so you can also use it to scale up to several hundreds of users without major problems."

    Kapil Raikar, Senior Manager – Development, PD and Data Virtulization at a computer software company, states that "There are many good features with DOORS. The solution has a concept of streams and baselines, as well as a concept of components. A component is a subproject inside a project."

    Roger Trackwell, System Engineering Manager at a wholesaler,

    Parasoft DTP aggregates the results from across testing practices, providing intelligent and continuous monitoring of the testing outcomes for greater visibility into what is working — and what isn’t.  Includes:

    - Comprehensive Reports & Dashboards

    - Preconfigured compliance reporting

    - Customized Advanced Analytics

    - Interactive Navigation of Results

    - Traceability

    Sample Customers
    Major health insurer
    General Motors, Lockheed Martin, Qualcomm, AAI Textron, Boeing, Fidelity, Johnson & Johnson, CIBC, Penske, Thales, Dell, 
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    Computer Software Company30%
    Manufacturing Company30%
    Comms Service Provider10%
    Wholesaler/Distributor10%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Manufacturing Company21%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Aerospace/Defense Firm9%
    Government8%
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    Company Size
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise17%
    Large Enterprise67%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business16%
    Midsize Enterprise10%
    Large Enterprise74%
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    IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is ranked 4th in Application Requirements Management with 12 reviews while Parasoft Development Testing Platform is ranked 10th in Application Requirements Management with 4 reviews. IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is rated 7.8, while Parasoft Development Testing Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation writes "An industry-leading tool to demonstrate traceability between requirements, with valuable features for tailoring modules and managing several thousand requirements". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Parasoft Development Testing Platform writes "Provides 100 percent code coverage, is stable, and scalable". IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, Jama Connect, Jira, Polarion Requirements and Helix ALM, whereas Parasoft Development Testing Platform is most compared with Codebeamer.

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