Impact analysis workflow
The Lifecycle Query Engine index makes thousands of artifacts
available to users, but not all of the artifacts are important to
users. Run analysis on any artifact retrievable by the index to determine
how potential changes to artifacts can affect related artifacts and
products.
Creating impact analysis profiles
Before you can perform an impact analysis on artifacts,
you must first create an impact analysis profile.
Creating impact analysis diagrams
You can create impact analysis diagrams to find artifacts
that are related to a selected focus artifact. You can then investigate
each of the linked artifacts.
Full traceability
In version 4.0.6 and later, use the Full Traceability traversal
option to show both upstream and downstream artifacts on every node
for a selected artifact. For example, you might want to find all related
types of an artifact for a target artifact, but you do not know how
the artifacts are related. Full Traceability shows you all relationships
for a target artifact.
Impact analysis types
An impact analysis diagram can contain many artifacts of
different types, such as items, requirements, change requests, and
more. Users can find the type of artifact they want to focus on by
using the Navigation Tree in the diagram. Learn
the meaning of the different artifact types in the Navigation
Tree in the following discussion.
Creating impact analysis filters
Create a filter that is a list of artifact types or links
that are included or ignored when you apply the filter to the impact
analysis diagram.
Analyzing an artifact's relationships to other artifacts
You can analyze artifact relationships by starting
out in many pages. If you created an impact analysis diagram, then
you already ran an analysis from the Impact Analysis Diagrams page.
You can also start an analysis from the Products,Views, and Queries pages.