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Lesson 1.1: Open the requirement perspective and views

This lesson describes how to open the Requirement perspective and views in the Rational® Software Development Platform product.

A perspective defines an initial set and layout of views in the Workbench window. The Requirement perspective includes a set of views that supports access to Rational RequisitePro® requirements, documents, query results, properties, and traceability.

  1. To open the Requirement perspective, click Window > Open Perspective > Other > Requirement. The Requirement perspective includes the following views:
    • Requirement Explorer
    • Requirement Link Problems
    • Requirement Query Results
    • Properties
    • Link Clipboard
    • Requirement Trace
  2. To open a view for examining available linkable domains, click Window > Show View > Other. Expand the Linkability folder and click Linkable Domain Explorer.