DOORS

{{Short description|Requirements management tool}}

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{{Infobox software

| name = IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS

| logo = frameless

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| developer = IBM

| latest_release_version = 9.7.2.9

| latest_release_date = 2024-07-30{{cite web|title=IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS and DOORS Web Access 9.7.2.9|url=https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/release-notes-doors-and-doors-web-access|publisher=IBM|accessdate=8 January 2025}}

| operating_system = Linux, Solaris, Windows

| language = Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and English.{{cite web|title=Changing the IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS language|url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/doors/9.7.2?topic=languages-changing-engineering-requirements-management-doors-language|publisher=IBM|accessdate=8 January 2025}}

| genre = Requirements management{{cite book|last=Cleland-Huang|first=Jane|author-link=Jane Cleland-Huang|title=Software and Systems Traceability|year=2012|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4471-2238-8|pages=48}}

| website = https://www.ibm.com/products/requirements-management

}}

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS (Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System) (formerly Telelogic DOORS, then Rational DOORS) is a requirements management tool.{{cite book |last=Hull |first=Elizabeth |title=Requirements Engineering |year=2011 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-1-84996-405-0}} It is a client–server application, with a Windows-only client and servers for Linux, Windows, and Solaris. There is also a web client, DOORS Web Access.

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Family has its own programming language called DOORS eXtension Language (DXL).{{cite web |title=Extending DOORS with DXL |url=https://www.ibm.com/docs/kk/engineering-lifecycle-management-suite/doors/9.7.2?topic=function-extending-doors-dxl |publisher=IBM |accessdate=8 January 2025}}

[https://doorsnext.com/products/ibm-engineering-doors-next/ IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next] is now developed on the [https://jazz.net IBM Jazz] platform. The Jazz platform uses Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC).{{cite web |title=Rational DOORS Next Generation (DOORS-NG on the IBM Jazz Platform) |url=https://jazz.net/products/rational-doors-next-generation/ |publisher=IBM |accessdate=7 July 2014}}

In order to complete its functionality, IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next has an open architecture that supports third-party plugins.

DOORS was originally published by Quality Systems and Software Ltd (QSS) in 1991.{{cite web |last=Alexander |first=Ian |year=2004 |title=

Requirements Management with DOORS: A Success Story |url=http://www.scenarioplus.org.uk/papers/doors_story/doors_success_story.htm | accessdate=22 March 2019}}

Telelogic acquired QSS in mid-2000{{cite web |title=Telelogic's QSS Acquisition Exploits Boom in Real-Time Telecommunications Applications |url=https://www.gartner.com/doc/308694/telelogics-qss-acquisition-exploits-boom |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140429081744/https://www.gartner.com/doc/308694/telelogics-qss-acquisition-exploits-boom |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 29, 2014 |publisher=Gartner |accessdate=27 Oct 2015}} and IBM acquired Telelogic in 2008.