Importing requirements and requirement documents from ReqIF

You can import information in industry-standard Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF) to Perforce ALM as new requirements and requirement documents. This helps your organization work with requirements from other systems while continuing to use ALM for requirements management, traceability, and compliance efforts.

ReqIF is a standard format that defines how to structure a requirement document, its requirements, links between the requirements, and specific files related to a requirement so multiple tools can interpret it. For example, you are a supplier for a company that uses a different tool for requirements management. The company provides requirements to you in a ReqIF file. You can import this file to add the requirements and document to ALM while maintaining relationships between the requirements.

The basic steps to import ReqIF files to ALM are:

1. Get a ReqIF file that contains the requirements you need to import.

2. Review important information about importing ReqIF files to ALM.

3. Determine how the data types in the ReqIF file map to requirement and document fields in ALM.

4. Upload the ReqIF file to import to ALM.

5. Generate a mapping file from ALM. Mapping files are text-based YAML files that associate ReqIF types to ALM types.

If you have already imported a similar ReqIF file, you may be able to use the same mapping file as is or with some modifications.

6. Modify the mapping file to create mappings between the ReqIF and ALM types.

7. Upload the mapping file you modified, validate the data that will be imported, and complete the import.