Requirements management using version control.
Project description
STATUS: As of the 1.0 release, this project is no longer under active development. I still plan on accepting any passing pull requests to become part of future 2.x releases.
Doorstop
Doorstop manages the storage of textual requirements alongside source code in version control.
Additional reading:
publication: JSEA Paper
sample: Generated HTML
Getting Started
Requirements
Python 3.3+
A version control system for requirements storage
Installation
Doorstop can be installed with pip:
$ pip3 install doorstop
or directly from source:
$ git clone https://github.com/jacebrowning/doorstop.git $ cd doorstop $ python3 setup.py install
After installation, Doorstop is available on the command-line:
$ doorstop --help
And the package is available under the name ‘doorstop’:
$ python3 >>> import doorstop >>> doorstop.__version__
Basic Usage
Document Creation
Parent Document
A document can be created inside a directory that is under version control:
$ doorstop create REQ ./reqs created document: REQ (@/reqs)
Items can be added to the document and edited:
$ doorstop add REQ added item: REQ001 (@/reqs/REQ001.yml) $ doorstop edit REQ1 opened item: REQ001 (@/reqs/REQ001.yml)
Child Documents
Additional documents can be created that link to other documents:
$ doorstop create TST ./reqs/tests --parent REQ created document: TST (@/reqs/tests)
Items can be added and linked to parent items:
$ doorstop add TST added item: TST001 (@/reqs/tests/TST001.yml) $ doorstop link TST1 REQ1 linked item: TST001 (@/reqs/tests/TST001.yml) -> REQ001 (@/reqs/REQ001.yml)
Document Validation
To check a document hierarchy for consistency, run the main command:
$ doorstop valid tree: REQ <- [ TST ]
Document Publishing
A text report of a document can be displayed:
$ doorstop publish TST
1 TST001
Verify the foobar will foo and bar.
Links: REQ001
Other formats are also supported:
$ doorstop publish TST --html <!DOCTYPE html> ... <body> <h1>1 (TST001)</h1> <p>Verify the foobar will foo and bar.</p> <p><em>Links: REQ001</em></p> </body> </html>
Or a file can be created using one of the supported extensions:
$ doorstop publish TST path/to/tst.md publishing TST to path/to/tst.md...
Supported formats:
Text: .txt
Markdown: .md
HTML: .html
Content Interchange
Export
Documents can be exported for editing or to exchange with other systems:
$ doorstop export TST
TST001:
active: true
dervied: false
level: 1
links:
- REQ001
normative: true
ref: ''
text: |
Verify the foobar will foo and bar.
Or a file can be created using one of the supported extensions:
$ doorstop export TST path/to/tst.csv exporting TST to path/to/tst.csv... exported: path/to/tst.csv
Supported formats:
YAML: .yml
Comma-Separated Values: .csv
Tab-Separated Values: .tsv
Microsoft Office Excel: .xlsx
Import
Items can be created/updated from the export formats:
$ doorstop import path/to/tst.csv TST
Revision History
1.0 (2016/04/17)
Fixed a bug checking levels across inactive items.
Added error message for all IO errors.
Added ‘–skip’ options to disable documents during validation.
Added Mercurial support. (credit: [@tjasz](https://github.com/tjasz))
0.8.4 (2015/03/12)
Restrict openpyxl < 2.2 (there appears to be a breaking change).
0.8.3 (2014/10/10)
Fixed a bug running VCS commands in subdirectories.
Excluded openpyxl == 2.1.0 as a dependency version.
0.8.2 (2014/09/29)
Limit the maximum version of openpyxl to 2.1.0 due to deprecation bug.
0.8.1 (2014/09/04)
Fixed a bug requesting new item numbers from the server.
0.8 (2014/08/28)
Added doorstop clear … to absolve items of their suspect link status.
Added doorstop review … to absolve items of their unreviewed status.
Added Item.clear() to save stamps (hashes) of linked items.
Added Item.review() to save stamps (hashes) of reviewed items.
Added doorstop reorder … to organize a document’s structure.
Renamed Item.id and identifer arguments to uid
Added ‘–no-body-levels’ to doorstop publish to hide levels on non-headings.
Added doorstop-server to launch a REST API for UID reservation.
Added ‘–server’ argument to doorstop add to specify the server address.
Added ‘–warn-all’ and ‘–error-all’ options promote warnings to errors.
0.7.1 (2014/08/18)
Fixed bug importing items with empty attributes.
0.7 (2014/07/08)
Added doorstop delete … to delete document directories.
Added doorstop export … to export content for external tools.
Fixed doorstop publish … handling of unknown formats.
Added tree structure and traceability to index.html.
Added clickable links using Item IDs in HTML header tags.
Fixed bug publishing a document to a directory.
Fixed bug publishing a document without an extension or type specified.
Updated doorstop import … to import from document export formats.
Updated doorstop edit … to support document export/import.
Renamed doorstop new … to doorstop create ….
Made ‘all’ a reserved word, which cannot be used as a prefix.
0.6 (2014/05/15)
Refactored Item levels into a Level class.
Refactored Item identifiers into an ID class.
Refactored Item text into a Text class (behaves like str).
Methods no longer require nor accept ‘document’ and ‘tree’ arguments.
Renamed Item.find_rlinks() to Item.find_child_links().
Changed ‘–no-rlink-check’ to ‘–no-child-check’.
Added Item.find_child_items() and Item.find_child_documents().
Added aliases to Item: parent_links, child_links/items/documents.
Added ‘–with-child-links’ to doorstop publish to publish child links.
Added doorstop import … CLI to import documents and items.
Refactored Document prefixes in a Prefix class.
Added ‘–no-level-check’ to disable document level validation.
Added ‘–reorder’ option to doorstop to enable reordering.
0.5 (2014/04/25)
Converted Item.issues() to a property and added Item.get_issues().
Added ‘–level’ option to doorstop add to force an item level.
Added warnings for duplicate item levels in a document.
Added warnings for skipped item levels in a document.
Renamed Item methods: add_link -> link, remove_link -> unlink, valid -> validate.
Renamed Document methods: add -> add_item, remove -> remove_item, valid -> validate.
Renamed Tree methods: new -> new_document, add -> add_item, remove -> remove_item, link -> link_items, unlink -> unlink_items, edit -> edit_item, valid -> validate.
Added doorstop.importer functions to add exiting documents and items.
0.4.3 (2014/03/18)
Fixed storage of 2-part levels ending in a multiple of 10.
0.4.2 (2014/03/17)
Fixed a case where Item.root was not set.
0.4.1 (2014/03/16)
Fixed auto save/load decorator order.
0.4 (2014/03/16)
Added Tree.delete() to delete all document directories and item files.
Added doorstop publish all <directory> to publish trees and index.html.
0.3 (2014/03/12)
Added find_document and find_item convenience functions.
Added Document.delete() to delete a document directory and its item files.
0.2 (2014/03/05)
All Item text attributes are now be split by sentences and line-wrapped.
Added Tree.load() for cases when lazy loading is too slow.
Added caching to Tree.find_item() and Tree.find_document().
0.1 (2014/02/17)
Top-level items are no longer required to have a level ending in zero.
Added Item/Document.extended to get a list of extended attribute names.
0.0.21 (2014/02/14)
Documents can now have item files in sub-folders.
0.0.20 (2014/02/13)
Updated doorstop.core.report to support lists of items.
0.0.19 (2014/02/13)
Updated doorstop.core.report to support items or documents.
Removed the ‘iter_’ prefix from all generators.
0.0.18 (2014/02/12)
Fixed CSS bullets indent.
0.0.17 (2014/01/31)
Added caching of Item in the Document class.
Added Document.remove() to delete an item by its ID.
Item.find_rlinks() will now search the entire tree for links.
0.0.16 (2014/01/28)
Added Item.find_rlinks() to return reverse links and child documents.
Changed the logging format.
Added a ‘–project’ argument to provide a path to the root of the project.
0.0.15 (2014/01/27)
Fixed a mutable default argument bug in Item creation.
0.0.14 (2014/01/27)
Added Tree/Document/Item.iter_issues() method to yield all issues.
Tree/Document/Item.check() now logs all issues rather than failing fast.
Renamed Tree/Document/Item.check() to valid().
0.0.13 (2014/01/25)
Added Document.sep to separate prefix and item numbers.
0.0.12 (2014/01/24)
Fixed missing package data.
0.0.11 (2014/01/23)
Added Item.active property to disable certain items.
Added Item.derived property to disable link checking on certain items.
0.0.10 (2014/01/22)
Switched to embedded CSS in generated HTML.
Shortened default Item and Document string formatting.
0.0.9 (2014/01/21)
Added top-down link checking.
Non-normative items with a zero-ended level are now headings.
Added a CSS for generated HTML.
The ‘publish’ command now accepts an output file path.
0.0.8 (2014/01/16)
Searching for ‘ref’ will now also find filenames.
Item files can now contain arbitrary fields.
Document prefixes can now contain numbers, dashes, and periods.
Added a ‘normative’ attribute to the Item class.
0.0.7 (2013/12/09)
Always showing ‘ref’ in items.
Reloading item attributes after a save.
Inserting lines breaks after sentences in item ‘text’.
0.0.6 (2013/12/04)
Added basic report creation via doorstop publish ….
0.0.5 (2013/11/20)
Added item link and reference validation.
Added cached of loaded items.
Added preliminary VCS support for Git and Veracity.
0.0.4 (2013/11/04)
Implemented add, remove, link, and unlink commands.
Added basic tree validation.
0.0.3 (2013/10/17)
Added the initial Document class.
Items can now be ordered by ‘level’ in a document.
Initial tutorial created.
0.0.2 (2013/09/25)
Changed doorstop init to doorstop new.
Added the initial Item class.
Added stubs for the Document class.
0.0.1 (2013/09/11)
Initial release of Doorstop.
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