Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs IBM DOORS Next comparison

Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs. IBM DOORS Next

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Agile Requirements...

Ranking in Application Requirements Management

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (11th), Test Design Automation (1st)

IBM DOORS Next

Ranking in Application Requirements Management

5th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Application Requirements Management category, the mindshare of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is 0.7%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM DOORS Next is 8.9%, up from 7.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Requirements Management

Featured Reviews

Gireesh Subramonian

Assistant Director at Ernst & Young

Helps the development team to finish tasks within the required timeframe

The team I am working with was never into Agile before. We have a daily scrum-call and before that, we have to define all the tasks that we are going to work on for a number of sprints. For example, there is a Product Increment Planning meeting where we put all the user requirements into the product backlog. Then we put them back to the respective sprints. A product increment consists of about five iterations, or five sprints. And we pull each of these backlog items to these particular sprints or iterations, so that it is easy for the development team to pick up, based on the priority. The backlog is set, and it is pulled into particular sprints, based on business priority. So it helps the development team to take up and finish tasks within the required timeframe. It helps in productivity, traceability, and saves time.

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Roger Trackwell

System Engineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

An industry-leading tool to demonstrate traceability between requirements, with valuable features for tailoring modules and managing several thousand requirements

The biggest thing is that it shows cradle to grave traceability between the initial parent requirement and the lowest level, or what we call a CID, a critical item development spec. You can establish your verification plans in DOORS, and then as you get test results, you can put them in DOORS as a link or as a pointer to where that specific test resides on a company database. Then you can also write compliance rationale and add a column for coding, like pass, fail, green, yellow, red, meets, does not meet, partially meets, or whatever scoring criteria you want to use. Like I said, the best thing about it is that it provides you that visibility of your verification, allowing you to know how close you are to your pre-production activities, prototyping, go ahead, or whatever it is.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Defects can be traced in the solution."

"I like the way Broadcom ARD inserts test cases in execution mode. Also, ARD can be used apart from Broadcom TDM. It's an add-on through which you supply data through ARD test cases when there is a need for extra data."

"Technical support is excellent. They provide solutions quickly for issues encountered."

"It takes away all the time to construct test cases, so it is all automatic now, but it also levels the playing field."

"The scale possibilities are endless, especially when combined with all the other products that CA has to offer."

"Helps the communication between the testing organization and the requirements group. It helps us to simplify the work. Instead of dealing with individual test cases, you're working with a model."

"In terms of meeting business challenges, it helped to shorten the dev/testing cycle by identifying requirements gaps early in the process, by having models shared within the development team. It helped increase test coverage and reduce the number of issues experienced by clients/customers."

"It helped us to move from manual testing to automation testing."

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"The most valuable features are the baselines and links."

"IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is easier to expand to build a backend with several servers, so you can also use it to scale up to several hundreds of users without major problems."

"My company contacts the solution's technical support, and they are good and responsive."

"As far as maintaining our requirements so that we can have copies of them, it's good. I can print it out if necessary."

"The most valuable features are the versioning of requirements and the possibility to reuse them."

"It's web-based, so you don't have anything to install."

"The "Link by Attribute" feature is useful for making links without needing to use the web interface manually."

"There are many good features with DOORS. The solution has a concept of streams and baselines, as well as a concept of components. A component is a subproject inside a project."

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Cons

"I think it's already coming, but it needs more automation aspects. There is a tab for Automation, but I think it's not robust. I think that it's going to be a crucial element of the tool."

"They do not have an engine to house test scripts to really pull together the testing pieces of it."

"CA ARD doesn't provide integration with Tosca. The possibility of creating a test case and exporting it into Tosca is not available. Integration with end-to-end automation tools, like Worksoft or Tosca, is not provided by CA ARD as of now."

"At present, there is no option for test data parameters from ARD for virtual databases. We have to create them in TDM and push them as well. Virtual database connectivity needs to be improved. They need to come up with some areas where they can create synthetic data parameters easily from the test cases that have been designed."

"Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could improve the UI. Other solutions have a much better UI. The new UI should have a new modern framework."

"Integration with Agile management tools can be improved, i.e., mainly test case maintenance and linking test cases to the automation script."

"It would help if it would save different subsets of test cases, use cases, etc., of a given diagram, for different purposes and provide an easy way to name those subsets."

"Data flexibility is something which I would like to see, along with more integration with App Test."

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"IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation is not a very user-friendly product."

"Be very careful how you load your DNG server. There are limits to the number of artifacts a server can handle."

"When you are not working on it every day it is not very intuitive."

"There is room for improvement in the APIs that they have exposed for integration."

"It offers a bad user experience and the usability is poor."

"It does have a tendency to condense the requirements. It kind of puts them in a tree format. Sometimes those trees are a little difficult."

"IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation has room for improvement compared to other tools like Polaris and Jama Connect. These tools offer more flexibility and options for developers, which IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation lacks. For example, you can define your link rules in Jama Connect, but you can't do that in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation."

"When you are in Jira or Confluence, you have some freedom in how you type in text. That's also a weakness of Confluence, however, as it opens the doors to sloppy work. In DOS Next Generation, the text is very rigorous, but it might be difficult for people who don't have the discipline. Having a way to quickly enter requirements could help. It might already be in there, but I don't know. I don't have enough experience with the tool yet."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The cost of the tool was well worth the benefit that we saw on the back-end."

"Recommendation is to go with concurrent licenses as oppose to seat license; this gives more flexibility."

"We were able to scale down some resources to basically self-fund our ability to purchase the tool."

"This tool reduces the cost associated with test cases, automation script generation, and maintenance costs."

"The pricing model is based on how many people are using it. We have an annual license. There are not any additional costs."

"It is less costly when compared to other tools on the market."

"At present, Broadcom works through partners rather than dealing directly with the consumer. When there are discounts given, it's up to the partner as to whether they want to give that discount to the customer. Sometimes, the partners decide to take the discount themselves. Pricewise, I would give ARD's price a rating of three out of five."

"Users can buy a three-year license for about 12,000 Euros."

"You are going to need a beefy server and a fat network pipe to it in order to make DNG and its companion tools work well for users."

"The price of this solution is very high, and it increases year after year."

"If the product price were not reasonable enough, our company would not use IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation."

"The cost of maintenance is €20,000 to €30,000 ($22,000 to $33,000 USD) and there are no additional fees."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?

The most valuable features of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer are ease of use, saving time for the team who builds test cases, and visibility of test cases.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?

The pricing model is based on how many people are using it. We have an annual license. There are not any additional costs.

What needs improvement with Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?

Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could improve the UI. Other solutions have a much better UI. The new UI should have a new modern framework.

What do you like most about IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation?

The tool's most valuable feature is displaying requirements in a tabular format. This means you can see everything laid out in columns and rows. It is more aesthetic compared to other tools. The tr...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation?

The pricing is considered unreasonable, and there is speculation that IBM may not be putting much effort into further development, possibly treating it as a cash cow.

What needs improvement with IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation?

There is a need for improvement in user experience, as the UI is too complex and outdated. Updates should be more frequent to ensure security and functionality, especially in addressing vulnerabili...

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Also Known As

Grid Tools Agile Designer, CA ARD, CA Agile Requirements Designer

Rational DOORS Next Generation, RDNG, Rational Requirements Composer and IBM RRC

Overview

CA Agile Requirements Designer is an end-to-end requirements gathering, test automation and test case design tool which drastically reduces manual testing effort and enables organizations to deliver quality software to market earlier and at less cost. The optimal set of manual or automated tests can be derived automatically from requirements modeled as unambiguous flowcharts and are linked to the right data and expected results. These tests are updated automatically when the requirements change, allowing organizations to deliver quality software which reflects changing user needs.

Broadcom

IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next (DOORS Next) is a requirements management (RM) software designed to help organizations manage engineering project requirements throughout the development lifecycle. It offers a central location for capturing, defining, and organizing project requirements, facilitating collaboration among stakeholders like engineers, system designers, and customers. Key features include requirements traceability, version control, and impact analysis. DOORS Next improves efficiency, enhances communication, reduces risks, and aids in better decision-making through clear traceability and version control. Compared to its predecessor, DOORS 9, DOORS Next is a web-based version with a modern interface that integrates with other IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) tools, while DOORS 9 offers a wider range of features in a non-web-based format.

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Sample Customers

Williams, Rabobank

Major health insurer

Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs. IBM DOORS Next