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Rational ClearQuest Application Lifecycle Management Packages for ClearQuest 7.0.1

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08 Jul 2008

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Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a key enabler for streamlining a team's ability to produce a release of software. These packages provide a solution for ensuring ALM best practices in your existing IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® 7.0.1 change management system.

System requirements

You must have IBM® Rational® ClearQuest 7.0.1 to apply these ALM Packages to a schema.

These Rational ClearQuest 7.0.1 ALM Packages were created using the ClearQuest 7.0.1 Designer.

Purpose

The application lifecycle management (ALM) packages provide a solution for ensuring ALM best practices in your existing Rational® ClearQuest® 7.0.1 change management system. Application Lifecycle Management is a key enabler for streamlining a team's ability to produce a release of software. It involves the coordination of software development activities and assets to produce and manage software applications throughout their life cycle.

The ClearQuest ALM packages provide you with a role-based process and security model that offers optimal performance with a collection of tightly integrated record types that create a foundation for managing software development projects. Some of the features include:

  • Projects provide a secure and role-based context for completing work
  • Project tasks and activities are traceable to the originating request
  • Baseline and build records provide a traceability link between development and testing
  • Adaptive workflow with process enactment helps govern work according to predefined processes on a project-by-project basis
  • Multisite and UCM enabled, but not required
  • Queries and reports that assure completion and quality

The benefits of this package are:

  • Scalable ALM model from small teams to enterprise programs and projects
  • Empower project teams to define their own vocabulary and processes without impacting the schema
  • Emphasis is placed on "configuring" the solution rather than designing from the ground up
  • Support team members that may be distributed in multiple geographic locations

The ALM packages support the five success factors of ALM:

  • Governance - Continuously assess progress and results
  • Traceability - Manage dependencies and impact
  • Collaboration - Connect stakeholders and contributors
  • Automation - Improve performance, compliance, and quality
  • Distribution - Connect the software delivery chain regardless of geographic locations

The solution can be applied to new or existing ClearQuest 7.0.1 schemas and will be included in ClearQuest 7.1. A sample database and three tutorials are included in this download. In addition, the ClearQuest ALMProject and ALMWork packages are described in a series of articles in the The Rational Edge e-zine (see Resources, below).

ClearQuest base version and major dependencies

  • Rational ClearQuest 7.0.1

Supported

Yes, by IBM

Copyright and licensing info

Copyright © IBM Corporation, 2008

Last modified

June 2008

Installation instructions

  1. Download the file and extract the contents of the CQ_ALM_7.0.1 zip file into a directory of your choice.
  2. You will now have two zip files:
    • CQ_ALM_Packages.zip
    • CQ_ALM_Example.zip

CQ_ALM_Packages.zip


This section describes how to install and register the ALM Packages.

  1. Extract the contents of the CQ_ALM_Packages zip file into \Program Files\Rational\ClearQuest\Packages.
  2. From a Command Prompt register the ALMProject and ALMWork 1.0 packages:
    • packageutil registerpackage ALMProject 1.0 "C:\Program Files\Rational\ClearQuest\packages\ALMProject\1.0"
    • packageutil registerpackage ALMWork 1.0 "C:\Program Files\Rational\ClearQuest\packages\ALMWork\1.0"

The ALMProject and ALMWork packages are now ready to be used by the ClearQuest Designer.


CQ_ALM_Example.zip:


This section describes how to install the ALM Documentation and Example Database.

  1. Extract the contents of the CQ_ALM_Example zip file into a directory of your choice.
  2. The DB/ClearQuest_storage.zip must be unzipped to the C: drive and contains the ALM schema in an Access database: C:\ClearQuest_Storage\CQDB.
  3. Open and follow the ReadMe.txt file.
  4. In the ClearQuest Maintenance tool, create a connection to the CQALM.mdb database.
  5. Login to the sample database as "admin" with no password.
  6. Read and follow Lab1, Lab2, and Lab3.
  7. Read the ClearQuest ALM documentation file: com.ibm.rational.clearquest.alm.doc.pdf


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DescriptionNameSizeDownload method
ALM packagesCQ_ALM_7.0.1.zip3,531KBHTTP
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