Level: Intermediate Paul Boustany (pboustan@us.ibm.com), Software engineer, IBM
06 Jan 2009 This tutorial is a guide for the online demonstration of IBM®
Rational® ClearCase® Version 7.1 and IBM® Rational®
ClearQuest® Version 7.1.
Before you start
In this tutorial, you will learn some of the basic tasks for using IBM® Rational®
ClearCase® and IBM® Rational® ClearQuest® for team software development, and the
organizational roles associated with those actions. You will learn how these
tools are used by project managers to assess and assign changes, by developers
to implement new changes and deliver them to the team, and by build and quality
managers to test, promote and release new builds.
About this tutorial
This series is for users interested in trying some of the change and
configuration management capabilities of Rational ClearCase and Rational
ClearQuest without installing or configuring the tools. This evaluation provides
both tools in a ready to use state from inside a single Eclipse-based shell. By
the end of the evaluation, you should have a feel for how Rational ClearCase and
Rational ClearQuest work together to provide a complete change and configuration
management solution.
Overview
This tutorial provides a basic introduction to Unified Change Management using
Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest to manage the software development lifecycle.
Part 2, presents an overview of Rational ClearQuest and how it is used alone to
manage defects, enhancements and other changes. Part 3 describes how to perform
the basic tasks within Rational ClearCase.
Objectives
In this tutorial you will be fulfilling the role of several stakeholders in
the software development process including: project lead, developer, integrator
and release engineer. By acting in these roles, you will work a defect through
the development lifecycle; from submission to completion. Along the way you will
observe how Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest work together to control
and manage the process of change in software development.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Rational ClearQuest and/or Rational ClearCase or
configuration management concepts is helpful, but not required. Once you start
the trial, you have three hours to explore the application. We recommend that if
you are new to Rational ClearCase and/or Rational ClearQuest, you use our
evaluation guide to explore some core features.
System requirements
The online trial program uses the Citrix® Access Gateway™ platform
to provide you a connection from your workstation to a remote server running the
IBM product you are evaluating. You will need to download Citrix client software
before using the online trial program. You can download the Citrix MetaFrame
Presentation Server client at no charge from the Citrix site; many versions,
including versions for Microsoft® Windows and Linux® platforms, are available. After you
install the client, you will be asked to restart your browser. If you do not
have the Citrix client installed when you attempt to acce
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