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Rational Build Forge

IBM Rational® Build Forge® provides build and release management capabilities to accelerate and streamline software and systems delivery.

Implement continuous integration in Rational Build Forge

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Simplify build and deployment automation for complex projects
Streamline steps, checkpoints, and exceptions by using a Java-based script that processes an external control file.
Automate build deployment and accelerate releases
By integrating Rational Team Concert and Rational Build Forge, you can generate product offerings automatically and pass them to Rational Quality Manager. Then by integrating Rational Quality Manager and Rational Build Forge, you can schedule and run various automated tasks from Rational Quality Manager through Build Forge.
Tradeoffs and payoffs in moving to DevOps development
If you wonder whether the payoff in transforming traditional development to DevOps practices is worth the challenges and changes required, read this. Dan Zentgraf explains how DevOps differs, how you'll need to redefine your deliverables, the likely effects on your organization, and the benefits.
Integrate Rational Team Concert with Rational Build Forge
Veena H. Balakrishnaiah explains how to configure Rational Team Concert to launch Rational Build Forge projects and publish information into the associated build result. This makes the build result the place of record for builds and build artifacts, but you can still use Build Forge automation.
Integrate Mercurial version control with IBM Rational Build Forge
Learn how to write an adaptor to integrate the open source Mercurial distributed version control tool with IBM Rational Build Forge build and release management software, how to parse and extract the details into the Bill of Materials, or BOM, and how to determine whether new change sets are coming.