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Use plain language for test scripts by implementing SAFS with Rational Functional Tester
Some software testers are inexperienced with scripting languages and the scripting tools that generate test scripts. This situation can create test-development and maintenance issues for the whole testing team. When you implement the Software Automation Framework Support (SAFS) by using IBM Rational Functional Tester, testers can produce and maintain scripts in plain language.
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19 Nov 2009 |
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Developing a meet-in-the-middle service flow
Service flow projects offer the ability to aggregate multiple transactions into a single service. The meet-in-the-middle (MIM) approach – that is, mapping an existing program to an existing service interface – is easy using single service projects. Using the IBM Rational Developer for System z environment, you will learn how to map an existing service interface to a CICS service flow so that you can create a Web service using a meet-in-the-middle approach.
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19 Nov 2009 |
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Effective use of Rational Team Concert for daily scrums
Agile, scrum, and lean methods focus on a core need of team awareness of project tasks and prioritization. Having the appropriate tools to assist with this communication and prioritization is a key to success. This article is about daily scrums from the viewpoint of active participants and how they can best use IBM Rational Team Concert to effectively communicate progress and blockers.
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12 Nov 2009 |
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Troubleshooting the integration of IBM Rational Quality Manager and Rational Functional Tester
IBM Rational Quality Manager includes features that help you integrate
it with IBM Rational Functional Tester software. After integration, you can
import and run existing Rational Functional Tester automated scripts through
Rational Quality Manager. This article shows you how to use the Rational
Functional Testing Adapter Console for troubleshooting if you are unable to connect the Rational Quality Manager server.
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12 Nov 2009 |
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Configure Rational Functional Tester to run on Linux
IBM Rational Functional Tester is a test automation tool, designed to work on both Microsoft Windows and the Linux operating systems. When you install IBM Rational Functional Tester on the Microsoft Windows operating system, the testing tool is ready to use. However, when you install the tool on the Linux operating system, you must configure the application to take advantage of test automation. This article shows the extra few steps you need to do to test Web-based applications on Linux platforms using IBM Rational Functional Tester.
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12 Nov 2009 |
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Integrate Rational Team Concert and Rational Performance Tester for collaborative
script development, version control, and process management
When developing performance test scripts in Rational Performance Tester, you need version control tools to help better manage versions of the scripts. Rational Team Concert not only offers version control but helps you govern the development process. Rational Team Concert provides an efficient way to collaboratively develop the Rational Performance Tester projects and scripts.
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05 Nov 2009 |
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Planning a security strategy: Three core questions to ask
Security teams are overwhelmed by the increasing need to safeguard their information assets. Simultaneously, CEOs are thinking of how to cost-effectively ensure security across their organizations that often span geographic borders. They all want a simple answer to a complex question: Where do I begin? That's what this article is about.
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29 Oct 2009 |
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What’s new in Rational Method Composer Version 7.5.0.1
This article summarizes the main enhancements made to IBM Rational Method Composer in the 7.5.0.1 release. In addition to more than 100 defect fixes, this release includes more than 40 enhancements that address client requests.
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28 Oct 2009 |
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WAN Performance, reliability, and scalability improvement for IBM Rational CM Server for Rational ClearCase Remote Client and ClearQuest Web
This article discusses the benefits and the performance, reliability, and scalability gains from changes made to IBM Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest CM Server in Version 7.1.0.2.
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26 Oct 2009 |
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What's new in IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality, Version 8.1
Learn about the new capabilities and updates in IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality, Version 8.1
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22 Oct 2009 |
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Setting up an IBM Rational Application Developer-based iWidget development environment
When widgets are developed for deployment on IBM® Mashup Center, two IBM development tools can be used, the IBM Mashup Center widget factory or IBM Rational® Application Developer. This article explains how to set up IBM Rational Application Developer so that it can be used to create iWidgets for deployment in IBM Mashup Center.
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20 Oct 2009 |
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Scrum project management with IBM Rational Team Concert Version 2: Part 2. Plan and manage sprints
For more than a year now, we've been using IBM Rational Team Concert to support our scrum teams, delighting in many of its features, living with some of its shortcomings, and looking forward to the next version. With Version 2, the Jazz and Rational Team Concert teams have delivered dramatic improvements to their scrum and agile estimating and planning support (not to mention a much improved Web client and many other new features). This article series provides an up-to-date tutorial on getting started with Version 2 and the scrum process and highlights new features and capabilities important to scrum teams and their managers. It updates the article published in 2008 that covered "Rational Team Concert Version 1 and scrum project management".
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15 Oct 2009 |
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What's new in IBM Rational Performance Tester Version 8.1
IBM Rational Performance Tester helps quality assurance teams identify the presence and cause of system performance bottlenecks in their business applications to ensure that they're ready for production deployment. This article describes key features delivered in Version 8.1 that extend analysis capabilities and enhance the test development experience.
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15 Oct 2009 |
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Rational Publishing Engine introduction for DocExpress users
IBM Rational Publishing Engine is a new, fast, and flexible application for generating documents from a wide variety of software engineering applications. This article explains its key concepts and compares them to DocExpress, so that you can systematically replace that tool.
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15 Oct 2009 |
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Using application data with Rational ClearCase when no integration is available
Some software offers IBM Rational ClearCase integration (SCC or native). This article explains how to check in and check out the application data with ClearCase when no such integration exists by using clearfsimport, a tool that is included with ClearCase.
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15 Oct 2009 |
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What's new in Rational Developer for System z, Version 7.6
This article describes the major enhancements introduced in IBM Rational Developer for System z, V7.6, which was released in October 2009.
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15 Oct 2009 |
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Scrum project management with IBM Rational Team Concert Version 2: Part 1. Set up projects, teams, and plans
For more than a year now, we've been using IBM Rational Team Concert to support our scrum teams, delighting in many of its features, living with some of its shortcomings, and looking forward to the next version. With Version 2, the Jazz and Rational Team Concert teams have delivered dramatic improvements to their scrum and agile estimating and planning support (not to mention a much improved Web client and many other new features). This article series provides an up-to-date tutorial on getting started with Version 2 and the scrum process and highlights new features and capabilities important to scrum teams and their managers. It updates the article published in 2008 that covered "Rational Team Concert Version 1 and scrum project management".
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08 Oct 2009 |
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How mainframe software development teams benefit from using Rational Team Concert for System z
Learn how deploying Rational Team Concert for System z provides benefits in collaboration, planning, and agile processes for mainframe software development.
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08 Oct 2009 |
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Create a deployment topology diagram in IBM Rational Software Architect
This article shows how to use IBM Rational Software Architect to create a deployment topology diagram. After completing this exercise, you will be able to model the physical deployment of either a Java Enterprise Edition (JEE) or Microsoft .NET Web application.
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08 Oct 2009 |
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What's new in Rational Team Concert for System z, Version 2.0
Learn about the new functions included in the IBM Rational Team Concert for System z, Version 2.0.0.1 release.
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05 Oct 2009 |
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Rational top 10 articles over the last 5 years
Find out which articles rank highest, either in terms of page views or in the view of the editor, for the IBM Rational zone on developerWorks over the last several years.
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28 Sep 2009 |
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Introduction to JavaServer Faces data templates
Generating JavaServer Faces (JSF) controls based on your existing JavaBeans or other data sources is quick and easy. This article explains how to use the data templates that are included with IBM Rational Application Developer, Version 7.5.4 or later, which give you greater control over which controls are generated and how the resulting page will look.
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25 Sep 2009 |
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The Full-Text Search feature in IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7.1: Part 4. Customize to use different languages
This article guides IBM Rational ClearQuest administrators in customizing languages that can be used in the Full-Text Search feature introduced in Version 7.1. This is the last of a four-part series about getting started with this feature.
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24 Sep 2009 |
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Debug and troubleshoot JavaServer Faces applications by using JSFTrace in Rational Application Developer
JSFTrace helps developers get a better understanding of how JavaServer Faces technology works and how to debug their JSF applications faster and more efficiently. This article describes the JSFTrace feature introduced in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5.4 and how to configure and use it for troubleshooting.
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24 Sep 2009 |
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Using IBM Optim with IBM Rational testing tools to create test databases
This article shows you how to supplement the testing power of IBM Rational Performance Tester and IBM Rational Functional Tester with the database and data-generating capabilities of IBM Optim to simplify the testing process and expand the depth of the tests.
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24 Sep 2009 |
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The Full-Text Search feature in IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7.1: Part 3. How to configure, enable, disable, and re-enable this feature
This article guides IBM Rational ClearQuest administrators in configuring and enabling the Full-Text Search feature that was introduced in Version 7.1. This is Part 3 of a four-part series.
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17 Sep 2009 |
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Deployment Planning for IBM Rational ClearQuest Version 7.1
To get optimal use from the new features in IBM Rational ClearQuest 7.1, some customization and configuration is required. This article gives an overview of the new features and necessary configuration tasks.
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17 Sep 2009 |
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Use EGL Rich UI and HATS to integrate green-screen applications in your SOA
This article summarizes the Enterprise Generation Language Rich User Interface (EGL Rich UI) support provided in IBM’s EGL tooling products; Rational Developer for System z with EGL, Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction, and Rational Business Developer, in combination with Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS). Using these solutions you can quickly and easily create Web applications to access business logic and transactions contained within character-based 3270 and 5250 applications in a service-oriented architecture (SOA) environment.
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16 Sep 2009 |
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Test dynamic Web applications with IBM Rational Functional Tester scripts that can handle application changes
Frequently changing Web pages and Web applications make testing and test-script development a frustrating challenge. With IBM Rational Functional Tester you can develop clean test scripts that can withstand these changes and still put your application through its paces, build after build.
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10 Sep 2009 |
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The Full-Text Search feature in IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7.1: Part 1. Search overview and use cases
ClearQuest Full-Text Search is one of the new features in IBM Rational ClearQuest Version 7.1. With this tool, a ClearQuest Web user can search any ClearQuest record the same way as searching the Web. This article helps ClearQuest administrators understand the new feature and its setup, configuration, and underlying architecture.
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03 Sep 2009 |
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Build robust scripts for reliability tests in IBM Rational Performance Tester
A reliability test that stops before the test finishes wastes your time and resources. Learn how you can use IBM Rational Performance Tester and custom code to develop powerful scripts that withstand the problems that stop other tests.
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03 Sep 2009 |
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The Full-Text Search feature in IBM Rational ClearQuest, Version 7.1: Part 2. Install the components
This article guides IBM Rational ClearQuest administrators in installing the components of the Full-Text Search feature introduced in Version 7.1. It is Part 2 of a five-part series about getting started with this feature.
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03 Sep 2009 |
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Working with ClearCase Unicode Type Manager
Get an overview of the IBM Rational ClearCase Unicode Type Manager (UTM) introduced in Version 7.1, which helps you get started quickly by using the same version of Unicode files.
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27 Aug 2009 |
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Integrating IBM Rational Performance Tester with remote scripts
This article presents step-by-step procedures for starting remote scripts from IBM Rational Performance tester so that you can reduce manual steps, save time, and improve performance testing productivity. With the custom code that Rational Performance Tester provides, you can manipulate recorded scripts so that you can automate starting remote scripts to control the target computer during run time.
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20 Aug 2009 |
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Reverse engineer UML diagrams by using IBM Rational Software Architect, Version 7.5
In IBM Rational Software Architect, Version 7.5, you can reverse engineer code to analyze a Java project by creating inheritance trees that contain details of classes and their relationships as Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams. This article explains the steps to use reverse engineering on a small Java project.
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13 Aug 2009 |
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IBM Rational Modeling Extension with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and .NET
Framework 3.0 support
IBM Rational Modeling Extension for Microsoft .NET for IBM Rational Software Architect Standard Edition or IBM Rational Software Modeler provides application modeling and code generation in the C# language. The integration with Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 means that developers can use it with the 2005 version of Visual Studio, too. It also supports the Microsoft .NET framework 3.0 Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service modeling and code generation.
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10 Aug 2009 |
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Build a user model with Rational Software Architect and the User Interface Generator
In this article, learn how to use the tooling provided by the
User Interface Generator to create a user model. The model follows the
principles outlined in User
modeling demystified,
and describes how users of a system will interact with the model. The tooling
provides extensions to Rational Software Architect's existing UML modeling
capabilities that simplify the user modeling process for both new and
experienced UML modelers. Learn how you can use the User Interface Generator
to minimize the learning curve and dramatically reduce the time required to
create a user model.
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07 Aug 2009 |
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Connect your user interface to existing back-end services
The User Interface Generator command framework, a component of the IBM
InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Workbench, provides a robust, flexible
mechanism for connecting a generated user interface into existing back-end
services. In this article, learn about the User Interface Generator command
bean framework, and about each of the components it generates. An example
shows how the command beans can be implemented to quickly and easily connect
to a set of back-end services.
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07 Aug 2009 |
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Continuous integration with IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client
IBM Rational ClearCase Remote Client is a software configuration management (SCM) tool that supports agile development processes. Continuous integration (CI), which is one of the agile best practices, is an automated process of reproducible builds, including testing, which runs many times a day according to your schedule. CI helps your team find integration problems at the early stages of development. CruiseControl is a tool to run and report the results of your build. This article shows you how to implement CI with ClearCase Remote Client and CruiseControl.
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06 Aug 2009 |
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Simplify UCM delivery for IBM Rational ClearCase in a UNIX environment
This article describes a practical approach to simplify the process of making a delivery in an IBM Rational ClearCase environment for the UNIX system by following some of the best practices in the field. The techniques described and the hints and tips are helpful for application developers, for whom this is a common yet critical part of the software development process.
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06 Aug 2009 |
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Using IBM Rational Requirements Composer and IBM Rational RequisitePro together
Get guidance for introducing IBM Rational Requirements Composer into your requirements management process. If you are using IBM Rational RequisitePro, you can use Rational Requirements Composer to import requirements and to elaborate and visualize them. If you are not currently using a formal requirements management tool, you can start with Requirements Composer to define and visualize requirements, and then introduce RequisitePro, where you can manage your Requirements Composer requirements using a formal management tool. This allows you to take advantage of RequisitePro features as traceability.
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30 Jul 2009 |
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Configuring an Oracle database for use with IBM Rational Quality Manager
Learn how to configure an Oracle database server for use with IBM Rational Quality Manager and create a table on the Oracle database server.
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30 Jul 2009 |
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IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal Toolkit: Part 5. Tooling support for events and public render parameters for portal and portlet applications
This article walks you through the creation of a sample JSR 286 basic portlet application using the Portal Toolkit in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5. In the process, it explains how the Portal Toolkit expedites the whole process to leverage these capabilities. Detailed instructions show how to enable events and public render parameters by using the new event wizard and the enhanced portlet deployment descriptor visual editor.
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23 Jul 2009 |
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Tips for installing and configuring IBM Rational Application Developer on a Citrix Presentation Server
The Citrix Presentation Server is one of the platforms supported by IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform products. This article explains several important things to do on the Citrix server and client machines so that multiple users can develop with Rational Application Developer while using Citrix clients. The author also addresses a few limitations. This information is based on testing Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 with Citrix Presentation Server Version 4.5 (Version 5.0 of the Citrix Presentation Server is called Citrix XenApp).
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23 Jul 2009 |
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What's new in IBM Rational Functional Tester Version 8.1
Learn about storyboard testing and other new features, wizards, technology
support, and integrations in IBM Rational Functional Tester Version 8.1.
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23 Jul 2009 |
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Authorization for component-specific operations in IBM Rational Team Concert
IBM Rational Team Concert provides a wide range of components to support application lifecycle management. Operations owned by components such as Process and Work Item are controlled by respective permission settings. This article explains the aspects that affect the authorization of the component-specific operations within your Jazz repository and the logic behind the permission lookup for these operations.
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20 Jul 2009 |
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Ways to use IBM Rational Functional Tester more effectively
IBM Rational Functional Tester provides features by which
users can automate testing of their GUI applications effectively. The IBM
Quality Software Engineering (QSE) team introduced a hierarchical
framework, known as the QSE framework, to make maintenance easier. This framework uses
the Rational Functional Tester object recognition feature. This article shows
you ways to extend your QSE framework and how to use Rational Functional
Tester features to improve productivity, too. You will also get tips for testing applications that support multiple languages
effectively.
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16 Jul 2009 |
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What's new in IBM Rational Software Analyzer Version 7.1
Learn about the new software integration, programming language support, and technology support in Version 7.1 of IBM Rational Software Analyzer. This extensible software helps you review software code, identify bugs, and enforce code quality policy early in the software development cycle, when problems are easier and less expensive to correct.
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14 Jul 2009 |
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Easier globalization of JavaServer Faces Web applications with IBM Rational Application Developer
Learn how to use IBM Rational Application Developer to enable globalization for JavaServer Faces Web applications. This article describes challenges in developing for global markets and explains how using the JavaServer Faces Widget Library (JWL) can help you handle them with ease.
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09 Jul 2009 |
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Incorporating external features in IBM Rational Functional Tester
You can use IBM Rational Functional Tester capabilities to improve your reports and scripts. This article shows you how to make them more powerful and feature- packed by using available features to work with processes, send e-mail, create screen captures, customize reports, create external property files, and generate unique data.
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02 Jul 2009 |
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IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal
Toolkit: Part 4. Static page aggregation
With static page aggregation, you can create portal pages from static HTML layouts or templates in an IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 project. This article guides you through the step-by-step process of creating, designing, customizing, and aggregating such static layouts by using IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5, targeting the portal server runtime environment. You do not need to know a lot about the underlying portal APIs to follow the steps in this article.
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02 Jul 2009 |
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Extend IBM InfoSphere Data Architect to meet your specific data
modeling and integration requirements, Part 2: Build customized reports and validation rules with IDA
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect (IDA) (formerly Rational Data
Architect) is gaining momentum as a comprehensive tool that helps
organizations promote a thorough understanding of their enterprise information
architecture. As more people use IDA, there's an increasing need for some
customers to extend IDA to meet their unique data modeling and integration
requirements. This two-part series shows you how to extend IDA's models,
properties view, model reports and validation rules. In Part 1, you learned how to
programmatically traverse and modify IDA models and how to add and display
custom properties. In Part 2, learn how to generate customized reports and how
to add your own validation rules for IDA models. [2009 Jul 02: This article
was updated to reflect that the GUI for BIRT report
customization has been changed for performance improvement. This is shown in
the section that describes how to generate customized model reports using BIRT.--Ed.]
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02 Jul 2009 |
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Using IBM Rational Functional Tester to work with objects wrapped in HTML table cells
This article shows you how to use IBM Rational Functional Tester to automate objects wrapped inside of HTML table cells while keeping the specified cells as a reference. It will help you automate operations on these objects.
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25 Jun 2009 |
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Extend IBM InfoSphere Data Architect to meet your specific data
modeling and integration requirements, Part 1: Modifying IDA models and customizing properties
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect (IDA) (formerly Rational Data
Architect) is gaining momentum as a comprehensive tool that helps
organizations promote a thorough understanding of their enterprise information
architecture. As more people use IDA, there's an increasing need for some
customers to extend IDA to meet their unique data modeling and integration
requirements. This two-part series shows you how to extend IDA's models,
properties view, model reports and validation rules. In Part 1, learn how to
programmatically traverse and modify IDA models and how to add and display
custom properties. [IDA Version 7.5 has adapted Data Tools
Project (DTP) to replace Web Tools Project (WTP).
Because IDA uses the SQL model defined in DTP as the basis of its metamodels,
the section "Programmatically traverse and modify RDA logical data model and
physical data model," as well as the sample code provided with the
article, were updated.--Ed.]
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25 Jun 2009 |
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Faces library definitions for third-party JavaServer Faces controls
This article describes the new Faces Library Definition feature in IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5. With this feature, you can import an arbitrary third-party JSF (JavaServer Faces) component library and fine-tune the behavior of the JSF tools when you work with that library's UI components.
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18 Jun 2009 |
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30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational Requirements Composer: 30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational Requirements Composer Part 3. Templates
Learn how to use IBM Rational Requirements Composer to create templates from artifacts and to reuse existing templates easily in other projects.
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18 Jun 2009 |
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Design debt economics: A vocabulary for describing the causes, costs, and cures for software maintainability problems
from The Rational Edge: Code maintainability is vitally important to software quality and is relevant to all development stakeholders. This article explains the impacts of code maintainability problems and how to identify and mitigate them.
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12 Jun 2009 |
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30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational Requirements Composer: Part 2. Collaboration
IBM Rational Requirements Composer fosters collaboration by offering universal tools and views to search for, comment on, and define and navigate links between artifacts of any type. This exploration of these common facilities is punctuated by specific tips from the developers of Rational Requirements Composer to help you use this software more productively. Analysts with this knowledge will spend less time opening artifacts unnecessarily and retyping redundant information and more time perfecting their customers' requirements. This is Part 2 of a three-part series.
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03 Jun 2009 |
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The Full-Text Search feature in IBM Rational ClearQuest V7.1: Search overview and use cases in ClearQuest
IBM Rational ClearQuest Version 7.1 is a feature-rich release. One of the new features is ClearQuest Full-Text Search. With this feature, you (as a ClearQuest Web user) can search any ClearQuest record, just like searching the Web. This article, Part 1 of a 2-part series, provides in-depth details about functions of the ClearQuest Full-Text Search feature. It is targeted toward ClearQuest administrators to help them better understand the new feature and its underlying architecture.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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Process Mashups: Helping Project Teams Put the Pieces Together
from The Rational Edge: Read this overview of mashups -- a type of situational application for the Web 2.0 era. The author explores the use of IBM Mashup Center environment to facilitate project team members to consolidate and access process information that is relevant to their roles on the project team.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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30 productivity tips from the developers of IBM Rational
Requirements Composer: Part 1. Navigation
Software requirements are actualized in a variety of forms that can be
difficult to navigate and discuss uniformly: use case diagrams, screen
mock-ups, text descriptions, flow charts, and so forth. Besides providing
specific editors for these types of content, IBM Rational Requirements
Composer fosters collaboration by offering universal tools and views to
search for, comment on, and define and navigate links between artifacts of
any type. This exploration of these common facilities is punctuated by
specific tips and tricks from the developers of Rational Requirements
Composer to help you use this software more productively. With this
knowledge, you will spend less time opening artifacts unnecessarily and
retyping redundant information and more time meeting your customers'
requirements.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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Design debt economics: A vocabulary for describing the causes, costs, and cures for software maintainability problems
from The Rational Edge: Code maintainability is vitally important to software quality and is relevant to all development stakeholders. This article explains the impacts of code maintainability problems and how to identify and mitigate them.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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Enterprise Architecture for Systems Engineers
from The Rational Edge: Learn from two recognized experts about the key connection points between the enterprise architecture and the system architecture, and how the enterprise architecture both influences and constrains system development.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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Does Agility scale? Wrong question!
from The Rational Edge: Read about the application of Agile practices to large projects, and how specific organizational values and context can help you decide which Agile practices to adopt.
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01 Jun 2009 |
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Anatomy of a Linux hypervisor
One of the most important modern innovations of Linux is its
transformation into a hypervisor (or, an operating system for other operating
systems). A number of hypervisor solutions have appeared that use Linux as the
core. This article explores the ideas behind the hypervisor and two particular
hypervisors that use Linux as the platform (KVM and Lguest).
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31 May 2009 |
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What’s New in IBM Rational Rhapsody Version 7.5
Get an overview of the new features in IBM Rational Rhapsody that you can use to develop software in real-time and embedded systems. You can use these features even for resource-constrained targets, such as microcontrollers, and you can use the SysML and UPDM features to describe systems better.
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28 May 2009 |
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Introducing IBM Rational Insight V1.0
IBM Rational Insight provides consistent metrics from across the organization and deployed tools to measure status and progress against defined business and organizational objectives. Rational Insight implements standard measurements, reports, and dashboards to provide accurate insight into systems and software delivery organization.
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26 May 2009 |
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IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal
Toolkit: Part 3. Web 2.0 portlet and portal programming support for IBM WebSphere Portal
Version 6.1
This article describes the Web 2.0 tooling support introduced in IBM Rational
Application Developer Version 7.5 for portlet and portal applications running on IBM
WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 and higher. To help you understand this tooling support
better, the author also discusses the basics and benefits of the Web 2.0-based
technologies.
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26 May 2009 |
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Comment lines: Tony Efremenko: A key ingredient for a more agile team is professional
certification
Agile development is good, is used at IBM, and works best when everyone
adheres to the guidelines and values set forth by professional certifications. Want to
make agile development even better? Get certified!
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20 May 2009 |
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The Support Authority: IBM Software Support Toolbar provides shortcuts to problem solving resources
Support resources for IBM software can literally be just a click (or two) away when
you have the IBM Software Support Toolbar installed on your Web browser. Here's how
to get and use this simple tool that makes accessing documentation, downloads,
education, and other technical information for all IBM
software brands more convenient than ever.
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20 May 2009 |
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IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal Toolkit: Part 2. Web 2.0 portal development support for features in IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1
IBM WebSphere Portal Version 6.1 introduces new features, such as client-side aggregation, Friendly URLs, and static page aggregation. WebSphere Portal V6.1 provides new themes, which include a Web 2.0-based theme. IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 provides the tooling support for these new features. This article describes these features and tools.
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19 May 2009 |
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Data migration from Microsoft Visual SourceSafe to IBM Rational ClearCase and Unified Change Management
This article describes the procedure to migrate data kept in Microsoft Visual SourceSafe (VSS) repositories into IBM Rational ClearCase repositories. It also shows you how to get the data in unified change management (UCM) format, so that you can work with activities, streams, and the project structure.
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18 May 2009 |
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IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal Toolkit: What's new in IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5 Portal Toolkit
This article is the first in a five-part series. It provides an overview of the new features of IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Portal Toolkit. Because this overview deals with the enhancements made since the previous version, knowledge of Rational Application Developer V7.0 is very useful, although not mandatory.
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12 May 2009 |
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Using IBM Rational Team Concert for System z and the Jazz platform
This article provides an introduction to IBM Rational Team Concert for System z in the context of today's development environments. It also shows a set of customer use case scenarios and the value that Rational Team Concert brings to those environments.
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12 May 2009 |
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Optimize Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) applications using pureQuery and Data Studio Developer
This article describes how pureQuery and Data Studio Developer can be used to optimize data access for DB2 LUW and z/OS with EGL Java applications. The article shows how EGL and Data Studio Developer can be installed in a shell-sharing mode, and then how pureQuery can be used with the EGL Java generated code to convert dynamic statements to static statements for the DB2 versions, change captured SQL statements with better performing SQL statements,reduce SQL Injection risk, and look at execution times for the different SQL statements in special views provided in DataStudio.
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08 May 2009 |
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Compare and merge fragmented models by using IBM Rational Software Architect, Rational ClearCase Remote Client, and UCM
This article provides parallel development tools and tips using IBM Rational Software Architect, Rational ClearCase Remote Client, and UCM.
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05 May 2009 |
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Build Eclipse plug-ins to extend Rational Software Architect UML to WSDL transformations
This article walks you through the steps to extend the IBM Rational Software Architect UML-to-WSDL transformation feature by customizing the bindings.
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05 May 2009 |
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Build extension plug-ins for JMS end points and SOAP headers
This article provides an overview of the extensibility features of the IBM Rational Software Architect UML-to-WSDL transformation feature, and then it illustrates a technique to build extensions to support JMS end points and SOAP headers.
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28 Apr 2009 |
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IBM Rational Test RealTime V7.5 Integration with IBM Telelogic Rhapsody V7.4
IBM Rational Test RealTime is cross-platform software for component testing and runtime analysis. This article explains how to integrate it with IBM Telelogic Rhapsody and then test the integration.
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28 Apr 2009 |
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Sequence diagram enhancements in IBM Rational Software Architect and IBM Rational Software Modeler
This article describes enhancements to the sequence diagram editor in Version 7.0.5 of IBM Rational Software Architect for WebSphere Software, IBM Rational Software Architect Standard Edition, and IBM Rational Software Modeler, which make it easier to edit and modify diagrams. In addition, the introduction of message sets and support for classifier-inherited operations give you better editing control of messages and lifelines.
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21 Apr 2009 |
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Data Studio Administrator, Part 1: Integrating Data Studio Administrator and Rational Data Architect
This article highlights the integration between Data Studio Administrator
(previously known as DB2 Change Management Expert) and Rational Data Architect.
You'll learn about the common look and feel, the strengths of each product, and the
benefits of combining them together. It includes step-by-step instructions and a sample that illustrates the touch points between these two tools. [2009 Apr 17: Added note about Rational Data Architect changing product
name to InfoSphere Data Architect. --Ed.]
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17 Apr 2009 |
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Integrating Rational Software Architect with Rational Data Architect
Model-driven software development generally starts with either application
modeling or data modeling. Application modeling and data modeling, however, are closely
related to, and complement, one another. IBM has recognized the importance of
integrating application modeling with data modeling in model-driven software
development, and has developed the Unified Modeling Language (UML)-to-Logical Data
Model (LDM) and the LDM-to-UML transformations. These transformations integrate
application modeling using Rational Software Architect (RSA) and data modeling using
Rational Data Architect (RDA). This article provides a quick overview of RSA and RDA,
outlines the high-level steps in three RSA-RDA integration scenarios, and discusses the
UML-to-LDM and the LDM-to-UML transformations and the UML Logical Data Model Profile. [2009 Apr 17: Added note about Rational Data Architect changing product
name to InfoSphere Data Architect. --Ed.]
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17 Apr 2009 |
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Use IBM Rational Data Architect to model your Oracle databases
Find out why IBM Rational Data Architect is gaining momentum as a database
modeling tool that is optimized for IBM databases, yet also provides functionality
to model other major database vendors such as Oracle. Look at alternatives to Oracle
Designer, and see how keeping up with Oracle's major enhancements is setting RDA
apart from the rest of the data modeling tools. [2009 Apr 17: Added note about Rational Data Architect changing product
name to InfoSphere Data Architect. --Ed.]
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17 Apr 2009 |
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Integrate WebSphere Business Modeler and Rational Data Architect
Get an overview of IBM Rational Data Architect and IBM WebSphere Business
Modeler. Step through three scenarios for integrating business process and data
modeling using Rational Data Architect and WebSphere Business Modeler, and find
recommendations and best practices along the way. [2009 Apr 17: Added note about Rational Data Architect changing product
name to InfoSphere Data Architect. --Ed.]
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17 Apr 2009 |
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Asset engineering with the RAM rich client
The RAM Rich Client is a feature rich extension for Eclipse that enables developers to quickly harvest and upload or locate and download software related assets to and from remote repositories. In this article we give an overview of an asset based engineering approach using Rational Asset Manager (RAM) and provides detailed examples to show how you can leverage this asset repository using a fully functional RAM rich client.
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15 Apr 2009 |
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Use IBM Rational Application Developer Version 7.5 Web Service Policy Framework to share policy configurations
This article briefly explains the concept of Web Services Policy Framework and walks you through an example of how you can leverage IBM Rational Application Developer V7.5 to configure Web services policies. You can easily follow the sample to tailor it to your organization's needs.
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14 Apr 2009 |
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Integrate Green-screen Applications in your SOA: Using Rational Host Access
Transformation Services (HATS)
This article summarizes the support provided by IBM Rational Host Access
Transformation Services (HATS) that allows you to create Web services to provide
standard programming interfaces to business logic and transactions contained
within character-based 3270 and 5250 applications (also referred to as host
applications or green-screen applications).
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09 Apr 2009 |
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Integrate Green-screen Applications in your SOA: Using Rational Host Access
Transformation Services (HATS)
This article summarizes the support provided by IBM Rational Host Access
Transformation Services (HATS) that allows you to create Web services to provide
standard programming interfaces to business logic and transactions contained
within character-based 3270 and 5250 applications (also referred to as host
applications or green-screen applications).
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09 Apr 2009 |
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Comment lines: Reginaldo Barosa: Modernize your CICS applications with SOA and Web 2.0 using
Rational tools
Breathe new life into your existing CICS COBOL applications by using IBM
Rational Developer and EGL to reuse them in a Web 2.0 application. This simple
example shows you how.
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08 Apr 2009 |
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IBM Rational Test RealTime 7.5 Integration with Wind River Workbench 3.0
IBM Rational Test RealTime is cross-platform software for component testing and runtime analysis. This article explains how to integrate it with the Wind River Workbench IDE.
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07 Apr 2009 |
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Migrating from CA ERwin to InfoSphere Data Architect
If you've had experience with CA ERwin Data Modeler and now are
starting to learn InfoSphere(TM) Data Architect, this paper will speed up your
model migration process and ease your learning process of the new environment.
You will learn the differences between the two design environments, and you'll
also learn a set of best practices for using features of InfoSphere Data
Architect that will put you on the fast track of working productively in
InfoSphere Data Architect.
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02 Apr 2009 |
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How to use the CopyRq script for IBM Rational RequisitePro
This article explains how to use the "copy requirement" extension, or CopyRq script, to change existing requirements to different types in IBM Rational RequisitePro. The script is included with the article but provided "as-is."
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31 Mar 2009 |
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How and why to create custom Ant tasks
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24 Mar 2009 |
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Eliminating ambiguous cases in the recognition of test objects
IBM Rational Functional Tester provides a test object recognition framework and a
simple user interface for the tester to implement GUI-based test scripts. However, under
some circumstances, such as testing an Eclipse-based application, you might find that
the tested GUI is full of ambiguous test objects. This article shows you how to
eliminate such ambiguous cases and gives you several guidelines to implement flexible and
easy maintenance test scripts.
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20 Mar 2009 |
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Rational AppScan
Rational AppScan Standard Edition is a desktop solution that automates Web application security testing for IT Security, auditors, and penetration testers. Rational AppScan Express Edition provides affordable Web application security for smaller organizations. If you are interested in evaluating AppScan Express Edition, download and install AppScan Standard Edition. For evaluation purposes, AppScan Standard Edition has the same functionality as AppScan Express Edition.
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17 Mar 2009 |
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A successful model for large-scale virtual training
from The Rational Edge: Time and money are two stumbling blocks to conventional classroom training. Leveraging its Communities of Practice expertise, IBM Rational developed a successful online training model that incorporates hands-on collaboration. This article describes this new approach.
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15 Mar 2009 |
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Leadership in an (almost) Agile world
from The Rational Edge: Everyone agrees that Agile software development is ubiquitous today, but what characterizes leadership in the relatively new context of Agile development teams? Read how a longtime proponent of Agile techniques views the role and traits of a Agile leader.
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15 Mar 2009 |
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Calculating ROI for process improvement
from The Rational Edge: This article illustrates how you can readily demonstrate clear return on investment for IT process improvement efforts.
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15 Mar 2009 |
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Software cost estimation using use case points: Getting use case transactions straight
from The Rational Edge: The use case points method is a useful model of estimating effort and cost on software development projects -- provided you can appropriately specify and count use case transactions. This article explains how (and how not) to count transactions for estimation purposes using this model.
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15 Mar 2009 |
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Rational product downloads
This is a list of Rational product downloads.
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09 Mar 2009 |
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