It may be a short list, but the quality is still there and exactly what you've come to rely on from developerWorks Rational! Here are the items that went live on developerWorks Rational last week: Enable or disable validators in Rational Application Developer
By Rosendo Martinez, Software Engineer, J2EE Tools Developer and Validation Framework Lead, IBM Mexico
Using the validation framework, you can create custom validators to validate projects and resources created with IBM Rational Application Developer. The framework provides interfaces and APIs to control how, when, and what type of validator is launched on the resources. This introduction describes enabling or disabling validators.
Product: Rational Application DeveloperLast week we also highlighted the following items on our home page and product pages that you may find of interest: Fea tured download: IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software:
IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software helps developers quickly design, develop, test, analyze, and deploy high-quality Java, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE), Web 2.0, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and portal applications. Rational Application Developer includes features to quickly build skills on emerging Java EE and Web technologies, automate code verification, build and test, and enables agile software development for today's fast-paced software delivery needs. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rad/index.html
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As you've come to expect, and possibly rely upon, here's the past two weeks of content that has gone live on developerWorks Rational: How Linked Lifecycle Data can transform your systems engineering environment
By Benjamin N. Williams
Organizations are building increasingly complex products and systems, and this engineering is generating more and more data with ever-increasing complexity. This trend is likely to continue. Ben Williams explains how Linked Data architectures enable capabilities that help solve inherent challenges and increase innovation in building complex products and systems.Automate build deployment and accelerate releases by combining Rational software
By Lohith Doddamane and Pawan Ranganath
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.Consider human factors in the software development process
By Aya Elgebeely
To get the agile approach to work for a team, human factors need to get enough attention. Aya Elgebeely discusses how to save process initiation effort, money, and time by making priorities clear to leaders and managers and clarifying the best way to get buy-in within teams.IBM solution brief: Develop enterprise mobile applications with Rational software
In transformational business approaches, enterprise mobile applications are a great leap forward. Businesses are now strategically employing enterprise mobile apps to support business objectives. The possibilities are limited only by imagination -- and development capabilities.Tradeoffs and payoffs in moving to DevOps development
By Dan Zentgraf, Domain Architect, Ascendant Technology
Dan Zentgraf of Ascendant Technology, an IBM Business Partner, describes how the DevOps approach to software development differs from traditional methods, including how what you deploy and deliver differs. He then outlines the organizational and cultural transformations required to take advantage of the DevOps approach and the results you can expect.
Products: Rational Build Forge, Rational Asset Manager, Rational Team ConcertFaster Rational Quality Manager test scripts, automatically
By Vaibhav Srivastava, Execution Component Team Lead, Rational Quality Manager, IBM, India, Shinoj Zacharias, Technical Lead, Rational Functional Tester, IBM, India
IBM Rational Quality Manager can use Rational Functional Tester to record a user's gestures and automatically convert them into English natural language. Exploratory testing, documentation, and agile test teams that run manual tests can all benefit by using this combination to write manual test scripts faster and easier.
Products: Rational Quality Manager, Rational Functional TesterGuide to Collaborative Lifecycle Management reports
By Murali Dhandapani, IT Specialist, IBM, India, Sonali Samantaray, Senior Staff Software Engineer, IBM, India, Arul Doraisamy, IT Specialist, IBM, India
This guide for deployment of Version 2.0 of the Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence (RRDI) explains how to integrate RRDI with the Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) 4.0 data warehouse. You can then generate reports for Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer.
Products: Rational Insight, Rational Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager
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We're always working to bring you deeper value to the products you use. From our support perspective, this doesn't just mean troubleshooting tips or solutions to errors. It also means larger implementation content and best practices! Helping you avoid issues by highlighting best practices before trouble is seen is just another of those ways we help make sure you are as successful with these products as you need to be! That's exactly why we bring you this periodic series of rollups form our developerWorks community and libraries... that in mind, here's last week's articles live on developerWorks Rational: Adapt enterprise architecture to cloud services: Using a hybrid SaaS
By Fabio Castiglioni, Client Technical Advisor, IBM, Italy
Fabio Castiglioni uses a hybrid software as a service (SaaS) example to show how to use enterprise architecture (EA) to specify requirements for a public cloud service. By using EA notations and IBM Rational System Architect, IT architects can communicate the value of cloud services to all types of stakeholders
Product: IBM Rational System ArchitectGet CLM benefits with Rational System Architect by using OSLC
By Wolfram Richter, Certified IT Specialist, IBM, Germany
IBM Rational System Architect Version 11.4 is based on different technology and architecture than the 2012 versions of the Rational applications that work with Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). Wolfram Richter explains how to use Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration, or OSLC, to integrate them so that all applications work together seamlessly.
Product: IBM Rational System ArchitectReuse Investment Analysis settings in Rational Focal Point
By Björn Kylberg, Senior Software Developer, IBM, Sweden
With IBM Rational Focal Point Version 6.5.2, you can create templates that are based on your Investment Analysis component settings so you can reuse those settings, rather than start over each time. Björn Kylberg explains how to create the templates and how to use them.
Product: IBM Rational Focal Point Last week we also highlighted the following items on our developerWorks Rational home page and product pages that you may find of interest.Evaluate Rational System Architect: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/systemarchitect/index.html Evaluate Rational Rhapsody: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rhapsodydeveloper/index.html System Architect SOA Sandbox guided trial: https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/pick.do?source=dw-soa-tewtx&S_PKG=TELE&S_CMP=SANDBOX&lang=en_US Play in the Collaborative Lifecycle Management sandbox: https://jazz.net/products/sandbox/ Demo series: Integrate Focal Point with CLM applications: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/views/rational/libraryview.jsp?type_by=Demos&search_by=Integrating+Rational+Focal+Point Featured download: Rational Rhapsody V8 editions now available:
Multiple editions of Rational Rhapsody V8, which help systems engineers and embedded software developers, analyze, design, develop, test, and deliver embedded, real-time systems and software, are now available a for trial download on developerWorks.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rhapsodydeveloper/index.html Webcast: Scott Barber answers "Is early performance testing really valuable AND viable?": http://video.webcasts.com/events/pmny001/viewer/index.jsp?eventid=43694
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While we here at Notes from Rational Support try to provide you, our clients, with great support driven content to help you succeed, we also know that support isn't your only concern! Driving further improvement, streamlining, and innovation within your own organization is just as critical. And you're in luck, not only is support devoted to helping you, but our Rational Executive sponsored blog is focused on the same success points as well! So if you haven't been over there yet, take a moment to dig in to the past month of recent posts I've highlighted below, then be sure to add the Invisible Thread to your RSS feed reader so you're sure not to miss any of the valuable posts when they publish! Enterprise software delivery- We sat down with Alan Brown, IBM Rational CTO for Europe, and asked him about the experiences with customers that drove him to write his new book, “Enterprise Software Delivery: Bringing Agility and Efficiency to the Global Software Supply Chain”... Harnessing the cloud to improve ALM processes- Too often, current application lifecycle management (ALM) practices are cumbersome to the point that they slow down the development process. The tremendous number of variables in the ALM process makes software development work resource intensive and difficult... Keys to successful demand and delivery management- Keys to successful demand and delivery management Extending software lifecycle management There's an old saying that no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. The same is true with IT portfolio management. In the real world, well-laid plans for... Combating the challenges of medical device development- In what ways is medical device development similar to other product development? If you are in a product development role, you will be very aware of the sorts of challenges you face, including: Increased competition Need to sell into global... IT Technical Summit Beijing: Young professionals lead the way- The IBM Software Technical Summit in China, which was held earlier last month in Beijing, was heavily geared toward the IT... Break out of the complexity: Creating a more agile and innovative enterprise- For most organizations, innovation and competitive differentiation go hand in hand. But often an organization’s ability to quickly and proactively respond to change driven by market drivers, customer demands and even regulatory compliance can be limited... Announcing Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager- Cast your mind back to (or if you’re young enough, just imagine!) the days before the world wide web. You’re doing some research for studies or your hobby, sitting in a library surrounded by books. You have so many different places to look for in...
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Back to school has come and gone, and we're inching towards those important life choices we all must make soon: What to be for Halloween! I jest, of course, as a way to help divert your attention from the stresses of your kids' school work and woes, and hopefully help you focus back in on your own work and success... To that end, here are the articles, downloads, and truly great content that went live on developerWorks Rational last week: Improve the value of CLM reports by using metrics: A guide to using metrics with Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence and Rational Insight
By Peter Haumer, Senior Software Engineer, IBM, USA
The applications that comprise Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) provide over 200 sample reports. Adding either the Rational Reporting for Development Intelligence (RRDI) component or IBM Rational Insight gives you more options and access to the data warehouse metrics. This is in-depth look at the metrics and how to use them.
Product: Rational InsightTackle the multichannel testing challenge
By Monica Luke, Lifecycle Scenario Architect, IBM, USA
Mobile and web-enabled applications bring new challenges to multichannel testing, or interleaving a single test scenario across several interfaces. It's becoming a requirement to move seamlessly from mobile to web and back again. Reviewing approaches that have worked in the past leads to a discussion about tackling the future.
Product: Rational Functional Tester
Introduction to C++0x scoped enums and good usage patterns
By Wael Yehia, Software Developer, IBM, Canada
The author describes all aspects of the new scoped enums from C++0x, the C++ standard, and provides examples and guidance for good usage patterns. Scoped enums can help you write more portable and more expressive code that can be forward declared, without any implicit conversions to aid type safety.
Product: C/C++ CompilersInvisible Thread blog: Keys to successful demand and delivery management
Demand and delivery management connects executives, managers, and development teams, so that everyone focuses on the same goals even amid continual change. This article offers five imperatives for an effective ALM approach that includes delivery management and lists essential ingredients for successful demand and delivery management. We are pleased to feature Contributing Author Mark Lines Mark Lines is Managing Partner at Scott W. Ambler + Associates. In 2012, Mark was awarded the IBM Champion designation for his work in the IBM community. He is an IT Process Consultant and Agile Coach. With Scott, he is co-author of Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise (IBM Press, 2012). Mark writes for many publications and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences, including IBM Innovate. He delivers workshops on Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), as well as other agile topics. In his spare time, Mark likes to camp, golf, and ski in the Canadian Rockies. He can be reached at mark [at] scottwambler.com This week we are also highlighting the following items on our pages that you may find of interest... Evaluate Rational Insight: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rinsight/index.html Free trial download of Rational Functional Tester: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rft/learn.html Evaluate IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rad/index.html Try Rational Application Developer online or in the sandbox: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rad/tryonline.html Try Rational Programming Patterns for System z V8.5: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rppz/ Essentials of design management: Learn how design management contributes to collaborative lifecycle management for IT organizations: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/rdmhelp/v4/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.dm.ispt.doc%2Ftopics%2Fc_gs_essentials_of_dm.html Featured download: Rational Programming Patterns for System z V8.5, which modernizes pattern-driven programming and enterprise-wide repository services for Pacbase developers within the Rational Software Delivery Platform, is now available for trial download on developerWorks: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rppz/
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Wow! Do we ever have a jam-packed "back to school" version of Live on developerWorks Rational for you today! So without further delay, let's dive right into the great articles which have gone live on developerWorks Rational over the past few weeks: August 21 Record Android client app test scripts in Rational Performance Tester
By Valerio Pengue, Software Performance Engineer, IBM
Learn how to use the Rational Performance Tester and the Android emulator to set up a simple framework to record an HTTP test for an Android application in IBM Rational Performance Tester. Food for thought: The "Systems engineering club sandwich"
By Andy Gurd, WW Go-to-Market Manager, Engineering Lifecycle Management, IBM
Have you ever felt that 1000 words might prove more worth than one unreadable drawing? Andy Gurd explores the "tasty" interplay between textual requirements and models and would like to hear your experiences with using requirements and models together effectively. Rational goes mobile
By Robin Wood, developerWorks Rational Acquisition Editor, IBM
A convenient list of Rational articles about developing mobile applications using Rational software, including links to other developerWorks mobile resources.applications August 28 The true value of agile process maturity
By Bob Aiello, Consultant and editor-in-chief, CM Best Practices Consulting
Bob Aiello examines some of the critical success factors required to implement successful agile practices reliably. To be truly valuable, they must be mature enough to be scalable and repeatable, he says. He also discusses how to implement robust and mature agile processes. Create an advanced upload file test case in Rational Performance Tester
By Valerio Pengue, Software Performance Engineer, IBM
Learn how to create Rational Performance Tester tests to upload a random file selected from a data pool of files to a target application. Advanced examples show how to create multiplatform test cases and how to generate random parameters at run time. Deploy IBM Rational Insight 1.1 in a large enterprise
By Ali Manji, Software Developer, IBM
A previous article, "Tips for deploying Rational Insight 1.0 in a large enterprise," covered some of the benefits of deploying Rational Insight 1.0.1.1 components across a three-tier architecture. This article updates information for Version 1.1 and explains how to add a web server tier to handle static content. September 4 What's new in IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.0 and Rhapsody Design Manager 4.0
By Paul Urban, Senior Systems Market Manager, IBM
IBM Rational Rhapsody 8.0 and Rational Rhapsody Design Manager 4.0 provide simplified design collaboration with new systems engineering workflow with a Jazz technology-based database repository that unifies requirements and design. These new versions also add many usability enhancements and improvements for systems engineering and safety-critical development. Map virtual machines with this algorithm
By Rahul Choudhary, Software Engineer, IBM and Riti Saxena, Software Engineer, IBM
Deploying virtual machines in bulk is a tedious and cumbersome job. Bulk deployment of virtual machines in a data center involves several tasks, and one of the key challenges is planning what to deploy where. This algorithm provides a simplified and efficient solution. Use OSLC and Visual Basic to integrate Rational Team Concert
By Takehiko Amano, IT Specialist, IBM
Rational Team Concert helps distributed teams manage tasks, defects, source code configuration, and builds collaboratively. Because it implements Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC), it can integrate existing tools, such as other project or activity management software. Learn how use it with Visual Basic scripting language to integrate an existing system. From my developerWorks, C++ Templates: What is a variadic template function?
The latest language standard has further complicated C++ by adding variadic templates. One problem I had in my attempt to understand this new feature was the lack of simple examples showing how it worked. Here's my attempt to show some of the basics of a variadic template function. How to capture the hidden value within your engineering data
On September 11 at 2 pm ET, learn how you can extract the value hidden within your complex web of systems engineering and software development data. Register now to attend this free webcast. Rhapsody enlightenment: Timing and performance analysis with Rational Rhapsody and the INCHRON Tool-Suite
What will the system do - and when? Through the integration with the INCHRON Tool-Suite, the "When will the system do it?" can be answered, too.
Thu, Sep 6, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT Rhapsody enlightenment: What's new with Rhapsody
Learn about the latest features and preview upcoming capabilities for Rational Rhapsody in this webinar.
Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM EDT. Featured download
Rational Team Concert: https://jazz.net/downloads/rational-team-concert/releases/4.0
Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer share a common installer that deploys the shared Jazz Team Server plus the Change and Configuration Management, Quality Management, and Requirements Management applications. September 11 Determine ROI for projects with the Investment Analysis component
By Tejaswini Jamakhandi, Staff Software Engineer, IBM
The Investment Analysis component in Rational Focal Point uses input-bounded estimates for costs and benefits to compute a distribution for net present value (NPV) of the project over its lifetime. From the NPV, it calculates other key values, including return on investment (ROI). See what formulas it uses and learn how it works.
Product: IBM Rational Focal Point Track projects in two other applications with Rational Focal Point
By Manjunatha S. Nadigar, Integration Lead, IBM
Monitor projects tracked by other Rational applications by using the XPathValueFetcher business rule in Rational Focal Point to fetch key values, such as status and progress. You can configure the rule to run as a background batch process to periodically synchronize data from Rational Team Concert and Rational Requirement Composer.
Products: IBM Rational Focal Point, IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational Requirements Composer Take snapshots of Investment Analysis data in IBM Rational Focal Point
By Björn Kylberg, Senior Software Developer, IBM
You can use the version attribute in IBM Rational Focal Point to take snapshots of data, including data from the Investment Analysis component. This article explains how and provides an example of how to work with snapshots.
Product: IBM Rational Focal Point Portfolio Management ROI calculator
Portfolio-based management of projects has become a corporate necessity as organizations are increasingly subjected to a variety of pressures and constraints. IBM Portfolio Management solutions, powered by IBM Rational Focal Point, are designed to help organizations to analyze and optimize their portfolios to secure maximum business value. Announcing IBM Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager (RELM)
Engineers can use RELM to visualize, analyze and organize engineering data (such as requirements, design, tests, and work items) and relationships (links). It helps teams make effective and timely decisions, improve reuse of engineering data, and maintain compliance with standards. Webinar: Process management for Rational Team Concert
Register for the Sept. 19 11:00am-12pm EDT webinar and bring your processes to life with stages and ALM. This week we are also highlighting the following items on our home page and product pages that you may find of interest.
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How about some nice summer reading while those earlier product bits you grabbed finish downloading and installing... The following articles went live on developerWorks Rational this week: Adopt and automate proven processes with Rational and Jazz tools, Part 2
By Ricardo Balduino, Senior Software Engineer, IBM, USA
Ricardo Balduino describes how to take a process already defined in Rational Method Composer and automate it in Rational Team Concert. This makes it far easier and faster to adopt proven patterns of success and also makes it possible to ensure that people follow them.
Products: Rational Method Composer, Rational Team Concert Automate testing of Flex Spark apps with Rational Functional Tester 8.2.1
By Richa Awasthy, Staff Software Engineer, IBM, Australia
Richa Awasthy gives an overview of Rational Functional Tester Version 8.2.1 support for Flex 4.0 and 4.1 SDKs. Then she explains how to automate testing of Flex Spark applications.
Product: Rational Functional Tester Quick steps to install Rational Change 5.2 on a Tomcat server
By Pradeep K. Shashidhar, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM, India
IBM Rational Change 5.2 includes the Jetty 5.1.14 web server, and you can also deploy it with IBM WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Application Server Community Edition. However, there is no option in the installer to deploy Rational Change on a Tomcat server. This article explains how to do that.
Product: Rational Change This week we are also highlighting the following items on the developerWorks Rational home page and product pages that you may find of interest.
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A lot of IBMers have been busy writing, demoing, and generally creating new content to help us all succeed. That in mind, here's what went live last week on developerWorks Rational: Overcome resistance to enterprise architecture
By Jan K. Gravesen, Executive Industry Architect, IBM, USA
Although it keeps evolving and interest keeps growing, many enterprise leaders are still ambivalent or skeptical about enterprise architecture. Jan Gravesen discusses the considerable value that EA offers and how it can be implemented to overcome much of that resistance. A compiler option that helps debug optimized code
By Daniel Chen and Tommy Hoffner, Software Developers, IBM, Canada
Debugging optimized code has always been a challenging task, because it could make the program state not available to debuggers. Daniel Chen and Tommy Hoffner introduce a compiler option that helps debug optimized IBM XL C/C++ and XL Fortran code. Reduce the risk of build failure by running a precondition
By Takehiko Amano, IT Specialist, IBM, Japan
Running a large software build process according to a schedule or on demand can take hours or even days. Frequently, the build fails. Takehiko Amano describes how to use the Apache Ant mechanism in Rational Team Concert to run a precondition that reduces the risk of build failure. Demo: Capability differences between Rational RequisitePro and Rational Requirements Composer 3.0.1.1
By Jason Green and Brenda Myers
This demo lists a few IBM Rational RequisitePro capabilities that are not supported in IBM Rational Requirements Composer V3.0.1.1. Then, it introduces a number of Rational Requirements Composer capabilities that are not available in Rational RequisitePro. We are pleased to feature Contributing Author Joydipto Banerjee Joydipto Banerjee lives in the City of Joy, Kolkata, India. Professionally, he is a Technical Solution Architect for IBM Migration Factory and likes to read and work with new technologies. Joydipto is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist (Master Certified IT Specialist from The Open Group) and has written number of technical articles, mostly on cloud computing. He is an IBM Cloud Computing Ambassador and participates in IBM University Relation programs for various schools and colleges. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar. In his spare time, Joydipto is an avid follower of the fine arts and classical music, so he regularly attends various concerts and theater performances. You can reach him through https://twitter.com/joydipto Last week we also highlighted the following items on our home page and product pages that you may find of interest.
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Great content is hard to keep down.... it demands to be shared, which is why we bring you this semi-regular series! The following items went live this week on developerWorks Rational: Improve C/C++ app performance with Rational Developer for Power Performance Advisor
By Mike Kucera, Software Developer, IBM, Canada
Performance Advisor, introduced in Rational Developer for Power Systems Software 8.5, helps you get better performance from C/C++ applications that run on IBM Power Systems. In this tutorial, Mike Kucera shows you how it works. New technique uses XL C/C++ and Fortran compilers in regression testing
By Igor Todorovski, Jean Saad, and Francesco Cassullo, Software Developers, IBM
The authors introduce a test selection technique to reduce the number of test cases used for regression testing without degrading test coverage. It uses profile data from the function tracing feature (functrace) of the XL C/C++ and Fortran compilers to select a minimized and accurate subset of test cases. Use Java to update datapools in Rational testing software automatically
By Tim von Niessen, Consulting IT Specialist
Updating contents of datapools, the test data repositories in Rational tester products, becomes time-consuming when test data is not static. Tim von Niessen describes how to use Java to automate the process in Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, and Rational Service Tester for SOQ Quality. This week we are also highlighting the following items on our home page and product pages that you may find of interest. And as a special bonus, here's a recent video covering ALM for SAP with IBM Rational CLM platform for SAP Solution Manager: See how to extend SAP's Solution Manager with the IBM Rational CLM platform to achieve ALM for SAP that will help you improve SAP deployment and maintenance efficiencies.
See the four main scenarios you can use to extend SAP with IBM Rational Connector for SAP Solution Manager to achieve ALM. Manage requirements and business needs by pushing a Business Blueprint from SAP Solution Manager to IBM Rational Requirements Composer Manage quality and risk with integrated transfer of test results from IBM Rational Quality Manager to SAP Solution Manager Manage change and enhancements requests and integrate IBM Rational Team Concert with SAP Service Desk Create test-scope optimized test plans with SAP's Business Process Change Analyzer and IBM Rational Quality Manager
The IBM Rational Connector for SAP Solution Manager is available as a free download at https://jazz.net/downloads/sap-connector/
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With Innovate2012 being our focus for the past two weeks, we've held on to some of the great content coming out of developerWorks Rational to make sure we highlighted it when you'd all be back and ready for it! So here you go; the following are the wonderful articles which went live on developerWorks Rational over the past two weeks between June 5th and 15th:
Accelerate test cycles with Rational Quality Manager and a cloud test lab
By Pietro Marella, Advisory Engineer, IBM, Italy
Extend Rational Quality Manager with the Test Lab Manager component, so you can accelerate test cycles by managing assets in virtually. Tivoli SmartCloud Provisioning helps integrate capabilities, so you can import current definitions of virtual images and deploy new virtual machines on demand.
Product: Rational Quality Manager How to implement a conditional loop in Rational Performance Tester
By Vishalendu Pandey, Senior Performance Engineer, IBM, India
In this article for automation engineers with beginner to intermediate experience in Rational Performance Tester, Vishalendu Pandey guides you through creating a conditional loop that runs a specified number of times. He even includes a sample automation script.
Product: Rational Performance Tester Implement ongoing analysis and management of business-critical IT applications
By Amy M. Silberbauer, Executive IT Specialist, IBM, USA
Integrating software application analysis with managing changes to source code is a critical part of multiplatform development. Amy Silberbauer describes how to do this in managing the scope and risk of changes, so your plans will be more accurate and you can make better decisions.
Products: Rational Asset Analyzer, Rational Team Concert Accelerating SAP Deployments with IBM Rational
Listen to this podcast to hear how you can implement SAP enhancements faster and to keep up with business demands in the face of SAP upgrades and maintenance efforts. IBM announces Rational spring launch of products and services
By Mike Perrow, Writer and editor, Rational brand strategy team, IBM
New Rational software integrations and collaborative capabilities help clients optimize their software and systems delivery across the application and product lifecycle. The offerings include distinct sets of capabilities for IT teams and for product and systems service teams. Mike Perrow gives you the details.
Products: Rational DOORS, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Rhapsody, Rational Team Concert How early Integration testing enables agile development
By Monica Luke, Lifecycle Scenario Architect, IBM, USA
It's hard to deliver on the agile principle of "done, done, done" for complex, heterogeneous systems. Monica Luke explains how service virtualization can improve team collaboration and align the independent test organization's focus on the same milestone as the development team.
Products: IBM Green Hat, Rational Performance Tester, Integrate Rational ALM applications with SAP Solution Manager
By Bernd Eberhardt, Product Manager at the IBM SAP International Competence Center, Germany
Businesses with SAP environments benefit from a quality-based approach to ensuring that SAP implementations meet changing business needs. Bernd Eberhardt explains how integrating SAP's Solution Manager with Rational's extensible ALM apps helps scale existing processes and reduce costs.
Products: Rational ClearQuest, Rational Functional Tester, Rational RequisitePro, What's new in Rational Software Architect 8.5 and Design Manager 4 beta
By Steve Arnold, Senior Technical Consultant, IBM, UK
Rational Software Architect 8.5 adds support for Spring, Hibernate, Struts2 and Java 7 and makes adoption easier with a Visio import option. It includes the Design Manager 4 beta, which simplifies team working and improves reuse. Steve Arnold describes these and other highlights.
Product: Rational Software Architect What's new in Rational Requirements Composer 4.0
By Jared Pulham, Senior Product Manager, IBM, UK
Unlock the power of traceability from definition to delivery with Version 4.0 of IBM Rational Requirements Composer. In this article, Jared Pulham delves into the details of what this new version offers.
Product: Rational Requirements Composer We are also pleased to feature Contributing Author Bhargav Perepa Bhargav Perepa lives in Leesburg, Virginia, with his IBMer wife, Suj Perepa, and their daughter. As an IBM engineer in a trusted advisor specialist capacity, Bhargav consults with US Federal Government to help position IBM products and solutions for complex and often challenging requirements. Bhargav's sole focus in his current job role is to remove technical inhibitors to adoption of IBM products by the US government. He performs technical feasibility studies, conducts assessments to understand customer business and technical environments, presents proof-of-concept and technologies results, and guides solution implementations and IBM enablement sessions. Bhargav has presented at conferences, teamed up in leadership exchanges, and written articles and IBM Redbooks. He has contributed to the IBM patent portfolio, and he participates in the IBM patent review board. Bhargav is also a university ambassador and a certification and patent mentor for IBM. He enjoys reading The Economist, The Washington Post, US Civil War history, training for and completing marathons, swimming, volunteering for food banks and being election chief, traveling, and hiking (Grand Canyon roundtrip in a day, for example).
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