IntroductionThis paper discusses Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to manage life of an application

through its aspects of Governance Development and Maintenance The need for ALM processes

and tools have increased with the ever-increasing complexity of software development This

paper also covers IBMs tool for Collaborative Lifecycle management (CLM) and its relationship to

ALM It also covers the key tools of CLM Rational Team Concert Rational Rational

Requirement Composer and Rational Quality Manager

Application Lifecycle ManagementApplication Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a broad term to creating and managing an application

throughout its entire life cycle ndash from design through coding and testing to maintenance and

eventually to retirement

Three Aspects Of ALMALM can be divided into three distinct areas governance development and operations Figure 1

illustrates this showing each of the aspects

Figure 1 Three Areas of ALM

An applications lifecycle is demarcated by significant events It begins with an idea which is then

executed to ultimately build an application The next big event is deployment when the application

Application Lifecycle

Management

Governance

OperationsDevelopment

goes into production and finally when it no longer has significant business value the application

reaches end of life and is removed from service

Governance which encompasses all of the decision-making and project management for this

application extends over the entire life cycle Development the process of creating the

application occurs first between idea and deployment and it occurs again several times in the

applicationrsquos lifetime both for upgrades and for wholly new versions Operations the work

required to run and manage the application typically begins shortly before deployment and then

occurs continuously until the end of the application The application is terminated or replaced

Figure 2 A Closer View of ALM [1]

Governance

In ALM the purpose of governance is to ensure the application satisfies business needs Figure 2

provides a close-up view of ALM governance providing more detail on what it entails

The first step in ALM governance is business case development As Figure 3 indicates this

analysis takes place before the development process begins It addresses the business need

that the project seeks to meet It consists of expected cost benefits and risks Once the

business case is approved application development starts and governance is now implemented

through project portfolio management Once the application is completed it is deployed and it

becomes part of the organizationrsquos portfolio of applications

Figure 3 Governance Extends over Entire Application Lifecycle [1]

An application is an asset like any other and so the organization needs an ongoing

understanding of its benefits and costs Application portfolio management (APM) provides this a

way to avoid duplicating functionality among different applications APM also provides

governance for the deployed application addressing things such as when updates and significant

revisions make business sense It contains business case development and project portfolio

management for each of the revisions to the application as can be seen on the Development line

in Figure 3ECTS OF ALM GO

Governance

Governance is the only activity that extends throughout the entire ALM time span In many ways

itrsquos the most important aspect of ALM The application cannot meet all its functionality in the given

time if project manager fails to govern the project efficiently

Development

While equating ALM to the software development process isnrsquot accurate development certainly is

a fundamental part of every applicationrsquos lifecycle Figure 4 takes a closer look at this aspect of

ALM

Figure 4 Development occurs in the first part of applicationrsquos lifecycle periodically thereafter [1]

Once the business case is approved the software development lifecycle begins Development is

a series of iterations as it can be seen in the figure Each iteration contains some requirements

definition some design some development and some testing and deployment (The exact

activities depend upon the development methodology employed)

Once the SDLC process for version 1 of the application is complete the application is deployed

However it is not the end of the development as the application needs periodic updates as

shown in the figure and perhaps one or more full SDLC efforts to create new versions as in this

example (Certainly from a business perspective the developing business is still very much in the

red financially and will be for some time after initial deployment Only after the application is fully

deployed and operational (and revenues are being received) will the development organization go

into the black and start to experience a profit)

Operations

Every deployed application is monitored and managed Figure 5 shows some of the important

parts in this operations process

Figure 5 Operations begin shortly before application deployed continues until application removed from service [1]

As with Governance the Operations line is intimately connected to Development activity

According to David Chappell planning for deployment likely begins shortly before the application

is completed and the act of deployment itself is a fundamental part of operations Usually

deployment is the last step of development Once deployed application enters a maintenance

phase (or operations) Once the application is deployed it must be monitored maintained and

updated throughout its useful lifetime Similarly each update to the application must be deployed

once itrsquos completed as the figure indicates

Collaboration Lifecycle Management

Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management

solution by IBM It provides integrations across Jazz-based products to connect the work of

analysts with developers and testers Cross-product links support traceability web-like

navigation review commenting and status tracking across project repositories CLM integrations

build on the Jazztrade Foundation to provide a common approach to artifact linking dashboards

security and user interface frameworks [2]

CLM integrations provide the following capabilities [2]

bull Link to existing artifacts across repositories in integrated products for example test cases are linked to work items and requirements

bull Hover-over links to quickly check status of associated work for example testers can monitor the status of a defect reported to the development team

bull Add a viewlet to a dashboard to report query results from associated projects for example one may display requirements not yet assigned in test plans

bull Add comments to any artifact in an integrated repository (Integrated Repository ndash It is workspace repository to hold copies of files and folders)

Team members can use CLM integrations to achieve business objectives across the application

lifecycle as shown in the Figure 6

Figure 6 Collaborative Lifecycle Management connects analysts developers and testers [2]

Figure 6 shows the three applications of CLM Rational Requirements professional also know as

Rational Requirement Composer Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert

In IBMreg Rationalreg DOORSreg Requirements Professional[2] bull Requirements are implemented in different iterations in Rational Team Concert and validated by

test plans in Rational Quality Managerbull Analysts and other team members develop requirements that drive development work items test

plans and test cases

In IBM Rational Team Concert [2]bull Project and development managers use iteration plans to create a development schedulebull Iteration plan stories and other work items implement individual requirementsbull Developers work on defects submitted by testers as a result of test execution

In IBM Rational Quality Manager[2]bull The test team links requirements to test plans and test casesbull Testers link test cases to development work items to track development progressbull Testers submit defects in Rational Team Concert and verify the status of a defect or a build

Jazz Platform

Jazz is an integrated development platform with an emphasis on team collaboration

communication and software development processes [6]

Jazz is built on Eclipse technology and focused on integrating tasks across the software lifecycle

to improve the productivity of an entire team This platform consists of architecture and a set of

application frameworks and toolkits as shown in the Figure 7 [3]

Figure 7 Jazz Platform [4]

The Jazz platform also supports simple artifact exchange and collaboration between developers

by using higher value assets such as complete change sets as compared to the previous more

time consuming exchange of source code files or mail with code snippets Different types of

collaboration such as instant messaging are present to support communication and presence

awareness and enable everybody to be informed of events important to the team or to the

individual

Live project health information can be drawn directly from actual work rather than from time-

consuming progress reports in the jazz platform Traceability and auditability are automated by

managing all artifacts and their inter-relationships across the life cycle [3]

Project and Team Areas

The Jazz platform provides basic concepts to creating and managing projects as illustrated in

Figure 8

Figure 8 Project and team areas in Rational team concert [3]

The following structures are used for project and team management in Rational Team Concert

Project Area

ldquoA project area provides definition for the project deliverables team structure process and

schedulerdquo [4]

Team Areas

ldquoA team area manages team membership roles assignments and team artifactsrdquo [4]

Work Item Category

ldquoCategories group work items by the various components or functional areas of the project and

are associated with a team areardquo [4]

Team process

ldquoA process is the collection of roles practices rules and guidelines that are used to organize and

control the flow of work The Jazz platform is process aware and the rules of process behavior

validate preconditions and provide follow-up actions A process can also define project reports

queries and work item typesrdquo [4]

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

goes into production and finally when it no longer has significant business value the application

reaches end of life and is removed from service

Governance which encompasses all of the decision-making and project management for this

application extends over the entire life cycle Development the process of creating the

application occurs first between idea and deployment and it occurs again several times in the

applicationrsquos lifetime both for upgrades and for wholly new versions Operations the work

required to run and manage the application typically begins shortly before deployment and then

occurs continuously until the end of the application The application is terminated or replaced

Figure 2 A Closer View of ALM [1]

Governance

In ALM the purpose of governance is to ensure the application satisfies business needs Figure 2

provides a close-up view of ALM governance providing more detail on what it entails

The first step in ALM governance is business case development As Figure 3 indicates this

analysis takes place before the development process begins It addresses the business need

that the project seeks to meet It consists of expected cost benefits and risks Once the

business case is approved application development starts and governance is now implemented

through project portfolio management Once the application is completed it is deployed and it

becomes part of the organizationrsquos portfolio of applications

Figure 3 Governance Extends over Entire Application Lifecycle [1]

An application is an asset like any other and so the organization needs an ongoing

understanding of its benefits and costs Application portfolio management (APM) provides this a

way to avoid duplicating functionality among different applications APM also provides

governance for the deployed application addressing things such as when updates and significant

revisions make business sense It contains business case development and project portfolio

management for each of the revisions to the application as can be seen on the Development line

in Figure 3ECTS OF ALM GO

Governance

Governance is the only activity that extends throughout the entire ALM time span In many ways

itrsquos the most important aspect of ALM The application cannot meet all its functionality in the given

time if project manager fails to govern the project efficiently

Development

While equating ALM to the software development process isnrsquot accurate development certainly is

a fundamental part of every applicationrsquos lifecycle Figure 4 takes a closer look at this aspect of

ALM

Figure 4 Development occurs in the first part of applicationrsquos lifecycle periodically thereafter [1]

Once the business case is approved the software development lifecycle begins Development is

a series of iterations as it can be seen in the figure Each iteration contains some requirements

definition some design some development and some testing and deployment (The exact

activities depend upon the development methodology employed)

Once the SDLC process for version 1 of the application is complete the application is deployed

However it is not the end of the development as the application needs periodic updates as

shown in the figure and perhaps one or more full SDLC efforts to create new versions as in this

example (Certainly from a business perspective the developing business is still very much in the

red financially and will be for some time after initial deployment Only after the application is fully

deployed and operational (and revenues are being received) will the development organization go

into the black and start to experience a profit)

Operations

Every deployed application is monitored and managed Figure 5 shows some of the important

parts in this operations process

Figure 5 Operations begin shortly before application deployed continues until application removed from service [1]

As with Governance the Operations line is intimately connected to Development activity

According to David Chappell planning for deployment likely begins shortly before the application

is completed and the act of deployment itself is a fundamental part of operations Usually

deployment is the last step of development Once deployed application enters a maintenance

phase (or operations) Once the application is deployed it must be monitored maintained and

updated throughout its useful lifetime Similarly each update to the application must be deployed

once itrsquos completed as the figure indicates

Collaboration Lifecycle Management

Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management

solution by IBM It provides integrations across Jazz-based products to connect the work of

analysts with developers and testers Cross-product links support traceability web-like

navigation review commenting and status tracking across project repositories CLM integrations

build on the Jazztrade Foundation to provide a common approach to artifact linking dashboards

security and user interface frameworks [2]

CLM integrations provide the following capabilities [2]

bull Link to existing artifacts across repositories in integrated products for example test cases are linked to work items and requirements

bull Hover-over links to quickly check status of associated work for example testers can monitor the status of a defect reported to the development team

bull Add a viewlet to a dashboard to report query results from associated projects for example one may display requirements not yet assigned in test plans

bull Add comments to any artifact in an integrated repository (Integrated Repository ndash It is workspace repository to hold copies of files and folders)

Team members can use CLM integrations to achieve business objectives across the application

lifecycle as shown in the Figure 6

Figure 6 Collaborative Lifecycle Management connects analysts developers and testers [2]

Figure 6 shows the three applications of CLM Rational Requirements professional also know as

Rational Requirement Composer Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert

In IBMreg Rationalreg DOORSreg Requirements Professional[2] bull Requirements are implemented in different iterations in Rational Team Concert and validated by

test plans in Rational Quality Managerbull Analysts and other team members develop requirements that drive development work items test

plans and test cases

In IBM Rational Team Concert [2]bull Project and development managers use iteration plans to create a development schedulebull Iteration plan stories and other work items implement individual requirementsbull Developers work on defects submitted by testers as a result of test execution

In IBM Rational Quality Manager[2]bull The test team links requirements to test plans and test casesbull Testers link test cases to development work items to track development progressbull Testers submit defects in Rational Team Concert and verify the status of a defect or a build

Jazz Platform

Jazz is an integrated development platform with an emphasis on team collaboration

communication and software development processes [6]

Jazz is built on Eclipse technology and focused on integrating tasks across the software lifecycle

to improve the productivity of an entire team This platform consists of architecture and a set of

application frameworks and toolkits as shown in the Figure 7 [3]

Figure 7 Jazz Platform [4]

The Jazz platform also supports simple artifact exchange and collaboration between developers

by using higher value assets such as complete change sets as compared to the previous more

time consuming exchange of source code files or mail with code snippets Different types of

collaboration such as instant messaging are present to support communication and presence

awareness and enable everybody to be informed of events important to the team or to the

individual

Live project health information can be drawn directly from actual work rather than from time-

consuming progress reports in the jazz platform Traceability and auditability are automated by

managing all artifacts and their inter-relationships across the life cycle [3]

Project and Team Areas

The Jazz platform provides basic concepts to creating and managing projects as illustrated in

Figure 8

Figure 8 Project and team areas in Rational team concert [3]

The following structures are used for project and team management in Rational Team Concert

Project Area

ldquoA project area provides definition for the project deliverables team structure process and

schedulerdquo [4]

Team Areas

ldquoA team area manages team membership roles assignments and team artifactsrdquo [4]

Work Item Category

ldquoCategories group work items by the various components or functional areas of the project and

are associated with a team areardquo [4]

Team process

ldquoA process is the collection of roles practices rules and guidelines that are used to organize and

control the flow of work The Jazz platform is process aware and the rules of process behavior

validate preconditions and provide follow-up actions A process can also define project reports

queries and work item typesrdquo [4]

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

Figure 3 Governance Extends over Entire Application Lifecycle [1]

An application is an asset like any other and so the organization needs an ongoing

understanding of its benefits and costs Application portfolio management (APM) provides this a

way to avoid duplicating functionality among different applications APM also provides

governance for the deployed application addressing things such as when updates and significant

revisions make business sense It contains business case development and project portfolio

management for each of the revisions to the application as can be seen on the Development line

in Figure 3ECTS OF ALM GO

Governance

Governance is the only activity that extends throughout the entire ALM time span In many ways

itrsquos the most important aspect of ALM The application cannot meet all its functionality in the given

time if project manager fails to govern the project efficiently

Development

While equating ALM to the software development process isnrsquot accurate development certainly is

a fundamental part of every applicationrsquos lifecycle Figure 4 takes a closer look at this aspect of

ALM

Figure 4 Development occurs in the first part of applicationrsquos lifecycle periodically thereafter [1]

Once the business case is approved the software development lifecycle begins Development is

a series of iterations as it can be seen in the figure Each iteration contains some requirements

definition some design some development and some testing and deployment (The exact

activities depend upon the development methodology employed)

Once the SDLC process for version 1 of the application is complete the application is deployed

However it is not the end of the development as the application needs periodic updates as

shown in the figure and perhaps one or more full SDLC efforts to create new versions as in this

example (Certainly from a business perspective the developing business is still very much in the

red financially and will be for some time after initial deployment Only after the application is fully

deployed and operational (and revenues are being received) will the development organization go

into the black and start to experience a profit)

Operations

Every deployed application is monitored and managed Figure 5 shows some of the important

parts in this operations process

Figure 5 Operations begin shortly before application deployed continues until application removed from service [1]

As with Governance the Operations line is intimately connected to Development activity

According to David Chappell planning for deployment likely begins shortly before the application

is completed and the act of deployment itself is a fundamental part of operations Usually

deployment is the last step of development Once deployed application enters a maintenance

phase (or operations) Once the application is deployed it must be monitored maintained and

updated throughout its useful lifetime Similarly each update to the application must be deployed

once itrsquos completed as the figure indicates

Collaboration Lifecycle Management

Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management

solution by IBM It provides integrations across Jazz-based products to connect the work of

analysts with developers and testers Cross-product links support traceability web-like

navigation review commenting and status tracking across project repositories CLM integrations

build on the Jazztrade Foundation to provide a common approach to artifact linking dashboards

security and user interface frameworks [2]

CLM integrations provide the following capabilities [2]

bull Link to existing artifacts across repositories in integrated products for example test cases are linked to work items and requirements

bull Hover-over links to quickly check status of associated work for example testers can monitor the status of a defect reported to the development team

bull Add a viewlet to a dashboard to report query results from associated projects for example one may display requirements not yet assigned in test plans

bull Add comments to any artifact in an integrated repository (Integrated Repository ndash It is workspace repository to hold copies of files and folders)

Team members can use CLM integrations to achieve business objectives across the application

lifecycle as shown in the Figure 6

Figure 6 Collaborative Lifecycle Management connects analysts developers and testers [2]

Figure 6 shows the three applications of CLM Rational Requirements professional also know as

Rational Requirement Composer Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert

In IBMreg Rationalreg DOORSreg Requirements Professional[2] bull Requirements are implemented in different iterations in Rational Team Concert and validated by

test plans in Rational Quality Managerbull Analysts and other team members develop requirements that drive development work items test

plans and test cases

In IBM Rational Team Concert [2]bull Project and development managers use iteration plans to create a development schedulebull Iteration plan stories and other work items implement individual requirementsbull Developers work on defects submitted by testers as a result of test execution

In IBM Rational Quality Manager[2]bull The test team links requirements to test plans and test casesbull Testers link test cases to development work items to track development progressbull Testers submit defects in Rational Team Concert and verify the status of a defect or a build

Jazz Platform

Jazz is an integrated development platform with an emphasis on team collaboration

communication and software development processes [6]

Jazz is built on Eclipse technology and focused on integrating tasks across the software lifecycle

to improve the productivity of an entire team This platform consists of architecture and a set of

application frameworks and toolkits as shown in the Figure 7 [3]

Figure 7 Jazz Platform [4]

The Jazz platform also supports simple artifact exchange and collaboration between developers

by using higher value assets such as complete change sets as compared to the previous more

time consuming exchange of source code files or mail with code snippets Different types of

collaboration such as instant messaging are present to support communication and presence

awareness and enable everybody to be informed of events important to the team or to the

individual

Live project health information can be drawn directly from actual work rather than from time-

consuming progress reports in the jazz platform Traceability and auditability are automated by

managing all artifacts and their inter-relationships across the life cycle [3]

Project and Team Areas

The Jazz platform provides basic concepts to creating and managing projects as illustrated in

Figure 8

Figure 8 Project and team areas in Rational team concert [3]

The following structures are used for project and team management in Rational Team Concert

Project Area

ldquoA project area provides definition for the project deliverables team structure process and

schedulerdquo [4]

Team Areas

ldquoA team area manages team membership roles assignments and team artifactsrdquo [4]

Work Item Category

ldquoCategories group work items by the various components or functional areas of the project and

are associated with a team areardquo [4]

Team process

ldquoA process is the collection of roles practices rules and guidelines that are used to organize and

control the flow of work The Jazz platform is process aware and the rules of process behavior

validate preconditions and provide follow-up actions A process can also define project reports

queries and work item typesrdquo [4]

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

a fundamental part of every applicationrsquos lifecycle Figure 4 takes a closer look at this aspect of

ALM

Figure 4 Development occurs in the first part of applicationrsquos lifecycle periodically thereafter [1]

Once the business case is approved the software development lifecycle begins Development is

a series of iterations as it can be seen in the figure Each iteration contains some requirements

definition some design some development and some testing and deployment (The exact

activities depend upon the development methodology employed)

Once the SDLC process for version 1 of the application is complete the application is deployed

However it is not the end of the development as the application needs periodic updates as

shown in the figure and perhaps one or more full SDLC efforts to create new versions as in this

example (Certainly from a business perspective the developing business is still very much in the

red financially and will be for some time after initial deployment Only after the application is fully

deployed and operational (and revenues are being received) will the development organization go

into the black and start to experience a profit)

Operations

Every deployed application is monitored and managed Figure 5 shows some of the important

parts in this operations process

Figure 5 Operations begin shortly before application deployed continues until application removed from service [1]

As with Governance the Operations line is intimately connected to Development activity

According to David Chappell planning for deployment likely begins shortly before the application

is completed and the act of deployment itself is a fundamental part of operations Usually

deployment is the last step of development Once deployed application enters a maintenance

phase (or operations) Once the application is deployed it must be monitored maintained and

updated throughout its useful lifetime Similarly each update to the application must be deployed

once itrsquos completed as the figure indicates

Collaboration Lifecycle Management

Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management

solution by IBM It provides integrations across Jazz-based products to connect the work of

analysts with developers and testers Cross-product links support traceability web-like

navigation review commenting and status tracking across project repositories CLM integrations

build on the Jazztrade Foundation to provide a common approach to artifact linking dashboards

security and user interface frameworks [2]

CLM integrations provide the following capabilities [2]

bull Link to existing artifacts across repositories in integrated products for example test cases are linked to work items and requirements

bull Hover-over links to quickly check status of associated work for example testers can monitor the status of a defect reported to the development team

bull Add a viewlet to a dashboard to report query results from associated projects for example one may display requirements not yet assigned in test plans

bull Add comments to any artifact in an integrated repository (Integrated Repository ndash It is workspace repository to hold copies of files and folders)

Team members can use CLM integrations to achieve business objectives across the application

lifecycle as shown in the Figure 6

Figure 6 Collaborative Lifecycle Management connects analysts developers and testers [2]

Figure 6 shows the three applications of CLM Rational Requirements professional also know as

Rational Requirement Composer Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert

In IBMreg Rationalreg DOORSreg Requirements Professional[2] bull Requirements are implemented in different iterations in Rational Team Concert and validated by

test plans in Rational Quality Managerbull Analysts and other team members develop requirements that drive development work items test

plans and test cases

In IBM Rational Team Concert [2]bull Project and development managers use iteration plans to create a development schedulebull Iteration plan stories and other work items implement individual requirementsbull Developers work on defects submitted by testers as a result of test execution

In IBM Rational Quality Manager[2]bull The test team links requirements to test plans and test casesbull Testers link test cases to development work items to track development progressbull Testers submit defects in Rational Team Concert and verify the status of a defect or a build

Jazz Platform

Jazz is an integrated development platform with an emphasis on team collaboration

communication and software development processes [6]

Jazz is built on Eclipse technology and focused on integrating tasks across the software lifecycle

to improve the productivity of an entire team This platform consists of architecture and a set of

application frameworks and toolkits as shown in the Figure 7 [3]

Figure 7 Jazz Platform [4]

The Jazz platform also supports simple artifact exchange and collaboration between developers

by using higher value assets such as complete change sets as compared to the previous more

time consuming exchange of source code files or mail with code snippets Different types of

collaboration such as instant messaging are present to support communication and presence

awareness and enable everybody to be informed of events important to the team or to the

individual

Live project health information can be drawn directly from actual work rather than from time-

consuming progress reports in the jazz platform Traceability and auditability are automated by

managing all artifacts and their inter-relationships across the life cycle [3]

Project and Team Areas

The Jazz platform provides basic concepts to creating and managing projects as illustrated in

Figure 8

Figure 8 Project and team areas in Rational team concert [3]

The following structures are used for project and team management in Rational Team Concert

Project Area

ldquoA project area provides definition for the project deliverables team structure process and

schedulerdquo [4]

Team Areas

ldquoA team area manages team membership roles assignments and team artifactsrdquo [4]

Work Item Category

ldquoCategories group work items by the various components or functional areas of the project and

are associated with a team areardquo [4]

Team process

ldquoA process is the collection of roles practices rules and guidelines that are used to organize and

control the flow of work The Jazz platform is process aware and the rules of process behavior

validate preconditions and provide follow-up actions A process can also define project reports

queries and work item typesrdquo [4]

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

deployed and operational (and revenues are being received) will the development organization go

into the black and start to experience a profit)

Operations

Every deployed application is monitored and managed Figure 5 shows some of the important

parts in this operations process

Figure 5 Operations begin shortly before application deployed continues until application removed from service [1]

As with Governance the Operations line is intimately connected to Development activity

According to David Chappell planning for deployment likely begins shortly before the application

is completed and the act of deployment itself is a fundamental part of operations Usually

deployment is the last step of development Once deployed application enters a maintenance

phase (or operations) Once the application is deployed it must be monitored maintained and

updated throughout its useful lifetime Similarly each update to the application must be deployed

once itrsquos completed as the figure indicates

Collaboration Lifecycle Management

Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management

solution by IBM It provides integrations across Jazz-based products to connect the work of

analysts with developers and testers Cross-product links support traceability web-like

navigation review commenting and status tracking across project repositories CLM integrations

build on the Jazztrade Foundation to provide a common approach to artifact linking dashboards

security and user interface frameworks [2]

CLM integrations provide the following capabilities [2]

bull Link to existing artifacts across repositories in integrated products for example test cases are linked to work items and requirements

bull Hover-over links to quickly check status of associated work for example testers can monitor the status of a defect reported to the development team

bull Add a viewlet to a dashboard to report query results from associated projects for example one may display requirements not yet assigned in test plans

bull Add comments to any artifact in an integrated repository (Integrated Repository ndash It is workspace repository to hold copies of files and folders)

Team members can use CLM integrations to achieve business objectives across the application

lifecycle as shown in the Figure 6

Figure 6 Collaborative Lifecycle Management connects analysts developers and testers [2]

Figure 6 shows the three applications of CLM Rational Requirements professional also know as

Rational Requirement Composer Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert

In IBMreg Rationalreg DOORSreg Requirements Professional[2] bull Requirements are implemented in different iterations in Rational Team Concert and validated by

test plans in Rational Quality Managerbull Analysts and other team members develop requirements that drive development work items test

plans and test cases

In IBM Rational Team Concert [2]bull Project and development managers use iteration plans to create a development schedulebull Iteration plan stories and other work items implement individual requirementsbull Developers work on defects submitted by testers as a result of test execution

In IBM Rational Quality Manager[2]bull The test team links requirements to test plans and test casesbull Testers link test cases to development work items to track development progressbull Testers submit defects in Rational Team Concert and verify the status of a defect or a build

Jazz Platform

Jazz is an integrated development platform with an emphasis on team collaboration

communication and software development processes [6]

Jazz is built on Eclipse technology and focused on integrating tasks across the software lifecycle

to improve the productivity of an entire team This platform consists of architecture and a set of

application frameworks and toolkits as shown in the Figure 7 [3]

Figure 7 Jazz Platform [4]

The Jazz platform also supports simple artifact exchange and collaboration between developers

by using higher value assets such as complete change sets as compared to the previous more

time consuming exchange of source code files or mail with code snippets Different types of

collaboration such as instant messaging are present to support communication and presence

awareness and enable everybody to be informed of events important to the team or to the

individual

Live project health information can be drawn directly from actual work rather than from time-

consuming progress reports in the jazz platform Traceability and auditability are automated by

managing all artifacts and their inter-relationships across the life cycle [3]

Project and Team Areas

The Jazz platform provides basic concepts to creating and managing projects as illustrated in

Figure 8

Figure 8 Project and team areas in Rational team concert [3]

The following structures are used for project and team management in Rational Team Concert

Project Area

ldquoA project area provides definition for the project deliverables team structure process and

schedulerdquo [4]

Team Areas

ldquoA team area manages team membership roles assignments and team artifactsrdquo [4]

Work Item Category

ldquoCategories group work items by the various components or functional areas of the project and

are associated with a team areardquo [4]

Team process

ldquoA process is the collection of roles practices rules and guidelines that are used to organize and

control the flow of work The Jazz platform is process aware and the rules of process behavior

validate preconditions and provide follow-up actions A process can also define project reports

queries and work item typesrdquo [4]

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

Collaboration Lifecycle Management

Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management

solution by IBM It provides integrations across Jazz-based products to connect the work of

analysts with developers and testers Cross-product links support traceability web-like

navigation review commenting and status tracking across project repositories CLM integrations

build on the Jazztrade Foundation to provide a common approach to artifact linking dashboards

security and user interface frameworks [2]

CLM integrations provide the following capabilities [2]

bull Link to existing artifacts across repositories in integrated products for example test cases are linked to work items and requirements

bull Hover-over links to quickly check status of associated work for example testers can monitor the status of a defect reported to the development team

bull Add a viewlet to a dashboard to report query results from associated projects for example one may display requirements not yet assigned in test plans

bull Add comments to any artifact in an integrated repository (Integrated Repository ndash It is workspace repository to hold copies of files and folders)

Team members can use CLM integrations to achieve business objectives across the application

lifecycle as shown in the Figure 6

Figure 6 Collaborative Lifecycle Management connects analysts developers and testers [2]

Figure 6 shows the three applications of CLM Rational Requirements professional also know as

Rational Requirement Composer Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert

In IBMreg Rationalreg DOORSreg Requirements Professional[2] bull Requirements are implemented in different iterations in Rational Team Concert and validated by

test plans in Rational Quality Managerbull Analysts and other team members develop requirements that drive development work items test

plans and test cases

In IBM Rational Team Concert [2]bull Project and development managers use iteration plans to create a development schedulebull Iteration plan stories and other work items implement individual requirementsbull Developers work on defects submitted by testers as a result of test execution

In IBM Rational Quality Manager[2]bull The test team links requirements to test plans and test casesbull Testers link test cases to development work items to track development progressbull Testers submit defects in Rational Team Concert and verify the status of a defect or a build

Jazz Platform

Jazz is an integrated development platform with an emphasis on team collaboration

communication and software development processes [6]

Jazz is built on Eclipse technology and focused on integrating tasks across the software lifecycle

to improve the productivity of an entire team This platform consists of architecture and a set of

application frameworks and toolkits as shown in the Figure 7 [3]

Figure 7 Jazz Platform [4]

The Jazz platform also supports simple artifact exchange and collaboration between developers

by using higher value assets such as complete change sets as compared to the previous more

time consuming exchange of source code files or mail with code snippets Different types of

collaboration such as instant messaging are present to support communication and presence

awareness and enable everybody to be informed of events important to the team or to the

individual

Live project health information can be drawn directly from actual work rather than from time-

consuming progress reports in the jazz platform Traceability and auditability are automated by

managing all artifacts and their inter-relationships across the life cycle [3]

Project and Team Areas

The Jazz platform provides basic concepts to creating and managing projects as illustrated in

Figure 8

Figure 8 Project and team areas in Rational team concert [3]

The following structures are used for project and team management in Rational Team Concert

Project Area

ldquoA project area provides definition for the project deliverables team structure process and

schedulerdquo [4]

Team Areas

ldquoA team area manages team membership roles assignments and team artifactsrdquo [4]

Work Item Category

ldquoCategories group work items by the various components or functional areas of the project and

are associated with a team areardquo [4]

Team process

ldquoA process is the collection of roles practices rules and guidelines that are used to organize and

control the flow of work The Jazz platform is process aware and the rules of process behavior

validate preconditions and provide follow-up actions A process can also define project reports

queries and work item typesrdquo [4]

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

Figure 6 Collaborative Lifecycle Management connects analysts developers and testers [2]

Figure 6 shows the three applications of CLM Rational Requirements professional also know as

Rational Requirement Composer Rational Quality Manager and Rational Team Concert

In IBMreg Rationalreg DOORSreg Requirements Professional[2] bull Requirements are implemented in different iterations in Rational Team Concert and validated by

test plans in Rational Quality Managerbull Analysts and other team members develop requirements that drive development work items test

plans and test cases

In IBM Rational Team Concert [2]bull Project and development managers use iteration plans to create a development schedulebull Iteration plan stories and other work items implement individual requirementsbull Developers work on defects submitted by testers as a result of test execution

In IBM Rational Quality Manager[2]bull The test team links requirements to test plans and test casesbull Testers link test cases to development work items to track development progressbull Testers submit defects in Rational Team Concert and verify the status of a defect or a build

Jazz Platform

Jazz is an integrated development platform with an emphasis on team collaboration

communication and software development processes [6]

Jazz is built on Eclipse technology and focused on integrating tasks across the software lifecycle

to improve the productivity of an entire team This platform consists of architecture and a set of

application frameworks and toolkits as shown in the Figure 7 [3]

Figure 7 Jazz Platform [4]

The Jazz platform also supports simple artifact exchange and collaboration between developers

by using higher value assets such as complete change sets as compared to the previous more

time consuming exchange of source code files or mail with code snippets Different types of

collaboration such as instant messaging are present to support communication and presence

awareness and enable everybody to be informed of events important to the team or to the

individual

Live project health information can be drawn directly from actual work rather than from time-

consuming progress reports in the jazz platform Traceability and auditability are automated by

managing all artifacts and their inter-relationships across the life cycle [3]

Project and Team Areas

The Jazz platform provides basic concepts to creating and managing projects as illustrated in

Figure 8

Figure 8 Project and team areas in Rational team concert [3]

The following structures are used for project and team management in Rational Team Concert

Project Area

ldquoA project area provides definition for the project deliverables team structure process and

schedulerdquo [4]

Team Areas

ldquoA team area manages team membership roles assignments and team artifactsrdquo [4]

Work Item Category

ldquoCategories group work items by the various components or functional areas of the project and

are associated with a team areardquo [4]

Team process

ldquoA process is the collection of roles practices rules and guidelines that are used to organize and

control the flow of work The Jazz platform is process aware and the rules of process behavior

validate preconditions and provide follow-up actions A process can also define project reports

queries and work item typesrdquo [4]

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

Figure 7 Jazz Platform [4]

The Jazz platform also supports simple artifact exchange and collaboration between developers

by using higher value assets such as complete change sets as compared to the previous more

time consuming exchange of source code files or mail with code snippets Different types of

collaboration such as instant messaging are present to support communication and presence

awareness and enable everybody to be informed of events important to the team or to the

individual

Live project health information can be drawn directly from actual work rather than from time-

consuming progress reports in the jazz platform Traceability and auditability are automated by

managing all artifacts and their inter-relationships across the life cycle [3]

Project and Team Areas

The Jazz platform provides basic concepts to creating and managing projects as illustrated in

Figure 8

Figure 8 Project and team areas in Rational team concert [3]

The following structures are used for project and team management in Rational Team Concert

Project Area

ldquoA project area provides definition for the project deliverables team structure process and

schedulerdquo [4]

Team Areas

ldquoA team area manages team membership roles assignments and team artifactsrdquo [4]

Work Item Category

ldquoCategories group work items by the various components or functional areas of the project and

are associated with a team areardquo [4]

Team process

ldquoA process is the collection of roles practices rules and guidelines that are used to organize and

control the flow of work The Jazz platform is process aware and the rules of process behavior

validate preconditions and provide follow-up actions A process can also define project reports

queries and work item typesrdquo [4]

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

Figure 8 Project and team areas in Rational team concert [3]

The following structures are used for project and team management in Rational Team Concert

Project Area

ldquoA project area provides definition for the project deliverables team structure process and

schedulerdquo [4]

Team Areas

ldquoA team area manages team membership roles assignments and team artifactsrdquo [4]

Work Item Category

ldquoCategories group work items by the various components or functional areas of the project and

are associated with a team areardquo [4]

Team process

ldquoA process is the collection of roles practices rules and guidelines that are used to organize and

control the flow of work The Jazz platform is process aware and the rules of process behavior

validate preconditions and provide follow-up actions A process can also define project reports

queries and work item typesrdquo [4]

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

The CreditCheck Team Area that brings development team together on collaborative

development in Rational Team Concert is shown in Figure 9 Some key Team Area properties are

highlighted in the figure For example the Team Artifacts and Team Central views provide

transparency to team health the team members and their assigned roles and the iteration

structure with the current iteration plan that is selected [4]

Figure 9 The CreditCheck area in Rational Team Concert [3]

Team Artifact

Team Members

Iteration

Admin

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

The following artifacts are used for agile planning in Rational Team Concert (Figure 9)

Development line

A development line represents an area of activity within a project that typically has its own

objectives deliverables team process and schedule Project intervals or phases are defined

within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of iterations

Iteration

Iterations are defined within a development line and are expressed as a hierarchy of project

intervals Iteration plans are used to express the details of an iteration in terms of work items

Work item

A work item is a representation of the tasks and issues that a team needs to address during the

development cycle Work items are key for iteration planning and indicators of the health of the

project [3]

Rational Requirement Composer (RRC)

ldquoRRC is a tool to define collaborate and manage requirements for any size development or

project team Project teams can manage their requirements write good use cases improve

traceability strengthen collaboration reduce project risk and increase quality with it It provides

improvement in the following key areasrdquo [3]

1113088 Improved requirements definition validation and management of requirements change through the software development life cycle

1113088 Increased and clearer communication among business stakeholders and IT delivery teams wherever they are located

Less project rework faster project execution and lower-cost delivery

Team members require a number of techniques in order to elicit requirements information

Rational Requirements Composer assists in this area because it provides functions to capture

sketches and storyboards use cases glossaries and process models Analysts can use these

functions to provide context information for requirements as shown in Figure 10

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

Figure 10 Rational Requirements Composer [3]

Rational Team Concert

Rational Team Concert (Figure 11) is a Rational product on the Jazz team collaboration platform

It provides the following key capabilities to support collaborative development

Integrates seamlessly the development task across the delivery life cycle for the team 1113088 Facilitates team collaboration and coordination and helps the team develop applications

more effectively and with less risk Supports team collaboration across co-located and globally distributed teams 1113088 Establishes and maintains traceability and audit trails and automates bookkeeping so that

teams are accountable 1113088 Integrates into Eclipse for developers and provides Web access for external contributors Makes collaborative development more enjoyable [3]

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

Figure 11 Rational Team Concert [3]

Rational Team Concert supports and provides seamlessly integrated workflows both for the

application life-cycle assets managed by the Jazz repository but also to assets managed by

external repositories that are seamlessly integrated into the Jazz platform

The following ALM domains are supported by Rational Team Concert (Figure 11)

Source code management 1113088 Work items management including agile iteration planning 1113088 Build management 1113088 Team health and collaboration

Rational Team Concert provide integration into Eclipse for developers and Web access to team

collaboration capabilities for external contributors who require easy tool access with minimal

setup

Rational Quality Manager

Rational Quality Manager provides a test management system that puts the team in total control

of their test efforts Test planning construction and execution can be completed in Rational

Quality Manager Decisions are managed in a database that enables the team to track against

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml

the plan

One of the most critical questions the test team needs to answer is ldquoWhen are we done testingrdquo

Teams are better equipped to answer that question by placing an emphasis on the test plan

which enables a team to track their progress against the plan with Rational Quality Manager A

team can do as much or as little as they need

The Rational Quality Manager product provides the following features A collaborative Web-based quality management solution 1113088 A central repository for test planning construction deployment and execution 1113088 The ability to align the test effort with project requirements 1113088 Quantifiable metrics for project tracking and decision making 1113088 Keyword-driven manual test authoring and execution [3]

Rational Quality Manager works for simple test management needs and yet is sophisticated

enough to scale to larger teams that share test assets across multiple releases of software[3]

Most of the work item managed by the system can be assigned to a team member A test plan

can be broken down into sections and assigned to different owners Test case and test script

construction can be assigned and tracked to gauge the level of effort and progress in building the

tests Test execution can be assigned and tracked through the execution results Test lab

requests can be used for configuring test servers

This assignment of work in all aspects of the test effort helps the team to ensure that all of the

expected work is completed It also gives them insight into their progress against the work effort

References

[1] David Chappell White Paper 2008 wwwredbooksibmcomabstractssg247622html

[2]httppublibboulderibmcominfocenterrqmhelpv2r0indexjsptopic=comibmhelpcommonjazzcalmdoctopicsc_calm_commonhtml

[3] Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management with IBM Rational Products December 2008

[4] httpsjazznetstoryaboutabout-jazz-platformjsp

[5] httpwww-01ibmcomsoftwarerationalalmcollaborate

[6] httprealsearchgrouporgSEMaterialstutorialsjazzjazz_tutorialhtml