With the Rational Adapter for HP ALM, you can
associate requirements artifacts in the Requirements Management (RM)
application in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
(CLM) with test artifacts in HP ALM. You can also associate Rational
RM collections or modules with HP ALM requirements.
Then,
you can check that there is an HP ALM test case or requirement for
each Rational requirement and create any missing items, all from the
adapter interface.
Note: RM capabilities that are provided by the RM application in
CLM are licensed as Rational DOORS Next Generation or IBM Rational
Requirements Composer. Adding or removing links to HP ALM resources
from the DOORS Next Generation rich client is not supported.
The HP adapter supports the following operations when working with
requirements:
Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters features support a variety
of project configurations and workflows and can be customized to the
needs of your environment. The following describes a potential workflow
for a site that uses Rational requirements management tools and HP
ALM testing tools:
- Create project requirements, organized by collection.
- Create test folders for the project in HP ALM.
- Using the adapter, associate requirements collections with the
test plans that will verify the requirements.
- Using the adapter, generate test cases for each requirement in
a collection or module.
The following table lists Rational RM and HP ALM artifacts and
linkages. The association type must be enabled in the adapter's configuration
to use these links.
Link from Requirements Management (RM) application
in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM)
|
Link type |
Link to HP ALM |
Association type |
Requirements collection or module |
Validated by |
Test folder (test cases) |
Provides requirements |
Requirement |
Validated by |
Test case |
Provides requirements |
Requirements collection or module |
References |
Requirements folder |
|
Requirement |
References |
Requirement |
|