Using the JIRA adapter

The IBM® Rational® Adapter for JIRA enables you to use Atlassian® JIRA® with your Rational Team Concert™ (RTC), Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) or Rational DOORS®, and Rational Quality Manager (RQM) capabilities. While you might have standardized on the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM), areas of your business might still be using JIRA for defect management. Integrate with JIRA to submit defects from RQM, track requirement implementation from RRC, or assign tasks from RTC. This functionality enables you traceability across lifecycle data, encompassing both your Rational and JIRA users.
Note: RM capabilities that are provided by the RM application in CLM are licensed as Rational DOORS Next Generation or IBM Rational Requirements Composer

The integration uses Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) to establish links between Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management artifacts and JIRA issues. You create JIRA adapter links through your Rational application's user interface using predefined link types, and view links in CLM applications and JIRA. You can see a preview of linked artifacts by hovering your cursor over the links. You can link one artifact to one or many issues, and issues can have links to one or more CLM artifacts.

For change and configuration management, the Rational Adapter for JIRA offers support for use with Rational Team Concert. You can link Rational Team Concert change requests to JIRA issues.

The following table summarizes the supported use cases, showing supported linkages and link types.
Link from Rational Team Concert Link type Link to JIRA
Change request (any type ) Create new or link to existing: Related change request JIRA issue (any type)
Change request (any type) Create new or link to existing: Affected by defect JIRA issue (any type)
Change request (any type) Create new or link to existing: Affects a plan item JIRA issue (any type)
For quality management, the Rational Adapter for JIRA offers support for use with Rational Quality Manager. You can link test cases, test execution results, test plans, test scripts, and test suites to JIRA issues as development artifacts or quality tasks. The following table summarizes the supported use cases, showing supported linkages and link types.
Link from Rational Quality Manger Link type Link to JIRA
Test case Create new or link to existing: Tests JIRA Issue (any type) as development artifacts
Test execution results Create new or link to existing: Affected by JIRA Issue (any type) as development artifacts

Test plans

Test cases

Test scripts

Test suites

Create new or link to existing: Related tasks JIRA Issue (any type) as quality tasks
For requirements management, the Rational Adapter for JIRA offers support for Rational Requirements manager or Rational DOORS Next. You can link requirements to JIRA issues through a Tracked by link or an Implemented by link. The following table summarizes supported use cases, showing supported linkages and link types.
Link from Rational requirements Link type Link to JIRA
Requirement Create new or link to existing: Tracked by JIRA issue (any type)
Requirement Create new or link to existing: Implemented by JIRA issue (any type)

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