IBM® Rational® Lifecycle Integration Adapters
provides a set of integrations that connect Rational Application Lifecycle Management
(ALM) products to selected third-party tools. You can continue to
use your existing lifecycle tools and benefit from the capabilities
that are found in the Rational ALM
products.
Rational Lifecycle
Integration Adapters
Rational Lifecycle
Integration Adapters addresses the challenges that are faced by software
delivery organizations that are practicing ALM in a heterogeneous
lifecycle tools environment.
Project managers
Improved coordination across disciplines that use lifecycle tools
from various sources
Use already established Rational CLM
solution lifecycle tools
Easily add Rational tools
and selected third-party tools into a software project with minimal
impact to existing lifecycle tools
Use an integration technology that is based on open standards,
which enables various commercial and open source lifecycle tools to
coexist and interoperate
Gather simple metrics, such as test to requirement coverage and
mean time to resolve defects while team members are working across
heterogeneous lifecycle tool environments
Analysts
Link requirement sets to associated test cases
Verify test case coverage across requirements
Stay informed about trade-offs necessary between capabilities,
quality, and schedule
Testers
Understand which requirements are driving which test cases
Communicate test execution results to analysts and developers
Log defects in a timely manner to ensure bug fixes
Developers
Better visibility into requirements that drive development milestones
Timely and effective communication of defects that is found by
testers
Greater confidence of project delivery schedules
Standard Edition
Standard Edition includes
integrations for HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM), Atlassian
JIRA issue tracking software, and the Git version control system.
Adapters
in the standard edition are based on the open architecture of Open
Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC). OSLC is an HTTP-based
protocol that uses unique URLs to identify data so that you can link
to resources in other products. Linked data makes it possible to access
data directly from another product. For an overview of OSLC and information
about how to create and use OSLC-based integrations, see Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration integrations.
For more information about the OSLC specifications, see Open Services for
Lifecycle Collaboration Community.
Furthering the adoption
of OSLC, Eclipse Lyo is a project that is tasked with creating an
SDK to enable the creation of OSLC-based tool integrations. For more
information about the Eclipse Lyo project, see Eclipse
Lyo project.
A tour of Rational Lifecycle
Integration Adapters Standard Edition
This video provides
an overview of the Rational Lifecycle
Integration Adapters Standard Edition
The Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters
Tasktop Edition extends the IBM Rational solution for Collaborative
Lifecycle Management (CLM) with integrations to select third-party
tools.
The Tasktop Edition provides adapters that integrate Rational Team Concert™ and Rational Requirements Composer
with:
HP ALM and Quality Center
Atlassian JIRA
Microsoft Team Foundation
Server
Open source Bugzilla
CA Clarity for Project and Portfolio Management (PPM)
Serena Business Manager
Rally
The HP ALM and JIRA adapters included in the Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters
Standard Edition support alternative use cases and customer workflow
environments.