Integrating Rational artifacts with JIRA

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. With the IBM® Rational Adapter for JIRA, you can use Atlassian® JIRA® with the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). Integrate with JIRA to submit defects from Rational Quality Manager (RQM), track requirement implementation from Rational requirements management (RM) products, or assign tasks from Rational Team Concert™ (RTC). This function provides 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 by 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 JIRA adapter offers support for use with Rational Team Concert. You can link Rational Team Concert change requests, defects, or plan items 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 JIRA adapter 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 Manager 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 JIRA adapter offers support for Rational Requirements Manager or Rational DOORS Next Generation. 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 managers 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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