Overview

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 video is also available on IBM developerWorks®.

Tasktop 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.

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