IBM® Rational® Method Composer is
a product that provides process guidance and best practices for software
development and test teams. You can make this guidance available to
your IBM Rational Quality Manager team
by adding a link from the Related Sites section of the Rational Quality Manager interface.
Before you begin
To make this
guidance available, the
Rational Method Composer Web
archive (WAR) file must be deployed on a Tomcat or IBM WebSphere Application
Server that your test team can access.
About this task
To provide
this guidance from within
Rational Quality Manager:
Procedure
- Deploy the RQM_Process_Guidance.war file to the
Tomcat
server. For general instructions on deploying to WebSphere® Application Server, see Setting up a WebSphere Application Server .
- Download the RQM_Process_Guidance.war to the quality_manager_install_path\server\tomcat\webapps
directory.
- Log in to the Tomcat Web
Application Manager as a user
with Administrator permissions by typing one of the following URLs:
The first URL assumes that the application server is on your
local computer.
- Navigate to the WAR
file to deploy section,
click Browse, and select the RQM_Process_Guidance.war file.
- Click Deploy, and wait for the new WAR to be listed in the Applications
section.
- Add the URL of
the new WAR file to the Related Sites list
in Rational Quality Manager System
Properties.
- Log on to Rational Quality Manager as
a user with JazzAdmins repository permissions.
- Click Admin, and then
click System
Properties.
- Select Related
Sites from the
list.
- Click the Add Related
Site icon
(
). Add RQM Process Guidance in
the Name field and the URL of the newly deployed
WAR file in the URL field. For example, specify
one of these URLs:
- Click Save.
- Log out and log back in. The Related
Sites list includes RQM Process Guidance.
- Click RQM Process Guidance to
test the deployment.
- Notify your user
community that the process guidance
is available.