Collaborative Application
Lifecycle Management (C/ALM)
provides integrations across Jazz-based products to connect the work
of analysts with development and test teams. Cross-product links support
traceability, web-like navigation, review, commenting, and status
tracking across project repositories. C/ALM integrations build on
the Jazz™ Foundation to provide
a common approach to artifact linking, dashboards, security, and user
interface frameworks.
C/ALM
integrations
provide the following capabilities:
- Link to existing artifacts
across repositories in integrated
products;
for example, test cases are linked to work items and requirements.
- Hover over links to quickly check that status of associated work;
for example testers can monitor the status of a defect that they reported
to the development team.
- Add a viewlet to a dashboard to report
query results from associated
projects; for example, you can display requirements that have not
been assigned test plans.
- Add comments to any artifact in
an integrated repository.
Team members can use C/ALM
integrations to achieve business objectives
across the application lifecycle, as shown in the following figure
and examples:
Figure 1. Collaborative ALM connects analysts,
developers, and testers
In
IBM® Rational® Requirements Composer:
- Requirements are implemented by iteration plans in Rational Team Concert and
validated by test plans in Rational Quality Manager.
- Analysts and other team members develop requirements that drive
development work items, test plans and test cases.
In
IBM Rational Team Concert:
- Project managers and development managers use iteration plans
to implement Rational Requirements Composer requirements
in the context of a development schedule.
- Iteration plan stories
and other work items implement individual
requirements.
- Developers work on defects that are submitted
by testers as a
result of test execution.
In
IBM Rational Quality Manager:
- The test team links requirements to test plans and test cases.
- Testers link test cases to development work items to track
development
progress.
- Testers submit defects in Rational Team Concert and
verify the status of a defect or a build.