A business analyst pushes a blueprint from SAP Solution
Manager through the Rational® Connector
to create test plans and test cases within Rational Quality Manager and requirements
within Rational Requirements
Composer (or Rational RequisitePro®).
About this task
You open an existing blueprint and push the blueprint to Rational.
Procedure
- From SAP Solution Manager, open an existing blueprint with
the transaction code SOLAR01 or SOLAR02.
- Start the process to send the blueprint to Rational.
- Click .
Choose the portions of the blueprint that you want to send to Rational and click the check
mark.
In RequisitePro,
the BRQ Business Requirement type is required for a blueprint push
to work with the Rational Connector.
The SAP template in Rational RequisitePro has this BRQ
requirement but you must add it directly to any customized templates
you have.
In Rational Requirements
Composer, the Requirement Artifact and Test Plan Collection Artifact
are required for a blueprint push to work with the Rational Connector. In Rational Requirements Composer the Base template
has these artifacts.
- If the blueprint is blank, that is, there is nothing
on the Transfer to IBM Rational tab, nothing
is transferred to IBM® Rational.
- For larger blueprint pushes, Solution Manager can timeout
while Solution Manager waits for the Rational Connector to process data. The Rational Connector continues
to process data even if Solution Manager times out. However, this
case can be fixed by following these steps:
- Start transaction SMICM.
- Click the Service icon or press SHIFT+F1.
- Mark the entry with HTTP.
- From the menu above select .
- Increase the value for both Keep Alive (in Sec) and Max.
Processing Time to 3600.
The Connector processes the information from the blueprint
and sets up test cases and test plans in Rational Quality Manager and requirements
in either RequisitePro or
Quality Manager.
- After your initial blueprint push, you can check the Delete
Unused Artifacts check box to have the connector automatically
remove old artifacts. For example, if the box is checked
and you remove a test object from the Transfer tab
and push the blueprint again then the corresponding test case in Rational Quality Manager is
deleted. This situation assumes that the user mentioned in the Rational Quality Manager configuration
has permissions to delete test cases in Rational Quality Manager.