Pushing a blueprint from SAP Solution Manager

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

  1. From SAP Solution Manager, open an existing blueprint with the transaction code SOLAR01 or SOLAR02.
  2. Start the process to send the blueprint to Rational.
    1. Click Business Blueprint > Send Data to IBM Rational Project. 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.

    2. If the blueprint is blank, that is, there is nothing on the Transfer to IBM Rational tab, nothing is transferred to IBM® Rational.
    3. 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 Service > Change.
      • 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.
  3. 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.

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