In its latest release, the IBM® Rational® Software Delivery Platform team products provide the technologies and frameworks that eliminate the silos between development, testing and deployment. With improved lifecycle automation and traceability, highly configurable testing workflows and greater support for geographically distributed teams, IBM Rational introduces technologies offering customers a better way to manage value, develop flexibly, and control risk and change.
New in IBM Rational ClearQuest® and IBM Rational ClearCase®: Build and Deployment Management
With a new integration between IBM
Rational ClearQuest® and IBM
Rational Build Forge®, detailed build information can be automatically
created and updated, allowing for detailed audit records for extended
traceability. IBM Rational ClearCase®
and IBM Rational ClearQuest
are also integrated with IBM
Tivoli® Provisioning Manager. This enables deployment of approved
build files directly from the source code repository into a variety
of test environments, and into production.
New in Rational ClearQuest: Test management across distributed teams
With V7, Rational ClearQuest extends workflow management to include the full range of testing activities, from test planning through execution, capturing and analyzing the complete record of test results. Test plans and test cases can be defined and customized to match your business processes. This new capability also allows you to connect to a range of testing tools offered by IBM Rational as well as other test tools supported by the Eclipse/TPTP Framework.
IBM Rational has also formed a new offering, IBM Rational ClearQuest and Functional Testing, giving testing teams a complete solution for defect management, test management, and automated and manual functional software testing.
IBM Rational Software Quality developer test solutions have also been enhanced!
IBM Rational PurifyPlus® Family v7.0: For developers and testers who need to produce fast, reliable, high quality code, Rational PurifyPlus offers a complete set of runtime analysis tools that now has VS2005 application support for both native, managed and Java 5 application support. In addition, AIX 5.3, Solaris 10 and Linux 64bit has been added to extend our already broad range of platforms and language support. IBM Rational Test RealTime® v7.0: For developers and testers writing code for embedded and other pervasive computing devices, Rational Test RealTime offers a cross-platform solution for component testing and runtime analysis. Version 7 adds zLinux platform support for C and C++, new code review for C and a plug-in for Eclipse 3.1.
New Globalization Improvements for IBM Rational ClearQuest, IBM Rational ClearCase and IBM Rational RequisitePro®
Rational ClearQuest creates traceability on a global scale by tightening the relationships between deployed code bases and the requirements that created them. Through an improved integration between Rational ClearQuest and Rational RequisitePro, richer requirements artifacts can be stored directly in the ClearQuest database. Using IBM Rational ClearCase MultiSite® and IBM Rational ClearQuest MultiSite, highly distributed development teams can establish traceability between all development artifacts, and then synchronize the artifacts with an unlimited number of development teams around the world.
For Developers, Rational introduces Version 7 of the Rose family of products and defines the evolutionary path for its XDE components.
Partners Embrace IBM Software Delivery Platform
In support of the IBM Software Delivery Platform, the following IBM Business Partners are extending their compliance support and providing flexible, integrated test management across distributed teams:
IBM Software Delivery Platform Support
| Partners |
Description |
| Ring-Zero Software |
The Ring-Zero Test Execution Adapters for QuickTest and WinRunner makes Mercury test assets accessible to Rational ClearQuest users. It leverages QuickTest and WinRunner for native script playback and viewing of test results, and supports execution of QuickTest and WinRunner scripts from the ClearQuest Eclipse Client and other Eclipse-based IBM Rational tools, which support the Rational ClearQuest perspective. Traceability of test results can be established to Rational RequisitePro requirements and Rational ClearQuest defects. |
| Akimbi |
The Akimbi Slingshot integration with Rational ClearQuest automatically launches the correct test configuration for an IBM Rational ClearQuest test case, and creates a snapshot of the configuration at the time of failure for tests from IBM Rational test products (IBM Rational Manual Tester, IBM Rational Functional Tester) to populate defects. |
| Black Duck |
BlackDuck's protexIP suite of products integrates with Rational ClearCase to scan all the source code in a project to help ensure appropriate use of open source and third party intellectual property, and reports status and metrics. |
| SPI Dynamics |
SPI Dynamics QAInspect for Rational Software Delivery Platform helps teams build more secure, higher quality software. It helps ensure that your software complies with government, industry and corporate regulatory standards. The solution along with Rational ClearQuest test manager and Rational Functional Tester provides integrated workflow to find security and functional defects without being a security expert. We jointly provide a single platform for management security and functional for pre-production, development and post-production. |
| Logic Library |
The LogicLibrary AnySource Adapter for Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest enables the Logidex asset management repository to automatically capture information from UCM configurations. |
| Ravenflow |
RAVEN Professional integration with Rational RequisitePro and IBM Rational Rational Method Composer enables teams to detect and correct requirements errors before coding begins, and deliver precise requirements to developers. |
| iRise |
iRise Studio enables business analysts to quickly and easily create simulations of Web applications to define requirements. Those requirements can be generated into Rational RequisitePro for use across the software development lifecycle. |
| PTC |
PTC WindChill's integration with Rational ClearCase allows customers to synchronize software development with mechanical and electrical design data. It also efficiently manages collaboration between software development teams and other groups in the systems product development process. |
| Catalyst Systems Corporation |
Catalyst’s Openmake complements the Rational solution by minimizing the use of ad hoc Make and Ant/XML scripts that normally execute between IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere® Software (RAD) and Rational ClearCase. Openmake manages and traces source file dependencies, performs impact analysis, and enforces the use of Rational ClearCase approved source code. |
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