IBM Rational CIz – Features and benefits

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IBM products provide the foundation for the IBM Continuous Integration Solution for System z, including:

Rational Team Concert, for lean, collaborative lifecycle management and coordinating build, deploy, and test execution
Rational Quality Manager, for test planning and monitoring
Green Hat Tester, which automates and drives application testing of mainframe interfaces including Web Services
Rational Development and Test Environment for System z, a low cost z/OS test environment which runs on x86, reducing development footprint on production mainframes

Feature	Benefit
Automated mainframe and distributed interface testing, including Web Services	Reduce manual effort by both developers and testers in validating code changes. Easier to detect regressions in application functionality.
Execution and availability of test results at build time	An automated quality feedback loop to developers Developers know if applications regress when they build their code. Problematic code can be quickly backed out of the test system so it will not impact other developers The knowledge of which application changes caused the problem are fresh in their head making repair of the defect easier and less costly Application quality is increased by introducing fewer defects into the test system
Real-time status of application testing	Improved insight into application quality and progression of testing. Know in real-time which application components are having problems passing tests and dynamically adjust resources or focus as needed to meet delivery timeframes and quality goals.
Off-mainframe development and testing for cross-platform applications, harnessing the processing power and availability of distributed systems	Lower the cost of application testing using lower QOS platforms for functional verification, while reducing mainframe development MIPS requirements on production machines. Additional flexibility for project-centric test systems vs large shared test environments for multiple teams.