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ClearQuest 8.0 – What’s New
Shmuel Bashan
Rational Services - GSAT
Agenda
• Positioning
• Integrations
• Collaboration
• Administration
• New Features
• Deprecations
• Q&A
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IBM Rational ClearQuest Comprehensive Software Change ManagementAn industry-leading solution that provides flexible defect and change tracking, process automation, reporting and lifecycle traceability for better visibility and control of the software and systems development lifecycle
� Flexible, customizable and automated workflows provide repeatable, enforceable and predictable processes
� An out-of-box Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) template provides a solid foundation for ALM best practices
� Real-time reporting and metrics improves project visibility and decision making
� Access control, electronic signatures, repeatable processes and audit trails simplify compliance management
� Scales to any size team from small workgroups to distributed enterprise teams to support evolving organizational needs
� Integration with requirements, development, build, test, deployment and portfolio management tools facilitates rapid response to change
IBM Rational Solutions with CQ/CC v8.0
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� Software and Systems Engineering Solution with CQ/CC v8.0
� Collaborative Lifecycle Management with CQ/CC v8.0
IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest 8.0Managed Complexity Through Collaboration
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What’s new - Highlights� ClearTeam Explorer – A Unified ClearCase Client Solution for Dynamic Views & Web Views offering a
first class integration to Rational Jazz Platform.
� All-in-one Dashboards with integrated ClearQuest Data Visualization
� Seamless Lifecycle Integrations through ClearQuest OSLC Package
� Strong Developer Productivity through ClearCase Remote Client performance enhancements
� Lower Cost of Ownership through Flexible ClearCase and ClearQuest LAN /WAN Deployments
� Develop complex software and systems faster and with improved quality
� Reduce cost of administration while ensuring security
� Protect investments with lifecycle integrations
� Improve collaboration and stakeholder involvement throughout the development lifecycle
� Realize a globally integrated enterprise to respond rapidly to business needs
Developer
Team Lead
Release Manager
Stakeholders
Administrator
CollaborativeChange and ConfigurationManagement
Change Manager
Deliver complex solutions with confidence
Flexible ClearQuest-Enabled ClearCase/UCM integration
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• The ClearCase Unified Change Management – ClearQuest integration has been
re-implemented using the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
interface, leading to two deployment enhancements.
• A ClearCase client on a Local Area Network no longer needs to include a
ClearQuest client to support the ClearCase Unified Change Management –
ClearQuest integration.
• Wide Area Network installation
– ClearQuest Web Server and ClearCase CCRC WAN Servers may be installed on
different physical machines
– Centralized installation of ClearQuest while continuing to support the ClearCase
Unified Change Management integration.
Integrated Configuration & Change Management Realize Flexible CQ-Enabled CC Integrations
� ClearQuest Enabled Base ClearCase Integration
� ClearQuest Enabled UCM ClearCase Integration
� Flexible ClearCase-ClearQuest Integration Deployment
ClearCase ClearQuest
Dynamic Views CQ WAN (CMServer)
Snapshot Views CQ WAN (CMServer)
Web Views (CCRC) Integrated CQ WAN
1 CQ Server– Multiple CC Clients
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Introducing ClearTeam ExplorerA Unified Desktop Client User Interface for ClearCase (supports CQ-CC Integration)
LAN WAN
� Inside the Firewall
� Build Auditing� Build Avoidance� Instant On Workspace Access� Client Side Triggers
� Outside the Firewall� WAN Optimized� Proxies
� Web App Server� Server Side Triggers
A Unified Desktop Client User Interface for ClearCase
Collaborative Lifecycle Management integrations
• Link to existing artifacts across repositories in integrated products
– Example: ClearQuest records are linked to RTC work items, RQM test cases, and RRC requirements.
• Hover over links to quickly check that status of associated work
– Example testers can monitor the status of a defect that they reported to the development team.
• Add a widget to a dashboard to report query results or display ClearQuest charts.
CLM integrations provide a common approach to artifact linking, dashboards, security, and user interface frameworks. Cross-product links support traceability, web-like navigation, commenting, and status tracking across project repositories.
ClearQuest OSLC Links PackageRealize traceability through Linked Data
� ClearQuest supports Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) APIs
• ClearQuest 8.0 is a OSLC-CM 2.0 provider and an OSLC-CM 1.0 consumer
� Implemented as OSLC Links Package
� Available out of the box with ClearQuest v7.1.2.1 or later
ClearQuest
OSLC Links Package
Requirements
Management
Test
Management
Change
Management
Promotes C/LM traceability
scenarios b/w CQ-RTC-RQM,
implements API that other Rational
(eg: DOORS) products and 3rd Party
Products (eg: Bugzilla) can take
advantage of.
Rational DOORS
Rational Requirements
Composer
Rational Quality
Manager
Bugzilla
Rational Change
Rational Team Concert
CM OSLC 2.0
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Traceability in ClearQuest Web
� ClearQuest lets you link to resources from other repositories
�Requirements
�Related Change Requests
�Test Artifacts
� Trace development across the software lifecycle
� View relationships no matter what tool you’re using
Introducing CQ Data Visualization
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Administration
• Full-Text Search Administrator tool in ClearQuest version 8.0 is used to set up, configure, and administer the full-text search feature. This tool is included in the product as of ClearQuest version 8.0.
• ClearQuest ALM: The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) packages provide a solution for ensuring ALM best practices in existing Rational ClearQuest change management systems. Application Lifecycle Management enables development teams to streamline the process of producing a software release.
• Users can manage and configure their WebSphere Application Server and IBM HTTP Server environments independent of the ClearQuest environment
• Flexible ClearQuest-enabled/ClearCase Unified Change Management integration
• Reporting delivery changed:
– BIRT Report Designer no longer shipped with ClearQuest
– ClearQuest Reporting Driver to support data-pull reports
– No more special SAP download site for ClearQuest users
– Report Launcher included in the installation
Installation Manager feature tree
WAS 7.0 is separate install
�Pro�Gives customer flexibility in deployments
�Allows WAS to be patched without affecting or waiting for next CQ release
� Pre-8.0 CQ does not patch WAS in our CQ patches. Customer does it manually.
• Causes upgrade issues
�Allows CQ to support new releases of WAS without waiting for next CQ release
�Con�CQ no longer installs WAS for the customer.
� Requires CQ administrators to know how to admin WAS
� Additional management effort
ClearCase, ClearQuest and Jazz servers are WebSphere Application Server (WAS) applications. Supporting common WAS 7 based flexible deployment on the same server or independent servers.
ClearQuest Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 1.3 package
• Each project can define it’s own work configuration and process using the ALMWorkpackage.
• Support process automation without schema changes.
• Supports process roles and auto assignment.
• Includes Attachments 2.1 package and EmailPlus 2.1 package
• Highlights of the ALM 1.3 package include:
– Improved usability by leveraging CQ pop-up form
– Pre-population of some fields for workflow automation
• The ALM packages provide a solution for ensuring ALM best practices • ALM enables streamlining a team’s ability to produce a software release.
New and Enhanced packaged
• The ClearQuest EmailPlus 2.1 package
– Provides enhanced email notification functionality to
ClearQuest users.
– Support for rich text, form layout and rich rules on email
notifications
• The ClearQuest Attachments 2.1 package
– Provides external storage of ClearQuest attachments in off-
site locations.
– Store ClearQuest attachments on a remote FTP site
– Control the file size of attachments
ClearQuest Reporting
• Rational ClearQuest provides a flexible reporting solution to design and test reports with – Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)
– Crystal Reports reporting tools configured with the ClearQuest Reporting Driver.
– Users can share ClearQuest reports with the Report Launcher for ClearQuest
• Crystal Reports Migration ToolA utility to help migrate your Crystal Reports data-push reports to data-pull reports, which are recommended in ClearQuest 7.1 and later.
• Report Exporter The IBM Rational ClearQuest Report Exporter is a command line tool used to migrate report files from the Report Server for ClearQuest repository and save the files to a local file system.
Environment
• ClearQuest Java 6
Java applications that use CM-API must run using Java 6 Java Runtime
Environment (JRE).
ClearQuest performance is improved due to this upgrade in Java.
• CQ Web client upgraded from Dojo 1.0 – 1.5
ClearQuest Web Performance
• IBM Rational ClearQuest Web version 8.0 offers
significant single-user performance improvements.
• 20% average improvement in response times
between CQ Web version 7.1.2 and Rational CQ Web
version 8.0.
Deprecations
� Enterprise OOTB schema removed/hidden� Can manually apply same packages
� Some packages in schema obsolete (CQTM) or older versions (Email vs Email Plus)
� CQ to Microsoft Project Integration� RTC provides “live”, real-time project information
� Older 7.1 based CQWEB REST APIs� Preference to use CQ OSLC API
� HP
More Information
• ClearQuest Documentation
– On line information center
– Can be configured as local site
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/cqhelp/v8r0m0/index.jsp
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