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