Tool Mentor: Building with Rational Team Concert

Builds are created, qualified, and promoted.

Builds should be regularly created and tested against the development stream, and potentially in different test environments.

The build evironment must be installed and configured.

1. Install build tools

See Installing the Build System Toolkit .

2. Learn about build environment

3. Configure build environment

Some important decisions are:

Whether builds are automatically scheduled, or triggered, or manually requested.
Whether to have a code snapshot for every build
Whether to have streams for parallel development or for promoting changes to staging environments such as for "System Test" or "User Acceptance".

Set up streams and flow rules. See Choosing a stream strategy. See Creating streams
and Managing Parallel Development.
If you want a snapshot of the code for each build, see Dedicated build workspaces.

Set up a build. See Setting up a build. This includes creating a build definition and a build engine.

Install the Build System Toolkit. Understand the basics of builds. Decide how to configure your build environment.

Perform the following steps.

For more information on this topic, see Building with Rational Team Concdert.

1. Schedule team build

See Requesting builds

2. Review build results

3. Qualify/promote changes

Many oganizations will have various staging environments after development, such as "System Test" or "User Acceptance Test".

Once a build confirms that your code changes work correctly, flow them to the next stages in accordance with your process.