Rational Team Concert and Rational ClearQuest integration cookbook
Authors: Yuhong YinBuild basis: Rational Team Concert 3.0.1.x, 4.0.x, Rational ClearQuest 7.1.2.x, 8.0.0.x, 8.0.1.x
Rational Team Concert and Rational ClearQuest Integration Cookbook
Summary
This document provides guidance for deploying Rational Team Concert into an existing Rational ClearQuest environment. There are various types of integration capabilities between Rational Team Concert and Rational ClearQuest: the bridge, the synchronizer, and the importer. The goal of this document is to help you decide which integration capability best suits your current deployment or your future deployment plan. After reading this document, you will have a better understanding about the technologies that are available to you, as well as some of the deployment considerations. The integration of Rational ClearQuest and Rational Team Concert is not a one-size-fits-all integration. Each user can have a unique integration deployment. It is beyond the scope of this document to discuss every possible type; therefore, this document provides a variety of resources that give you detailed information or videos on quick tour and extended topics.Rational ClearQuest Bridge
The Rational ClearQuest Bridge provides a bi-directional traceability link from records in Rational ClearQuest to work items in Rational Team Concert. It is a linked-data type integration based on the Open Services for Life-cycle Collaboration (OSLC). It provides a seamless user experience with rich hover UI preview, and delegated dialogs including advanced selection dialogs, and fully functional creation dialogs. These dialogs support ClearsQuest record form layout and hooks. The bridge integration also enables ClearQuest live data on a Rational Team Concert dashboard.
Quick Tours
Configure Rational Team Concert and Rational ClearQuest Bridge: walks thorough the configuration process for setting up Rational ClearQuest and Rational Team Concert Bridge integration. Use Rational Team Concert and Rational ClearQuest Bridge: demonstrates how Rational ClearQuest users can take advantage of Rational Team Concert. The tasks include linking between ClearQuest record and Rational Team Concert work item, using creation and selection dialogs, OSLC link rich hover, showing ClearQuest link from Agile Planning view, and displaying ClearQuest live data from Rational Team Concert Dashboard.Getting Started
The deployment of the Rational ClearQuest Bridge is straightforward. As long as you have a working ClearQuest Web server, and your ClearQuest database has the OSLCLinks package applied and at least one record type enabled with it, you are ready to integrate ClearQuest with the Rational Team Concert through the bridge integration. The following infoCenter content provides step-by-step setup instructions:Learn more
- Change Management Advanced for Jazz Team Server 4.0 entitlement for ClearQuest users
- Change Management Advanced for Jazz Team Server 3.0 entitlement for ClearQuest users
- Configuring and using Collaborative Lifecycle Management integrations
- Rational ClearQuest and Rational DOORS
- Using the ClearQuest and HP ALM integration
- Using the ClearQuest and JIRA integration
- ClearQuest OSLC 2.0 REST API: These ClearQuest REST APIs adhere to the OSLC Core 2.0 and Change Management 2.0 specifications
- ClearQuest OSLC 1.0 REST API: These ClearQuest REST APIs adhere to the OSLC Core 1.0 and Change Management specifications
- Extending Rational Team Concert by using OSLC services
Rational ClearQuest Synchronizer
The Rational ClearQuest Synchronizer is a data replication between Rational ClearQuest records and Rational Team Concert work items. It supports flexible bi-directional or one-directional synchronization between a Rational ClearQuest record and a Rational Team Concert work item. Changes in one application are applied to another using synchronization rules, which provide the mapping and transformation information.
Getting Started
It is important that an experienced administrator with knowledge on both Rational Team Concert and the Rational ClearQuest plans, designs and configures the synchronizer environment. Please read the Synchronizer information center contents. Before you attempt to use the ClearQuest Synchronizer in your production environment, go through the ClearQuest Synchronizer tutorial.Transition from ClearQuest Synchronizer to ClearQuest Bridge
If you deployed and used the ClearQuest Synchronizer, but later realized that the ClearQuest Bridge is a better fit, you can use the syncToBridge tool to migrate the synchronized Rational Team Concert work items and Rational ClearQuest change requests so that they use the ClearQuest Bridge and have OSLC links between them. Read the following information center topic about the tool and the process.Rational ClearQuest Importer
The Rational ClearQuest Importer provides a one-way data migration from Rational ClearQuest records to Rational Team Concert work items. It imports ClearQuest records based on a user specified query, and uses a mapping file to declare how fields and values are mapped from a ClearQuest scheme to a Rational Team Concert process definition. It supports importing stateful record types, Users, Notes, Attachments, Work Item Relationships (duplicates, parent / child, blocks / depends on, and related), and creates missing objects, such as Contributors, categories, and iteration, on the fly.
Quick Tour
Use Rational ClearQuest and Rational Team Concert Importer: demonstrates how to use the Importer to migrate ClearQuest Records to Rational Team Concert work items.Getting Started
It is important that an experienced administrator with knowledge on both the Rational Team Concert and the Rational ClearQuest performs plan, design and execution of the importing. The following page will help a Rational ClearQuest administrator to understand Rational Team Concert work items: Reading the following information center contents is recommended before beginning the import. The following jazz.net articles also provide guides or step-by-step instructions on using the Rational ClearQuest Importer.- Guide to migrating defects from Rational ClearQuest to Rational Team Concert
- Additional guidance and a workshop on importing ClearQuest records in to Rational Team Concert
- Guide for Importing Jazz Work Items from Bugzilla and Other Systems
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