[rational] products

RATIONAL PRODUCT MAPPING:
1. Configurable Process:
- Rational Unified Process

2. Software Configuration Management:
- ClearCase
- ClearQuest

3. Requirement & Analysis:
- RequisitePro

4. Visual Modeling & Development:
- Purify Plus
- Rational Rapid Developer
- Rational Rose
- Rose Technical Developer
- XDE

5. Automated Testing
- Rational Robot
- Test Realtime
- Test Manager
- XDE Tester

6. Project Management
- Project Console

Rational Project Components:
- 1 Rational Test Datastore
Ms. Access / SQL Sybase, stores functional & performance testing assets & artifacts such as: test suites, test plans, test cases, reports, test logs, scripts, user, groups.

- 1 RequisitePro project
consist of requirement documents, dynamically link to a database.

- 1 ClearQuest database
consist of a schema and a user database. schema stores all schemas & all data associated with existing schema (forms used to submit & modify a record, field types & legal values, states that a record can be in, etc). while user database stores all user data & a copy of the schema associated. it includes change request records such as defects, reports, record or tables, and all data entered by users.

- n Rose models
can represent business process, software component, classes and objects, and distribution & deployment processes.


UNIFIED CHANGE MANAGEMENT (UCM) phases:
1. ClearCase Admin creates VOBs (Versioned Object Base).
2. Project Manager creates the UCM project, with an initial starting point (baseline).
3. Developers join the UCM project, by creating their private work area and populate it with content of the project baselines.
4. Development is ongoing.
5. Developers deliver work to the shared workarea.
6. Release Engineering builds the product, periodically the delivered works from developers is integrated by building the project executable files in the shared work area.
7. Project Manager creates the new baseline.