What is CLM?
CLM is Application Lifecycle Management solution integrating Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Requirements Composer. More on www.jazz.net
About Collaborative Lifecycle Management
Jazz tools have been used at Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic since the very first release of Rational Team Concert as the first product built on top of Jazz. RTC has been successfully used as a key part of course Enterprise Applications in Java. Besides the RTC for use of the PA165 course, complete CLM is now offered to the members of lasaris.
CLM in Jazz tools is best described in the RRC 3.0.1 manual. Here is a direct quotation:
CLM integrations provide the following capabilities:
- Link to existing artifacts across repositories in integrated products; for example, test cases are linked to work items and requirements.
- Hover over links to quickly check that status of associated work; for example testers can monitor the status of a defect that they reported to the development team.
- Add a viewlet to a dashboard to report query results from associated projects; for example, you can display requirements that have not been assigned test plans.
- Add comments to any artifact in an integrated repository.
Team members can use CLM integration to achieve business objectives across the application lifecycle, as shown in the following figure and examples:
In Rational Requirements Composer:
- Requirements are implemented by iteration plans in Rational Team Concert and validated by test plans in Rational Quality Manager.
- Analysts and other team members develop requirements that drive development work items, test plans and test cases.
Important links
In Rational Team Concert:
- Project managers and development managers use iteration plans to implement Rational Requirements Composer requirements in the context of a development schedule.
- Iteration plan stories and other work items implement individual requirements.
- Developers work on defects that are submitted by testers as a result of test execution.
In Rational Quality Manager:
- The test team links requirements to test plans and test cases.
- Testers link test cases to development work items to track development progress.
- Testers submit defects in Rational Team Concert and verify the status of a defect or a build.