Module 1: Overview of Rational Team Concert

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Developing Software with IBM Rational Team
Concert
Module 1: Overview of Rational Team Concert
© Copyright IBM Corporation 2008, 2014

Unit objectives
After completing this unit, you should be able to:
• Identify key elements in the IBM® Rational Team
Concert™ Eclipse client.
• Complete basic workflow tasks by using the Rational
Team Concert Eclipse client.
 Accept a project team invitation.
 Find work items.
 Modify elements that are stored in Jazz™ source control.
 Check in your work and deliver the change set.
• Understand the different Rational Team Concert user
interfaces.
• Use the Rational Team Concert help system.

Introduction to Rational Team Concert
> Introduction to Rational Team Concert
Project and team areas
Team member work flow
 Accept a team invitation
 Find work items
 Do your assigned work
 Share your work
Rational Team Concert user
interfaces
Rational Team Concert help
> = Current topic

Introduction to Rational Team Concert
Rational Team Concert:
 Is a product that is based on Jazz for
developers, architects, and project
managers
 Enables team members to collaborate
with integrated iteration planning, work-
item management, source control, build
management, dashboards, and reports
 Supports process control and
customization
 Has a workbench that is based on
Eclipse, a client interface for Microsoft®
Visual Studio®, and a web interface
 Is a key component of the Rational®
solution for Collaborative Lifecycle
Management (CLM)

Rational Team Concert
Team advisor for defining and refining “rules”
and enabling continuous improvement
Process enactment and enforcement
Support for team members to communicate about
work in its context
Single structure for project-related artifacts
Facilitated team on-boarding and off-boarding,
including team membership, subteams, and
project inheritance
Role-based operational control to flexibly define
processes and capabilities
Jazz Team Server
Integrated stream management
Component-level baselines
Server-based sandboxes
Parallel development
ClearCase® bridge and connector
Source-control management Work items
Defects, enhancements,
and conversations
Query results to view and share
Support for approvals and
discussions
Query editor interface
ClearQuest bridge and connector
Work-item and change-set
traceability
Build definitions for team
and private builds
Local or remote build servers
Ant and command-line tool support
Integration with IBM® Rational®
Build Forge®
Builds
Iteration planning
Integrated iteration planning and execution
support
Task estimation links to key milestones
Agile process templates in the product
Project transparency
Customizable web-based dashboards
Real time metrics and reports
Project milestone tracking and status

Project and team areas
 Introduction to Rational Team Concert
> Project and team areas
 Team member work flow
 Find work items
 Share your work
 Rational Team Concert user
interfaces
 Rational Team Concert help
> = Current topic

Project and team areas
A project administrator or team lead sets up a project
area in Rational Team Concert:
 Creates a project area and optional team areas
 Defines the process for this project
 Defines the project iterations and plans
 Defines the teams
 Creates work items
 Generates email invitations for team members to join the
project
Your role and corresponding permissions in the Jazz
repository are based on the project areas and team
areas that you are a member of.

Project area: Defining a process
A project administrator or team
lead creates a project area in
the Jazz repository.
Each project area has an
associated process, which is
the collection of practices,
rules, and guidelines that
organize and control the flow
of work.
Typically, the process of a
project is based on a
predefined process template,
which can be optionally
modified to meet unique
project needs.

Team areas
A project area can optionally
contain team areas that
define the subteams that
work on the project:
 Team areas inherit the
processes that are defined
for the projects by default.
 Team areas define the
timelines in which the teams
are participating.
 Team areas define team
members and their roles.
Each team area can define
process customizations to
tailor the defined project
process for the team.

Work items and iteration plans
Work items capture planned work for a project:
 Describe requirements, defects, and feature improvements
 Identify other tasks that are related to project development
The types of work items that are in a project area or
team area are defined in the process configuration.
The project administrator or team lead organizes work
into a series of iterations, called an iteration plan.
 An iteration is generally bound to a specific time period and
has a well-defined scope of work items to completed.
 The process can be adjusted based on iteration plans.
Additional approvals might be required to introduce a new
feature late in the development cycle.

Accept a team invitation
 Project and Team Areas
> Team member work flow
> Accept a team invitation
 Find work items
 Share your work
interfaces
> = Current topic

Team member workflow
As a team member, these steps represent a typical
workflow:
1. Join a project.
2. Find work items that are assigned to you.
3. Complete tasks that relate to your work items by modifying
files under source control.
4. Share your work with the team.

Team invitation
When you are added to a team area or a project area, the
project administrator or team lead typically sends you an
email invitation to join the project.
The invitation provides the repository connection information and
project area information that you need to join the project.

Accepting a team invitation
1. In Rational Team Concert,
click Accept Team
Invitation.
2. Copy the text from your email
invitation, and then paste it in
the Accept Team Invitation
window. Then, click Finish.

Accepting a team invitation (continued)
After you join a project, you can access
the team area and team artifacts.

Rational Team Concert workbench
The Rational Team Concert workbench is a desktop
development environment that is based on Eclipse.
The workbench consists of these elements:
 Perspectives: a group of views and editors
 Views: the elements that you use to navigate a list or
hierarchy of information, or display properties for the active
editor
 Editors: the elements that you use to edit or browse a
resource
Reminder: A prerequisite for this course is a working
knowledge of an Eclipse IDE. If you have used development
environments that are based on Eclipse, the Rational Team
Concert workbench will be familiar.

Perspectives
Perspectives define the initial set and layout of views in
the workbench window.
Each perspective provides a functional set of views that
you can use to work with specific tasks and types of
resources:
 The Java perspective combines views for editing Java
source files.
 The Work Items perspective provides tools for creating,
triaging, and working with work items.
You can configure the layout and aspects of a
perspective. For example, you can add and remove
views.

Perspective example: Work Items perspective
The Work Items perspective has views that provide tools to
create, triage, and work with work items
Current perspective

Perspective example: Java perspective
The Java perspective has views and editors for
working with Java projects.
Click Open Perspective to
change to another
perspective.

Views
Each perspective has a set of views that support editors
and ways to navigate the information in the workbench.
Use views in the Work Items
perspective to navigate team
artifacts, work items, and
team information.

Editors
Depending on the type of file that is
being edited, the appropriate editor
is displayed in the editor area. This
example shows the User editor.

Exercises 1.1 and 1.2
Complete these tasks:
 Connect to the Jazz repository
and join a project.
 Optionally, update your user
profile by using the User editor.

Find Work items
 Project and team areas
> Team member work flow
> Find work items
> Do your assigned work
> Share your work
interfaces
> = Current topic

Team Artifacts view
Use the Team Artifacts view to
access, create, and manage
these items:
• Repository connections
• Project areas
• Team areas
• Work-item queries
• Artifacts

Finding work items
Find work items by running a query. The Work Items
folder contains private queries and queries that are
shared with your team.
Find work items by running a query. The Work Items
folder contains private queries and queries that are
shared with your team.
Double-click a query to run it. Query
results are displayed in the Work Items
view.
Double-click a query to run it. Query
results are displayed in the Work Items
view.

Viewing a work item
Details about the work
item are in the Details
section.
To begin work on the
work item, change the
state to Start Working.
Double-click a work item to view
it in the Work Items editor.

Workspace
• To work on a project, you
must have a local sandbox,
which is a directory in your
computer file system where
you can work with files and
folders under source control.
In an Eclipse environment,
this is the Eclipse workspace.
• You load, or copy, files and
folders from a repository
workspace on the server to
your local sandbox.
Local sandbox
Repository workspace
Component
Load
Local copy of
component

Workspace (continued)
• Changes that you make in
your local sandbox are
stored on your local file
system only
• When you check in changes,
the modified files and folders
are copied to your personal
repository workspace on
Jazz Team Server
Local sandbox
Repository workspace
Component
Load
Local copy of
component
Check in

My Repository Workspaces
In the Team Artifacts view,
My Repository Workspaces
lists your repository
workspaces and their project
components.

Pending changes
Changes that you make to items
in your local sandbox accumulate
in the component’s Unresolved
folder in the Pending Changes
view.

Checking in changes
When you check in your changes,
they are added to a change set. A
change set contains a set of
modified files and folders that relate
to a specific activity. This activity is
identified by a comment or a
reference to an associated work
item.

Delivering changes to a stream
• Checked-in changes are not
shared with the team until
you deliver the change sets
from your repository
workspace to the team’s
stream.
• A stream is a repository
object that integrates the
work that is done in
developers’ workspaces.
Repository
Workspace
Stream
Deliver
Change Sets

Exercises 1.3, 1.4, and 1.5
Complete these tasks:
 Review work items.
 Create a repository workspace.
 Change source files to complete
an assigned work item.
 Check in the change set that is
associated with the work item.
 Deliver the change set.

Rational Team Concert user interfaces
 Project and team areas
 Find work items
 Share your work
> Rational Team Concert user
interfaces
> = Current topic

 Rational Team Concert Eclipse client
 Rational Team Concert Client for Microsoft Visual
Studio IDE
 Rational Team Concert web client
 Command-line source control interface

Eclipse client
Client for
Microsoft Visual
Studio IDE
Web client
Command-line
source control
interface
Source
control
Yes Yes Yes Yes
IDE
integration
Yes Yes No No
Work-item
management
Yes Yes Yes No
Planning Yes Yes* Yes No
Build Yes Yes Yes No
Reports Yes* Yes* Yes No
Dashboards No No Yes No
*Uses an embedded web user interface (UI)© Copyright IBM Corporation 2008, 2013

This client is ideal for developers who work in a
development
environment that is
based on Eclipse.
The client is an
extension of the
Eclipse integrated
development
environment.
•It provides views, perspectives, and capabilities that are related to project
planning, work-item management, build management, and reporting.
•It integrates into Eclipse as a source control provider.
The Eclipse client supports Eclipse 3.8.2, which comes
with the product, and version 4.2.2.
Rational Team Concert Eclipse client

Jazz and Rational Team Concert capabilities in the Eclipse client
Artifact management
Build management
Project planning
Reporting
Source control
Work-item management

Jazz and Rational Team Concert capabilities in the Eclipse client
Repository search
Search an entire repository
Limit a search to these elements:
 Attachments
 Plan items
 Wiki pages
 Work items

Rational Team Concert Client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE
This client is ideal for developers
who work in a Visual Studio
environment. The client provides
a first class integration.
The client is an extension of the
Visual Studio integrated development
environment.
It integrates into editors, the
Properties view, Solution Explorer,
Options pages, toolbars, menus,
tool windows, and Error view.
It integrates with Visual Studio as
a source-control provider.
All versions of Visual Studio are
supported: 2010, 2008 SP1, and
2005 SP1.
This client follows Visual Studio
international settings.

Artifact management
Capabilities in the client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE

Capabilities in the client for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE (continued)
Project planning

Reporting

Build management

Source control

Repository search

Rational Team Concert web client
• The web client is ideal for project managers, stakeholders, and
other contributors who are not using a supported integrated
development environment.
• The client provides access to these capabilities:
Dashboards
Project planning
Source control
Build management
Reporting

Jazz and Rational Team Concert capabilities in the web client
Dashboards

Project planning

Source control

Build management

Reporting

Command-line source control interface
Rational Team Concert source control includes a
command-line interface that provides flexible,
scriptable access to essential source control operations
from any command shell:
 The tools are installed in this directory:
JazzInstallDir/scmtools/eclipse.
 Set your PATH environment variable to the aforementioned
directory to use a command shell on the Windows, UNIX, or
Linux operating systems.
Example: Logging to the repository
$ scm login -r https://your.repository.com:9443/ccm -n nickname
-u deb –c
Password (deb @ https://your.repository.com:9443/ccm):
Logged in to https://your.repository.com:9443/ccm

Rational Team Concert help
 Project and Team Areas
 Find work items
 Share your work
interfaces
> Rational Team Concert help
> = Current topic

Rational Team Concert has help options to
assist you:
 Information
 Tips and tricks
 Tutorials
 Samples
 Cheat Sheets
Using the Rational Team Concert help contents

Information center
The information center provides instructions to use Rational
Team Concert, links to web resources, and access to subscribe
to web feeds.

Viewing help content
Click the Bookmark icon to mark
a page so that you can return to it.
Click Print to print the page.
Use the information center
Contents view to find help on
a particular subject.

Searching help content
Type a term in the Search
field, and then click Go to
search the information center.
Click Search scope to define
the scope of your search.

Tours and tutorials
Tours are multimedia displays that provide high-level overviews
of important concepts and product functions.
Tutorials contain educational materials that you can use to learn
the technologies and concepts behind Rational Team Concert
through hands-on, guided practice.

Dynamic help
In Rational Team Concert, you can press F1 for contextual help
about the window or view that you want to learn about.

Jazz Community website

Hands-on exercise
Explore the Jazz Community
website
 Go to http://www.jazz.net.
 Create an account or sign in to
your user account.
 Explore:
– Click Forums > Rational Team
Concert.
– Click Library.
– Click Development > Wiki.
– Click Community > Jazz Team Blogs.

Unit summary
Having completed this unit, you should be able to:
• Identify key elements in the IBM® Rational Team
Concert™ Eclipse client.
• Complete basic workflow tasks by using the Rational
Team Concert Eclipse client.
 Accept a project team invitation.
 Find work items.
 Modify elements that are stored in Jazz™ source control.
 Check in your work and deliver the change set.
• Understand the different Rational Team Concert user
interfaces.
• Use the Rational Team Concert help system.

Module 1: Overview of Rational Team Concert

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