Enterprises
and its respective groups working on software delivery know that
their efficiency level can rise up when tools used are collaborating
together. The focus is maintained on traceability and
responsibilities across the processes which helps to avoid any kind
of manual overload. In the recent past, these tools have witnessed an
evolution from point oriented tools , resolving selected narrow
requirements in the software delivery lifecycle.
OSLC
Integration defined
The OSLC
Integration i.e.
Open Service For Life Collaboration is an initiative taken to
simplify collaboration across the product software and delivery
lifecycle .. The primary objective is to assist groups working with
organizations to share lifecycle resources and utilize disparate
tools in offering software irrespective of whether these tools
generate from open source projects, in-house developers, IBM or from
any other external vendors. This makes it simpler for all industry
members to take part in the process.
By
its lineage, OSLC integration stems from a community initiative done
by IBM Rational. This community is responsible in establishing open
specifications for services that assists tools from various domains
to adjust and provide common integration scenarios. The
specifications help in affirming tools to integrate their data with
the help of an easy and live linking of artifacts in tools.
Features
of OSLC Integration Solutions
Today
IBM Jazz tools for instance Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational
Requirements Composer (RRC) and Rational Quality Manager (RQM) offer
an inbuilt assistance for OSLC. Though it will take time before we
can attain the state of OSLC helped by other eminent ALM solution
vendors. Therefore the question is that how do you connect with
leading ALM tools that does not follow OSLC standards on the JAZZ
platform now?
Top
notch service providers of application
lifecycle management (ALM)
solutions have established an OSLC wrapper that enables the tools to
be exposed to OSLC Service Providers. The things you can do with OSLC
integration are as follows :-
*
Browse a list of Requirements in RequisitePro, Work Items in TFS,
Test Cases in Quality Center, Build Results in Hudson and Defects in
Jira from an OSLC Consumer tool like IBM RTC.
*
Link any of the above mentioned artifacts enclosed in various tools
in the context of a Requirement in RRC, Change Item in RTC and Test
Case in RQM.
*
You can create new artifacts in RequisitePro, Quality Center, TFS,
SharePoint and Jira from RTC, RRC and RQM.
*
As the artifacts are being worked on by various stakeholders, users
with OSLC Consumer tools you are able to follow the recent status,
updates, activities and comments.
*
You can update artifacts and collaborate with other stakeholders.
It
is a known fact that any ALM
artifact in IBM RTC can achieve a live link to any artifact in
Microsoft TFS. Eminent solution providers ALM
solutions are
currently enabling OSLC specifications for Quality
Management Requirements Management and Change
Management.
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