How Rational Software Uses ClearCase for Release Engineering

7/29/98


Click here to start


Table of Contents

How Rational Software Uses ClearCase for Release Engineering

Release Engineering Responsibilities

Three Types of VOBs

Three Types of VOBs

Nightly Builds

Anatomy of a Nightly Build

Nightly Build Performance

Version Selection for Nightly Builds

Building from Time Rules

Building Off Labels

Branching Conventions

Sample Branching Tree

Sample Time Rules Config Spec

Sample Label Based Config Spec

Populating the Staging VOB

How Release Images Are Created

Publishing a Release

Generating patches

ClearCase Administration

How Rational Software Uses ClearCase for Release Engineering

Author: bdelaney