Linking Rational Team Concert change sets to HP ALM defects

You can associate Rational Team Concert change sets with HP ALM defects.

Before you begin

Your Rational Team Concert project and your HP ALM project must be configured to use the Uses change sets project association.

About this task

Perform these tasks from the Eclipse interface for Rational Team Concert. You can link to existing HP ALM defects.

Procedure

  1. Open your Rational Team Concert project in the Eclipse client and go to the Pending Changes view.
  2. Checkin your changes as you normally would, but do not deliver them.
  3. Before you deliver your changes, right click on the Outgoing change set and select Related Artifacts > Associate Change Request from the menu.
  4. Log in to the HP ALM server when prompted.
  5. In the Add Link: Change Request window, choose an HP ALM project and select Link to existing. Click OK.
  6. The Select Defect dialog is displayed. Locate and select the defect to link to. Click OK. The defect is linked to the change set you are delivering. The change set title is taken from the defect you are linking to.
  7. Click Save.

Results

After you have linked a change set and an HP ALM defect, you can use the link to traverse from Rational Team Concert to HP ALM. For example:

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