The Rational Adapter for HP ALM enables you to create associations between HP ALM and the Requirements Management (RM) application in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Rational Team Concert™ resources.
With the adapter, you can establish and maintain these associations among product artifacts throughout the application development lifecycle.
The adapter includes a web interface for viewing HP ALM data with links to Rational resources and HP ALM. The adapter interface is browser-independent and using it allows you to quickly switch between applications. Testers viewing resources in the Quality Center for HP ALM application can open the view of the same resource in the adapter with one click. Similarly, you can easily open resources in HP ALM from the adapter with the Launch in HP ALM option on each adapter page, which opens a resource in HP ALM. The adapter interface also provides a central place from which to create or modify links.
Integration of data is enabled using the Open Service for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) standard, which uses a linked data model. There is no synchronization step among repositories. The information you see is not copied, but taken directly from the product's repository. For more information about linked data and OSLC, see http://open-services.net/about/
The OSLC-supported rich hover feature lets you view linked HP ALM artifacts from CLM or the adapter interface, allowing you to work from a either or both interfaces as needed.