While you might have standardized on the Rational® solution for Collaborative Lifecycle
Management (CLM), areas of your business might still be using JIRA
for defect management. With the IBM® Rational Adapter
for JIRA, you can use Atlassian® JIRA® with the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle
Management (CLM). Integrate with JIRA to submit defects from Rational Quality Manager (RQM),
track requirement implementation from Rational requirements management (RM) products,
or assign tasks from Rational Team Concert™ (RTC).
This function provides traceability
across lifecycle data, encompassing both your Rational and JIRA users.
Note: RM capabilities that are provided by the RM application in
CLM are licensed as Rational DOORS® Next Generation or IBM Rational Requirements Composer
The integration uses Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
(OSLC) to establish links between Rational solution
for Collaborative Lifecycle Management artifacts and JIRA issues.
You create JIRA adapter links through your Rational application's user interface by
using predefined link types, and view links in CLM applications and
JIRA. You can see a preview of linked artifacts by hovering your cursor
over the links. You can link one artifact to one or many issues, and
issues can have links to one or more CLM artifacts.
For change and configuration management, the JIRA adapter offers
support for use with Rational Team
Concert. You can link Rational
Team Concert change requests, defects, or plan items to JIRA
issues. The following table summarizes the supported use cases, showing
supported linkages and link types.
Link from Rational Team Concert |
Link type |
Link to JIRA |
Change request (any type) |
Create new or link to existing: Related
change request |
JIRA issue (any type) |
Change request (any type) |
Create new or link to existing: Affected
by defect |
JIRA issue (any type) |
Change request (any type) |
Create new or link to existing: Affects
a plan item |
JIRA issue (any type) |
For quality management, the JIRA adapter offers support for use
with Rational Quality Manager.
You can link test cases, test execution results, test plans, test
scripts, and test suites to JIRA issues as development artifacts or
quality tasks. The following table summarizes the supported use cases,
showing supported linkages and link types.
Link from Rational Quality
Manager |
Link type |
Link to JIRA |
Test case |
Create new or link to existing: Tests |
JIRA Issue (any type) as development artifacts |
Test execution results |
Create new or link to existing: Affected
by |
JIRA Issue (any type) as development artifacts |
Test plans
Test cases
Test scripts
Test
suites
|
Create new or link to existing: Related
tasks |
JIRA Issue (any type) as quality tasks |
For requirements management, the JIRA adapter offers support for Rational Requirements Manager
or Rational DOORS Next Generation. You can link requirements
to JIRA issues through a
Tracked by link or
an
Implemented by link. The following table
summarizes supported use cases, showing supported linkages and link
types.
Link from Rational requirements
managers |
Link type |
Link to JIRA |
Requirement |
Create new or link to existing: Tracked
by |
JIRA issue (any type) |
Requirement |
Create new or link to existing: Implemented
by |
JIRA issue (any type) |