Linking to Rational requirement artifacts

With the Rational® Adapter for HP ALM, you can associate requirements artifacts in the Requirements Management (RM) application in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) with test resources in HP ALM. You can also associate Rational RM collections or modules with HP ALM requirements. Then, you can check that there is an HP ALM test case or requirement for each Rational requirement and create any missing items, all from the adapter interface.
Note: RM capabilities that are provided by the RM application in CLM are licensed as Rational DOORS® Next Generation or IBM® Rational Requirements Composer. Adding or removing links to HP ALM resources from the Rational DOORS Next Generation rich client is not supported.

The HP adapter supports the following operations when you are working with requirements:

Rational Lifecycle Integration Adapters features support various project configurations and workflows and can be customized to the needs of your environment. The following describes a potential workflow for a site that uses Rational requirements management tools and HP ALM testing tools:
  1. Create project requirements, which are organized by collection.
  2. Create test folders for the project in HP ALM.
  3. Using the adapter, associate requirements collections with the test plans that verify the requirements.
  4. Using the adapter, generate test cases for each requirement in a collection or module.

For a list of Rational requirements management and HP ALM resources and linkages, see the related links.

A tour of working with Rational requirements and HP ALM

This video provides an overview of using the HP adapter with Rational requirements and HP ALM.

The video is also available on IBM developerWorks®.


Feedback