Deploying process guidance from Rational Method Composer

IBM® Rational® Method Composer is a product that provides process guidance and best practices for software development and test teams. You can make this guidance available to your IBM Rational Quality Manager team by adding a link from the Related Sites section of the Rational Quality Manager interface.

Before you begin

To make this guidance available, the Rational Method Composer Web archive (WAR) file must be deployed on a Tomcat or IBM WebSphere Application Server that your test team can access.

About this task

To provide this guidance from within Rational Quality Manager:

Procedure

  1. Deploy the RQM_Process_Guidance.war file to the Tomcat server. For general instructions on deploying to WebSphere® Application Server, see Setting up a WebSphere Application Server .
    1. Download the RQM_Process_Guidance.war to the quality_manager_install_path\server\tomcat\webapps directory.
    2. Log in to the Tomcat Web Application Manager as a user with Administrator permissions by typing one of the following URLs:
      • http://localhost:9080/manager/html/
      • http://server_name:9080/manager/html/

      The first URL assumes that the application server is on your local computer.

    3. Navigate to the WAR file to deploy section, click Browse, and select the RQM_Process_Guidance.war file.
    4. Click Deploy, and wait for the new WAR to be listed in the Applications section.
  2. Add the URL of the new WAR file to the Related Sites list in Rational Quality Manager System Properties.
    1. Log on to Rational Quality Manager as a user with JazzAdmins repository permissions.
    2. Click Admin, and then click System Properties.
    3. Select Related Sites from the list.
    4. Click the Add Related Site icon (Add Related site). Add RQM Process Guidance in the Name field and the URL of the newly deployed WAR file in the URL field. For example, specify one of these URLs:
      • http://server_name:9080/RQM_Process_Guidance
      • http://ipaddress:9080/RQM_Process_Guidance
    5. Click Save.
    6. Log out and log back in. The Related Sites list includes RQM Process Guidance.
    7. Click RQM Process Guidance to test the deployment.
    8. Notify your user community that the process guidance is available.

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