Defining an administration policy for Rational ClearQuest Test Manager

If you are storing test assets in a Rational ClearCase VOB, you must establish an administration policy to ensure the integrity of test results.

For any specific asset registry and iteration combination, to ensure the integrity of test results, an identical Rational® ClearCase® view (for base Rational ClearCase) or an identical Rational ClearCase stream (for UCM Rational ClearCase) must be used on all remote Rational ClearQuest® Client and Rational ClearQuest Client for Eclipse desktops.

By default, Rational ClearQuest Test Manager does not verify that Rational ClearCase views and streams on different Rational ClearQuest Eclipse clients that access the same asset registry and iteration combination are identical. Each site must enforce its own monitoring for identical views when executing from a specific file location associated with an asset registry and iteration.

To implement a more restrictive policy when storing tests assets in Rational ClearCase VOBs, you must do the following:
  1. If you are using Rational Functional Tester, Rational Performance Tester, or Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP) create Eclipse projects for testing and provide instructions for users to import these projects into their local Eclipse workspaces.
  2. Create all new file locations from the administrator's Rational ClearQuest Eclipse client desktop.
  3. Associate views for accessing the file locations based on local views on the administrator's desktop.
  4. Use the Capture Configuration Specification option for base Rational ClearCase views or the Capture Stream Name option for UCM Rational ClearCase views for all relevant iterations from the administrator's desktop to restrict access of the file locations to views or streams that are identical to administrator's desktop.
  5. Instruct users that when executing a configured test case or test suite record to not override the message that indicates the view's config spec or stream does not match the captured config spec or stream. Instead, base Rational ClearCase users must select their view association in the Rational ClearCase View Associations view and then select the Configure Configuration Specification option. UCM users must change manually their config specs so that the stream name of their UCM view matches the captured stream name.

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