These topics describe how to use Rational ClearQuest Test Manager
with Rational® ClearCase® and Rational ClearCase Remote Client views to access test
assets stored in Rational ClearCase VOBs.
When you add a file location for test assets (test scripts and test motivator
files), the file location can be in a Rational ClearCase VOB.
To access test assets in a Rational ClearCase VOB,
a Rational ClearCase or Rational ClearCase Remote Client view must be used on
each Rational ClearQuest® Client and Rational ClearQuest Client for Eclipse desktop.
The Rational ClearQuest Test
Manager integration with Rational ClearCase supports the following:
- Snapshot and dynamic views
- Rational ClearCase 7.0
and later
- Multiple-stream UCM, Single-stream UCM
- Base Rational ClearCase
- Rational ClearCase LT
7.0 and later
- Rational ClearCase Remote Client views
Any externally referenced test asset can be located in a Rational ClearCase VOB.
You can make these VOB locations available in two ways:
- An administrator can create file locations for use across a site.
- Each Rational ClearQuest Client or Rational ClearQuest Client for Eclipse user can
create file locations on their desktops.
In either case, a new file location is created in the Test Manager view.
After a file location is created, either locally or by a remote user, the
file location is available from the Test Manager view for all
Rational ClearQuest Client or
Rational ClearQuest Client for Eclipse users.
Every
Rational ClearQuest Client or
Rational ClearQuest Client for Eclipse desktop
accessing that file location must associate a
Rational ClearCase or
Rational ClearCase Remote Client view using the
Rational ClearCase View Associations
view on their desktop. The mechanism for view association depends on whether
the file location was created locally or remotely.
- If an administrator has created file locations remotely, when a Rational ClearQuest Client or Rational ClearQuest Client for Eclipse starts
an Eclipse session, if Rational ClearCase views
are referenced in the user's Eclipse workspace, an auto-association is created.
- When a user associates a test motivator file with a test plan or test
case or associates a test script with a test case or configured test case
record, if no view association for the file location exists, Rational ClearQuest Test
Manager prompts the user to create a Rational ClearCase view
association.
- If a user has created a file location on the local machine, when that
user associates a test motivator file with a test plan or a test case or test
script with a test case or configured test case record, Rational ClearQuest Test
Manager associates a view.
- In all cases, when a Rational ClearCase view
is associated with a file location, the association is made in the context
of an iteration record.
The behavior when using a Rational ClearCase Remote Client view
is different. Before you associate a file location with the view, right-click
the file location and select Connect to CCRC. Specify
your ClearCase user ID and password, and the ClearCase server URL. You can
now associate your Rational ClearCase Remote Client view
with the file location. Each time you restart your Rational ClearQuest Test
Manager client you must login to Rational ClearCase by
right-clicking the file location and selecting Connect to CCRC before
you can perform operations involving test assets stored in Rational ClearCase.