Rational Team Concert uses work items as the “glue” to bind various artifacts together. It links source code change sets to tasks, tasks to user stories, defects to test plans, stories to requirements. Work item queries allow you to easily create repeatable searches into the RTC system for just about any work item type and … Read more
This video was requested by a customer to show their employees how to create a personal dashboard from a project area. These videos are in the public domain by intention, and thus our ability to share it with you. In this situation, we created a custom dashboard template in the project area’s configuration. Widgets were … Read more
First Rule: Write Good User Stories If you are just getting started with writing user stories, I highly recommend Mike Cohn’s book User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development. Perhaps you’re coming from a background of writing large use cases. Perhaps you’re fresh out of school and not familiar with requirements management. If you’re already … Read more
This week we presented at the IBM InterConnect conference in Vegas. This was information compiled from multiple customer engagements over the past few years. Patterns and Antipatterns for Adopting IBM DevOps Ttools from Strongback Consulting If you are looking to implement the IBM platform as your Application Lifecycle Management platform of choice, and need help … Read more
If you are at IBM InterConnect, you’ll frequently hear the phrase “shift left”. Its meaning may go over your head at first, but here is what it means. Everyone has heard this before, but the latter in the development cycle a defect is caught, the more expensive it is to fix. In the chart above, … Read more
For those of you going to IBM InterConnect next week, we will be presenting the following sessions. Session Schedule Number Title Where When 2365A Patterns and Antipatterns for Adopting IBM DevOps Tools Mandalay Bay SOUTH – Surf Ballroom A Wed, 24-Feb 08:30 AM – 09:30 AM 2381A Tips for Developing and Testing IBM Host Access … Read more
A common anti-pattern for the Jazz tools (RTC, RQM, and DNG) is using them in place of a true help desk application. Help desk apps are designed to handle the recording of calls to the desk, categorizing the problems, and assisting the call agent with remediating those problems. In some cases a help desk system … Read more
IBM has an extensive catalog of desktop products, especially for application and database development. Some of those tools offer features and functions that can only be realized when combined with another product. In such cases, the products need to be installed into the same Eclipse package. This presentation shows you how to combine, deploy, and … Read more
Some of the IBM software can include multiple multi-gigabyte files, all of which are required for installation. IBM Rational Application Developer is good example. Using the normal windows unzip functionality can make for a bit of a tangled mess of a download directory if you’re not careful. I’ve been working with this software for over … Read more
Why unit testing? Any developer worth their salt, uses unit tests to validate that their code satisfies the task or tasks the code is supposed to do. Unit testing encourages modular development. Junit for Java was one the first and certainly the most well known. Other frameworks for other languages have popped up all over … Read more