IBM DOORS Next Generation, Rational Quality Manager, and Rational Team Concert 5.0.2 were just released.
You can read the release notes on Jazz.net. Notable in DNG are greatly enhanced file management and much needed updates to managing views.
The Jazz Reporting Service is also promoted to more of a public view, and my guess is that in 6.0 it will be fully baked in. It looks very promising.
IBM Rational Jazz CLM 5.0.1 has been released! When I think 501 I think of jeans and button flies. But now I’ll also think of RDNG, RQM, and RTC.
As seems to always be the case, RTC has gotten LOTS of love. RQM has some nice new features involving scheduling of test suite executions and resources. And DNG has some bug fixes, no new features.
I am personally excited about the new Jazz Reporting Service. Let’s hope my enthusiasm doesn’t wane when I actually get my hands on it.
I’ve been refreshing the IBM Rational Jazz Downloads page all morning to be the first to tell you that Jazz 5.0 is now officially available for download.
Head to the 4.0.6 downloads page and grab the latest release.
When CLM 4.0.5 was released I listed all of the enhancements in one page. This new release (which includes Rational Jazz Foundation, Rational DOORS Next Generation, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager) appears to address bug fixes and does not appear to add new features.
I’ll update this post as I learn more.
IBM just released IBM Jazz 4.0.5. While you can download 4.0.5 now, I thought I’d cover some compelling reasons to do so.
I got all of the above information by going to this page, and manually viewing each of the links. The above list does not include all improvements.
IBM has committed to providing quarterly updates to their Jazz CLM applications. This list is quite big considering IBM’s schedule. RQM probably got the most needed improvements with subcategories, and DOORS Next Generation (DNG)/Rational Requirements Composer is starting to mature nicely. I’m very interested to see how the scripting report works (I believe it uses JavaScript) and how rapidly it matures.
2014 will be a great year for Jazz, particularly for DNG, if IBM can keep their promise of how they intend to version control requirements. That, with reusability, will really have companies who currently use DOORS evaluate DNG seriously.
From now until the end of 2013, registering on IBM’s JazzHub allows free hosting of source code for public and private projects.
This was just announced so I haven’t been able to dive in head first on this, but JazzHub seems to be an implementation of Rational Team Concert in the cloud that has been set up to import code from github, who also allows free project hosting for open source projects.
There is a small catch here. Your private projects are hosted at no cost to you until January 2015, where fees start to apply. At that time you can either migrate your projects elsewhere, convert them to open source, or decide to pay.
While we here at Baselines Incorporated have always been experts in requirements management, we learned Rational Team Concert when we saw that Jazz was the future platform for the Rational DOORS brand. While Rational Requirements Composer/DOORS Next Generation are not currently at feature parity with DOORS Classic, going towards Jazz allows for a much better backend architecture than the current DOORS Classic settings, which will eventually allow for things like true version control of requirements! (This will be the killer feature that solidifies DOORS Next Gen’s place in the market as the new requirements leader. You heard it here first.)
Git/Github is great for version control. Aside from a bit of a learning curve because of a new paradigm of source code control, I don’t personally have many complaints about it. It’s easy to use when you know how to use it. The simultaneous problem and benefit with git in my opinion is that other than the command line, there’s no standard client to use.
RTC allows use of a command line, explorer shell extensions in Windows, Visual Studio, and Eclipse. Eclipse has a fully configured RTC download and RTC is a plug-in on the Visual Studio side. There are git plugins for Eclipse too (I’m not sure about VS). But RTC was built with Eclipse in mind and so there is just one RTC plug-in for Eclipse.
In any case, if you’ve been wanting to try out RTC for some application ideas you’ve had, there’s really not a lot of reason not to try JazzHub right now.
Feel free to contact us for more information regarding DOORS, DOORS Next Generation, Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager.
I’m excited to announce that Baselines Incorporated now has the ability to sell IBM Rational software, including IBM Rational DOORS, IBM Rational Team Concert, IBM Rational Rhapsody, and IBM Rational Publishing Engine, IBM Rational Quality Manager, to name a few. This has been a few months in the making and I want to thank everyone involved for helping to make this happen.
I will still give my same opinions and thoughts on where IBM should go with their software and hopefully my status as a business partner and reseller will go towards my thoughts being heard and implemented.
This change won’t affect the content of this site. The exciting part is that if Baselines has an existing relationship with your company, then this is an extra service we can offer, as you can purchase IBM Rational DOORS from us. We can generate quotes and there are different payment and financing options that can be chosen as well.
Baselines Incorporated, The Requirements Management Experts, are experts in IBM Rational DOORS, DOORS DXL scripting, Rational Publishing Engine and Rational Team Concert. We make it our business to understand our clients’ requirements management, change management process and workflow, and validation and verification needs and fulfill their expectations. If it involves requirements, it involves our knowledge.
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speakers name coming soon…speakers are from InnovaMD
These are my opinions…blah blah blah…IBM does not endorse them…blah blah blah…my interpretations are likely not entirely 100% accurate, but maybe they are…blah blah.
I got here a few minutes late. Too much partying last night I guess.
The first few slides are all about Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Nothing new.
They use Appcelerator Titanium Software, which is a complete Eclipse-based IDE that centralizes and simplifies the mobile development process for several platforms such as iOS, Android, and Mobile Web. Helps developers write applications simultaneously for multiple platforms.
A lot of slides showing how they work with RRC and RTC are shown. Nothing really new or interesting to anyone who is already familiar with RTC.
They show some screenshots for Titanium. Basically they develop in Javascript and it produces native code for iOS and Android.
They run test case scripts that developers can monitor to see if they pass or fail using RQM. An audience member asked, “Is all your testing manual testing,” and the answer is yes–you can’t really run automated testing against the emulator and it’s best to test on the device itself and not the emulator (Note: as a fellow iOS developer I can attest to this!).
A demo is run, using a Mac, and Chrome as the browser. I dig seeing a presentation on a Mac here. I think it’s the first time I’ve seen this.
It also looks like the demo is being run on the actual production server that the company uses through the company’s VPN! This is refreshing because I know this is REAL data running on a REAL system. Just fantastic. Unfortunately, midway through, the VPN connection went down (actually I think the wifi provided had issues)…so they went into the Titanium Studio application.
Obviously, even though the network went down, I loved the live production demo. Just awesome. The developer guy who spoke was not a good speaker, but he did know his stuff as evident by how he answered the questions. I also like seeing Apple development sessions here.
This is also the first time I’ve seen a live demo of RRC and RTC, and there is something to be said about not having to switch applications in order to view requirements and work items and code. It’s very convenient, and IBM should really push how efficient this is. It’s too bad that all these components are sold separately. Perhaps they should look at creating an ALM-only package, the way Adobe did with Photoshop (you can no longer buy Photoshop outright, you must buy it as part of a bundle). This strategy would allow customers to easily start using IBM’s ALM tools, making the purchase easier to justify to management, and keep them on IBM’s development platform. And because it runs on multiple OSes, IBM can sell to a wide range of customers.
