IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform
The IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform offers an array of products, services, and best practices. It is an open, modular, and proven solution that spans the entire software and systems delivery life cycle. Its products are composed of five life cycle categories. Figure | -1 shows each of the five life cycle categories with a selection of the embedded Rational tooling.
Figure 1-1 Rational Software Delivery Platform life cycle categories and products
Here is a brief description of the products included in the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform:
| Rational Software Modeler v7.5 |
The Software Modeler is a UML 2.0-based visual modeling and design tool for system analysts, software architects, and designers who need to clearly define and communicate their architectural specifications to stakeholders.
New in version 7.5, you can create and leverage your own domain specific modeling languages (DSMLs) to represent your unique business problem and solution domains.
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| Rational Software Architect v7.5 |
The Software Architect is a design and construction tool that leverages model-driven development with UML 2.0 to create well-architected applications, including those based on service-oriented architecture (SOA).
It unifies modeling, Java structural review, Web services, Java SE, Java EE, database, XML, Web development, and process guidance for architects and senior developers creating applications in Java.
New in version 7.5, it comes with a comprehensive support for simpler, new and emerging programming models including Web 2.0, Java EE 5.0, EJB 3.0, and Java Persistence API (JPA).
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| Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software |
The Application Developer is a full suite of development, analysis and test, and deployment tools for rapidly implementing Java SE and EE, Portal, Web and Web 2.0, Web services, and SOA applications.
New in version 7.5, it supports Java EE 5.0, EJB 3.0, JPA, and Web 2.0 with Ajax and Dojo development.
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| Rational Business Developer Extension v7.5 |
The Business Developer Extension is an Eclipse 3.4 based workbench featuring Enterprise Generation Language (EGL) for delivering multi-platform applications.
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| Rational Asset Manager v7.1 |
The Asset Manager helps create, modify, govern, find, and reuse any type of development assets, including SOA and system development assets.
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| Rational Team Concert |
The Team Concert is a Jazz™-based collaborative software delivery environment that empowers project teams to simplify, automate, and govern software delivery. Automated data collection and reporting reduces administrative overhead and provides the real-time insight required to effectively govern software projects. It extends the capabilities of the team with integrated work items, build, software configuration management (SCM), and the collaborative infrastructure of the Jazz Team Server.
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Note: Jazz is IBM Rational's new technology platform for collaborative software delivery. It is an extensible framework that dynamically integrates and synchronizes people, processes, and assets associated with software development projects. More information about the Jazz technology platform can be found here: |
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| Rational Functional Tester v8.0 |
The Functional Tester is a tooling for automated functional, regression, GUI and data-driven testing. It provides the capability to record robust scripts that can be played back to validate new builds of an application.
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| Rational Performance Tester v8.0 |
The Performance Tester is a multi-user system performance test product designed to test Web applications, and focuses on scalability.
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| Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality |
The Service Tester for SOA Quality tooling provides the tester with script-free testing capabilities for functional, regression, and performance testing of GUI-less Web services.
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| Rational Quality Manager |
The Quality Manager is a Web-based centralized test management environment for business, system and IT decision makers, and quality professionals who seek a collaborative and customizable solution for test planning, workflow control, tracking, and metrics reporting capable of quantifying how project decisions and deliverables impact and align with business objectives.
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| Rational Method Composer |
The Method Composer is a flexible process management platform. It includes a rich process library to help companies implement effective processes for successful software and IT projects.
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| Rational Portfolio Manager |
The Portfolio Manager helps businesses to align their IT and system investments with business priorities. It provides optimization of investment funding decisions, cost containment, and maximizing value across the entire portfolio.
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| Rational RequisitePro® |
RequisitePro is a requirements management tool for project teams who want to manage their requirements, write good use cases, improve traceability, strengthen collaboration, reduce project risks, and increase quality.
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| Rational ClearQuest® |
ClearQuest is a software change management tooling. It provides defect, task and change request tracking, process automation, reporting, and lifecycle traceability for better visibility and control of the software development lifecycle.
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| Rational ClearCase |
ClearCase is a complete software configuration management tooling. It provides a sophisticated version control, workspace management, parallel development support, and build auditing to improve productivity.
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| WebSphere Business Modeler |
The WebSphere Business Modeler belongs to the WebSphere brand, but is an important product of the Rational Software Delivery Platform. WebSphere Business Modeler targets the business analyst who models business processes. WebSphere Business Modeler can be used to generate Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) definitions to be imported into WebSphere Integration Developer to create applications for WebSphere Process Server. BPEL from WebSphere Business Modeler provides a more seamless move to implementation and eliminates the need to create paper diagrams for the developer.
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