Key Concept: Tool Mentor
Topics: Tool Mentor
Tool Mentor
Activities, steps, and associated guidelines provide general guidance to the practitioner. To go one step further, tool mentors are an additional means of providing guidance by showing how to perform the steps using a specific software tool. Tool mentors are provided in the RUP, linking its activities with tools such as Rational Rose, Rational RequisitePro, Rational ClearCase, Rational ClearQuest, Rational Suite TestStudio. The tool mentors almost completely encapsulate the dependencies of the process on the tool set, keeping the activities free from tool details. An organization can extend the concept of tool mentor to provide guidance for other tools.
Tool mentors are listed in the Tool Mentors section of the relevant activity pages, and they are organized under a separate treebrowser entry as shown below. If a tool has many tool mentors, they are categorized further to increase usability of the treebrowser.
An example of Tool mentors and their organization in the treebrowser
