Re: Rational Requisite and ClearCase for Application Docs?
The Rational Suite (or what is available from it) is divided as follows:
SUITE
RUP - Essentially an e-book about RUP and a quick reference guide to
getting started with the suite,
DESIGN AND DOCUMENTATION
Rose - UML/Data modeling. Build models of everything for business,
Validates code against model.
ClearCase - File storage, version control, change reporting and recording
of "who did where, what and when"
Requisite - Track requirements. You can actually track anything you want
from a grocery list to meeting minutes and action items, but they are only
using it for requirements.
ClearQuest - Track bug reports and change requests.
SoDA - Not used much. Can look at any Rational product data and help you
generate a report output into MS Word.
Console - Not used. Provides access to all the data in the suite from the
web via user login.
TESTING
TestManager - Automated testing of code. Tied to requirements.
Robot - Automatically tests code from scripts.
TestFactory - Tests an entire GUI &Code application from scripts.
PureCoverage - Looks for gaps in testing.
Purify - Looks for hiccups using scripts.
Quantify - Looks for bottlenecks (load testing) from scripts.
The real problem is that they are trying to use a hammer to saw wood.
Regardless of what the marketing says about the Rational Suite, it is
not a documentation tool set. It documents development. It does not
help you write that documentation. Even SoDA is not a real
documentation tool other than to auto document code.
The real purpose of the tools are not exactly what they are trying to
do. Use the Rational suite to document changes, and bugs to the
software, and use those to drive (note that I did not say generate)
the documentation.
Scott
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