Defining Configuration Management GoMidjets … GoMidjets Developing and delivering CM and ALM solutions Complementary add-on solutions for IBM Rational ClearCase Providing End-to-End

Defining Configuration Management

PolicyGoMidjets Solutions

December 2011

About GoMidjets

� Developing and delivering CM and ALM solutions

� Complementary add-on solutions for IBM Rational ClearCase

� Providing End-to-End professional services

� IBM Rational certifications , Scrum and Linux certifications

� IBM Champion 2011 and IBM Beacon Award Winner 2010

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Preventive Maintenance Solution

The Proactive Approach

Disasters Happen… and they can hurt your R&D

ClearCase stores the Heart of R&D

Disasters Happenlittle by little

Disasters Happento be very costly

Cost of delayed deadline

Cost of delayed delivery

Cost of fixing the problem

Cost of stalled R&D team

“Periodic attention to storage management and

repository integrity is a very important

administrative function”

-- IBM Rational ClearCase Manual

The Solution Existsand it’s called preventive maintenance

The Solution Existsbut it has a hitch

are difficult to do correctly

take about an hour to run

rarely happen

Homemade scripts

have limited scope

hardly maintained

Manual checks

GoMidjets Approach

Scan �� Analyze �� Report �� Fix

GoMidjets Approach



GoMidjets Approach



ClearCheckeasy to use

Rapid implementation

Runs every day

ClearCheckThe knowledge base

Best Practices

GoMidjets’ Field Experience

IBM Recommendations

Advice

GoMidjets Approach


ClearCheckWhat’s New ( V2.2.1)

• More legible reports and customized reports

• New checks

• Supporting ClearCase 8.0

• PDF report (including bookmarks)

• Better support for Unix \ Linux VOB servers

• Integration with backup scripts

• Integration with 3rd-party storage filers

ClearCheckV 3.0 Q1/2012

• Send full logs to Rational Support in a click

• Customized filtering out of warnings

• Support VOB Schema 80 and Feature Level 7

• New charts and statistics

• Monitor multiple VOB servers in one console

• Monitor VOB server performance

ClearCheck

Agile Solution

What is Agile?

“Agile software development is a group

of software development methodologies based

on iterative and incremental development, where

requirements and solutions evolve through

collaboration between self-organizing, cross-

functional teams.”

-- The Agile Manifesto

Agile Process

Agile Solution

Agile Solution for ClearCaseA typical workflow (taken from ClearCase Manual)

Blue/orange tasks are enhanced by Agile Solution

ClearEnv: Setting-up ClearCase

Working Environments

How the Developer’s Environment was

planned

How the Developer Installed it

How “Agile Solution” Builds

an Environment

How “Agile Solution” Builds Environments

Client Dashboard

Administrator Dashboard

Central management

ClearEnv Benefits

� Branch management and stream strategy

� Agile implementation

� Enforcement and compliance

� Add your in-house customization into environments

� Simple GUI and CLI support

� ClearCase best practices

ClearEnvWhat’s New ( V2.0)

• Support Windows 7 and 64bit architecture

• Support Base ClearCase

• New dashboard

• Pre-script enhancement

• New dynamic variables to get more flexibility

• Supporting ClearCase 8.0

ClearEnv



Annotate:

GUI -based

Annotating Tool

for Developers

Demo

Annotate Benefits

� Easily locate the source of defects

� Improve collaboration among R&D stakeholders

� Compare more than two versions at once

� Drill down into the history of any code line in a file

� Get all information about changes in the source-code context

� Produce higher quality products in less time

� Seamlessly integrated with ClearCase environments

� Applies ClearCase and SCM best practices

Feature Highlights� Annotation

� Color source code lines by usernames

� Color source code lines by branches/streams

� Color source code lines by dates, including time-lapse view

� Mark removed code lines

� Source Code Viewer and Editor

� Rich-report displayed to screen, including 'Search' feature

� Supporting a variety of languages: Java, C, C++, C# etc.

� Exporting to MS-Word and WordPad (Rich-text format)

� Integrations

� Integrated with ClearCase Explorer and Clear Team Explorer

� Integrated with Windows Explorer

� Integrated with GoMidjets R&D Reporter

Annotate



R&D Reporter:

Real-time

Visibility on your

ClearCase UCM

Projects' Status

The Challenge: How to Retrieve

Information from ClearCase?

� Components

� Streams

� Recommended baselines

� Latest baselines

� Composite baselines

� Baseline promotion levels

� Activities

� Contributing activities

� Delivery / Rebase activities

� Change-set and file versions

Dashboard

Compare ClearCase BaselinesFully-detailed Report

Send Report to your BrowserDocument changes as part of Continuous Integration (CI) process

ChartsGet real-time reports about ClearCase projects status

� Pie chart

� Gantt Chart

� Area Charts

ChartsIntegrates with another systems: ClearQuest, RTC, QC etc.

R&D Reporter Benefits

� Better traceability for ClearCase UCM users

� Automatic “Release Notes” document

� Document build changes and Continuous Integration (CI)

� Simple GUI and CLI support

� Apply ClearCase best practices

R&D Reporter V 3.0: What’s New

� More than 20 report types

� Compare recommended baselines

� Compare latest baselines

� Dynamic reports

� Pending changes report

� Performance improvements

� Filter baselines by naming convention and regular expressions

� Filter baselines by streams and promotion levels

� Compare many components at once

� Customize report’s header and footer

� Enhance your report with ClearCase Attributes

� Report outputs: Dashboard, Email, Excel, HTML and text

R&D Reporter

Thank you!

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Defining Configuration Management GoMidjets … GoMidjets Developing and delivering CM and ALM solutions Complementary add-on solutions for IBM Rational ClearCase Providing End-to-End