RESTful Work Items: Opening up Collaborative ALM (Rational Software Conference 2009)

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RESTful Work Items: Opening up Collaborative ALM

Mik KerstenCEO, Tasktop Technologies

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© 2009 IBM Corporation

Steve SpeicherCM Architect, IBM Rational

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IBM Rational Software Conference 2009

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For the next 60 minutes…

Problem space

ALM and Change Management at IBM

The case for open services

Demos…Showtime!

Leveraging open services with Mylyn

Current state of OSLC CM


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Integrated Development Environment

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Language Functions

Framework

Test

Build

Objects

Libraries Components

Incremental Dependencies

Unit Automation

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…

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Sources Versions Branches …

Tasks Tracking Agile …


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Breadth of ALM solutions

3 dozen public Mylyn ALM integrations

Countless home-grownbug/issue trackers

Require Javaconnector

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MylynBugzilla

JIRA

Subversion

Exchange

RallyScrumWorks

Gmail

Rational ClearQuest

Rational ClearCase

Rational Team Concert

CollabNet


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Many Clients

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IDE

BrowserPhone

TeamServer(s)


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ALM and Change Management at IBM

Many tools to integrate

Solutions require it

Products are: New

Legacy

Acquired

ISVs and Partners


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ALM Solution Pain Points

Integrations built for point-to-point products

Products can’t be updated independently

Differing (incompatible) models


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Tasktop case for open services

Tremendous interest a Mylyn connector for ClearQuest

Each one-off WS API comes with a burden

Legacy ALM tools are not going away soon

Need for a common, REST based API

URL-addressable resources, loose coupling

Ecipse/Mylyn support for generic functionality


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…and then there became OSLC

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration

Introduced at RSDC 2008

Open community contribution

Scenario driven...a minimalist approach

Divided into focus areas Change Management Focus of this talk

Quality Management, Estimation & Measurement, Requirements Management, …

Solving integration in the open


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OSLC Architectural Drivers

Working with RESTful architectural principles (the Web seems to scale ok)

Leverage existing standards:XML, HTTP, Dublin Core

Keep the barrier toentry for existingproducts low

Jazz Team Server

REST APIs (OSLC, JFS, product specific)

Tool DThird party

Tool CServer Extension

Tool BServer Extension

Tool AServer Extension

JFS§Discovery§Administration§Query §Presentation

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Tool A Desktop Client

Tool B Web Client

CompositionalWeb Client

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Tool DDesktop Client


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Current state of OSLC Change Management

Finalized 1.0 specifications

Scenarios: Find and fix a defect

Agile planning of change requests

Technical capabilities: Discovery of services

Metadata is not needed (resource creation and selection is delegated)

Minimal resource definition

RESTful resource manipulation: create, modify


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OSLC CM 1.0 – Service Discovery - Don’t require URI building and fixed segments

URLs for services are discovered

There may exist multiple levels of context


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OSLC CM 1.0 – Delegation

Resource Selection A way to pick (search for and select)

Resource Creation Use POSTed data to seed a Web

UI, allowing delegated, user-attended creation of change requests from a loosely coupled client

Creation and Selection rely on a simple JavaScript API to return URLs to the caller


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Where OSLC fits into the C/ALM picture

Business Expert Collaboration

Elicit, capture, elaborate, discuss and review requirements

Requirements Composer

Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration

JAZZ TEAM SERVER

Best Practice Processes

Search and Query

collaborationTeam awareness Events notification

Security

Dashboards

Rational Requirements

Composer

Collaborative Business-driven Quality

Quality Manager

Coordinate quality assurance plans, processes and resources

Team ConcertInnovation Through Collaboration

Unify by “thinking & working” in unison with real-time project heath

Rational Quality

ManagerRational Team

Concert

offeringoffering offering

Business Partner Jazz

Offerings

ClearQuest

ClearCaseBuild Forge

Asset ManagerRequisite

Pro


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OSLC - Interoperability in Heterogeneous Landscape

TasktopCompany behind Eclipse Mylyn has joined OSLC

Tasktop Pro is the commercial version of Mylyn + ALM integrations

Both open source and closed source tools leveraging OSLC

DemosTask-focused programming

Task creation via OSLC (open source)

ClearQuest integration via OSLC (closed source)


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Task Creation Demo


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Tasktop experiences participating in OSLC

OSLC solves a business problem for us

Process is open and participative

IP policies enable both our OSS implementation and commercial extension

Lightweight & RESTful are a good way to go

Approach will affect the ALM landscape

We’re not done yet, need repository shape...

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What’s next for OSLC Change Management

Progression with 2.0 specifications

Scenarios: Aggregation of tasks in IDE tool

Monitoring project health

Technical capabilities: Providing metadata about resources (schema)

Handling attachments to change requests

Seamless interaction with state models


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Conclusion and Roadmap

What to expect Evolving specifications with more adoption

Keep a look-out at http://www.open-services.net

Getting the tools Visit Exhibit Hall and Rational Labs

Also see SLI11 “ALM Integration in a Web 2.0 World” - Wednesday, June 3, 11:15

Visit Exhibit Hall and Rational Labs for demos and product information

Get Rational ClearQuest – Tasktop Beta http://tasktop.com


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