Tool Mentor:
Promoting Project Baselines Using Rational ClearCase
Purpose
This tool mentor describes how to assign promotion levels to baselines using
Rational ClearCase Unified Change Management
(UCM). This tool mentor relates to the Rational Unified Process information:
Overview
In ClearCase, UCM baselines typically represent a stable
configuration for a component.
Baselines are assigned promotion levels that can be used to indicate the
quality or degree of completeness of the work represented by a baseline.
Generally, the promotion level indicates a level of testing. UCM provides an
ordered set of default promotion levels, and also supports user-defined
promotion levels. The action of changing the promotion level of a baseline is
called promoting or demoting the baseline.
A recommended baseline is baseline that has been approved for general use.
Recommended baselines are used in rebase operations. When a stream is rebased,
it is reconfigured with the recommended baselines of the target stream. One use
of promotion levels is to assign a set of baselines with the same promotion
level to be recommended baselines for a particular stream.
This tool mentor is applicable when running Microsoft Windows.
Tool Steps
This procedures describes how to change a baseline's promotion level and how
to make baselines with a particular promotion level recommended baselines for
the stream:
- Change the promotion level of
a baseline
- Based
on promotion level, set a baseline to be a recommended baseline for the
stream
For
further information, see the Rational manual titled Managing Projects with ClearCase.
- In ClearCase Project Explorer, select a stream. Click
File > Properties to display the stream's property sheet.
- Click the Baselines tab.
- In the Components box select the component whose baseline you want
to promote. The component's baselines are displayed in the Baselines
box. Select the baseline and click Properties to display the
baseline's property sheet.
- At the General tab, click the down arrow in the Promotion Level list
to display all available promotion levels. Select the new promotion level.
Click OK.
- Click Start > Programs > Rational ClearCase
> Project Explorer.
- Select a stream.
- Click Tools > Recommend Baselines to display a list of the
current recommended baselines for the stream.
- In the Set List area, select a promotion level from the pull-down
list.
- Click Set List to make the most recent baselines at or above the
promotion level recommended baselines.
- Click OK.
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