Enterprises and its respective groups working on software delivery know that their efficiency level can rise up when tools used are collaborating together. The focus is maintained on traceability and responsibilities across the processes which helps to avoid any kind of manual overload. In the recent past, these tools have witnessed an evolution from point oriented tools , resolving selected narrow requirements in the software delivery lifecycle.

OSLC Integration defined
The OSLC Integration i.e. Open Service For Life Collaboration is an initiative taken to simplify collaboration across the product software and delivery lifecycle .. The primary objective is to assist groups working with organizations to share lifecycle resources and utilize disparate tools in offering software irrespective of whether these tools generate from open source projects, in-house developers, IBM or from any other external vendors. This makes it simpler for all industry members to take part in the process.

By its lineage, OSLC integration stems from a community initiative done by IBM Rational. This community is responsible in establishing open specifications for services that assists tools from various domains to adjust and provide common integration scenarios. The specifications help in affirming tools to integrate their data with the help of an easy and live linking of artifacts in tools.

Features of OSLC Integration Solutions
Today IBM Jazz tools for instance Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Requirements Composer (RRC) and Rational Quality Manager (RQM) offer an inbuilt assistance for OSLC. Though it will take time before we can attain the state of OSLC helped by other eminent ALM solution vendors. Therefore the question is that how do you connect with leading ALM tools that does not follow OSLC standards on the JAZZ platform now?

Top notch service providers of application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions have established an OSLC wrapper that enables the tools to be exposed to OSLC Service Providers. The things you can do with OSLC integration are as follows :-

* Browse a list of Requirements in RequisitePro, Work Items in TFS, Test Cases in Quality Center, Build Results in Hudson and Defects in Jira from an OSLC Consumer tool like IBM RTC.

* Link any of the above mentioned artifacts enclosed in various tools in the context of a Requirement in RRC, Change Item in RTC and Test Case in RQM.

* You can create new artifacts in RequisitePro, Quality Center, TFS, SharePoint and Jira from RTC, RRC and RQM.

* As the artifacts are being worked on by various stakeholders, users with OSLC Consumer tools you are able to follow the recent status, updates, activities and comments.

* You can update artifacts and collaborate with other stakeholders.

It is a known fact that any ALM artifact in IBM RTC can achieve a live link to any artifact in Microsoft TFS. Eminent solution providers ALM solutions are currently enabling OSLC specifications for Quality Management Requirements Management and Change Management.


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