Tool Mentor: Creating a Baseline of a Rational RequisitePro Project

Purpose

This tool mentor describes how to create a baseline of requirements using Rational Administrator® and Rational ClearCase®.

This section provides links to additional information related to this tool mentor.

• Set Up Configuration Management (CM) Environment
• Create Baselines

Overview

It is a good idea to create a baseline of a requirements project at each project milestone. A baseline creates a ClearCase object that represents a stable configuration of the Rational RequisitePro® project at a particular time. This object can be used to create a new project.

A RequisitePro project consists of a requirements database, project views, and documents containing requirements. Requirements can be created either directly in a project view or in a Microsoft® Word document in RequisitePro. All requirements are stored in the database, regardless of their location within the project. You can create a baseline of any RequisitePro project, regardless of whether it uses an Oracle, Microsoft Access, or SQL Server database.

Note: For information on archiving a RequisitePro project, see Tool Mentor: Archiving Requirements Using RequisitePro.

Create a project baseline with Unified Change Management

Using the Unified Change Management (UCM) model, RequisitePro project administrators can create baselines of RequisitePro projects by performing tasks in Rational Administrator and ClearCase.

Before you create a baseline of a RequisitePro project, you must first meet the following preconditions:

• The RequisitePro project must be associated with a UCM-enabled Rational project in Rational Administrator.
• The RequisitePro project must be closed, with no active users.

To create a baseline of a RequisitePro project:

1. Open the Rational Administrator.
2. Right-click the Administrator project and click Configure.
3. In the Configure Project dialog box in the Requirement Assets area, click Check In All.
4. At the messages that follow, confirm your selection and type an activity to describe the baseline.
5. After the Check In All operation is completed, close the Configure Project dialog box.
6. In the Rational Administrator Tools menu, click Rational ClearCase Project Explorer. The ClearCase Explorer appears.
7. Right-click the RequisitePro Requirements Assets integration stream and click Make Baseline in the shortcut menu.
8. Type a baseline title, select Full for the baseline type, select a View Context, and click OK.

For More Information

Refer to the topic Creating baselines  with Unified Change Management (Index: creating>baselines) in the RequisitePro online Help.

Rational Unified Process