Tool Mentor: Promoting Project Baselines Using Rational ClearCase

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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.

The term recommended baseline is used to designate a baseline that has been approved for general use. Baselines are classified as "recommended" when they reach a promotion level previously selected by the project manager.

This tool mentor is applicable when running Microsoft Windows.

Tool Steps

There are two procedures for changing a baseline's promotion level:

Promote a baseline to the level specified for recommended baselines
Change the promotion level of a baseline

For further information, see the Rational manual titled Managing Projects with ClearCase.

1. Promote a baseline to the level specified for recommended baselines

Click Start > Rational ClearCase > Project Explorer.
Select the integration stream for your project.
Click Tools>Recommend Baselines to see a list of baselines whose promotion level will be changed to the promotion level for recommended baselines.
Click OK.

2. Change the promotion level of a baseline

In ClearCase Project Explorer, select the integration stream. Click File > Properties to display the integration 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.

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