Tool Mentor:  Creating a Development Workspace Using Rational ClearCase

Purpose

This tool mentor describes how to create a private workspace for individual work. A "private workspace" is isolated from the workspaces of other team members. It provides a place for a developer to make changes to the system without seeing or affecting other developers' changes. 

Related Rational Unified Process™ information: Activity: Create Development Workspace.

Overview

In the UCM model of ClearCase, private workspaces are called development workspaces and allow work on UCM activities to be isolated from the rest of  the project. Generally, each project member creates their own development work area at the time they join a UCM project. Private work areas can also be created at any time in the course of working on a UCM project.

UCM development workspaces are made up of a stream and an associated view. UCM streams determine which versions of elements appear in any view configured by that stream. Streams also maintain a list of  UCM baselines and activities. Views provide work areas for tasks such as editing and compiling source files, document formatting, and so on.  

This tool mentor is applicable when running Microsoft Windows. 

Tool Steps

Each developer uses an individual development stream for performing work in isolation from the rest of the team. Development views provide access to the source files and activities in your development stream. In the UCM model, development streams and views are typically created by a developer when joining a project through the Join Project Wizard. The general steps are: 

1. Start the Join Project Wizard
2. Specify stream and view information
3. Attach a view to a stream

•  About Streams 
• About Views

1. Start the Join Project Wizard 

1. From the Start menu, click Start > Programs > Rational ClearCase > Project Explorer.
2. From ClearCase Project Explorer, click Toolbox tab > UCM > Join Project. The Join Project Wizard appears. 
3. Select the project you want to join and click Next to proceed to the next step of the wizard.

You can see detailed information for each step of the wizard by clicking Help for each screen.

2. Specify stream and view information 

Specify a stream name, a view name, a storage location for the view, and the view type for your development work area.  The ClearCase Join Project Wizard provides default information for these values.  

Note: The Join Project Wizard also prompts you for information required to create your view for the project's integration work area. 

For details on the information required in this step, see the following ClearCase online Help topics: 

• When to Use Different View Types 
• To Choose a Location for the View-Storage Directory

3. Attach a view to a stream

The Join Project Wizard prompts you to confirm the choices you have made and attaches the development view and stream you specified. Click OK to confirm your choices and proceed.

For more information on associating views and streams, see the To Attach a New View to an Existing Stream topic in ClearCase online Help

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