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Learn how to run automated Rational Functional Tester 8.2.0.1 scripts from Rational TestManager 7.0.2 and view the results in TestManager logs, too, by integrating these two tools. You can even run the scripts remotely, as this guide explains. Note: Rational TestManager has been replaced by IBM Rational Quality Manager, but this article will be helpful to those who are still using the older software.

Automated reporting can help you document compliance and eliminate the errors, inconsistency, and wasted time and effort inherent in manual reporting. Automated measurement can help improve processes and streamline project delivery. This article describes how automated reporting and measurement tools, such as IBM Rational Publishing Engine and Rational Insight, help software and systems development teams provide accurate, timely, and appropriate information to decision makers.

PODCAST: Hear Dominic Tavassoli, director for Rational Industry and Systems Marketing at IBM, describe the Systems track created for customers who are involved in building smarter products, embedded software, systems engineering or systems of systems.

Designing web services and schema definitions is a key success factor for SOA projects. This article shows how to use the Object Management Group (OMG) SoaML standard and XML schema definition (XSD) transformation UML profiles to design web services and schema definitions. The author explains why these two profiles provide an easier and more architecturally oriented way than the traditional WSDL approach.

This article describes the process that Rational Specialty Architects use in a complimentary workshop about ways to improve capabilities in an IT organization. We use the term application delivery to include all types of software development and delivery, whether that be COTS or complete custom development to fit your business requirements.

Using Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC) for analytics throughout the software development cycle gives the team a deeper insight into the defect backlog and defect trends. The set of ODC analytics functions can enrich almost all software development processes. This article, the first in a series of two, shows how to extend IBM Rational Team Concert Version 3.0 to support ODC systematic defect data collection.

This article explains techniques to generate documents from IBM Rational Rhapsody SysML models, using the Rhapsody ReporterPLUS feature. Automated document generation from existing models enhances consistency between the different representations of the system used throughout system development. Using the right techniques, it is possible to produce publication-ready, human-readable documents that support engineering processes.

PODCAST: Hear Randy Newell, Marketing Program Director for Enterprise Modernization, describe the Enterprise Modernization stream, which includes more than 30 sessions on Rational Developer for Power Systems Software and Rational Developer for System Z.

IBM Rational Developer for i for SOA Construction (sometimes referred to as RDi SOA) is a software bundle for IBM System i developers. Because it combines Rational Developer for Power Systems Software, RPG and COBOL development tools for IBM i (RD Power) and Rational Business Developer, it offers a complete solution to rapidly extend existing RPG and COBOL applications to a web or SOA environment. This article describes a scenario where RDi SOA is used to leverage existing RPG assets and transition to a services-based approach for delivery of key business functions.

Inspired by lean software development principles, this article focuses on various ways to support people in seeing, removing, and ultimately preventing wasted time and effort with the aid of the IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM).