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Hi. This video will give you an overview of features in the Rational Engineering Lifecycle
Manager tool.
Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager is a tool for organizing, visualizing, and analyzing
product development data regardless of where the data is stored.
Teams use their familiar tools to create lifecycle artifacts, such as work items, design models,
quality plans, and test cases. Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager retrieves these artifacts
as linked data from the Lifecycle Query Engine whenever users need the artifacts.
This is the Welcome page. Each time you start a session, this is the first page you see.
The overview video link also contains links to videos for Products, Views, Queries, Analysis,
and Reports. Click the get started link to learn about this tool.
Now let’s open the Products screen and look in the Recently Viewed Products pane. You
can organize artifacts by creating products. The product tree in the left pane shows several
products. Some contain child products, such as Dashboard and Steering Wheel, and others
contain links to artifacts, such as 747: 4.7 System design.
Click a product, such as Model_T, to view properties, branch dimensions, and audit information
about it. Hover over the small question mark on any screen to view context-relevant information
about an area, for example, branch dimensions. Expand the Audit information to learn about
changes made to the selected product.
Right-click over a product in the product tree to perform a variety of actions. You
can perform the same actions by using the icons in the icon bar above. Enter a partial
or whole artifact name in the Quick Search to search for an artifact and then show it
in Recently Viewed Products in the left pane.
Next, let’s go to Shared Views to see some sample views.
You can visualize artifacts by using views. Teams can use the views in the Sample folder
as starting points to customize views for team use. Let’s look at the Traceability
from Product to Test Case view, which shows a variety of rich data. The data is rich because
you can hover over artifacts to view their information. In this example, find out about
Follow-on tasks by clicking the link below it. Open the artifact in its native tool by
clicking the link to the right of ID.
In any view, you can use the toolbar in the upper right to generate a report, search for
text, or edit the view.
Now we’ll view some Shared Queries to get a sense of how you can use queries to access
artifacts. Teams can use the queries in the Sample folder to search for artifacts. Read
the Description in the hover text to learn about the query and decide if the query will
return the right set of artifacts for your use. In this query, you can query for traceability
between work item artifacts and test case artifacts.
Use the toolbar in the upper right to create one or more folders to group queries for a
specific team, release, or time period. You can also move or copy selected queries into
and out of folders.
If you need help understanding features on a page, hover over the small question marks
to read context-relevant information.
Now let’s look at how you can analyze an artifact’s relationship to other artifacts.
The index can contain thousands of artifacts, so before you run an analysis on an artifact,
you’ll want to create an impact analysis configuration first. Configurations limit
the linked artifacts that are displayed so that you see only the artifacts that you want.
You can base the diagram on a shipped impact analysis configuration, such as Default or
Upstream, or you can create a custom impact analysis configuration to refine your output.
Report resources are templates that you can use to build a report to show the status of
artifacts. Teams can use the sample report template to build a table-style report that
shows the status of artifacts for a selected view. If teams create custom reports, team
members can deploy those new resources for their use.
Thank you for viewing this video.