1. IBM Rational ClearQuest – What’s New!
Marty Levesque
ClearQuest Product Manager

2. Agenda Introduction Overall Vision/Theme 7.0 to 7.0.1 Highlights
Since RSDC 2006
7.0.1 Highlights
Notable features and projects to highlight
The Road Ahead
Post 7.0.1

3. ClearQuest Vision and Theme
Deliver a highly consumable and usable application that meets the business needs of any size organization, whether local or distributed
Embrace new technologies and leverage the best of breed from within
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4. ClearQuest V7.0 Information Center
Since RSDC 2006
ClearQuest V7.0 Information Center
InfoCenters are IBM hosted sites for on-line help.
Based on IBM Eclipse Help System (IEHS)
Provides vastly improved advanced searching capabilities
ClearQuest InfoCenter :

5. ClearQuest V7.0 Performance Benchmarks
Since RSDC 2006
ClearQuest V7.0 Performance Benchmarks
Benchmarks
V (SR5) versus V7.0
Hardware configurations
CQPerl API
ClearQuest Web Java
ClearQuest MultiSite
Available on developerWorks
For more details on Performance Benchmarks join us in the CQ Performance BoF!
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6. Since RSDC 2006 ClearQuest V7.0.0.1 Updates Windows Vista Support
Internet Explorer 7.0 Support
ClearQuest Test Manager (CQTM)
Robot Adaptor
Remote Execution of Test (RFT Caspian)
Submit Defect while reviewing Test Log
Citrix/WTS support
Daylight Savings Time (DST) fixes
7.0.x.x Platform Support
Technote # :

7. Notable ClearQuest V7.0.1 Highlights
Performance, performance, performance!!
Web logon improvements
Optimized ‘Find Record’
Support for multiple Request Managers
‘New’ Web UIs -
Eclipse Improvements to Result Set Reference Nodes
Enterprise level database OEM bundle
DB2 V9.1 Enterprise Edition: Windows, UNIX, Linux and System z support
Workspace ACLs on all folders
Feature Level 6 upgrade
Web security improvements
Restricted Mode Enhancement
Disable Persistent Cookies
And many more!

8. Multiple Request Manager Support!
Sample CSM.PROPERTIES Configuration:
###Set NUMBER_OF_REQUEST_MANAGERS to a number less than or equal to the number of
###physical CPUs available on the machine. This property defines the number of
###Request Manager processes that will be started.
###
###By default a value equal to the number of physical CPUs present on the machine is used.
###In order to set a custom value, uncomment the property and set the value that is less than
###or equal to the number of physical CPUs. If an invalid value is specified, a default value
###that is less than or equal to the number of physical CPUs is used.
NUMBER_OF_REQUEST_MANAGERS=4
Allows for server consolidation
Leverages individual CPUs for optimal performance and reliability
For more details please join us in the
CQ Performance BoF!
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One example might be 2 x Dual Core CPUs

9. ‘New’ Web User Interfaces!
Click Record type selector
Improve the response time by delaying the loading of CQ record types during the logon process
New Record type select dialog box

10. New ClearQuest Workspace ACLs on Folders!
Permissions assigned by Group
Folder ACL Permissions values
Access Control List
Change-Permission – can modify the ACL
Folder and Sub Folders access
Read-Only, Read-Write, Read-Only, Read-Limited and No-Access
New folders inherit parent ACL dynamically until you create an ACL
Can not see a folder if you can’t see the parent
For more detail please join me in the
CQ Workspace Pruning BoF!
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Read-Limited Permission Change

11. Enhanced Web Security Improvements!
New Site Configuration setting allowing Restricted Users to modify records when in restricted mode
New Site Configuration setting allowing admins to disable persistent cookies

12. ClearQuest V7.0.1 Availability
Downloads (eGA)
June 28, 2007?
Media Requests (pGA)
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13. The Road Ahead Upcoming notable projects coming to a release near you!
New ClearQuest Web 2.0 client
New ClearQuest Full-Text Search
New ClearQuest Designer
New Reporting capabilities
Other notable efforts underway
Out of the box Application Lifecycle Management Schema
Password encryption strengthening
New ClearQuest CLI
Many new platforms being supported
Continued efforts to harden security
Continued effort to “port” more features on the web

14. New ClearQuest Web 2.0 Client!
Based on Web 2.0 technology stack:
Copy / Paste and Drag / Drop
New concept for Favorites
Full sorting of the result set
Multiple row select, including batch update
Web taskbar
Query Wizard
Multiple form display
And much more!
Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates:
standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;
dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;
data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;
asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;
and JavaScript binding everything together.
The classic web application model works like this: Most user actions in the interface trigger an HTTP request back to a web server. The server does some processing — retrieving data, crunching numbers, talking to various legacy systems — and then returns an HTML page to the client. It’s a model adapted from the Web’s original use as a hypertext medium, but as fans of The Elements of User Experience know, what makes the Web good for hypertext doesn’t necessarily make it good for software applications.
This approach makes a lot of technical sense, but it doesn’t make for a great user experience. While the server is doing its thing, what’s the user doing? That’s right, waiting. And at every step in a task, the user waits some more.
Obviously, if we were designing the Web from scratch for applications, we wouldn’t make users wait around. Once an interface is loaded, why should the user interaction come to a halt every time the application needs something from the server? In fact, why should the user see the application go to the server at all?
How Ajax is Different
An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by introducing an intermediary — an Ajax engine — between the user and the server. It seems like adding a layer to the application would make it less responsive, but the opposite is true.
Instead of loading a webpage, at the start of the session, the browser loads an Ajax engine — written in JavaScript and usually tucked away in a hidden frame. This engine is responsible for both rendering the interface the user sees and communicating with the server on the user’s behalf. The Ajax engine allows the user’s interaction with the application to happen asynchronously — independent of communication with the server. So the user is never staring at a blank browser window and an hourglass icon, waiting around for the server to do something.
Every user action that normally would generate an HTTP request takes the form of a JavaScript call to the Ajax engine instead. Any response to a user action that doesn’t require a trip back to the server — such as simple data validation, editing data in memory, and even some navigation — the engine handles on its own. If the engine needs something from the server in order to respond — if it’s submitting data for processing, loading additional interface code, or retrieving new data — the engine makes those requests asynchronously, usually using XML, without stalling a user’s interaction with the application. 14

15. New ClearQuest Full-Text Search!
Enhance both Consumability and Usability
Add searching on Workspace items
Text searches across records (and attachments)
Align with commonly used search engines
Lower TCO:
Reduces training costs
Uses industry standard search terms and not SQL statements
Extensible
Plug-and-play your own search engine
Search not limited to ClearQuest data
Support industry standard protocols
SOAP, SOA, etc…
Near real-time searching
Administrator can configure indexing frequency
Support multiple languages
Globalization – IBM Group 1

16. New ClearQuest Designer!
Based on Eclipse technology for the enterprise:
Cross-Platform support
Parallel development
Compare/Merge
Support for multiple schema development
Drop and Drop capabilities across schemas
Built-in EPIC Perl IDE
Version history
SCM Versioning
And much more!
Error Visualization
Schema Compare/Merge

17. Data fields from CQ Query
New Reporting!
Provide a complete, multi-platform, out of the box reporting and report authoring solution
Ability to report across multiple record types
Ability to report across multiple data sources
Change reporting paradigm from a data push to a data pull
Support integration with enterprise reporting applications
Actuate
Business Objects
Data fields from CQ Query
Add fields to Table

18. Questions?

19. Thank You!
Marty Levesque