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IBM Rational ClearQuest

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What is IBM Rational ClearQuest?

A customizable database workflow application development and production system that provides better visibility and control. IBM Rational ClearQuest is change management software that helps improve developer productivity while accommodating the methodologies, processes and tools that best fit the project and the people on the team. It provides tools and processes used to maintain control of changes while catering to the diverse needs of the developer.

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RequistePro for superb requisite management

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Miguel Angel Merino VegaView profile
Analista de Sistemas in Information Technology at Consultor independiente de software (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have many projects simultaneously. Project management is vital in our industry, and within this, we want to have well-drawn artifacts. From the conception stage, it is important to evolve the software requirements, and that is where RequisitePro becomes important in the management of the project and the team in terms of the visibility of documents.

Pros

  • Traceability of artifacts, coom requirements, use cases, functionalities, etc.
  • Document management and easely MS Office integration
  • IBM Rational products integration

Cons

  • Learning curve, especially if you're not familiar with IBM Rational tools
  • Payment product
  • SVN Integration

Return on Investment

  • Requirements management saves overwork and minimizes risks.
  • Minimize time in the manual elaboration of documents, that translates into money

Alternatives Considered

IBM Rational DOORS

Other Software Used

IBM Rational DOORS, Apache Subversion, GitHub

Great defect management tool for waterfall projects

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Quality Assurance (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Capability to query bugs on multiple criteria and export it to csv for triages.
  • Simple and intuitive user experience and clearly planned defect life cycle
  • There are other features like assigning the defect to pull request, clearly explaining defect by attaching screenshots, detailed description etc
  • If you are using other IBM tools for requirements documentation, this tool integrates very well

Cons

  • Lot of defect management tools are out there and are free to use
  • In agile world, teams use Jira or other tools and they have the defect tracking capability builtin
  • Don't really see the need to use this tool in agile world

Most Important Features

  • Was used as primary Defect tracking tool
  • Project managers used to run queries on defects to get the fell of overall project health
  • It was nicely integrated with IBM requirement gathering and documentation tools

Return on Investment

  • To derive the project health, this tool has had a positive impact on quickly identifying where the problems were.
  • Simple and intuitive UI for test engineers to create defects and definetely saved lot of time with its copy functionality

Alternatives Considered

Jira Software, Micro Focus ALM / Quality Center and Azure DevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server)

Other Software Used

Jira Software, Snowflake, PyCharm

IBM ClearQuest: The best answer for your Quest on Change Management.

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Charanya RajagopalanView profile
Project Lead in Information Technology at Tcs (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Effective change management, workflow management.
  • Bug tracking.
  • Integrates with the IBM versioning tool for version management.
  • Integrates with IBM rational testcase for achieving an overall test management.
  • Creating reports on the task status for managing deadlines and deliverables.

Cons

  • Does not provide complete test management like HP QC. Although it can be easily integrated with IBM's rational test case manager and versioning tools.
  • UI look and feel is good but can be improved in terms of usability.

Return on Investment

  • Positive: Quality product that adheres industry best practices for a considerably cheaper cost.
  • Negative: Maintenance of more than one tool for overall project management.

Other Software Used

HP Quality Center, SAP Business Objects, SAP Crystal Reports, Team Foundation Server, Toad for Oracle, SQL Developer

Great Tool

Incentivized
Sai MusaleView profile
Project Manager in Quality Assurance at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • We can create a project in this document and attach all the documentation to get signatures from various team members. This is really helpful for tracking purposes.
  • We can create a Project Change Request and get it approved.
  • We can log defects of documents and get it resolved from the document owner.

Cons

  • If you use theweb version, then it's really not good idea to use for sending emails through the tool, as it won't give you the chance to format your email, or modify the receivers list.
  • Most of the times people try to sign the WPI record instead of acknowledge it. So the error message should explain to them why they can not sign. People simply gets confused.

Return on Investment

  • My previous org was using this tool for Quality assurance purposes.
  • In the process of projects, this tool was playing a very important role.

Alternatives Considered

MS SharePoint

Other Software Used

WebEx Meetings

Usability

ReqPro - a great tool for requirements management in the enterprise

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Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IBM Rational RequisitePro is leveraged as the Requirements Repository as well as the sole source for tracking User Stories and related Artifacts. Business Partners enter the user stories into the system, and then the are cataloged and go through our Agile Sprints and track through Quality Assurance. This allows everyone to have a real time view of requirements and how items are moving to production.

Pros

  • Flexibility to customize the repository to meet the needs of your process and business unity
  • Compatibility with Microsoft Office tools
  • Flexible reporting capability to extract data and report in Excel
  • Ability to tie requirements and break them do to trace requirements to implementation

Cons

  • Performance can be an issue. Make certain the server is sized properly
  • There is a large difference in capability of the Thick Client Version compared with the web based version. Make certain each job function has proper access to be able to do what is required of them.
  • Learning curve is not too steep, but would suggest having someone with experience setup the repository. Highly suggest getting a contractor to assist to get the repository up and running.

Return on Investment

  • Allowed our team to create a library of requirements available to the larger organization
  • Consolidated reporting and creates a transparent view status information
  • Supported moving from Waterfall to Agile Software Development Methodology

Alternatives Considered

JIRA Software and CA Agile Central (formerly Rally)

Other Software Used

LogRhythm

Usability