Essentials of Rational ClearCase for Windows, V7.0

Course Overview

Learn to perform common day-to-day tasks in Rational ClearCase, focusing on the concepts and skills developers need to successfully manage source code change in their development environments.Basic training in ClearCase functionality is covered if you intend to take more advanced courses in the ClearCase curriculum.

Audience

This course is intended for first-time Rational ClearCase users requiring a practical, hands-on introduction to commonly used Rational ClearCase concepts and operations.

Skills Gained

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

• Explain ClearCase concepts
• Set up their development workspaceAccess and work with files under source control
• Merge work to and from the integration workspace
• Create and work with snapshot views
• Configure workspaces for parallel development
• Perform advanced merge operations
• Apply ClearCase metadata including labels, attributes, and hyperlinks
• Generate ClearCase reports
• Manage software builds

Prerequisites

Required Experience

To benefit from this course, students must have:

• One year experience working with Microsoft Windows.

Course Outline

Getting started in ClearCase

• Typical developer workflow
• Workspace management
• The checkin/checkout model
• Versioning and branching software assets
• Snapshot and dynamic views
• Configuring workspaces for parallel development
• Integrating parallel development
• ClearCase metadata
• Managing builds with clearmake and omake

Essentials of Rational ClearCase for Windows, V7.0 / RS501GB (RS501GBGB)