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Has Rational ClearQuest been superseded by Team Concert?

According to the Wikipedia details associated with IBM Rational ClearQuest the "latest" version of this product was released in October 2011.

Would I be right in assuming that this is no longer actively being actively developed by IBM and that their alternative Rational Team Concert is their preferred offering in this space?

Solution

  • ClearCase like ClearQuest are still "maintained", but without any new outstanding feature.

    RTC is more an aggregation of three tools:

    • Work Items management (replacing ClearQuest)
    • Source Control management (Jazz source Control, replacing ClearCase)
    • Build Engine (like BuildForge, but also able to communicate with Hudson/Jenkins with RTC4)

    So RTC isn't just a replacement to ClearQuest, but a way to ensure a traceability durng the application development life cycle:

    • from the initial request (Work Item)
    • to the code changes (source control)
    • to the build from a specific revision of the code (build engine)