Rational Team Concert

IBM Rational Team Concert
Developer(s)	IBM
Initial release	June 2008
Written in	Java
Available in	German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Russian.
Type	Integrated development environment
License	IBM EULA
Website	jazz.net/projects/rational-team-concert

IBM Rational Team Concert is a software development team collaboration tool developed by the Rational brand of IBM and was first released in 2008. The software is available in both client versions and a Web version. It provides software development teams with a collaborative environment in which they can manage all aspects of their work, such as plans, tasks, revision control, build management, and reports.

Overview

IBM Rational Team Concert is built on Jazz. Jazz is an extensible technology platform that helps teams integrate tasks across the software life cycle.

Rational Team Concert is built on a client-server architecture and it enables software development teams to track all aspects of their work, such as work items, source control, reporting, and build management, in a single product. Rational Team Concert integrates with several other products, including Subversion, Git, and IBM Rational ClearCase revision-control products, IBM Rational ClearQuest and Jira change management products, IBM Rational Quality Manager and HP Quality Center quality management systems, and IBM Rational Build Forge, Hudson, CruiseControl, and Maven build and process automation tools.

Rational Team Concert has an Eclipse-based client interface, a Microsoft Visual Studio client interface, and a Web interface. The client interfaces provide an integrated development environment for developers to build and deliver artifacts. Users can use the Web interface to administer servers and projects, access project areas, browse repository information, update tasks, or read about recent events.

Rational Team Concert and the Jazz technology platform are developed on Jazz.net, where developers and users collaborate in the development process through discussion forums and newsgroups. The Jazz.net community site includes articles, forums, wikis, blogs, current documentation, and other troubleshooting and support resources for both developers and users.

Software life cycle management

Rational Team Concert provides a single, integrated environment for several aspects of the software development process, including agile planning, process definition, source control, defect tracking, build management, and reporting. Users can use the software to track and manage the relationships between artifacts, promote best practices for development, and gather project information.

In the product, users create work items to track tasks, such as enhancements, defects, or plan items. Among many other things, users can include these work items in plans for specific milestones and can link work items to source code. When a user creates or changes a work item, all members in the associated team are notified.

Users can share team information in the product by tracking team activity, posting detailed information, or configuring which information is visible.

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