ClearCase/UCM Release Management

Revision: TE3207_20060318

Course Length:

3 Days

Course Description:

This is a CM-oriented, classroom-based, instructor-led course. It includes hands-on laboratory exercises, which are designed to teach experienced ClearCase/UCM and Clearmake users everything they need to know about planning, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive Release Management paradigm, either locally or across geographically distributed project teams working on small, medium, or large-scale projects. Students are able to choose either a UNIX or Windows laboratory environment.

Who Should Attend:

This course is intended for experienced ClearCase/UCM, and Clearmake users who must quickly learn the skills and concepts needed to plan, implement, and maintain a comprehensive Release Management paradigm either locally or across geographically distributed projects desiring to embrace sound CM practices and processes.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Understand the Forward-Flow Task Management Model for product builds.
• Manage logical and physical task dependency issues.
• Master common build strategies and special issues for simple & complex build environments.

Prerequisites:

Clearmake Build Management or six months experience using Clearmake in a UNIX or Windows project is required. ClearCase/UCM Administration or three months experience administering ClearCase in a UNIX or Windows (NT) project) is required. Students should also have one year of experience in a programming language.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Review Of General Release Management Issues
• Chapter 2: Product Build Administration And The Change Management Organization
• Chapter 3: Product Build Modeling Using ClearCase/UCM
• Chapter 4: Forward-flow Task Management Model Of Product Build
• Chapter 5: Managing Logical And Physical Task Dependency Issues
• Chapter 6: Task Severities, Known Deficiency Lists, And Release Readiness
• Chapter 7: Official Build Nodes And Trial Build Support
• Chapter 8: Master And Incremental Product Build Strategies
• Chapter 9: Special Issues In Multi-platform Development Environments
• Chapter 10: Special Issues In Multi-site Development Environments
• Chapter 11: Product Building For The Development Team
• Chapter 12: Product Building For Single Or Multiple Test Teams
• Chapter 13: Product Building For External Delivery
• Chapter 14: Optimum Product Build Scheduling
• Chapter 15: Versioning Schemes And Release Identification
• Chapter 16: Quick-fix And Emergency Release Management
• Chapter 17: Historical Release Retention And Recovery
• Chapter 18: Avoiding Traps And Pitfalls
• Chapter 19: Tricks Of The Build Masters