Chapter 8. Baseline and Change Request Reports

You can interface with ClearCase and ClearQuest to automate the creation of reports in a number of ways. This chapter looks at some best practices for reporting on the set of baselines and change requests that are created or used during the build process. First I look at how to generate Base ClearCase and UCM baseline reports from the command line and Perl. Then I look at how to interface with IBM Rational ClearQuest to generate change request reports. Finally, I look at how to generate RSS feeds from ClearQuest change request information.

Aims of This Chapter

The main reason for generating baseline and change request reports is to be able to ascertain the content of a build or release. The difference ...

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