OSLC QM Implementation Reports

Implementors of the OSLC QM specifications are encouraged to place feedback on their experience (good and bad). To add a report, simply copy and paste a section template and fill out any necessary information.

Rational Quality Manager (RQM) 2.0.1

Contact information:

• Reported by PaulMcMahan
• This capability was implemented in Rational Quality Manager (RQM) 2.0.1 to provide integration points for Requirement and Change Management applications

Details about support:

• Specification version supported: OSLC QM 1.0
• Implemenation supported: service provider

Issues:

• Support for pre-populated creation dialog was difficult to implement due to the fact that the same URL must support both POST and GET. Clients that POST are expecting a redirect and clients the GET are expecting the dialog content right away. I ended up having to provide a separate creation dialog URL for POST support since it is difficult for clients to handle the redirect without losing the window name and window hash used for messaging.
• Combining the result set of a property based query with a full text query, and then providing paging on top of that result proved to be problematic.
• Spec versioning is not supported well. For GET requests the spec version is indicated in the Accept header which is awkward and seems a bit kludgy.

Worked well:

• Simple resource XML format
• Familiar REST API pattern
• Service description documents provide needed flexibility and allows URLs to be handled opaquely by the client
• Delegated resource selection and creation for integrating across systems has many advantages over the traditional copy/synch or monolithic database approach

<Implementor> (copy and update template)

Contact information:

• Reported by...
• This capability was implemented in...

Details about support:

• Specification version supported: OSLC QM 1.0
• Implemenation supported: <consumer and/or service provider>
• Subset of specs supported and why:
  • ...
• Deviations from specs and why:
  • ...

Issues:

1. <issues>

Worked well:

• <good things>