Learn how to manage change and release in the product.
The application lifecycle management (ALM) packages and ALM schema provide out-of-the-box solutions for ensuring ALM best practices in your new or existing HCL Compass change management system.
These topics describe how to create baseline and build records, and how to track and complete activities, tasks, and requests.
HCL Compass Web is a browser-based interface to HCL Compass that runs on Windows, the UNIX system, and Linux. You can track defects and change requests in HCL Compass Web through this interface. When a session times out, you can re-authenticate and continue where you left off because the state of the user interface is retained.
Use the HCL Compass Client to submit, modify, and track change requests and to analyze project progress.
You can use HCL Compass to perform daily activities after the schema developer and administrator define and set up the schema, schema repository, and user database.
An ALM schema provides the capabilities for security, governance, traceability, and workflow management.
Administrators can define roles and processes for each project, as well as security policies to allow access to projects.
All work in the ALM schema is organized by a Project. The Project can help provide the context, access control, and security model for your work.
The work records contained in the ALMWork package provide a way of keeping track of the requests and tasks that must be addressed.
Tasks and activities can be assigned to iterations of the project.
You can use the ALMBaseline and BTBuild record types without using UCM.
A sample database is provided to help get you started with the new schema.