Automatic Workspace Provisioning with HP ALI

If your HP ALM server has ALI 1.1 or higher installed, you can automatically create queries and check out source code for a release. ALI allows you to define links from releases in ALM to projects stored in an SCM repository. Once ALI is configured, the HP ALM connector can use these links to automatically check out the projects associated with a chosen release (supports SVN only). The HP ALM Connector can also automatically create queries for the release and add the release plan to your task list (see Task Based Planner for information about the task based planning tools). With ALI 2.x or higher, you can also automatically connect to build plans.

Opening the Provisioning Wizard

If You Have Not Yet Connected to HP ALM

If you have not yet added an HP ALM repository, follow the directions at Connecting to HP ALM (Quality Center), and click to create a query when prompted to do so. If the repository supports automatic workspace provisioning, a Provision Workspace button will appear as shown below; click the button to open the provisioning wizard.

If You Have an Existing Connection to HP ALM

If you previously added an HP ALM repository, there are three ways to open the provisioning wizard:

Either, open the Task Repositories View, right click on an HP ALM repository and select Provision Workspace.
Or, click File > Import, select Workspace Provisioning > Provision Workspace and click Next. Select an HP ALM repository and click Next again.
Or, open the new query wizard – from the Task List View, click the New drop down in the toolbar (the arrow beside the button) and select New Query (or right click in the task list and select New > Query) - and choose an HP ALM repository. If the repository supports automatic workspace provisioning, a Provision Workspace button will appear as shown above; click the button to open the provisioning wizard.

Selecting the Items to Provision

Once you have opened the provisioning wizard, select the release you wish to work on and click Next. The source code repositories, projects, task queries and build plans associated with the release are displayed as shown below. Uncheck any items you do not wish to have added to your workspace. Click Next to enter credentials if needed. Click Finish to provision your workspace with the chosen items.

Notes

Automatic Workspace Provisioning currently supports only HP ALM 11 with HP ALI 1.1 or higher.
Currently, source code can only be provisioned from SVN repositories, and Subversive or Subclipse must be installed.
Installing the Mylyn integration for Subclipse or Subversive may automatically install Subclipse or Subversive, but will not install the SVN Client adapter. To access SVN within Eclipse, you must install an SVN client from the Subclipse or Subversive update site and select all required items.
In order to provision source code, HP ALI must be correctly configured with links to your SVN repository. You must define “branches” in HP ALM which represent the paths of Eclipse projects on your SVN repository, and you must add those branches to a release. Consult your HP ALM documentation for details.
Build plan provisioning requires HP ALI 2.x or higher and the Mylyn Hudson Connector, and you must configure both ALI and your build server appropriately.
There is no support for single sign-on; you may need to supply credentials for each configured SVN repository and build server.