Contents:

1. Quick Start for HP ALI
   1. Adding a New HP ALM Server
   2. Selecting the Items to Provision
   3. Notes

Quick Start for HP ALI

If you are using SVN and HP ALI 1.1 or higher, see below to automatically bring tasks source code, and build plans into your workspace. Otherwise, see see Connecting to HP ALM (Quality Center) for manual setup instructions.

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.

1. Click File > Import, select Workspace Provisioning > Provision Workspace and click Next.
2. Select an existing server or add a new one.
   

Adding a New HP ALM Server

To connect to a new server, click Add HP ALM Server. A new dialog opens:

1. In the server field, enter the HP ALM web service URL. For example, http://server.com:8080/qcbin
2. Choose a label for the repository and enter your credentials. Check the Save password box if you want the password to persist between workbench sessions.
3. Click Refresh to download the list of domains and projects available on the server, and select the Domain and Project that you would like to connect to (if you already know the Domain and Project, you can just enter the URL in the format http://server:8080/qcbin;Domain;Project). If you want to connect to more than one project, you will have to repeat this process to set up a repository for each one.
4. Press the Validate Settings button to confirm that the settings are correct.
5. Press the Finish button

Selecting the Items to Provision

After selecting or adding an HP ALM server, click Next and select the release you wish to work on. Click Next again. 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.