Introduction

In this chapter, we will see:

• How Rational Team Concert enhances the source control management experience giving greater control to the development team

• Different concepts in the source control

• How to work with the Rational Team Source Control

The source control component of Rational Team Concert manages the change flow of the source code, documents, and other artifacts generated by each team member. Rational Team Concert's source control organizes files and folders into components and streams, and provides workspaces where we can view and modify file and folder contents. The repository objects represent the configuration of the system being developed and allow any configuration to be retrieved, shared, or built.

Rational Team Concert's source control is integrated into the other parts of the life cycle as follows; this enables the developer to focus on the real domain problems and worry less about the tools that they use:

• The Ration Team Concert's Build Engine is integrated in such...