Summary

Build is one task that is very common during software development. Integration of the build tools and interconnection between the build tools, source control, development environment, and tasks is essential in modern software development.

At the beginning of this chapter we saw the various components of build tools. A build engine is used to run the continuous builds and is supplied with Rational Team Concert. The build tools module consists of the Ant tasks necessary to interact with the Jazz source control and build the software.

We then worked with the Eclipse client to create the build definition and set up the build engine. Once the build engine is started, a build is submitted from the Eclipse client and the build results are explored. Build Results are then used to create a Release. We saw that complete traceability was given between Releases, Build Results, Change Sets, and Work Items.

Finally, we saw how to explore the build results from the web client and reiterated a few...