Tool Mentor: Using ClearCase to Create a Private Workspace

Purpose

This Tool Mentor describes how an implementer would create a private workspace for individual work. A 'private workspace' is isolated from the workspaces of other team members. It provides a place for a developer to make changes to the system without seeing or affecting other developers' changes.

Related Rational Unified Process activity:

• Activity: Create a Private Workspace

Overview

This Tool Mentor is applicable when running Windows NT 4.0.

For development work, each implementer needs to create and name a view that provides a stable, unchanging working environment. Having created a view (workspace) implementers will also need to be able to update their own workspaces to see changes that other developers have promoted into the project integration workspace. The integration workspace consists of contributions from each implementer of work that has been promoted following appropriate review, testing and approval.

To create a private workspace with ClearCase:

1. Create a workspace (view) profile for the development workspaces. (This may already have been done by the project leader.)
2. Use the View Creation Wizard to create a workspace (ClearCase view) and associate it with the workspace profile.

Tool Steps

1. Create a workspace (view) profile for the development workspaces. (This may already have been done by the project leader.)

   See Creating and Maintaining View Profiles in the paper Organizing and Managing Software Projects Using ClearCase on Windows.

2. Use the View Creation Wizard to create a workspace (ClearCase view) and associate it with the workspace profile.

   See Creating Development Views.