BigLever Software and IBM Rational

BigLever Software and IBM Rational have joined forces to provide an innovative and pragmatic new systems and software product line (SPL) solution composed of the following key elements:

  • BigLever Gears SPL Lifecycle Framework™: Provides a common set of industry-standard SPL concepts and constructs for tools and assets across the full lifecycle.

  • IBM Rational toolset integrations into the framework: Extends systems and software development lifecycle capabilities and ensures consistent SPL framework capabilities directly from the Rational tools. IBM Rational

BigLever offers the following Bridge products for the IBM Rational toolset:

  • DOORS/Gears Bridge™: Provides a simple and elegant solution for managing requirements across an entire product line portfolio. >> See webcast, data sheet and whitepaper.

  • Rhapsody/Gears Bridge™: Extends the benefits of model-driven development (MDD) with SPL capabilities to capitalize on product line commonality and variation. Provides SPL extensions for SysML and UML. >> See webcast, data sheet and whitepaper.

  • Rational Quality Manager/Gears Bridge™: Allows test case diversity to be defined based on product line features and test plans to be managed as first-class product line assets in the SPL development lifecycle. >> See data sheet.

  • Gears Software Configuration Management (SCM) Bridge™ for ClearCase and Synergy: Provides seamless integration of time-based configuration management and feature-based variation management for SPL assets in the SPL framework. >> See data sheet.

Additional methodology and technology integrations into the BigLever framework include Synergy, ClearCase, Rational Publishing Engine, Focal Point and Jazz-based Rational Team Concert.