Managing Rational Projects with the Administrator

You use the Rational. Administrator to create and manage projects.

Rational projects store application testing information, such as scripts, verification points, queries, and defects. Each project consists of a database and several directories of files. All Rational Test components on your computer update and retrieve data from the same active project.

Projects help you organize your testing information and resources for easy tracking. Projects are created in the Rational Administrator, usually by someone with administrator privileges.

Use the Administrator to:

• Create a project under configuration management.
• Create a project outside of configuration management.
• Connect to a project.
• See projects that are not on your machine (register a project).
• Delete a project.
• Create and manage users and groups for a Rational Test datastore.
• Create and manage projects containing Rational RequisitePro. projects and Rational Rose. models.
• Manage security privileges for the entire Rational project.
• Create a test datastore using SQL Anywhere.
• Convert an existing Microsoft Access test datastore to a SQL Anywhere test datastore.

The following figure shows the main Rational Administrator window after you have created some projects: