1. © 2014 IBM Corporation
Better Lifecycle Tool
Integrations through Open
Interfaces
ICD-1884
Mik Kersten - Tasktop Technologies
Steve Speicher - IBM

2. • Overview & Background
• Problem statement
• Approaches to the problem
• Lessons learned
• Examples in open source
• Open interfaces
• What next
Outline
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3. Mine!

4. I got this.

5. Though we have…

10. REST
SOAP OSLC
SOAP XMLRPC

12. Integrate with open protocols instead of unnatural adhesion
@ http://open-services.net
Open Interfaces.
Planning &
Tracking
Continuous
Testing
Customer
Needs
Helpdesk
Monitoring

13. Got links?
1. Use URIs as names for things
2. Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.
3. When someone looks up a URI, provide useful
information, using the standards (RDF*, SPARQL)
4. Include links to other URIs. so that they
can discover more things.
Simple.
Linked Data: Tim Berners-Lee

14. Automation
Monitoring
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
Lifecycle integration inspired by the web
 Built off of W3C Linked Data
 Domain-specific needs:
Web UIs, domain models, protocol, …
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
Inspired by the web
Proven
Free to use and share
Open
Changing the industry
Innovative
Open APIs and Semantically Enriched Data Models
More at http://open-services.net
W3C Linked Data
 Simple guidelines for REST APIs
 Consistency across Web resources (data)
Web based loosely-coupled approach to integrating tools and services

15. Linked … wait, what?
TestCase
14
Issue
973
Bug
318
Apache
Joe

16. Share. Combine.

17. Interact.
LINKED DATA PLATFORM
TestCas
e 14
Issue
973
Bug
318
Apach
e
Jo
e
GET /bugs/123
GET /bugs/
POST /bugs/
{“dc:title”: “Server crash”;
“oslc:severity” : “oslc:Blocker”;}
FETCH
LIST
ADD

18. Lifecycle
Tool
Change
Management
Lifecycle Tool
Quality Management
Lifecycle
Tool
Requirements
Management
Service
Management
Help Desk
Service
Management
Deployment
Leverage and Extend
<http://cm/bugs/2314>
a oslc_cm:ChangeRequest ;
dcterms:relation <http://cm/bugs/1235>;
oslc_cm:implementsRequirement <http://rm/req/56> .
<http://rm/req/56>
a oslc_rm:Requirement ;
dcterms:title “Online shopping cart”;
oslc_rm:validatedBy <http://qm/tc/17> .
Common Resource Definitions
Resource Preview
Delegated Dialogs
http://open-services.net

19. Staying Current
Tool A
B
D
C

20. QA
SOAP
BA
OSLC-RM
Dev OpsPM
OSLC-CM
Reporting
Agile Planning
Requirement
Defect
OSLC-QM
OSLC-
Aut.

21. SLI Pattern Applies to Example

24. OSLC’s Big Picture
Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration
Lifecycle integration inspired by the web
LINKED DATA PLATFORM WORKING GROUP
The Resource
for OSLC
Implementers
Inspired by the web
Proven
Free to use and share
Open
Changing the industry
InnovativeOSLC:
Tests, Libraries, Samples,
Examples,
Reference Implementations
Scenario-driven &
Solution-oriented
Generally applicable: specs available for many
domains covering ALM, DevOps, ISM, and PLM
Leading choice for
strategic integration
technology

25. 24
Technical Committees are Driving Growth of Participation
Member Section Co-Founders
OSLC – Who’s involved?

26. OSLC – Who’s involved?
Accenture
Advanced Computational
Research
Alcatel-Lucent
APG
Atego
BigLever
Black Duck
Boeing
BSD Group
CESAR
Citigroup
ClearBlade
CloudOne
CM-Logic
Corso
Creative Intellect Consulting
EADS
Emphasys
Empulsys
Ericsson
fluid Operations
Galorath
General Dynamics C4 Systems
General Motors
IBM
Icaro Technologies
iFEST
Institut TELECOM
Integrate Systems Engineering
IRIS
Koneksys
Kovair
KTH
Mentor Graphics
MobileSmith
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Northrop Grumman
OFFIS
Oracle
Orb Data
Perforce
Phunware
PointSource
Price Systems
QSM
Ravenflow
SCM Solution
Shell
Siemens
Sogeti
SourceGear
SPRINT
State Street
Stoneworks Software
Tasktop
Taxal
Thales
Tieto
TOPIC Embedded Systems
UrbanCode
Virtual Vehicle
Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority
WebLayers
http://open-services.net/organizations/

27. Got links?
OSLC http://open-services.net
Eclipse Lyo http://eclipse.org/lyo
Linked Data Platform http://LinkedDataPlatform.org

28. Thank You