Eclipse Installation & User Guide

1. Introduction

For developers and testers using the Eclipse framework for application development, the Rally Connector for Eclipse provides access to Rally artifacts from within the Eclipse interface. The artifacts (Rally stories, tasks, and defects) can be viewed or updated, along with viewing and sharing the context of those artifacts through the Mylyn framework, providing a one-stop access to information in Rally without having to leave the Eclipse IDE.

Mylyn (http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn ) is the Task-Focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first-class part of Eclipse. Once your tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what's related.

2. Software requirements

The following are the software requirements to use the Rally Connector for Eclipse.

• Eclipse 3.3 with Mylyn 3.0
• Eclipse 3.4 or higher with Mylyn 3.6 or higher

3. Installation

3.1 Install the plug-in

1. Click on Help >> Software Updates >> Find and Install... from Eclipse.
   
   
   
   
2. Select Search for new features to install.
   
   
   
   
3. Click New Remote Site and enter the following URL (depending on your Eclipse and Mylyn versions):
   
   http://www.rallydev.com/integrations/eclipse/update/v3.3/site.xml (Eclipse 3.3)
   
   http://www.rallydev.com/integrations/eclipse/update/v3.4 (Eclipse 3.4, or higher)
   
   
   
   
4. Select both Rally Mylyn and The Eclipse Project Updates, then click Finish after the list of features to be installed displays.
   
   
   
   
5. Click OK to Update Site Mirrors.
6. In the Updates box, select Rally Mylyn, The Eclipse Project Updates, and Mylyn for Eclipse 3.x.
7. Click Accept the terms of the license agreement, then click Next.
8. Click Finish to complete the installation.

3.2 Create a Rally task repository

1. Select Windows >> Show View >> Other...
2. Select Task Repositories and Task List, then click OK.
3. From the Task Repositories, right-click on Local Tasks and select Add Task Repository.
4. Select Rally to setup a Rally repository.
5. Use the default Rally1 or pick another server from the drop-down and enter the appropriate Rally credentials.
6. Click Validate Settings to confirm the setting.
7. Click Finish to add Rally to the Task Repositories list.

4. Using the Rally connector to Eclipse

1. In the Task Repositories tab, right-click on the Rally repository you created and select New Query.
2. Using the Query Editor, select the Workspace, Project, and Iteration for Tasks or Defects to show after the plug-in is run.
3. The query displays in the Task Lists view with all the Defects or Tasks that satisfy the query.
4. Select Attach Context to apply Mylyn Context when you submit the change.