To work on activities in a multiple-stream project, you check out and modify source files and test your modifications. You may also need to enter information in your change-request management system to communicate your progress. On a multiple-stream project, if you are ready to make your work available to the rest of the team, you deliver it.
In a single-stream project, you perform many of the same tasks, but the ordering is slightly different.
Checking out and modifying source files
To modify files and directories under Rational® ClearCase® control, you must check them out and ensure that you have assigned your revisions to an activity. Checking out a file makes it writable in your view. Then you can use any editing tool to modify it.
Viewing metadata
Metadata is information that is kept about your activities and source files in both Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest® environments. While working with checked-out files (checkouts), you may want use Rational ClearCase and Rational ClearQuest tools to view metadata. For example, you can do the following tasks.
Checking in and testing source files
If you work in a multiple-stream project, if you want to keep a record of the current state of a checkout or to store versions for backup, check in the file. Make sure that you assign the version to the correct activity. Any work that you check in from your development view is not available to other team members until you deliver it.
Before you deliver your work, build and test the work in your development view. This testing is particularly important to do after you rebase the stream and before you deliver activities. This ordering of your work reduces the amount of merging needed when you deliver your work.
When you are ready to make your work available to the rest of the project, deliver it.
If you work in a single-stream project, you do not check in until you test your source files and want to complete your activity.