IBM Rational Software Enterprise Suite for Educational Institute:

·        IBM Rational Requisite Pro     : This tool is used for gathering & managing requirements for software projects. As requirements are very essential & necessary part of software project so we should have clear knowledge about requirements gathering & their management. This tool makes this tedious job very easy &automated. So as for students this gives a clear picture about requirements analysis, how to gather & manage requirements so that desired software should be delivered to the end user. 

·    IBM Rational Rose Enterprise Edition   : This tool is used for making model of the software .This model works as the blue print for further development. This tool provides amazing fetchers like Round trip Engineering (Reverse and forward Engineering).you can generate from model and same way it can also generate Model from code. This tool supports to mostly all objects oriented language i.e JAVA, C++, ANSI C++, V.B, ADA &OTHERS. 

·    IBM Rational Rose Model Integrator: This tool helps in integrating different models of software to a common model. A s more than 1 professional works on a process & all other professionals whom are working on the same project they also develop their own models. So at last stage we need some software by which we can integrate all those models &make a common model. This tool helps in this regard. 

·    IBM Rational Test Manger   : Rational Test Manger is the central console for test activity management, execution and reporting. Built for extensibility, it supports every thing from pure manual test approaches to various automated paradigms including unit testing. Rational Test Manger is meant to be accessed by all members of a project team, ensuring the high visibility of test coverage information , defect trends and application readiness . 

·    IBM Rational Test Factory: The Rational Test Factory automates the process of testing an application‘s reliability, replacing human testing (QE Time) with the computer cycles to effectively and thoroughly test an applications reliability. Test factory replac3s the manual steps QE organizations previously performed in exercising the navigation paths through a software application with automation, freeing QE engineers to focus on the other aspects of application quality.  Test Factory reduces application defects by providing a convenient and easy to use facility that automatically finds application defects and automatically generates reusable tests. 

·    IBM Rational Purify Plus: Purify Plus is a complete set of runtime analysis tool designed for improving application reliability & performance. This tool; combines memory errors &leak detection, application performance. This tool combines memory errors & leak detection, application performing proofing &code coverage analysis into a single complete package. 

·    IBM Rational Quantity:  is a component of   Rational Purify Plus, is easy to use, powerful performance profiler that identifies the portions of an application that slow down execution speed .Developers get accurate and repeatable performance data that takes the guess work out of optimizing an application’s performance. 

·    IBM Rational Pure Coverage:  IBM Rational Pure Coverage is a component of the Rational Purify Plus suite, is a customizable code coverage analysis 6ool for windows applications that have been written in C/C++ or Java rational Pure Coverage automatically pinpoints tested and untested area of code and visually displays application analysis data, allowing developers or quality assurance engineers to quickly identify gaps in testing and make testing efforts more efficient.

·         Automatically pin points untested code

·         NO source code or specific builds required

·         Power Cov controls the level of code coverage data collected

·         Identifiers untested code everywhere

·         Integrated with Rational purity, Rational Quantity, Visual Test, and

          clear quest.

·    IBM Rational Robot: IBM Rational Robot automates regression functional and configuration testing for e commerce, client server and ERP technologies. It’s used to test application based upon a wide variety of user interface technologies, and is integrated with the IBM Rational Test manager. Rational Robot can be used to distribute functional testing among many machines, each one configured differently. rational Robot supports a wide range of environments and languages , including HTML and DHTML , Java , VS.net , Microsoft visual Basic and Visual C++, Oracle Development /2000, People soft , Sybase Power Builder and Borland Delphi . For advanced testing of JAVA VS.NET and Web –based applications.

    IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) :    IBM Rational  Unified Process  or(RUP)  is a configurable software development process platform that delivers proven best practices and a configurable architecture. This tool enables you to select and deploy only the process components you needs for each stage of your project.

·    IBM Rational Soda For Ms Word : This Tool automatically generates documents and reports in HTML format .Soda is Rational Software’s document generation tool .IT provides automated document generation with the ability to integrate Rose model diagrams , requirements, code and text in the same document. 

·    IBM Rational Clear Quest : This Tool provides software configuration management (SCM) and keeps track of changes & defects . This tool enables parallel development &manages all assets from design to code to test. This tool helps in automated & quick prioritization of defects & change requests