Tag: ELM

Upcoming ELM User Group Presentation

I’m really excited to announce I will presenting at the upcoming IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management User Group Virtual Conference. During the session will be taking customers and partners thru the OSLC based API discovery process, including creating the ETM Test Plan. I will be taking questions and showing demos, so sign up! See you then!

Generating a Test Plan via API Discovery

In my prior posts I took you through the discovery flow to identify the resource shape of creating a new Project Area. The only problem was, there is no public API for creating a Project Area, either via OSLC or published ELM APIs. To that end, you may have been a bit frustrated that all […]

Beginning API Discovery (or understanding the RootServices document)

Now that we’ve covered some of the basics on what we mean when we say APIs (link to prior post), it’s time to get into the power of ELM thru its API discovery process. Many of the APIs on a server are exposed thru API calls.  The foundation of this discovery mechanism is the “RootServices” […]

API types and the API Landing Page

When someone mentions APIs what do you think of?  Let’s look at the acronym and the discuss how I will be using it over the course or this blog series.  API stands for “Application Programming Interface”.  This term is pretty broad as it is a connection between computers, programs and software services. APIs can be […]

Welcome to API Corner

“With Great Power comes Great Responsibility”. I remember first hearing this phrase in Spider Man comics.  But it has a much longer history than that.  Wikipedia indicates that this is actually an ancient phrase going back to the first century BC.  I find that IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management’s (IBM ELM’s)  incredible flexibility and power is […]