Serena Development Manager is a component of the Serena Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) product line. Serena Development Manager enables you to control your key software development efforts, track source code changes, define application projects, manage source code testing, and release approvals.
It consists of:
Serena® Business Manager (SBM) a product that enables you to create process applications that pull and manage information and work-tracking items from different sources. It can be used to manage business processes, including access to other Web services and third-party applications.
Serena Development Control, the component of Serena Development Manager that integrates SBM with the other products in the suite.
It will also include one or more the following optional components:
Serena® Dimensions® CM, a software source control, configuration and management tool. This is the developer’s primary tool. It enables you to manage your source versions and builds for Development Manager.
Serena® ChangeMan® ZMF is a comprehensive and fully integrated solution for Software Change Management systems in z/OS environments. It provides reliable and streamlined implementation of software changes from development into production. ChangeMan ZMF manages and automates the application life cycle, protects the integrity of the code migration process, and results in higher quality delivered code to any test environment and to the production environment.
Serena SBM Connector for HP Quality Center / ALM, a set of web services that is used in orchestration applications. This Orchestrated workflow also uses SBM and QC Connector web services. It enables you to use HP Quality Center / ALM for defects and to test issues.
You may also be installing the following components of the Serena ALM Suite in conjunction with Serena Development Manager:
Serena Requirements Manager, A Serena Orchestrated ALM Product that enables you to manage and approve requirements that are then used to generate development change requests in Development Manager.
Serena Release Manager, a Serena Orchestrated ALM Product that enables you to plan, manage, and automate the deployment of applications into test, pre-production, and production environments across mainframe and distributed systems with start-to-finish traceability and end-to-end visibility.
Serena Dashboard, a reporting tool that enables you to produce comprehensive graphs, metrics, and views of your ALM processes from different data sources. It provides a set of out-of-box graphs and metrics and enables you to customize them or create your own.
For an overview of using Serena Development Manager, see the Getting Started Guide.