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The Natural Development Lifecycle

The Natural administrator and the CA Endevor SCM administrator must work together to design and implement a Natural lifecycle. This task includes implementing a Natural development lifecycle, an element classification scheme, and defining the physical data sets in CA Endevor SCM to enable CA Endevor SCM to manage the Natural development process. CA Endevor SCM identifies Natural objects (also known as elements) according to the logical structure implemented at your site. All elements are identified by a fully-qualified name consisting of environment, stage, system, subsystem, type, and element name. Each element is defined by the following:

• Location in the software lifecycle. This is determined by the environment and stage where the element resides. As an application is modified, elements are moved through the software development lifecycle, with those elements residing in different functional locations at different times. Those functional areas, for example, Test, QA, Production, Backup, and so on, are defined as an environment and stage combination. The location of an element is part of the identification of that element.
• Inventory classification. This is determined by the system, subsystem, and type with which the element is associated.

A physical data set structure must be set up at your site to support your logical structure. For more information on defining your site's logical or physical structure, see the CA Endevor Software Change Manager Administration Guide.

Note: For more information about lifecycle concepts, see A Typical Software Lifecycle in the chapter "Understanding the Software" in the User Guide.