HP Quality Center

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HP Quality Center Test Management Tool
Dibyendu Saha
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Agenda
HP Quality Center Portfolio
HP Quality Center 10
Services for Quality Center
Integration With Other Tools
Questions / Answers
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Why Test Management Tool

• Avoid the errors that human make when they
  compile reports received from various people.
• The tool captures all the information entered by
  the users and gives the report to the management
  instantaneously.
• Sends mail or trigger an alert based on the type
  of data captured by the end user.
• Customizable to the need of the organization
• Process compliance

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Why Test Management Tool

• More consistent
• Reliable in compilation of reports
• All the reports are instantaneous and hence the
  status of delivery is clearly visible to
  management.
• Security
• Traceability Matrix
• Managing Change Request
• Create Life Cycle for Requirement, Test Case
  Defects.

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HP Quality Center
Part of the industrys most comprehensive IT
management portfolio
Business outcomes
APPLICATIONS
STRATEGY
OPERATIONS
Quality Management
Business ServiceManagement
IT Service Management
Business Service Automation
Project PortfolioManagement Center
QualityCenter
Operations Orchestration
QualityCenter
Business Availability Center
Service Management Center
Client Automation Center
PerformanceCenter
CIO Office
Operations Center
Data Center Automation Center
SOACenter
Application Security Center
Network Management Center
Universal CMDB
CTO Office
SAP, Oracle, SOA, J2EE, .Net
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HP Quality Center
Center Management
Quality Center Enterprise and Premier editions
Release Management
Requirements Management
Risk-based Test Management
Defect Management
Service Test Management(add on)
QA LabManagement(add on)
Functional Validation
Security Testing
Business Application Validation
Service Test
QAInspect
QuickTest Professional
Change ImpactTesting
Business Process Testing
Foundation
Shared data repository
Central administration
Workflows
Open APIs
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Manage what matters to the business
Client Monitoring
Project assignment
Go
Go
Evaluation
TMap
Impact- analysis
Test plan
Prep.
Spec.
Exec.
Com pletion
Strategy
Development and Delivery
Operations
Demand Management
Requirements Definition
System Validation
Performance Validation
Business imperative
Requirements Management
Integration Test
Security Test
Design
Functional Test
Application Release
HP Solutions
Technology decision
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HP Quality Center overview
Supports key stakeholders from across IT and the
business
Formulate assignment andcollect test goals
Single global platform that enables a consistent,
repeatable process for Requirement
management Test planning and scheduling Test
cycle management Defect tracking Real time
reporting of progress and status Business
process testing (add-on)
Determine risk classes
Customer
Determine test depth
Assign test techniques
Test basis
All these features in one platform
Test execution
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Quality Center Core Portfolio

• Quality Center Starter Edition
• Existing Quality Center edition for application
  teams managing small releases, max 5 concurrent
  users
• Quality Center Enterprise
• Existing Quality Center edition for application
  teams managing medium to large releases
• Versioning
• Baselining
• Risk-Based Testing updated
• Centralize Reporting and Dashboard
• Manage automation ressources
• Quality Center Premier
• New Quality Center edition for large global CoE
  organizations managing enterprise releases
• Manage templates for projects customization
• Share assets between projects (requirements,
  tests, components, scripts)
• Synchronize defects between projects
• Cross-projects reporting
• High availability

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Risk-Based Test Management
Define multiple requirement types and
interdependencies

• Key benefits
• Manage test strategies and processes based on
  business risk
• Enable centralized management of manual and
  automated test assets
• Enable standardized testing and quality process
  to boost productivity
• Enforce processes and build guidance for offshore
  resources
• Ensure all business critical requirements are
  planned for testing

• Key capabilities
• Develop, manage and plan manual and automated
  tests including custom test types
• Real-time test status and progress reporting
• Bidirectional traceability allows tracking
  requirement and defect coverage

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Release And Cycle Management
Monitor quality across releases and cycles

• Key benefits
• Provide visibility into releases and cycles
  followed by QA teams
• Evaluate and improve quality processes over the
  lifetime of application
• Requirements can be associated with cycles for
  agile development
• Improve effectiveness of go/no go decisions

• Key capabilities
• Manage requirements and tests according to
  application releases and QA cycles
• Compare planned vs. actual progress for each
  application release and QA cycle
• Assess release quality across multiple QA cycles

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Versioning
Manage multiple versions of tests

• Key benefits
• Allows distributed teams to collaborate on joint
  development of tests without over-riding each
  others changes.

• Key capabilities
• Version control is enabled for requirements,
  tests and test assets.
• A version of an asset canbe checked out for
  update, then checked back in when changes are
  complete.

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Baselining
Reflect signoff and contracts as baselines

• Key benefits
• Compare baselines to assess changes
• Enable rollback of assets to key points in the
  application lifecycle
• Ability to use baselines in test execution

• Key capabilities
• Ability to capture a snapshot of requirements
  and tests at key points in the application
  lifecycle, including traceability links
• Control who can create and modify baselines

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Defect Management
Track defects through all phases of application
lifecycle

• Key benefits
• Mitigate risks by finding and resolving defects
  earlier in the application lifecycle
• Prioritize defects based on impact to the
  business
• Enhance communication and collaboration between
  testing and development teams

• Key capabilities
• Track defects from requirements through all
  stages of test management and execution
• Alert key stakeholders through automated emails
• Enforce defect lifecycle process through custom
  fields and workflow
• Share defects across projects and initiatives (QC
  Premier)

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Reports, Graphs and Dashboard
Integrated Personal Dashboard module for
real-time progress, status and release views

• Key benefits
• Make business decisions based upon holistic view
  of quality status, defect trends and requirements
  coverage
• Allocate resources based upon current progress
  and status of application releases
• Report progress on test cycles
• Integrated dashboard provides simplified
  installation, configuration and maintenance

• Key capabilities
• Fully integrated Dashboard module to centralize
  HP Quality Center reporting tools including
  standard reports, excel reports and dashboard
• Custom, role-based, shareable reports
• Coverage graphs with drill down capability

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Quality Center Offerings
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Key Features

• Implement a complete quality management
  infrastructure
• Establish standardized processes and best
  practices
• Manage requirements, tests and business
  components
• Prioritize testing based on business risk
• Access testing assets anytime, anywhere
• Manage Agile testing efforts with the Agile
  Accelerator
• Employ integrated, innovative manual testing with
  HP Sprinter
• Schedule and execute tests automatically, 24x7
• Analyze readiness with integrated graphs and
  reports
• Manage defects and trace them to tests and
  requirements

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Key Features

• Project Planning Tracking - Leverage ALM data
  to create KPIs and track them against key project
  milestones
• Cross-project reporting - Aggregate metrics and
  trends across multiple projects providing a
  holistic view.
• Asset Libraries (Requirements and Tests) for
  sharing and reuse across multiple projects
• Centralized Process Standardization - Create
  centralized templates to standardize and enforce
  workflows/process across multiple projects.
• Defect Sharing - Share defects across multiple
  projects (Helpful where an application touches
  multiple projects or where a developer wants all
  their defects from multiple projects in one view)
  
• The High Availability Server (Optional purchase fo
  r QC) to allow for scalability across large
  enterprises is included at no extra cost

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Key Features

• Centrally manage and track all application
  projects
• Attain real-time visibility into the application
  lifecycle
• Centrally manage and enforce consistent workflows
  and processes
• Reduce duplication of effort across projects
• Provide an aggregated, cross-application project
  view of quality status and defect trends
• Facilitate collaboration and communication among
  internal and external stakeholder groups, across
  multiple projects

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CPU Windows Quad Core AMD64 processor
CPU Linux Quad Core AMD64 processor or equivalent x86-compatible processor
Memory (RAM) 4 GB minimum
Free disk space 8 GB minimum
Operating System Application Server Database Servers Web Servers
Windows Server 2003 SP2 (32 bit) Windows Server 2003 SP2 (64 bit Windows Server 2008 SP2 (64 bit) Sun Solaris 10 64 bit Linux Red Hat 5.4 64 bit HPUX 11.31 v3 (64 bit Itanium) Linux Suse 10 (64 bit) JBoss 5.1 WebLogic 10.3 WebSphere 7.0.0.9 Oracle 10.2.0.4 SQL 2005 SP3 Oracle 11.2.0.1 SQL 2008 SP1 JBoss 5.1 Apache 2.2 WebLogic 10.3 IHS Server IIS6 II7
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