Assure Project Harmonizer

Unleash the true power of HP Quality Center

John is late for dinner… again.

John has to provide a Test Completion report for all business units in the

company…but their projects don’t quite align.

Assure Project Harmonizer brings John home in time…

…as well as saves his company big

money!

Here’s how:

HP Quality Center Premier – the best of them all

QC Premier, with its advanced features, is ideal for mature companies with a quality Center of Excellence (CoE).

Aimed for enterprises that manage releases across multiple projects that need to be tested and released together

Introduces QC Project Templates - enabling the reuse of assets and cross project reporting

HP Quality Center Premier: Key Value Proposition

Reduce cost by enforcing centralized management of consistent workflows and processes

Reduce cost by eliminating duplication of effort through asset sharing and reuse

Reduce risk by increasing visibility to quality status, requirements coverage and defect trends across projects

But guess what…With Assure, the best just got better.

Assure has a line of products for unleashing the true power of HP Quality Center!

ASSURE PROJECT HARMONIZER

ASSURE ADMIN CONSOLE

ASSURE QC OVERDRIVE

ASSURE TEST DATA INTEGRITY

ASSURE QC LIGHTVIEW

ASSURE TRASHBIN

ASSURE RSS FEED GENERATOR

Assure is trusted by HP.

So let’s have a look at…

ASSURE PROJECT HARMONIZER

With HP Quality Center 10, asset sharing is a breeze.

LIBRARY

Asset Sharing with HP QC 10

Project A Project B Project CBASELINE

BASELINEBASELINE

BASELINE

A Library and a Baseline are created from

Test Assets of Project A

Other Projects can import the Baseline

If Test Assets are updated, new Baseline can be

created, compared and imported again

BASELINEBASELINE

But what if your QC projects are not perfectly aligned?

Library

Asset Sharing with HP QC 10

Project A Project B Project CBASELINE

BASELINEBASELINE

A Library and a Baseline are created from

Test Assets of Project A

Other Projects cannot import the Baseline

Process Enablement feature in QC 10!

Doesn’t it solve this problem?

Template

Project A Project B Project C

Software Version

Software Version Software Version Software Version

A Template project is created.

Projects are created and linked to the

Template

A new field, Software Version is

introduced in the Template

Field is added to Linked Projects through

Cross-Customization

Process Enablement…

Process Enablement Feature works great for new QC projects

But – let’s see what happens with your existing projects

Template

Project A Project B Project C

Software Version

Software VersionSoftware Version Software Build

Software Version

Software Version

A Field, Software Version is introduced in the template

To an empty project, the cross-customization will

go through

If a Field already exists with the same name, customization fails

If a Field exists with different name, the field is duplicated

Process Enablement…

If your projects are not aligned, you will face challenges with:

Process Enablement Asset Sharing Cross-project reporting

And while aligning 100 projects manually…

… John won’t make it for dinner.

Assure Project Harmonizer for the rescue!

Turnkey solutionEasy to useSolves the problem of mismatching QC projectsHP Enterprise Management Alliance Program (EMAP) certified

So, if the testing terminology varies between projects…

Project A Project B Project C

“Software Version”

“Software Build” “Release”

I represent a tester person

Integrations

Cross-P

roject Reporting

…and the Data is in different Locations

Project C

Project A Project B Project C

“Software Version”

“Software Build” “Release”

“Software Version”

BG_USER_01

“Software Build”

BG_USER_02Release

BG_USER_03

Integrations

Cross-P

roject Reporting

Assure Harmonizer to the Rescue!

Project A Project B Project C

“Software Version”

“Software Build” “Release”

“Software Version”

“Software Version”

Plug-and-play Integrations and Reporting

Project C

Project A Project B Project C

“Software Version”

“Software Build” “Release”

“Software Version”

“Software Version”

Software Version

BG_USER_TEMPLATE_11

Integrations

Software Version

BG_USER_TEMPLATE_11

Software Version

BG_USER_TEMPLATE_11

Cross-P

roject Reporting

Process of harmonization

THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER

PROJECT CONVERSION

• Applying the changes into the database

MAPPING PHASE

• Map the differences between the Template and the Project

SETUP PHASE

• Gather best practices

• Design and Create Templates

Without Assure Harmonizer

Aligning 100 projects might take one year…

ConversionMapping

52 weeks

Setup Solution Creation

And with Harmonizer!

With Harmonizer, all projects aligned in record time

12 weeks

Mapping ConversionSetup

Harmonizer brings value for your investment from day #1

THE BENEFIT FROM QC10 WITH

HARMONIZER

TIME

WITHOUT HARMONIZER

All projects using Process enablement

Simple and intuitive user interface

Benefits

Harmonized QC projects bring you the following benefits:

Common Reporting on all projectsCommon integrations can be usedSame 'testing language' and processes across the organizationSame Customizations can be used in all projectsSharing and copying of test assets is possible and easyHP Quality Center Premier features unleashed for all projectsQuality Center as the platform for Quality Center of Excellence

And what’s more…

John’s dinner won’t get cold.

35 projects harmonized – QC 9.2Took total of 40 calendar daysDelivered as a serviceThe main drivers for the Harmonizer were the integration between PPM and QC, and a fragmented environment with several template versions and very different ways of working

Customer Case – TeliaSonera

Mats Nordenbäck from TeliaSonera MDE:

"Previously a minor upgrade took 3 hours of manual work for 10 projects and we could not deploy any bug fixes since it would have taken so much time“

"Now we have harmonized projects that are upgraded in seconds, up-to-date documentation and we are able to give our developers more time to concentrate on the essentials."

Assure Harmonizer – the right choice for HP QC 10 users

HP QC 10 UNLEASHED

Common Integrations

Common Processes

Common Reporting

Assure Project HarmonizerWhat will it do for you

Documentation of the template fields

Mapping of fields between projects and templates for these entities:

CycleDefectReleaseReleaseFolderRequirementRunTestTestInstanceTestSetTestStep

Project Conversion - for each mapped field any item that contains this field will be updated with the new field:

Favoritesdata hiding filtersReportsGraphsHistory

Project Conversion - for each mapped field - field properties will be updated:

SizeTypeAttributes

HistoryVerify ValueRequired

A link between the project and the template will be created in QC

Reports:Description of the template fields in excel formatThe mapping information - which existing field will change to what field

(e.g.: BG_USER_01 -> BG_TEMPLATE_USER_12)

Other benefitsHarmonization process descriptionharmonization project plan template including tasks and rolesless risk as you are using a tested technologySignificant time savings

Release quality on time

About Assure

Our core competence is HP Quality CenterWe work with some of the world’s biggest and advanced HP QC customersHP BTO Partner of the Year in Finland 2008Strong co-operation with HP QC TeamRevenue 2008: 3M$

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