HP Quality Center – Test Management Tool

: Dibyendu Saha

Finance TransformationFocus on Results

Agenda

HP Quality Center Portfolio

Services for Quality Center

HP Quality Center 10

Integration With Other Tools

Questions / Answers

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

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.

Business outcomes

APPLICATIONSSTRATEGY

Project & Portfolio

Management Center

CIO Office

CTO Office

SOACenter

SAP, Oracle, SOA, J2EE, .Net

QualityCenter

PerformanceCenter

Application Security Center

Quality Management

OPERATIONSBusiness Service

ManagementIT Service

Management

Business Availability

Center

Operations Center

Network Managemen

t Center

Service Managemen

t Center

Client Automation

Center

Data Center Automation

Center

Business Service

Automation

Universal CMDB

Operations Orchestration

Part of the industry’s most comprehensive IT management portfolio

QualityCenter

HP Quality Center

Foundation

Shared data repository Central administration Workflows Open APIs

Quality Center Enterprise and Premier editions

Dashboard

HP Quality Center

Center Management

Functional Validation

QuickTest Profession

al

Service Test QAInspect

Security Testing

Release Management

Requirements

Management

Risk-based Test

Management

Defect Management

Business Application Validation

Change ImpactTesting

Service Test Management

(add on)

QA LabManagement

(add on)

Business Process Testing

HP Quality Center

Develop

UnitTest

Build

SCM

Develop

UnitTest

Build

SCM

Develop

UnitTest

Build

SCM

Strategy Development and Delivery

Develop

UnitTest

Build

SCM

Operations

HP S

olu

tions

Business imperativ

e

Technology decision

Requirements

Definition

Requirements

Management

System

Validation

Integration

Test

Security

Test

Performance

Validation

DesignFunctional

TestApplication

Release

Projectassignment

Impact-analysis

Go

Testplan

Prep. Spec. Exec. Com

pletion

EvaluationGo

Client Monitoring

TM

ap

Demand

Management

Manage what matters to the business

Supports key stakeholders from across IT and the business

Test execution

Test basis

Assign test techniques

Determine test depth

Determine risk classes

CustomerCustomer

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)

All these features in one platform

HP Quality Center overview

Quality Center Starter EditionExisting Quality Center edition for application teams managing

small releases, max 5 concurrent users

Quality Center EnterpriseExisting 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

New!

New!

Quality Center Core Portfolio

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

Define multiple requirement types and interdependencies

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Risk-Based Test Management

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

Monitor quality across releases and cycles

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Release And Cycle Management

Manage multiple versions of tests

Key benefits• Allows distributed teams to

collaborate on joint development of tests without over-riding each other’s 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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Versioning

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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Baselining

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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Defect Management

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

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

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Reports, Graphs and Dashboard

Quality Center Offerings

•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

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 for QC) to allow for scalability

across large enterprises is included at no extra cost

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

Key Features

CPU

Windows: Quad Core AMD64 processor

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

Q & A