1. HP Quality Center
Overview

2. Supporting key stakeholders from across IT & the business
HP Quality Center core
Deliver optimal business results through high-quality applications
Single, scalable platform that enables a consistent, repeatable process for:
Requirement management
Test planning, scheduling & execution
Release & cycle management
Defect management
Real time reporting of progress and status
Integration with Developer Environments
Facilitates distributed collaboration and communication between QA teams, developers and business analysts on a single platform
Allows organizations to lower costs by capturing critical defects before they reach production
Enables organizations to manage release process and make informed go/no go decisions through real time reports
Supporting key stakeholders from across IT & the business
Business Analysts
Development Teams
QA Teams
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13/04/17

3. Requirements Management
Integrated solution for defining, managing and tracking requirements
Key Benefits
Business analyst can collaborate on application requirements without fear of overriding other’s work
Assess overall risk to the business through real-time visibility of test coverage and associated defects against business needs
Assess the impact of change before changing requirements
Easy adoption by Business Analysts
Key Capabilities
Define and track multiple requirement types
Establish templates to ensure higher quality requirements
Manage requirements dependencies
Bi-directional traceability from requirements to requirements, tests and defects
Manage change requests through formal approval process
Familiar rich test editor interface
Version Control and Baselining
Leverage existing assets in MS Word
Requirements = translating business goals/objectives into a realized software-enabled business process. You need to understand the business goals and objectives AND you have to care about the IT approach and impact. This is a strategic control point in the process – if you don’t get it right, even if you do everything else perfectly, you will fail in the end if you have not delivered against the requirements. When you begin to understand the perspective of each side – you can see how the requirements will help bridge the gap between IT and the business.
Key benefits:
Manage requirements changes and impact
Multi-dimensional traceability
Requirements coverage analysis
Requirements linkages to requirements, tests, defects
Bi-directional traceability across the application quality lifecycle
Key capabilities
Manage complete and verifiable requirements and dependencies
Track multiple requirements types
Analyze requirements change impact
Leverage existing assets in MS Word
Integrates with demand systems, both strategic and operational
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13/04/17

4. Business Process Modeling
Requirements Management
Key Benefits
Exact alignment between the defined business process and business requirements
Clear understanding of the exact business process and critical paths
Clear communication of the business process to development and QA to achieve end to end coverage
Key Capabilities
Import Business Process Models from industry leading tools
Standard BPMN format
Automatically generate requirements hierarchy
Link requirements to the model
Track and trace critical business paths
Share BPMs with QA and Development
Exact alignment between the defined business process and business requirements
Clear understanding of the exact business process and critical paths
Clear communication of the business process to development and QA to achieve end to end coverage
Import Business Process Models from industry leading tools
Standard BPMN format
Automatically generate requirements hierarchy
Link requirements to the model
Trace critical business paths
Share BPMs with QA and Development
HP Confidential
13/04/17

5. Version Control
Create and manage entities while maintaining previous versions
Key Benefits
Allows distributed teams to collaborate on the joint development of requirements and tests without over-riding other’s changes.
Track the “story” of how requirements and tests were developed
Protect data through roll back of versioned requirements
Key Capabilities
Identify, track and roll back changes that were made to requirements, tests, and test resources.
Version control is integrated and enabled for requirements, tests and test resources
“Check out” an asset to make changes, “Check in” an asset when changes are complete
create and manage entities while maintaining previous versions of those entities.
Feature: Version control is enabled for requirements, tests and test assets to enable distributed teams to collaborate and manage multiple versions of assets in parallel while maintaining data integrity and providing an audit history of changes throughout the project lifecycle. A component can be checked out for update, then checked back in when changes are complete. All projects utilizing that asset are automatically notified of the change and can choose to accept or reject the change as they manage their version of assets.
Benefit: Allows distributed teams to collaborate on joint development of tests without the risk of over-riding each other’s changes. They no longer have to worry about making multiple copies of the assets and can be automatically notified when an asset changes so they can stay in synch with the latest version, or choose to continue using the version that they have.
HP Confidential
13/04/17

6. Baselining Track changes made to entities in your project over time
Key Benefits
Compare releases and cycles
A snapshot of the project state at a particular point in time
Enable rollback of assets to key points in the application lifecycle
Compare baselines to assess changes
Ability to use baselines in test execution
Key Capabilities
Create baselines – including traceability between assets
Compare baselines both at high level and drill down to specific changes including traceability
Report and print baselines for sign-off
Control who can create and modify baselines
Baselining allows you to capture a group of requirements, tests or test assets at strategic points in the project lifecycle to mark specific milestones. You can compare baselines to assess the impact of changes and enable rollback of assets, if required.
Key benefits
A snapshot of the project state at a particular point in time
Enable rollback of assets to key points in the application lifecycle
Compare baselines to assess changes
Ability to use baselines in test execution
Key capabilities
Create baselines – including traceability between assets
Compare baselines both at high level and drill down to specific changes
Report and print baselines for sign-off
Control who can create and modify baselines
HP Confidential
13/04/17

7. Risk-based Quality Management
Help overcome the question of “what to test?”
Key Benefits
Objectively assess and prioritize the highest-risk, highest-priority requirements
Manage strategies and processes based on business risk
Fine-tune your testing effort based on quantifiable business risk
Provides guidance on where to allocate testing resources.
Key Capabilities
Assess requirements risk
Auto calculate testing effort
Assessments made by calculations based on:
Business Criticality
Failure Probability
Functionality Complexity
Short:
With Risk Based Test Management, stakeholders can assign business risk to requirements which helps test managers calculate where to apply testing resources. This allows you to develop a strategic plan and a business contract between QA and business managers so that limited time and resources can be focused on the highest-risk, highest-priority requirements.
Advanced test planning capabilities allow functional, regression, load, unit and integration testing–each with its own set of requirements, schedules and procedures. You can emulate real life business processes and run tests unattended, during off-peak times.
Detailed:
Risk Based Test Management – Highly competitive business environment today is forcing organizations to do more with less. While resources available to IT organizations are shrinking, applications are growing in number, size and complexity. The business risk associated with this scenario can now be managed through QC Risk Based test management. Stakeholders can assign business risk to the requirements that helps test managers calculate how much effort to spend on testing each requirement. This helps you develop strategic plan and develop business contract between QA and business managers. Tests can now be designed based upon requirements. QC can manage both automated and manual tests in same repository to help easy reusability of these assets. Advanced test planning capabilities allows various types of testing including functional, regression, load, unit and integration – each with its own set of requirements, schedules and procedure. You can run tests unattended and emulate real life business processes.
Business Criticality and Failure Probability is now assessed in the same
tab in the Requirements module, named Risk. The values for each of these
factors are used to calculate an overall risk.
➤ The Functionality Complexity
HP Confidential
13/04/17

8. Release & Cycle Management
Track and measure the progress and quality of releases and cycles
Key Benefits
Manage projects and assets against release and cycles
Track release progress
Gain visibility into release readiness and release quality
Compare releases and cycles for continuous process improvement
Key Capabilities
Manage requirements & tests according to application releases and dev/QA cycles
Compare planned vs. actual progress for each application release and cycle
Assess release quality across multiple cycles
SHORT:
To help organizations adapt to rapidly changing applications, release and cycle management enables you to adapt to quick development and testing cycles and also break large projects into meaningful phases.
You can better plan the release effort by identifying requirements and tests for each cycle and real-time visibility into Actual vs. Planned testing status provides the ability to manage multiple releases and test cycles and make informed go/no go decisions.
DETAILED
Releases – more and more IT organizations are realizing the need to adapt to fast changing product and relying upon new methodologies such as Agile. Release and Cycle Management enables you to follow quick development and testing cycles and break larger project into meaningful phases.
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
HP Confidential
13/04/17

9. Test Plan Define, manage and track all test scripts Key Benefits
Create test cases to adequately test the requirements
Manage all test types (Functional, Performance, Security) in one place
Ensure requirements coverage through traceability to requirements
Manage change associated with requirements changes
Key Capabilities
Design, build and manage manual and automated test cases
Link test cases to requirements
Leverage test cases from MS Word and MS Excel
Version Control and Baselining
manage all test types in one place
HP Confidential
13/04/17

10. Test Resources
Central repository for all your testing resources and libraries
Key Benefits
Increase reuse of test resources by different tests by storing and sharing resources in a central repository
Reduce test case maintenance creating a single point of maintenance for test resources
Assess impact of changes to shared assets
Key Capabilities
Share and store test resources such as:
Data tables
Functional Libraries
Configuration files
Object repositories
Recovery scenarios
Manage test resources in a hierarchical tree structure containing resource folders and resources
Version Control
With FT 10.0, we’ve built a tighter integration between QTP and HP Quality Center, enabling centralized management of QTP assets within the QC repository and support for the new functionality introduced in QC.
The external resource module within QC allows QTP users to store test assets such as data tables, reusable functional libraries and object repositories, recovery scenarios, etc. and managed in a centralized repository within QC, and to trace sharing of assets and understand the impact of changes to shared assets.
 By managing QTP assets within QC, QC will be able to recognize and understand those resources and no longer attach them as a “black box” to the QTP tests.
Each asset, including the QTP test itself, will have full versioning capabilities and baselining that are recognized and supported within QC just as any other asset. And now that you’re able to share and version those reusable assets, and compare them, you can select the version of the asset you want to use.
Full comparison capabilities for QTP assets within QC is now available with a drill down to the asset level. So we have a high level view of the test, what kind of component changed, for example a data table, and drill down to the asset level to see the actual changes
HP Confidential
13/04/17

11. Test Scheduling and Execution
Test Lab
Key Benefits
Manage and control execution of manual and automated tests
Schedule the execution of automated test scripts for unattended execution
Execute manual tests via HP Sprinter
View and assess test execution runs and results including logging defects with run details
Key Capabilities
Create ‘test sets’ or groups of tests to be executed together
Create ‘test sets’ based on releases and cycles
Define dependencies and design test execution flows
Assign to QA testers
Assign to execution host

12. HP Sprinter The next generation of manual testing Key Benefits
Accelerate manual testing
Improved testing accuracy
Better communication of defects to development (accelerated defect remediation)
Unobtrusive, easy to use user interface
Supports exploratory testing
Reduce time and resources by testing multiple environments at once
Key Capabilities
Reduction in manual testing time
Improved testing accuracy
Better communication of defects to development (accelerated defect remediation)
Unobtrusive, easy to use user interface
Test steps and results ‘tab’
Toolkit – Screen capture and annotations, measure objects position etc.
Recording of user actions
Data injection
Logging defects with associated information directly into Quality Center/ALM
Smart Defects
Mirror testing
Toolkit – Screen capture and annotations, measure objects position etc.
Record user actions to support exploratory testing
Automatic data injection
Mirror testing
Log defects with associated information directly into HP Quality Center/ALM
HP Confidential
13/04/17

13. Defect Management
Track defects across the entire application lifecycle
Key Benefits
Manage, track and enforce defects across the application lifecycle
Create defects from manually or directly from the execution of manual and automated tests
Clearly communicate bugs to developers with context from requirements and tests
Integrated into developers IDE
Key Capabilities
Enforce defect lifecycle process through custom fields and workflow
Log defects directly from test runs with test details (test step, result, screenshots, attachments) to ensure the developers can reproduce the issue
Traceability to requirements, tests and other defects
Alert key stakeholders through automated s
Alert key stakeholders through automated s
Enforce defect lifecycle process through custom fields and workflow
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13/04/17

14. Reports, Graphs & Dashboard
Clear communication and visibility into your application projects
Key Benefits
Make informed business decisions
Clearly communicate to all stakeholders
Understand the real-time status of an application
Full trending analysis and insight into application projects
Understand release and cycle progress
Key Capabilities
Fully customizable project reports (export to MS Word)
Integrated Dashboard
Out of the box or customizable analysis reports and graphs
Report to MS Excel
Embed graphs and charts into web portals
Requirements traceability matrix
HP Quality Center has a new integrated Dashboard module to centralize Quality Center reporting and tools, including standard reports, excel reports and dashboard.
Dashboard functionality is now integrated into QC for simplified installation, configuration and maintenance
HP Quality Center can export a report source into Microsoft Excel, letting your end users perform endless data manipulation.
HP ALM adds the ability to produce standardized reports across projects and modules to provide end-to-end visibility of quality metrics across multiple QA initiatives.
Features:
Fully integrated Dashboard module to centralize HP Quality Center reporting tools including standard reports, excel reports and dashboard
Standardized cross-project or cross-module reporting and drill-down graphs
Customizable pages
Analysis tab with access to built-in reports and excel reports
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
Benefits:
Simplified installation, configuration and maintenance
End-to-end visibility of quality metrics across multiple QA initiatives
Custom, role-based, shareable reports
Coverage graphs with drill down capability
HP Confidential
13/04/17