Quality Center
Quality Center helps you organize and manage all phases of the application life cycle management process, including defining releases, specifying requirements, planning tests, executing tests, and tracking defects.
In this lesson, you will learn about:
- The Application Life Cycle Management Process
- Starting Quality Center
- The Quality Center Window
- The Mercury Tours Sample Web Site
The Application Life Cycle Management Process
The application life cycle management process with Quality Center includes the following phases:
- Specify Releases. Develop a release-cycle management plan.
- Specify Requirements. Analyze your application and determine your requirements.
- Plan Tests. Plan and confirm which tests need to be performed and how these tests must be run.
- Run Tests. Organize test sets, schedule their execution, perform test runs, and analyze the results of these runs.
- Track Defects. Add defects that were detected in the application and track how repairs are progressing.
Throughout the process, you can generate reports and graphs to assist you in “go/no-go” decisions about your application readiness.
Starting Quality Center
You start Quality Center from your Web browser using the HP Quality Center URL.
To start Quality Center:
1 Open the Quality Center Options window.
Open your Web browser and type your Quality Center URL:
http://<Quality Center server name>[:<port number>]/qcbin. Contact yoursystem administrator if you do not have the correct path.
The Quality Center Options window opens.
2. Open Quality Center.
Click the Quality Center link.
The first time you run Quality Center, files are downloaded to your machine, and if it is not already installed, the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Setup program runs. Subsequently, Quality Center carries out a version check. If there is a newer version on the server, updated files are downloaded to your machine.
The Quality Center Login window opens.
3. Type a user name and authenticate.
In the Login Name box, type one of the following names: alice_qc, cecil_qc, or michael_qc.
Skip the Password box. A password was not assigned to any of the above user names.
Click the Authenticate button. Quality Center verifies your user name and password and determines which domains and projects you can access.
5. Log in to the project.
In the Domain list, select DEFAULT.
In the Project list, select QualityCenter_Demo. If more than one QualityCenter_Demo project is listed, contact your Quality Center site administrator to determine which project to use.
Click the Login button.
The first time you run Quality Center, the Welcome page opens. From the Welcome page, you can directly access the Quality Center documentation and feature movies.
When you log in to a project, the Quality Center main window opens and displays the module in which you were last working. In the upper-right corner of the window, the domain name, project name, and your user name are displayed.
Mercury Quality Center is a web-based test management tool having several capabilities, such as scheduling of tests, and the logging of results, progress tracking, incident management and test reporting.
It gives a centralized control over your entire testing Project. It has a very simple interface and it makes the task of testing teams very easy by giving an easy interface to manage and organize activities like Requirements coverage, Test Case Management, Test Execution Reporting, Defect Management, and Test Automation. It provides traceability from requirements to test cases to test execution to defects. It provides options to generate reports with various options. Quality Center Provides options to store requirements thru which we can measure test coverage as well.
Quality Center is a management tool which provides:
1. Common Repository
2. Automatic Traceability Matrix
3. Bug Tracking facility
4. Automatic Reports and Graphs generator.
