Mercury Quality Center 9.

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Prepared by : Utsav Patel

Topics
Why Quality Centre? Introduction What are the different tools available in the market (for functional testing) Usage of Quality Centre Quality Centre Feature Quality centre Add-Ins Adv & DisAdv. Of QC

Why Quality Centre?

Mercury Quality Center is a web-based test management tool It gives you a centralized control over your entire testing Project Also can say, defect tracking tool.

Introduction
Developed by Mercury interactive Owned by HP presently QC is web based application, server being IIS or Jboss, Database as MS SQL or Oracle. QC is formally known as Test Director. Customization Script developed on VB Script QC can be installed on Windows, Linux and Solaris

What are the different tools available in the market (for functional testing) Rational Clear Quest Rational Test Manager Silk Central HP Quality Center Open Source Tools Bugzila, Jira etc.

Quality Center- Usage

Business analysts define application requirements and testing objectives Test managers and project leads design test plans and develop test cases QA testers run manual and automated tests, report execution results, and enter defects Developers review and fix defects logged into the database Project managers create application status reports and manage resource allocation Product managers decide whether an application is ready to be released.

Quality Center - Features

Web based application with the following modules Requirement management Test plan Test lab Defects management

Latest tool version 11.0 We are using 9.0

Requirement management
Creating a Requirement Creating a sub requirement Testing the changed workflow in the project groups in requirements Testing the Mandatory, history setting at project groups Customizing the columns RTM(It traces test conducted from requirement & indicate progress of project. Different views of Requirements
Coverage view Grid view etc.

RTM

Test Plan
Creation of Test Scenarios (Folders), Sub Folders Creation of Test Cases under Folders Checking the effect of permission by changing the setting in groups for various users. Customizing user defined field and its effect under test plan Test Plan Details Mapping Test cases to the requirement Reports Summary, Progress, Trend

Test Lab
Creation of Rounds (Folder) Creation of Test Set Mapping test case to the test set Execution of Round Finding the actual result in the requirement after mapping Creation of defect while executing through execution screen Different execution reports

Defects
Creation of Defects Managing the defect cycle by configuring through groups Customizing defect for various groups Customizing the add defect screen Customizing the modify defect screen Various defect reports Defect aging Linking defects Requirements, Test case, Through test lab

Mercury Quality Center Microsoft Excel Add-in

1 Installing the Microsoft Excel Add-in
Describes how to install the Microsoft Excel Add-in.

2 Formatting Data
Describes how to format requirement, test plan, or defect data in a Microsoft Excel worksheet.

3 Exporting Data to Quality Center

Describes how to export the Microsoft Excel worksheet to Quality Center.

1 Installing the Microsoft Excel Add-in

Make Excel sheet

Requirement tracebility metrics (RTM)

Adv & DisAdv. Of QC

Allows non-technical subject-matter experts to quickly build, data drive, and document tests in one web-based system. Eliminates the need for programming to automate business process flows due to scriptfree test design. Reduces the effort required for test maintenance by deploying centralized Business Components for both manual and automated tests. Automatically generates Test Plan Documentation through an innovative AutoDocumentation mechanism. Enables QA efforts to best leverage talent through specific roles and responsibilities. Enables User Acceptance Test (UAT) to deploy automation.

Centralizes test-maintenance so application changes are automatically propagated through automated test assets.

Disadv.
Costly

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