Quality Center Training

Importance of Using a Test Management Tool

A Test Management tool provides

A central repository for storing some of the key testing artifacts like
Requirements, Test Scripts, and Defects
A medium to share these key testing artifacts with the different stakeholders
A medium to facilitate the interaction between the various stakeholders by
allowing
Review of key testing artifacts at one central place
Review comments sharing through comment fields
Reports and graphs to show the progress and status updates
A tool to provide traceability between the requirements, Test Scripts, and Defects

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Quality Center Overview

Quality Center is a web-based Test Management tool which can be run with the help of
a web browser over internet or corporate intranet.

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Quality Center : Test Management Process

• Test management with Quality Center involves four phases

Requirements Test Plan Test Lab Defects

Create
Specify Execute Track
Test scripts
Requirements Tests Defects

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Test Management : Requirements

Requirements Test Plan Test Lab Defects

Create Detail Analyze

Requirements Requirements
Requirements

• Create Detailed • Generate

• Build a Reports and
requirements for each
Requirement tree Graphs to
requirement topic
analyze
• Assign priority level to requirements for
each requirement scope coverage

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Requirements - Requirements Tree view

Requirements Menu Bar

Requirements Tool Bar

Description

Attachments
History Show
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Requirements - Requirements Grid view

Requirements Menu Bar

Requirements Tool Bar

Description

Attachments
History Show
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Requirements - Requirements Coverage view

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Requirements - Coverage analysis view

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Test Management : Test Plan

Requirements Test Plan Test Lab Defects

Define Create Design

Define Analyze
Test Requirements Test
Tests Test Plan
Subjects Coverage Scripts

• Divide the • Link each

• Determine the • Write detailed
application into • Analyze Test
type of tests Test Script Test Steps for
functions to be Plan for
required for with the each Test
tested requirements
each subject requirements Script in the coverage
• Build a Test it covers Test Plan tree
Plan tree

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Test Management : Test Lab

Requirements Test Plan Test Lab Defects

Create Schedule Add Analyze Test

Run Tests
Test Sets Runs Defects Results

• Identify Test • Schedule Test • Run Manual • Report new • View test run
Scripts to be Script Test Scripts Defects results and
included in the execution by determine
• Defects can be
Test Set for a assigning Test defects logged
test cycle Scripts to logged during
different phases • Generate
testers
• Add Test Scripts of testing reports and
in Test Set graphs to
analyze
execution
results

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 Quality Center : Defects

Requirements Test Plan Test Lab Defects

Intialization Assignment Resolution Retest and Closure

Test

New Being P Closed

Tested

F
Closure
Reviewed Valid Prioritization Reopen Verification
Duplicate
Not Valid
Dev

Open Fixed In Test

Cancelled
Transfer to Support
Deferred
Duplicate

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