HP Quality Center Market Ting Doc

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In today’s Instant-on Enterprise, business success is fueled byinnovative software that works. And predictable, high-qualityapplication delivery is now more important than ever. As the paceof competition and business change accelerates, IT Quality teamsneed solutions enabling them to deliver modernized applicationsfaster while maintaining and improving quality, reliability, andsecurity. HP Quality Center software is the right solution fortime-pressured IT Quality teams working in partnership withdevelopment, business analysis, and delivery teams to deliver the

promise of modern applications for business success.HP Quality Center is a comprehensive, unified, and extensibleapplication software quality platform. It manages and automatesdelivery of secure, reliable, and high-quality applications. Implementcomplete quality management and establish consistent, repeatableprocesses for managing requirements, tests, and businesscomponents with HP Quality Center.

Drive quality through the application lifecycleSoftware today is core to any business process and ultimatelyevery business outcome. Organizations cannot afford to delivera poor quality application as the costs to productivity, customersatisfaction, and even revenue generation can be severe. To

keep business running smoothly, organizations need to makesure that their applications function as expected, perform evenunder variable consumption loads, and meet security levelsdemanded by the risk profile of the application to the business.

And security, in particular, has come forward as a critical aspect

of application quality as the risk of exploitation by hackers has growsubstantially with the advent of Web 2.0, mobile devices and nowCloud-based delivery models. As a result, functionality, performanceand security expectations, or requirements, all drive quality processeand lead to adoption of new testing methods. Today’s Quality

Assurance (QA) team needs the efficiencies delivered by an integrateplatform designed to manage and control quality through the lifecycHP Quality Center is that modern Quality Management platform.

Too often organizations are still relying on standalone documents o

a collection of disparate systems to keep track of their quality andtesting efforts, and their testing assets resulting in:

•Increased risk of finding defects in production

•High costs due to a lack of consistent and repeatable processes

•Unclear requirements resulting in development and QA notdelivering what the business wants

•No single point of truth, finger-pointing, and inefficient hand-offs

•Redundant testing due to missing information

•Poor decisions due to inadequate visibility into project progressand status

• And, many hours spent compiling reports that are immediatelyout of date

To help ensure the quality of an application by leveraging consistenrepeatable, and standardized processes, thousands of organizatiohave adopted HP Quality Center software.

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HP Quality Center: A scalable,unified platform for all aspects of

application quality managementHP Quality Center is a unified platform thatefficiently scales from a single projectto multiple, enterprise-wide projectsand releases. It enables you to manageapplication quality with consistent,repeatable processes regardless of yourmethodology of choice, from Waterfall toiterative methodologies such as Agile.

HP Quality Center supports requirementsdefinition and management, release and cyclemanagement, test planning and scheduling,defects management and reporting, all within

a single platform with complete traceabilitydriving collaboration between businessanalysts, QA, and development teams.HP Quality Center is a Web-based solutionproviding access to a steel thread of criticalproject information. This information bridgesdistributed teams in their related efforts todeliver high quality applications—regardlessof geographic and organizational boundaries.

Key features and benefitsRequirements Definition and

Management: HP Quality Center supports a

functionally rich foundation for RequirementsDefinition and Management. Key capabilitiesinclude standardizing requirements definitionvia configurable templates, a rich text editorwhich provides an MS-Word-like experience,the ability to view requirements coverage atproject or release level, trace relationshipsbetween requirements, process paths, defectsand test coverage, and link requirementsdirectly to tests, developer tasks and defectsto ensure alignment with change.

HP Quality Center Requirements Definitionand Management allows for business processmodels (BPM) to be imported and displayed,

visually representing and communicatingthe defined business process flows (seeFigure 1). When requirements change, achange impact report provides visibilityinto the requirements and subsequent partof the business process affected, enablingyou to avoid a full regression test after eachchange. Dispersed teams also receive promptnotification of any requirements changes thatmight impact the tasks they are working on.

Risk-based Test Planning and

Management: Define, manage, and trackall test script types (functional, performance,

and security) in one place. Coupled withRisk-based Test Management, stakeholderscan assign business risk to requirements, andcalculate where to apply testing resources.

Advanced test planning capabilities allowfunctional, regression, load, unit andintegration testing—each with its own set ofrequirements, schedules, and procedures.QA teams can emulate business processes,run tests unattended, define and share testcases and Business Process Test components,and execute manual and automated testingwith integrated results.

Quality Release and CycleManagement: Release and CycleManagement enables quick developmentand testing cycles and breaks large projectsinto meaningful phases. Release effort canbe planned by identifying requirements andtests for each cycle and attaining real-timevisibility into actual vs. planned testing statusto make informed “go/no-go” decisions.

Version Control: Version Control isenabled for requirements, tests and testassets to enable distributed teams to

collaborate and manage multiple versionsof assets in parallel while maintaining dataintegrity and providing audit history ofchanges through the project lifecycle.

Baselining: Baselining captures a group orequirements, tests or test assets at strategipoints in the project lifecycle to mark specimilestones. Baselines can be compared forchange impact and to enable rollback.

Test Scheduling and Execution: Controland schedule execution of manual andautomated tests including unattended

execution. Execute manual tests with HP’sinnovative manual testing software, HPSprinter. View execution runs, results, andlog defects with run details.

HP Sprinter—Integrated Manual

Testing: HP Sprinter is a manual testingrevolution targeted at increasing efficiencyof manual testing activities and capturingintelligent defect information for fasterresolution by development teams (seeFigure 2). Fully integrated into HP QualityCenter, HP Sprinter improves testerproductivity and accuracy with easy to usescreen tool bars, screen annotation, videoand textual test step capture, intelligentdefect logging, automated data injectionfor repetitive testing, and mirrored platformsupport to execute one test targeted onmultiple platforms. HP Sprinter is particularvaluable for teams conducting exploratorytesting and manual testing frequently initerative environments.

Figure 1: Importing a Business Process Model in HP ALM andaligning business process to requirements

Figure 2: HP Sprinter—Raising the bar on efficient Manual Testing



Defect Management: Defects found oncean application is in production costs over100% more to fix. HP Quality Center defect

management identifies, manages, tracks,and enforces defect resolution across theapplication lifecycle. Testers can createfunctional, performance, and applicationsecurity defects manually or directly from theexecution of manual and automated tests,and communicate them to developers withcontext from linked requirements and testexecution results.

Developer Collaboration: To efficientlyensure quality through the lifecycle,requirements and defects need to becommunicated to developers without

requiring the learning and use of a newor additional development tool. HP QualityCenter provides supported integrations intointegrated development environments (IDE)for linking tasks, requirements, and defects.Using HP Quality Center, developer tasksare tracked against the requirements anddefects in order to track project progressand evaluate risk.

Reporting and Graphing: HP QualityCenter has an integrated Dashboardmodule to centralize quality reporting soyou can make real-time decisions based

on application status across projects andQA initiatives. HP Quality Center can alsoexport a report source into Microsoft® Excel, letting your end users performflexible data manipulation. In addition,the document generator within HP QualityCenter allows you to push requirements,tests, defects, and their associated data toa Microsoft® Word document.

Agile Quality Management: The HP Agile Accelerator is a customized Quality Centerproject designed to help manage Agile

development and testing efforts. It deliverspredefined workflows, configurations, andrules to manage Agile processes, alongwith prebuilt user roles and privileges and

Agile reporting such as burn-up, burn-down,Kanban visualization, and cross-sprintvelocity charts. The Agile Accelerator isan additional module that works withHP Quality Center and HP ALM software.

Expand your best practicesacross the Application Lifecyclewith HP Application Lifecycle

Management SoftwareHP Application Lifecycle Management(ALM) software is built on the same unifiedplatform as Quality Center and is an easyupgrade for existing HP Quality Centercustomers. It further enhances IT’s ability tomanage the complete lifecycle of a softwareproject, enterprise release or program frominception to delivery, enabling organizationsto establish best practices and commonprocesses or move fully to a model of

Application Center of Excellences (CoE).HP ALM expands on HP Quality Center with

the following capabilities:•Project planning and tracking to manage

milestones and associate key performanceindicators (KPIs)

• Application Lifecycle Intelligence to enablerapid decision making, risk and changeimpact down to the source-code level

•Cross-project asset sharing and reuse toeliminate duplication of effort

•Cross-project reporting to provideaggregated metrics and trends, givinga holistic view

•Cross-project defect-sharing to increaseefficiency in resolving defects

Additional integratedHP Quality Center modulesManage quality with service-oriented

and composite applications: TheHP Service Test Management module is acomplementary solution that lets your IT teamautomatically create QA testing requirements

and test assets for composite applicationsand service-oriented architecture (SOA)shared services. HP Service Test Managemensupports change impact testing for compositeapplications and services and integratesseamlessly with HP SOA Systinet Governancsoftware to enable policy-driven governancebased on testing results.

Accelerate testing activities for SAP

Applications: The HP Change ImpactTesting module for SAP applications is anintegrated set of software, services, and bepractices for automating key SAP qualityactivities. This module lets you improve youapplication team efficiency by focusingtesting on the SAP transactions and busineprocesses that are impacted most bychanges, so you can optimize your effortsfor best quality.

“HP Quality Center software gives us the information we need to support quality across the development cycle. We now do much more than simply catch defects. Wecan reduce the risk of defects in the first place, streamlinedevelopment processes, and do it all with fewer resources

while supporting more software applications than ever before.” David Moses, QA manager, delta.com,Self-Service & CRM—Delta Air Lines, Inc



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Standardize security as part of your testing process: Bringsecurity testing earlier into the Application Lifecycle and find securityrisks and defects when they are less costly to fix. HP QAInspectsoftware allows QA professionals to incorporate fully automated

Web application security testing into your overall test managementprocess without the need for specialized security knowledge.

Bridge the quality gap between subject-matter experts and

quality engineers: HP Business Process Testing (BPT) softwarebrings business analysts into the process of defining business-driventesting use cases and process flows and using them to increase

the accuracy of tests. Using BPT, the test engineer is able to createreusable test components that map to business process test usecases, using both manual and automated methods and share themwith distributed quality teams within HP Quality Center.

Optimize your investment in HP Quality Centerwith Professional Services and SaaSHP Quality Center Software as a Service: HP offers QualityCenter as both software for use inside an IT organization’s datacenter as well as via Software-as-a-Service or SaaS. HP QualityCenter SaaS can accelerate deployment and productivity via:platform consolidation, a team of Quality Center platform experts,simplified management, scalability built-in and on-demand, and

software support so that you can focus on innovation.HP Professional Services for Quality Assurance: HP Professional Services provide testing expertise, innovative servicedelivery models, design, implementation, and education services forHP Quality Center software. HP Quality Center QuickStart packagesprovide best practices and knowledge transfer to implement QualityCenter software in as quickly as two weeks.

About HP Software Application SolutionsEnsure modernization initiatives deliver optimal business outcomes.By providing unified Application Lifecycle management andQuality software, HP offers customers not simply more tools butgreater simplicity for improved predictability, high quality, andchange readiness.

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Get the most from your software investmentHP provides high-quality software services that address all aspects of yoursoftware application lifecycle needs. With HP, you have access to standards-basedmodular, multi-platform software coupled with global services and support. Thewide range of HP service offerings—from online self-solve support to proactivemission-critical services—enables you to choose the services that best match yourbusiness needs.

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