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Quality Center

INTRODUCTION:

Quality Center is a Test Management tool from HP (Mercury Interactive)

It is a web based application

FOLLOWING ACTIVITIES ARE PERFORMED IN QAULITY CENTER:

1. Is a repository(Requirements, Test Cases, Test Results and Defects)

2. Is a management tool (Traceability Matrix, Test Execution)

3. Is a defect reporting and tracking tool

4. Is reporting tool (Reports and Graphs for Test Results and Defects)

OTHER DEFECT TRACKING TOOLS:

1. Bugzilla

2. Dtracker

3. Issue tracker

4. Clear quest

5. Cdets

VERSIONS OF QUALITY CENTER:

8.2, 9.0, 9.2 & 10.0

TEST DIRECTOR:

is the earlier version of Quality Center

versions of Test Director:

5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 7.6 AND 8.0

QUALITY CENTER COMES IN TWO COMPONENTS:

A) Site Administrator:

It is to configure the settings in Quality Center like creating Domain, Project,

Project Users and their Privileges is managed by the Quality Center administrator

Accessing Site Administration:

HTTP://SERVERNAME/SABIN

B) Quality Center:

Accessing Quality Center:

HTTP://SERVERNAME/QABIN/START.HTM

USER NAME:

PASSWORD:

Authenticate

DOMAIN:

PROJECT:

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If the User Name and Passwords provided are valid then the domain(s) and

project(s) to which the user is associated will be fetched.

NOTE: One user can be associated to one or more than one projects in a given

domain and also can be associated to one or more domains

QUALITY CENTER MAINLY CONSISTS OF 4 COMPONENTS:

1. REQUIREMENTS:

Is to store the customer Requirements.

There can be two of Requirements created in Requirements tab

A) NEW REQUIREMENT:

New requirement is to create a parent or sibling to the existing

requirement

Navigation:

REQUIREMENTS --> NEW REQUIREMENT

B) NEW CHILD REQUIREMENT:

Is to create a requirement within a requirement

Navigation:

REQUIREMENTS --> NEW CHILD REQUIREMENT

we can create any number of Requirements based on the project Requirements

THERE ARE 4 VIEWS IN THE REQUIREMENTS TAB:

A) REQUIREMENTS TREE:

Will display the Requirements in the tree format

Will be able to create the Requirements from Requirements tree

Navigation:

VIEW --> REQUIREMENTS TREE

B) REQUIREMENTS GRID:

Is to display the Requirements in a tabular format and we cannot create

the Requirements in this view.

Navigation:

VIEW --> REQUIREMENTS GRID

C) REQUIREMENTS COVERAGE:

Can create the Requirements and also is used to map the Requirements

to the Test Cases to perform Traceability Matrix to ensure the amount of

coverage in Test Execution with respect tot he Requirements

Navigation:

VIEW ->> REQUIREMENTS COVERAGE

MAPPING THE REQUIREMENTS:

Select the requirement, and select "select tests", the Test Plan tab is displayed on the

right hand side of the screen, navigate and select the Test Case(s) and click on left

arrow.

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NOTE: We can have one or more Test Cases or Test Scripts to a given requirement.

D) COVERAGE ANALYSIS:

Is to analyze the Requirements post execution, the status of the

requirement is displayed with complete analysis with the graphs and the

numbers.

REQUIREMENTS GENERALY CAN HAVE DIFFERENT STATUS:

A) NOTCOVERED:

Is a default status of the requirement, when a requirement is created and

no Test Case is associated.

B) PASSED:

When all the Test Cases associated with the requirement are executed

and have the status as passed

C) FAILED:

When at least one Test Case is ended in a failed status for a given

requirement

D) NOR RUN:

Test Cases associated when not yet executed.

E) NOT COMPLETED:

A partially executed Test Cases (at least one Test Case not executed)

2. TEST PLAN:

Test Plan tab is to create and store manual and automation Test Cases.

CREATING A MANUAL TEST CASE:

FIRST CREATE THE FOLDER STRUCTURE.

NAVIGATION TO CREATE A TEST CASE:

TESTS --> NEW TEST

Specify the name of the Test Case and specify the Test Case description and in the

design steps create the steps for Test Cases (Step Name, Step Description and

Expected Result)

NOTE: Creating Test Cases from Quality Center is not preferred as the server (QC)

might get slowed down and might crash, hence the Test Case design is preferred in

external sources like MS Excel and MS Word documents.

UPLOADING TEST CASES FROM MS EXCEL:

Specify the folder path in the excel document to which the Test Case have to be

uploaded, every folder should be preceded with a backslash (\)

EX: \INSURANCE\HEALTHINSURANCE

Select the Test Cases and go to Tools and select "Export to Quality Center".

Following are the steps:

STEP1: Enter the QC URL and click next

HTTP://SERVERNAME/QCBIN

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STEP2: Enter the User name and Password and click next

STEP3: Select the Domain and Project and click next

STEP4: Specify the location where the Test Cases have to be uploaded

SELECT "TESTS" AND CLICK NEXT

STEP5: Specify the map name select "Create a New Map" and specify the map name

and click next

STEP6: Map the Quality Center fields with the excel fields and click next

STEP7: Is the process of uploading the Test Case to Quality Center

STEP8: Click Finish

QUALITY CENTER INTEGRATION WITH QUICK TEST PROFESSIONAL:

To connect to Quality Center from Quick Test Professional, in quick test:

Navigation:

FILE --> QUALITY CENTER CONNECTION

STEP1: Enter the URL and click Connect

STEP2: Enter the User Name and Password and click Authenticate

STEP3: Select the Domain and Project and click Login

After the connection is established, we can see the tests to "Test Plan" tab of quality

center or we can open the tests from Quality Center for enhancements for execution.

3. TEST LAB:

Is the place where the Test Execution is performed:

MANUAL TEST EXECUTION PROCESS:

Create the folder structure and create a "Test Set"

NAVIGATION:

TESTS --> NEW TEST

NOTE: A Test Set is a collection of manual Test Cases or Automation Test

Scripts.

MAPPING THE TESTCASES TO THE TEST SET:

Select the Test Set and click on "Select Tests", the Test Plan tab would be

displayed on the right hand side of the screen, Browse the folders and select the

Test Cases and click on left arrow(<--) executing the manual Test Cases: This

can be done in 2 ways:

A) RUN:

When selected, only the selected Test Case will be executed

B) RUN TEST SET:

When selected, all the Test Cases associated with the Test Set will be

executed one after the other in a sequential order.

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MANUAL TEST EXECUTION PROCESS:

Select the Test Case in the Test Set and click on "Run", manual test runner will

be displayed, click "Begin Run", complete steps of the Test Case will be displayed

with the Step Name, Time and Date, Step Description, Expected Result and a

Textbox to capture the actual result.

Perform the operation on the application by going through the step description

and compare the actual response from the application with the expected result, if

they are matching, select "Pass Selected" by updating the actual result and after

all steps are completed click "End Run"

If the expected is not matching with the actual result, click on "Fail Selected" and

click New Defect, a defect template will be displayed and fill in all the necessary

attributes and attach the snapshot of the defect screen and click Submit, there

would be a Defect ID generated by Quality Center and the reported defect will be

uploaded in Defects tab.

NOTE: Based on the status of the Test Cases in test lab, the status of the

Requirements will be updated in the Requirements tab of Quality Center.

AUTOMATION TEST EXECUTION PROCESS:

Create a Test Set and map the Scripts to the Test Set created and specify the

"Host Name" on which the test has to be executed

When performed run on the selected Script, Quality Center will by default launch

the Quick Test Professional and will load the Script and will update the status of

the test in Quality Center.

NOTE: To allow Quality Center to launch quick the following configuration has to

be done in Quick Test Professional:

Navigation:

TOOLS --> OPTIONS --> RUN --> ALLOW OTHER HP PRODUCTS TO

RUN TESTS AND COMPONENTS.

4. DEFECTS:

Is to store and track the Defects that are reported in the Test Execution process done in

test lab. The Defects reported from test lab are also stored in the Defects tab.

We can also report Defects from the Defects tab, but this is done there is no related test

Indian Job Walk-in's

Sunday, 13 September 2015