Topic: Quality Center/Test Director Interview Questions-1

Q. What is the use of Test Director software?

Test Director is Mercury Interactive's software test management tool. It helps quality assurance personnel plan and organize the testing process. With Test Director you can create a database of manual and automated tests, build test cycles, run tests, and report and track defects. You can also create reports and graphs to help review the progress of planning tests, running tests, and tracking defects before a software release.

Q. In the defect life cycle, if you find a defect in QC and think that it is not a valid defect. what will you do? Just close it or store it in any document for future review, if yes what type of document and where?

In the above scenario, the defect can be rejected.

Q. Can you install Quality center in Vista?

 No, we can not install QC in Vista.

 QC supports the below plotforms:

 	-Windows 2000 with service pack4

	-Windows XP with service pack2

Q. What are the tabs in Test Director? Explain each tab.

1.Requirements.

2.Test Plan.

3.Test Lab.

4.Defect Track

Q. How to switch between two projects?

Suppose there are 2 projects P1 and P2.

You are already logged in to project P1, then see in the right hand side of the application, there is an option called TOOLS, click on that and you will get a option CHANGE PROJECT, click on that and then click on select, u can move to the project P2.

Q. In which tab are test cases stored in Test director?

In Test Plan tab test cases are written for the requirements which are written in Requirements part. And these test cases are executed in Test Lab. If the test fails directly we can link that defect to Defects with specific ID.

Q. Can we add user defined fields to Test Director?

Yes, we can add the user defined fields in QC 9.0, but not in TD 8.2.

Q. How to map requirements with test cases in Test Director?

There are separate tabs for requirements and test cases (Test plan). For each requirement, there is an option using which we can select the corresponding test case and map to it.

Q. What is the main purpose to storing requirement in TD?

To map the test cases against specs so that one can find if there is any missing coverage.

Q. How can we save the tests Executed in test lab?

We can select the test which we want to save right click on it.click on save as, then save it in any format like  excel, word, xml etc.