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Introduction to Quality Center:
Quality Center is a versatile tool brought out by HP, for managing the complete application testing process. When we say the management of the application testing process; it includes the process of customizing the test project, defining the releases, specifying requirements, planning of tests, execution of tests, tracking of defects, issuing of alerts on changes, and finally analyzing the results.
It should not be misunderstood as a tool for testing the functionality of the applications. Not being a testing tool as such, it does not use any scripting language. Or in other words, we can’t write or execute any script in Quality Center.
Quality center can be used to write functions in such way that enables us to open the Test script in a performance-testing tool like QuickTest Professional and when desired, we can save it in Quality center.
Key Features of Quality Center:
Following features render Quality Center as a most versatile test management tool.
1) Maintains a Common Repository
2) Offers Automatic Traceability Matrix
3) Excellent Bug Tracking facility
4) Offers Automatic Reports and Graphs generator
How to use the Quality Center:
Broadly we can bifurcate our process of using Quality Center into following four Modules or phases.
1) Requirements Module
2) Test Planning Module
3) Test Execution Module
4) Defects Management Module
1) Requirements Module:
It comprises of clear identification & validation of all functional and performance requirements expected to be tested in our application. These requirements, once described with ample clarity provide the test team a solid foundation on which the entire testing process is based. The process involves listing out the entire Primary or Main Requirements along-with sub-requirements or Child Requirements.
For the entire Requirement identified above, a Test is planned. For Manual Testing, the term "Test" refers to creation of a Test Case, while for an Automated Testing, the term "Test" refers to creation of a Test Script.
Requirements Module of Quality Center offers facility of defining two types of Requirements Like:
1) Defining New Requirement
2) Defining New Child Requirement
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