Introduction to Quality Center

Quality Center is web-based  test management tool. We can access the Quality Center via the internet or a corporate intranet i.e. web browser. Application Life Cycle management is a complex process.

•  It involves interrelated steps such as defining releases, development requirements, designing and execution of thousands of tests and monitoring and reporting defects.
• Tests are required for multiple hardware platforms, multiple configurations and multiple application versions. They simplify and organize application management by providing systematic control over the process.

It helps to create a framework and foundation for application management workflow.

Features of Quality Center

• It organizes and tracks application releases, enabling alignment of your business priorities and quality expectations according to project requirements.
• It offers integration using testing tools (WR, QTP, Load Runner and Visual API-XP) as well as third-party tools.
• It guides through all the phases of Application Life Cycle management, and ensures that customers receive the highest quality of applications.
• It can track application defects, enabling  the monitoring of defects closely from initial detection until resolution
• It can link to our email system; defect tracking information can be shared by all departments; application development, quality assurance, customer support and information system personnel.

EDITIONS OF QC

• QC starter edition: this edition is for small teams, managing small teams.
• QC enterprises: this edition is used for large releases and having new capabiities.
• QC premium edition: it is mainly for a large and mature organization who has either something or implemented COE in their organization and who are managing enterprises releases.

VERSIONING

• Initially  there were change-related problems that QA people had to face like:
• Frequent changes in requirements and tests.
• Repeated copying of project-related assets leads to chaos.
• There is lack of visibility when priorities change.
• To improve this chaos QC 10.0 version has introduced.

BASE LINING

• It captures project-related information at key points of time to make it clear what was agreed to and what was delivered .
• If any problem happens at any particular version of the project base ling to go to previous.

INTEGRATED DASHBOARD

• It has a separate dashboard to analyze the test cases and defects through graphs and pie charts.
• It helps in real-time progress and status reporting with a focus on individual stakeholders in effective release decisions and there is no need to manage servers.

ENHANCED RISK QUALITY MANAGEMENT WITH TESTING EFFORTI

• It has a strategic test plan that helps to identify the testing efforts of specific requirements of a particular business risk.'
  
• This helps to accurately plan the project deliverables and how much testing efforts should be put on the requirements of specific levels.

SHARED LIBRARIES

It can be created for requirements, tests and components and can be reused and distributed.