HP Quality Center

When a Quality Center Project is created we have to store and manage the data generated and collected by Quality Center. Each and every project is supported by a database that is used to store project information. The following database applications are used to store and manage Quality Center information:

☛ Oracle 9.2.0.6 Standard/Enterprise Edition

☛ Oracle 10.2.0.3

☛ Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (SP2).

We determine the risk category for each assessment requirement under the analysis requirement, It has two factors:

Business Criticality

Failure Probability.

Quality center is the advanced version of Test Director. It has more features than Test Director.

The dashboard analysis has two components.

Analysis View which contain analysis tree.

Dashboard View which contains dashboard tree.

Quality Center is a test management tool which supports various phases of software development life cycle whereas BugZilla is Defect Management tool only.

Test instance is required to run the test case in the lab. We can't directly test case in the lab, instead we need to run test instance of that test case.

The interfaces of QC are:

Site Admin

Quality Center

Using QTP add-in in Quality Center we can use QTP as an automation tool.

They saved automatically when the users clicks on "END RUN" in the Test Lab.

Percentage of testing covered at a given time is known as Coverage status. It helps in tracking project status.