This session will cover common issues, tips and tricks, and details of HP Quality Center and QuickTest Professional integration.
Attend and learn about:
Details of integrating HP QuickTest Professional and Quality Center, including an explanation of how QTP assets and tests are stored in QC and how QTP communicates with QC
Troubleshooting common integration issues
An explanation of what QTP/QC log files are and how to use them
How to use TDAPI/OTA in QC
What's new in QTP/QC 10
We’ll also give you a chance to ask questions.
We look forward to your participation at this HP Software & Solutions Customer Connection Member Event.
Register today!
Wednesday, February 1008:00am PDT 11:00am EDT 17:00 CET
Stuff on Test Automation, Automation Tools, Scripting, etc...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Meet the Experts: Unraveling the mystery of HP Quality Center patches
Are you confused over the way patches are released by HP compared to how the process used to work when
Topics will include:
· Mercury versus HP processes
· Types of patches
· Patch-release schedule
· Patch notification via SSO, KBs
· How to install and uninstall a patch
· What .vpd properties are, and what to do if a vpd.properties file is corrupted
· How to roll back a patch manually
· High-level differences between Quality Center 9.0, 9.2, and 10.0 patch processes on the server side
Meet the Experts: QuickTest Professional
Join Sasha Rabinovich, senior technical support consultant for HP QuickTest Professional, to hear about technological challenges that testing professionals face today and about ways in which QuickTest Professional can meet those challenges. You’ll learn how to test for memory problems with QuickTest Professional, how to debug Web extensibility using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, and how to use self-solve knowledge to search patches. Rabinovich will also cover the latest enhancements in QuickTest Professional 10.
Access this HP Software Customer Connection Member Event through the below link :
Meet the Experts: tips and tricks for upgrading to HP Quality Center 10.0
HP experts Muhammad Sami and Philipp Schwarze, senior technical support consultants for HP Quality Center, will cover topics of interest to
§ Supported environments for Quality Center 10 installation
§ Upgrade path for Quality Center 10
§ Purpose of the Verify tool
§ Purpose of the Repair tool
§ Verification Report details
§ Usage of exception file while upgrading projects
Access this HP Software Customer Connection Member Eventusing the below link:
Monday, June 8, 2009
AccuRev to Support HP Quality Center 10.0
LEXINGTON, Mass.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--AccuRev Inc., a member of the HP Quality Management Ecosystem Partner Program, today announced support for HP Quality Center 10.0. AccuRev is extending its current issue-based change management integration to include software configuration management (SCM) for development and quality assurance (QA) teams leveraging their current investment in HP Quality Center 10.0.
AccuRev provides software development process automation and source code versioning to ensure full traceability between requirements and source code changes. The integration with HP Quality Center 10.0 improves the traceability of all development work and provides a firm foundation for application lifecycle management (ALM) based on the strong auditing, transactional, and compliance features of both systems.
“Working with HP, we plan to offer our customers an effective collaborative environment to manage all software development assets, from source code, requirements, tests, and other binaries all within the same tool,” said Cliff Utstein, vice president of marketing, AccuRev.
“Customers need to take a pragmatic approach to managing the application lifecycle in order to reduce costs and risks,” said Ankur Agarwal, senior product manager, Software & Solutions, HP. “AccuRev’s agile SCM and software process optimization capabilities combined with HP Quality Center help customers ensure that applications meet the needs of the business through end-to-end traceability of all business-critical artifacts.”
Availability
AccuRev integration with HP Quality Center 10.0 will be available from AccuRev in Q3 2009. For more information, contact your local AccuRev sales representative at 1-800-383-8170.
About AccuRev Inc.
AccuRev optimizes and automates the software development process to allow organizations using Agile or other development process models to accelerate their throughput and release higher quality software. AccuRev’s flexible and efficient approach to managing the software release process together with code assets is relied on by organizations challenged with doing Agile and parallel development, transitioning to Agile development practices, or managing geographically distributed and offshore teams. AccuRev ensures greater project visibility, optimal team collaboration, and software asset reuse to deliver more software at over 30 percent faster than traditional file-based, branch and label SCCM solutions. AccuRev, the fastest growing SCCM company, is used by over 500 global enterprises including Polycom, Texas Instruments, American Airlines, Orbitz, Thomson Financial, Verizon Wireless and Lockheed Martin.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Connect to Quality Center OTA Client using PHP
CODE:
$qcurl =$_GET["qcurl"];
$usr =$_GET["usr"];
$pwd =$_GET["pwd"];
$dmn =$_GET["dmn"];
$prj =$_GET["prj"];
$tdc = new COM("TDApiOle80.TDConnection") or die("Unable to instantiate Quality Center OTA API COM Object");
$tdc->InitConnectionEx($qcurl);
$tdc->Login($usr, $pwd);
If ($tdc->LoggedIn == 1)
echo "
Connected";
Connected";
Else
echo "Check the Attributes";
$tdc->Connect($dmn,$prj);
If ($tdc->Connected == 1)
echo "
Logged In : Domain - $dmn | Project :$prj ";
Logged In : Domain - $dmn | Project :$prj ";
//$tsttMgr = $tdc->TestSetTreeManager;
//Disconnect from the project
If ($tdc->Connected == 1)
{ $tdc->Disconnect();
echo "
Disconnected";
Disconnected";
}
//Log off the server
If ($tdc->LoggedIn == 1)
$tdc->Logout();
//Release the TDConnection object.
$tdc->ReleaseConnection();
echo "
Released Connection.";
Released Connection.";
Some Q&A regarding COM & PHP -> http://www.php-center.de/en-html-manual/faq.com.html
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
MKS for HP Quality Center
Improve Software Quality and Enhance Development and Quality Assurance (QA) Team Efficiency
MKS supports integrations with market leading, complementary development lifecycle tools, including leading software testing technologies. Our deep integrations result in a well managed cohesive development environment that is highly functional and user friendly.
"Quality Assurance is a crucial component of any IT project and is the responsibility of everyone involved - not just the QA Engineer, which makes it imperative for companies to ensure close, consistent collaboration between development, QA, and the business."
- Mark Sarbiewski, Senior Director, Solution Marketing, Software, Hewlett-Packard Company
Benefits of MKS and HP Quality Center (formerly Mercury Quality Center) integration for improved software testing:
Support IT governance by directly linking software change to defects
Improve communication between QA and Development with continuous process
Delivers complete traceability, closing hte loop between defects found in QA and fixed in development
Reduces project risk, providing assurance that QA is testing against the most current set of requirements
Connect Development and QA Teams with Integrated Process and Workflow Management:
HP Quality Center is integrated with the process and workflow capabilities of MKS Integrity to build a continuous and two-way process flow between Application Development and Quality Assurance teams.
Requirements authored in MKS Integrity can be synchronized into the Requirements Module of HP Quality Center, ensuring that testing requirements are directly related to the requirements being authored by the business analysts.
After testing is completed, defects identified with HP Quality Center are automatically cycled back into the development process via MKS Integrity, and travel with associated development artifacts such as source code or documentation. The integration enables organizations to establish an enforceable and auditable process for defect resolution, improving software quality, enhancing development and QA team efficiency, and supporting IT governance initiatives.
About MKS
MKS, the global application lifecycle management (ALM) technology leader, enables software engineering and IT organizations to seamlessly manage their worldwide software development activities. With its flagship product, MKS Integrity, MKS offers support for all software development activities through a single enterprise application, resulting in better global collaboration and higher productivity. MKS supports customers worldwide with offices across North America, Europe and Asia.
The MKS Integrity platform shows how a strong platform for application change and IT management can provide the foundation to meet the biggest challenges facing the Fortune 500 today - prioritization of IT spending, driving higher productivity, outsourcing and offshoring, and the reinvention of their IT infrastructure themselves.
HP Quality Center 10 from a Test Manager’s Perspective
by Serge Baumberger
The new Version 10 of the HP Quality Center (QC) is now available. Yet what are the actual advantages of the new QC compared to its predecessor from a Test Manager’s perspective?
Below, I will take a look at some of the new features and changes, and I will answer the question whether one should even make the switch.
The Most Significant Changes
The new QC Version 10 has seen a series of changes, of which the most significant ones are:
- Version control
- Baselining
- Integrated dashboard
- Shared libraries
- Cross Project Customization
Version Control
Finally, QC has been provided with a fully integrated version control. In past versions, one had to make do with third-party integration, which generally stumbled rather than ran. The version control, if desired, must first be activated for every individual project via the SiteAdmin. Once this is done, all entities falling under the version control become Version 1. QC entities include requirements, tests, test resources, and business components. If one wishes to add a test step to a test case for example, one is automatically requested to check this test case. As soon as there is more than one version of an entity, one can compare various versions against each other or retrieve an older version.
Summary: The whole thing is intuitive and easy to operate. But what’s the use of having eight versions of a requirement, when one doesn’t know which software release a version belongs to?
Baselining
Along with version control comes baselining, which is intended to answer the question above. Using the new “Management” module that replaces the “Releases” introduced in 9.x one gets to the baseline function via the “Libraries” tab. This enables one to obtain a summary of a complete testing release and retrieve it if necessary. In this way, a test set can be pinned to a baseline in the test lab. In other words, as of now, the manual copying of entire trees into the test plan module is a thing of the past. At last, test managers will be able to properly organize software that has multiple parallel releases (in production, current release, future release).
Summary: Setting up the baseline works very well. While creating it, a log keeps one updated on what is currently taking place. However, setting up baselines probably needs to be done during off-peak hours since it can take a while for larger QC projects.
Integrated Dashboard
Equally interesting for test managers is the new integrated dashboard that can be found on the left-hand navigation bar where the “Management” module is, too. The special feature of the new dashboard does not pertain to the graphics, which are not particularly appealing, but the “Cross-Project” functionality. It is now finally possible, when working on a QC project, to get an overview of all of one’s ongoing projects. These dashboards are freely configurable and can be designated to be personal favorites or publicly accessible. Special Excel reports also enable direct access to the database via SQL. The generated reports can then be graphically processed at the same time by means of VBScript.
Summary: The new dashboard module is quickly customized and achieves its purpose in ongoing projects. What is missing is a sensible way of printing content for a given project meeting, for example.
Shared Libraries
Libraries, which are located in the “Management” module, can be re-used and distributed with Version 10. A library represents a collection of entities in a QC project, including their relationships to each other. When dealing with many similar projects, it offers the advantage of not having to repeatedly create entities. Libraries can be imported from project A into project B, compared against each other, or even synchronized. A library also allows one to collect the same entities as in versioning. Defects are not included, but they can be shared with the new “HP Quality Center Synchronizer” manually among several QC projects. As mentioned, the advantages really only present themselves when one has many and/or large-scale projects. I suppose that is why this functionality is available only in the QC Premier Edition (also available are the Standard and Enterprise editions).
Summary: It remains to be seen whether this function will actually be used in real-world applications. In my opinion, it makes perfect sense to be able to take over pre-defined assets from another project so that one doesn’t have to keep re-inventing the wheel.
Cross Project Customization
And now here’s the last big change: Cross Project Customization. Many organizations have defined standards, such as a uniform defect status field or a standardized priority scale, for their software quality-related areas. However, these fields and lists were often changed or even deleted by QC project administrators. Some companies have even gone to great lengths in using their own programming to define a template that can be distributed to all QC projects, thereby establishing a uniform standard.
For all those who want to spare themselves this time and effort or do not wish to keep an in-house programmed interface going, there is a solution. Site Administrator now provides a way to link projects with a template. If the template is changed, the delta can then be passed on later at the right point in time. This function has been awaited not only by test managers who like to have the same configuration in all their projects, but especially also by the respective operators of QC installations, namely the system administrators. Cross Project Customization is also only available in the Premier Edition.
Summary: This change is awesome! Finally, testing organizations or Test Factory managers are able to implement a certain basic standard in their projects. Once this is accomplished, nothing can get in the way of standardized, across-the-board reporting.
Is an Upgrade Worth It?
The new Version 10 is an absolute milestone not only for tests managers. It also makes life easier for testers, Test Factory managers, as well as QC system administrators. The new functions have been anticipated for quite some time and have been implemented in the new product in a well-conceived manner.
However, there are still questions about how stable the new version is (my tests ran flawlessly) and how simple a migration of a larger installation might be. If these questions receive favorable responses, one should absolutely consider switching over to the new version!
Source: http://www.beteoblog.com
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
HP Announces Center Management for Quality Center 2.0
In June 2008, HP released HP Center Management for Quality Center 2.0 software to help customers manage HP Quality Center software as a shared Center of Excellence (CoE). The solution facilitates this process by providing 'out-of-the-box' quality management best practices for project and resource management. It allows you to create a centralized quality function with pre-packaged content and workflows to automate key processes for quality management, including service request types, security groups, custom reports and dashboard modules, as well as tracking and managing HP Quality Center administrative tasks. Our unique solution combines proven practices from quality experts and HP Project and Portfolio Management technologies and provides a simpler and faster way to manage center demand, training, and administration. HP Center Management for Quality Center can help you: Efficiently manage the application project lifecycle and QA testing timelines, resources and skillsets Enforce process and compliance through automation and enforcement of project and resource management processes Manage and enforce quality gates and controls Automate and manage HP Quality Center adminstration processes Ensure continuity and consistency of skills and process development Modify and measure improvements in your quality management processes For more information about Center Management for Quality Center, visit our webpage at https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-127-24^26176_4000_100__ or contact your HP sales representative. Article src : http://h30046.www3.hp.com/country/us/en/portal/content.php?topiccode=CC_Center%20Managent%20QC |
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
HP Quality Center 10.0 - Taking Quality Management to a New Level
HP is Launching HP Quality Center 10.0 on 30th January 2009.
Click Here: HP Quality Center 10.0 - Taking Quality Management to a New Level
There is a Detailed Webcast that talks about Whats New in HP Quality Center 10.0.
Speaker : Tracy Dedore (Worldwide Outbound Marketing Manager for HP Quality Center)
Direct WebCast Link (You might have to login): http://hpbroadband.com/program.aspx?key=10988QC10ProductLaunch14Jan09
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