ALM/Quality Center 11.0 Essentials

Course Overview

• Introduction
• Course overview
• Course objectives
• Introduction to the case study
• Introduction to the lab environment

Introduction to Application Lifecycle Management

• Describe HP’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) product
• Describe the ALM hierarchy and roadmap
• Navigate through the ALM modules
• Describe the key features and benefits of ALM
• Identify what’s new in ALM version 10.0
• Identify additional helpful resources

Project Planning and Tracking

• Define Project Planning and Tracking (PPT)
• Understand the terminology used in PPT
• Work with PPT including:
• Define scope items
• Assign content to scope items
• Define and configuring milestones
• Assign and configure Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Working with Requirements and Analyzing Risk

• Specify requirements
• Identify the characteristics of a useful requirement
• Add requirements to a project
• Create a requirements tree
• Assign requirements to releases and cycles
• Add traceability links using traceability
• Add traceability links between requirements
• Perform risk analysis for requirements

Requirements Coverage

• Create test coverage in the Requirements module
• Create requirement coverage in the Test Plan module
• Create requirement coverage using test configurations
• Analyze cycle progress
• Track cycle progress with the test set folders

Test Planning

• Organize subjects and tests in a Test Plan tree
• Create tests that define the steps for testing an application
• Use parameters in tests
• Generate test scripts from design steps
• Define test configurations
• Generate a live analysis graph from a Test Plan tree

Test Execution

• Create and organize folders in a Test Sets tree
• View all test runs for a project
• Create test sets
• Add tests and test configurations into test sets
• Link test set folders to releases and cycles
• Manage test execution flow and test dependencies
• Execute manual and automated tests
• Record and review the results of test executions

Lab Management

• Identify the motivation behind lab management
• Identify the concepts of lab management
• Manage lab resources
• Schedule and execute tests

Defect Tracking

• Log defects
• Search and review defects
• Track defects throughout their lifecycle
• Associate defects with entities

Reporting and Analysis

• Describe reporting and analysis in ALM
• Identify the features of the dashboard
• Create dashboard folders and pages
• Configure the dashboard
• View a dashboard page
• Generate reports and graphs
• Analyze reports and graphs
• Create and view project reports

Library Management

• Define a library
• Define a baseline
• Compare baselines
• Pin a test set to a baseline

Exporting from Excel to ALM

• Identify the types of data that you can export to Quality Center
• Install an add-in for Microsoft Excel to allow data to be exported to Quality Center
• Format requirements, test plan, and defects data in Microsoft Excel files
• Execute the Export wizard in Excel
• Verify the exported data in Quality Center

Introduction to Site Administration Implementation Planning

• Planning: considerations and key roles
• Identify hardware and software considerations
• Identify organization-wide customization requirements
• Use Site Administration to manage quality center

Domains and Projects

• Understanding the project structure in Quality Center
• Creating domains and projects
• Enabling versioning
• Checking connectivity

Maintaining Quality Center Projects

• Querying project tables
• Copying, renaming, removing, backing up, restoring, and upgrading projects
• Importing and Exporting projects

Managing Users

• Creating and managing users
• Monitoring user connections

Configuring Servers and Parameters

• Loading a Quality Center license
• Modifying server configurations
• Defining DB servers
• Configuring Quality Center parameters
• Setting the Quality Center mail protocol

Planning Project-Level Customizations

• Planning for Project Customization

Managing Users and User Groups

• Adding users to a project
• Creating user groups
• Customizing module access
• Defining transition rules

Customizing Entities

• Adding user-defined fields
• Creating requirement types
• Defining criteria for risk-based quality management

Customizing Lookup Lists

• Creating project-specific lists
• Associating a list to a project entity
• Managing project-specific lists

Customizing Mailing Options and Alert Rules

• Designating mail fields
• Defining mailing conditions
• Configuring alert rules
• Manage follow up flags

Customizing Workflow

• Customizing lists
• Customizing fields by user groups

Implementing Workflow Using the Script Editor

• Using the Script Editor
• Adding a command button by using the Script Editor

Summary

Working knowledge of:

• Windows
• Testing concepts
• Website Concepts