Quality Center 12.0 Essentials

Module 1: Course Overview

– Introduction

– Course overview

– Course objectives

– Introduction to the case study

– Introduction to the lab environment

Module 2: 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 12.0

– Identify additional helpful resources

Module 3: Working with ALM Clients

– Identify the ALM clients

– Use the ALM 12 Web client

– Work with requirements

– Work with defects

– Perform web client customization

– Design and manage forms

– Work with business rules

Module 4: Working with Releases

– Identify the relationship between a line of business (LOB), applications, releases, and cycles

–Create a release tree

– Recognize the significance of assigning requirements to releases and cycles

– Recognize the significance of assigning tests to releases and cycles

Module 5: 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)

– Create a custom KPI

– Calculate KPIs

– View the scorecard

– Use PPT best practices

– Troubleshoot PPT HP Software Education Services

Module 6: 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

Module 7: 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

Module 8: 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

Module 9: 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

Module 10: Lab Management

– Identify the motivation behind lab management

– Identify the concepts of lab management

– Manage lab resources

– Schedule and execute tests

– Understand Application Under Test (AUT) environments

Module 11: Build Verification

– Describe Build Verification functionality

– Create a Build Verification suite

– Add functional test sets to the suite

– Add performance tests to the suite

– Run the Build Verification suite

– View test results

Module 12: HP Sprinter 12.0

– Review and understand the manual test lifecycle

– Understand Sprinter features and functionality

– Use Sprinter

– Author tests

– Perform exploratory testing

– Define storyboarding

– Use Sprinter to log defects

Module 13: Defect Tracking

– Log defects

– Search and review defects

– Track defects throughout their lifecycle

– Associate defects with entities

Module 14: Version Control

– Describe version control functionality

– Check out entities

– Check in entities

– View version history

– Compare versions

– Promote an older version

Module 15: Library Management

– Define a library

– Define a baseline

– Compare baselines

– Pin a test set to a baseline

Module 16: Asset Sharing (Libraries)

– Define an asset library

– Import an asset library

– Work in parallel with source and target projects

– Compare imported assets from the source or target

– Synchronize assets

– Define cross-project sharing

– Share components

– Use the ALM Synchronizer

– Define a Hub project

– Create user-defined fields

– Explain the defect sharing workflow

– Apply best practices for reusing assets

Module 17: Exporting from Excelto 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

Module 18: 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

– Generate formatted project documentation and Excel reports

– Share graphs that you can open without the ALM client Course Content

Module 19: Cross-Project Reporting

– Define cross-project reporting

– Enumerate the types of cross-project reports

– Create, configure, and view cross-project graphs

– Drill down to the graph records

– Create project reports

– Create a dashboard of cross-project graphs

– Apply the best practices for cross-project reporting

– Define Cross Project Business View Excel reports

– Generate a Business View Excel report

– Understand the HP ALM Excel Add-in tab

– Work with the Configuration pane

– Edit the Query dialog box

– Select projects in the HP ALM Excel Add-in tab

– Work with the View options

– Save a Business View Excel report

Module 20: Using ALM from A to Z

– Use ALM from A to Z

Working knowledge of:

• Windows
• Websites and browsers
• Testing Concepts