Using ALM/Quality Center v12.x
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Course Description:
Overview
This course covers the core functionality of ALM/Quality Center from defining Releases and Cycles, Requirements, Test Planning and Executions, through Defect Tracking. The information presented will cover how a user can organize and track information over the lifecycle of a test project.
Duration
5 days
Labs
Approximately 70% of the class is devoted to lab exercises
Intended Audience
Quality assurance engineers, testers and business analysts.
Prerequisites
None
Course Outline
Management Module
- Working with Releases
- Understanding the relationship between releases, milestones and cycles
- Creating a release tree
- Assigning requirements to releases and cycles
- Assigning tests to releases and cycles
Working with Requirements
- Understanding requirement types
- Building a requirements tree
- Linking requirements to defects, tests, test configurations
- Requirements traceability
- Coverage analysis
- Risk analysis
- Reporting and tracking requirements
- Pinning Requirements
Test Planning
- Working with Test Cases
- Subject Tree and Test Grid Views
- Creating Test Cases
- Defining test steps and parameters
- Test Configurations
- Reporting and tracking test plans
Test Execution
- Working with Test Sets
- Test sets, cycles and releases
- Creating test sets
- Executing tests and test configurations
- Test Scheduling
- Results
Defect Tracking
- Managing Defects
- Tracking Defect changes and history
- Associating defects to other entities
- Tracking the status of defects
ALM/Quality Center Dashboard Module
- Creating Analysis Items
- Generating Dashboard Pages
Excel Reports
- Creating Excel Reports
- Creating SQL Queries
- Adding Parameters to SQL Queries
- Creating Post-Processing Scripts
Generating Live Analysis Graphs
- Creating Live Analysis Graphs
- Setting the Graph Appearance
Project Reports
- Available Report Sections
- Custom Templates
Business Views
- Use pre-defined views
- Creating custom views
- Creating Business Views within Excel
HP Sprinter
- Introduction to HP Sprinter
- Running tests with HP Sprinter
- Basic test execution
- Exploratory Testing
- Power Mode
- Data Injection
- Macros
- Mirrored Testing
Version Control
- Checking in/out
- Viewing version history
- Comparing and Promoting versions
Library Management
- Defining libraries and baselines
- Comparing baselines
- Pinning a test set to a baseline
Business Models
- Integrating Business Models
- Linking to Requirements and Test Cases
- Using the built-in Analysis View
Test Resources Module
- Using the Test Resources Module
Importing Tests and Requirements
- Importing data from Excel, MS Word
Using the Web Client
- Viewing Requirements and Defects from any browser
- Navigating the interface
- Working with Workspaces
New Snapshot Tool
- Capture, edit, and attach images of your application to ALM records
ALM Synchronizer
- Setting up a HUB project for defects
- Navigating the interface
- Synchronizing defects across multiple projects
Integrating External Tests
- Synch externally executed test results with ALM.
- Configuring Jenkins to synch results with ALM
- Synchronize an external result file to ALM by manually importing the file.
Integration with Lean Functional Testing
- You can now manage and run LeanFT tests from ALM
ALM Project Customization
User Properties - Modify current user’s properties