Print VersionIntro to Quality Center 10.0

Overview
The process-based functionality of Quality Center 10.00 is extended in this hands-on course. Students will learn how to manage quality information throughout the development cycle, construct and organize requirements, create and execute test sets, monitor defects, and use graphs and reports to track the success of a project.

Duration
Two days

Intended Audience
  • Quality assurance engineers
  • Quality testers
  • Project managers
  • Other Quality Center users

    Prerequisites
  • Working knowledge of: Windows, Testing concepts.

    Course Objectives

    At the end of the course, you will be able to:


  • Create releases and cycles


  • Define requirements


  • Analyze risks associated with requirements


  • Organize subjects and tests in a test plan tree


  • Design and create test plans


  • Generate test scripts from design steps


  • Create test sets


  • Execute manual and automated tests


  • Record and track test execution results


  • Log and manage defects 


  • Use Version control


  • Working with libraries and baselining


  • Use the Dashboard to generate reports and graphs
    Course Outline

  • Introduction

    Working with Releases


  • Understanding the relationships between releases and cycles


  • Creating a release tree


  • Linking requirements to releases and cycles


  • Viewing requirements coverage by cycle


  • Linking tests to releases and cycles

    Defining Requirements


  • Understanding requirements types


  • Creating and defining requirements


  • Building a requirements tree


  • Linking requirements to releases and cycles

    Analyze Requirement Risks


  • Adding traceability links between requirements


  • Establishing the business criticality and failure probability of a requirement


  • Performing risk analysis for a group of requirements

    Test Planning


  • Building a test plan tree


  • Creating tests


  • Linking tests and requirements


  • Designing test steps


  • Using parameters in tests


  • Configuring a test to call other tests


  • Generating test scripts


  • Monitoring the status of test plans

    Test Execution


  • Building a test set tree


  • Creating test sets


  • Organizing tests in a test set


  • Defining and scheduling test execution flows


  • Configure automated test rerun and cleanup rules


  • Executing manual and automated tests


  • Recording and reviewing test execution results


  • Monitoring the status of test sets

    Defect Tracking


  • Logging defects


  • Searching and reviewing defects


  • Associating defects to other entities


  • Updating a defect


  • Tracking the status of defects

    Version Control


  • Checking out (multiple ways) 


  • Checking in (multiple ways) 


  • Viewing version history 


  • Compare versions 


  • Promote older version 
     
    Library Management


  • Define a library 


  • Define a baseline 


  • Comparing baseline 


  • Pinning a Test Set to a baseline 


  • Importing a library  


  • Synchronizing libraries

    Reporting and Analysis


  • Generate analysis reports and graphs using the Dashboard


  • Generate Microsoft Excel reports  
     
    Course Summary