Intro to Quality Center 9.2

Overview
The process-based functionality of Quality Center 9.2 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 test requirements

Analyze risks associate 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

Generate reports and graphs

Course Outline

Introduction

Working with Releases

Understanding the relationships between releases and cycles

Creating a release tree

Tying requirements to releases and cycles

Viewing requirements coverage by cycle

Tying tests to releases and cycles

Exporting from Excel to Quality Center

Installing the Excel add-in

Formatting requirements data in Microsoft Excel

Exporting requirements to Quality Center

Modifying a requirements tree

Defining Requirements

Understanding requirements types

Creating and defining requirements

Building a requirements tree

Tying 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

Reporting and Analysis

Generate analysis reports and graphs

Generate Microsoft Excel reports

Exporting from Word to Quality Center (Optional)

Installing the Word add-in

Formatting requirements data in Microsoft Word

Exporting requirements to Quality Center

Modifying a requirements tree