HP QC Quality Center Getting Started Online Training Guide

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Introduction to QC
 Developed by Mercury interactive Owned by HP
presently
 QC is web based application, server being IIS or Jboss,
Database as MS SQL or Oracle.
 QC is formally known as Test Director.
 Customization Script developed on VB Script
 QC can be installed on Windows, Linux and Solaris

Add Ins of QC
 For integrating with automation tool like QTP,
 Win runner, QC requires Add in
o By Default QC supports
• Win runner
• LR
o Other Add in
• QTP

Add Ins of QC

Quality Center - Features
Web based application with the
following features
 Requirement management
 Test plan
 Test lab
 Defects management

Quality Center - Features

Requirement Specification

Testing scope
Gather all available documentations of the
product under test. Documents include
 Business and Marketing Requirements
 System Requirements Specs
 Design Documents

Defining Requirements
QA tester creates a hierarchical structure, defining the requirements.
For example the requirement topic Application Security for a
Airline reservation system may be broken down into the following:

Analyze Requirements
QA managers review the requirements.
The requirement is assigned a reviewed
status if it is approved.

Requirement Module – Document View

Requirement Module – Coverage View

Requirement Toolbar

New Requirement

New Requirement
Name the requirement
Fill the details for the requirement
Fill the Description using the Description
Pane
Add an attachment to the requirement
using the Attachment Button

Requirement Details
Author
Creation Date, time, etc
Direct Cover Status – States how its linked
to the tests. By default it is Not Covered
Not Covered means it has not been linked
to any test

Adding an attachment
 Attaching a file
 Attaching a snapshot
 Attaching a URL
 Attaching System Information
 Attaching an Image from the clipboard

Attachments

Mailing Requirements

Modifying Requirements
 Renaming
 Copying
 Deleting
 Modifying

Converting Requirements to Tests
 To convert all requirements, choose Tools >
Convert to Tests > Convert All
 To convert a specific requirement, choose
Tools > Convert to Tests > Convert Selected
 Choose an automatic conversion method

What is Test Management Tool
 Test Management Tool is a repository.
 It is meant for storing Requirements, Test
Scenarios, Test Cases and Defects.
 Use of Test Management Tool tools
reduces the reporting time as well as the
cost.

What is Test Management Tool
 Avoid the errors that human make when they
compile reports received from various people.
 The tool captures all the information entered by
the users and gives the report to the
management instantaneously.
 Sends mail or trigger an alert based on the type
of data captured by the end user.
 Customizable to the need of the organization
 Process compliance

Benefits of Test Management Tool
More consistent
Reliable in compilation of reports
All the reports are instantaneous and
hence the status of delivery is clearly
visible to management.
Security
Traceability Matrix
Managing Change Request
 More consistent
 Reliable in compilation of reports
 All the reports are instantaneous and hence the
status of delivery is clearly visible to
management.
 Security
 Traceability Matrix
 Managing Change Request

Caution
 Needs discipline in entry otherwise the report
will go havoc.
 The tool maintains history and hence one
cannot cook-up data – hence more compliance
is required

What are the different tools available in the market (for
functional testing)
 Rational Clear Quest
 Rational Test Manager
 Silk Central
 HP Quality Center
 Open Source Tools – Bugzila, Jira etc.

Requirements
 Requirements
• Creating a Requirement
• Creating a sub requirement
• Testing the changed workflow in the project
groups in requirements
• Testing the Mandatory, history setting at project
groups
• Customizing the columns
• Different views of Requirements
o Coverage view
o Grid view etc.

Test Plan
 Test Plan
• Creation of Test Scenarios (Folders), Sub Folders
• Creation of Test Cases under Folders
• Checking the effect of permission by changing the
setting in groups for various users.
• Customizing user defined field and its effect under
test plan
• Test Plan Details
• Different View for Test Plan
• Mapping Test cases to the requirement
• Reports – Summary, Progress, Trend

Test Lab
 Test Lab
• Creation of Rounds (Folder)
• Creation of Test Set
• Mapping test case to the test set
• Execution of Round
• Finding the actual result in the requirement after
mapping
• Creation of defect while executing through
execution screen
• Different execution reports

Defects
 Defects
• Creation of Defects
• Managing the defect cycle by configuring through
groups
• Effectiveness of security features of the defect status
change
• Customizing defect for various groups
o Customizing the add defect screen
o Customizing the modify defect screen
• Various defect reports
o Defect aging
• Linking defects – Requirements, Test case, Through
test lab

Export From XLS file
• All Requirements, Test Cases and Defects can be imported
from XLS Sheet. Steps include
– Block the content which needs to be imported in xls
sheet

Export From XLS Contd.
• Select Export to XLS from Tools and Connect to QC
using valid user name and password as shown below

Enter User Name and Password and select the domain and project from the
list for that user.
• Enter User Name and Password and select
the domain and project from the list for that
user.

Enter User Name and Password and select the domain and project from the
list for that user.
• Select the Module to which the import to take place
(Requirements or Tests or Defects)
• Select Temporary Map file (if you want edit latter you
can save the file with map name)

– Select the fields from
the list and use “>”
and map to Excel
column name

 Click on finish
 Go to QC and we can see
the Requirements got
added.
 Same way we can do for
defects or Test Case

Export From Word
• Install the Word Add in
provided by the QC
• Open the word doc file
• Tool bar has got added to
the word open document
• Under Tools, Quality Center
Link has got introduced.

Export From Word Contd.
 Requirement Adding
• Click Open req. Icon.
• Enter the Requirement Name and
Press Enter
• Click Description
• Enter Description and press Enter
• Click Review
• Enter Review value (as in the list
box) (same way for author, priority)
• Enter Author (as in the list box)
• Enter priority (as in the list box)
• Click Close Requirement

• After the entry
the word
document will
look as shown.
• For every
requirement we
need to close the
requirement.
• For non selected
Field it will take
the default value

• Once done, Click on
Export To QC icon
• Select the Server
• Enter User Name
and Pass word

• Select the domain and Project for which import has to
happen
• Select Next and finish

• Go to QC
• Login and you
can see the
requirement
added

• In the test plan module, you can see that test folder and test
cases with test steps got added.

Step 1: Enter the web address

Step 2: Enter MQC user details

Step 3: Enter project details

Step 1: Click New Requirement
New Requirement

Step 2: Enter requirement details
Enter requirement
details

Step 1: Click new child requirement
Child Requirement

Step 2: Enter child requirement details
Fill the details of the
child requirement

Step 3: Child requirement created
Requirement created

Step 1: Click Attachment tab
Click the
Attachment tab

Step 2: Choose attachment options
Attaching the functional
specification

Step 3: Attaching document to requirement
Document Attached

Step 1: Click New Folder

Step 2: Enter test name
Enter folder name

Step 3: Click new test
Creating New Test

Step 4: Choosing test type
Select Test Type and enter
the Test Name

Step 5: Enter test name
Select Test Type and enter
the Test Name

Step 1: Click Design Steps tab
Click in the Design
Steps tab

Step 2: Click New Step
Writing test scripts.

Step 3: Enter the information
Enter the description and
expected result

Step 4: Enter description and expected result
Enter the description and
expected result

Step 5: Detailed test steps
Detailed Test Steps

Step 1: Click requirement coverage tab
Click in the Requirement
Coverage tab

Step 2: Click Select Requirement
Select the requirement

Step 3: Select requirement
Select requirement
from the list
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Step 4: Choose requirement
Select requirement

Step 5: Click Add to Coverage
The requirement is
selected and ‘Add to
Coverage’ link is
clicked.

Step 6: Requirement linked
Requirement linked with
the test cases

TEST LAB MODULE
TEST LAB MODULE

Step 1: Click new test folder
Creating new folder

Step 2: Enter folder name
Enter folder name

Step 3: Test folder created
Folder is created

Step 1: Click new test folder
Create new folder

Step 2: Enter test folder name
Enter folder name

Step 3: Test Set folder created
Folder created

Step 1: Click New Test Set
Create new Test Set

Step 2: Enter test set details
Enter the name and
description

Step 3: Test Set created
Test Set “First” created

Step 1: Click Select Test
Click Select Test

Step 2: Open the test plan tree
Test Plan Tree is
opened

Step 3: Select required test
Select required test

Step 4 : Click Add Test
Add the test

Step 5: Test Case added
Test case mapped

Step 1: Click Run tab
Begin execution

Step 2: Click Run Manually
Run Manually

Step 3: Click Begin Run
Click Begin Run

Step 4: View the test steps
Test Steps

Step 5: Enter Actual Result
Enter the Actual
Result

Step 6: Update status of test step
Change the status

Step 7: Failed step
Failed case

Step 1: Click Raise New Defect
Raise new defect

Step 2: Enter the defect details
Enter the details

Step 3: Click End Run
To stop execution

Step 4: Result of test set
Status of test set

Step 5: View test steps
Test Steps
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Step 6: Result of Test Set
Test Set passed

Step 1: Click Execution Flow tab
Execution flow

Step 1: Click Test Set properties
Test Set properties

Step 2: Click On Failure tab
On Failure tab

Step 3: Click on Attachment tab
Attachment tab

Step 4: Click Details tab
Details

Step 1: Click Linked Defect tab
Summary of the defect
raised

Defects Module
Defects Module

Step 1: Click New Defect
Click here to add a new defect

Step 2: Enter defect details
Defect details

Step 1: Click the search options
Click here to select filter

Step 2: Enter search condition
Test Conditions

Step 3: Defect viewed
Filtered Defect

Step 1: Click Defect Details
Click here to see the defect details

Step 1: Click Set Filter
Click to set filter

Step 2: Enter filter information
Set the priority option

Step 3: View filtered defects
Filtered Defect

Step 1: Click standard defect report
Select report

Step 2: Standard Defect Report
Sample Report

Step 1: Click tabular defect report
Select report

Step 2: Tabular Defect Report
Sample Report

Step 1: Defect with Linked Test report
Select report

Step 1: Defect with Linked Test report
Sample Report

Step 1: Click Add to Favorites
Click Add to
Favorite

Step 2 : Enter report details
Enter report details

Step 3 : Report created
Customized report

Step 1 : Click Summary Graph
Select graph

Step 2 : Click Bar Chart tab
Click Bar chart

Step 3: Click Pie Chart tab
Click Pie Chart

Step 4 : Click Data Grid tab
Click Data Grid

Step 1: Click Progress Graph
Select Graph

Step 2: Click Line Chart tab
Click Line Chart

Step 1: Click Defect Age graph
Select Graph

Step 2: Click Bar Chart tab
Click Bar Chart

Step 1: Click Summary Graph
Select Graph

Step 2: Click Data Grid tab
Click Data Grid

Step 3: Double click to view defect details
View the details

Step 4: Click Bar Chart tab
Click Bar chart

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