Find out how companies are managing and controlling software quality across the application lifecycle using a consistent approach with SAP Quality Center. Better organize activities, automate tasks, and analyze, store, and track results. Reduce the cost and effort of fixing problems by addressing issues early

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Solution Extensions
SAP Quality Center by HP
Application Test Management
and Quality Assurance
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
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Objectives
Deliver new software
with confidence
Testing is critical to the integrity of the software you use to support and
automate your business processes. To meet expectations for high
performance, the key is identifying issues with quality, performance, and
availability before going live with new applications on platforms such as
SAP HANA®. This approach minimizes the impact of new deployments
on operations.
But managing software quality requires
having a consistent, repeatable process
– one supported by the right technology, not
just spreadsheets. At the same time, you
need automation to track testing processes,
control costs, and meet deadlines.
The SAP® Quality Center application by HP
helps you manage and control software
quality across the application lifecycle using a
consistent approach. This single solution can
help you organize activities, automate tasks,
and analyze, store, and track results. By allow-
ing your team to address issues early, SAP
Quality Center helps reduce the cost and effort
of fixing problems. By employing a standard-
ized process for gathering requirements,
planning and scheduling tests, managing
defects, and creating reports, the software
minimizes the risk inherent in implementa-
tions and upgrades. By automating repetitive
processes and eliminating time-consuming,
error-prone tracking, your team can work
faster, smarter, and more productively.
Deliver new software
with confidence
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Foster communication and
developer collaboration
SAP Quality Center enables efficient commu-
nication and collaboration among developers.
Whether you are coordinating disparate qual-
ity assurance (QA) groups or working with a
large testing center of excellence (TCOE), you
can rely on SAP Quality Center to provide fast
access to critical project information across
geographical and organizational boundaries.
The application also provides a modern,
Web-based interface that facilitates essential
quality management activities, including
requirements management, test planning,
test scheduling and execution, defects
management, and project analyses. The
interface is designed with workflows that are
easy to navigate, and it provides tagging,
workspaces, and filtering functionality.
Screen and test annotation tools within the
application under the test (AUT) environ-
ment let QA engineers communicate defects
to developers with visual tools. Engineers can
test steps to be executed, save time by
inserting data into the AUT environment, and
test multiple environments with mirror test-
ing functions.
Now IT teams can work together to meet
tight deployment deadlines while performing
thorough, high-quality testing.
Foster communication and
developer collaboration
Manage requirements and schedule
tests against them
Test earlier – and more often – with
unified functional testing
Manage defects and generate
reports
Take advantage of integration with
other SAP solutions
Choose the version that suits
your needs
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Manage requirements and schedule
tests against them
Now you can keep testing processes on track
and define test requirements.The software
measures key aspects of your new application,
including its functionality and performance on
SAP HANA or other platforms, against your
business needs.As a result, you can be confi-
dent that quality-testing goals are aligned with
your corporate strategy. During this process,
SAP Quality Center compares test cases to the
functional requirements of the deployed appli-
cation to help ensure traceability.
Once scheduled, automated tests can run
unattended – at night or when IT resources
are in least demand. Using business process
testing functionality, teams can emulate
real-life business activities and maintain and
reuse tests.
Alternatively, they can use SAP Quality
Center to manage manual application testing.
It supports:
•• Semiautomated test execution that autofills
data fields to significantly reduce errors and
test time
•• Exploratory testing to create test cases
while business users execute their own
business processes
•• Automatic storyboard creation to support
auditing and results analysis after tests
have run
Now you can define and test applications deploying on
SAP HANA before they go live – and fully harness the
power of in-memory computing.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Foster communication and
developer collaboration
Manage requirements and schedule
tests against them
Test earlier – and more often – with
unified functional testing
Manage defects and generate
reports
Take advantage of integration with
other SAP solutions
Choose the version that suits
your needs

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Test earlier – and more often – with
unified functional testing
Functional testing of multilayer applications
requires that you test the integrity and
functionality of the individual application
programming interfaces (APIs) as they
become available, often early in the develop-
ment cycle. From API testing, your team then
needs to test the GUI layer – often across
many mobile and Web platforms. Finally,
your team needs to extend the test scenario
to include integrations and testing of end-to-
end processes.
SAP Quality Center supports these activities
with the full gamut of test automation – API,
GUI, and business process – so your QA teams
can test earlier in the development lifecycle.
(In other words, your teams can test the integ-
rity of the APIs before the GUI is ready.)
Because automation frees up their time,
QA teams can focus on exploratory diagnos-
tics, while testing of the APIs and GUI variants
is automated as part of a continuous integra-
tion process. This exploratory testing often
uncovers issues before the application
reaches maturity.
In addition, SAP Quality Center is fully
integrated with the SAP Service Virtualization
application by HP – powerful software that
enables QA teams to use simulated services
that stand in and behave like the actual appli-
cation component. As a result, you can have
delay-free continuous testing.
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BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Foster communication and
developer collaboration
Manage requirements and schedule
tests against them
Test earlier – and more often – with
unified functional testing
Manage defects and generate
reports
Take advantage of integration with
other SAP solutions
Choose the version that suits
your needs

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Key aspects of the unified functional testing
features of SAP Quality Center include:
•• A visually intuitive, integrated develop-
ment environment: This simplifies the
process of creating automated tests for
all parts of an application – Web front end
(GUI), integration, and back end (API and
Web services).
•• The ability to bring automated functional
and regression tests into your continuous
integration process: This allows you to test
more and test faster.
•• The ability to manage and share test
automation plans and assets within and
across teams: Now test automation plans,
cases, and assets can be versioned and
shared, reducing duplication of effort and
helping teams focus.
•• Software that “learns” new technologies
as quickly as you need: SAP Quality Center
includes patented unified functional testing
insight, which enhances the software’s
native technology support with the ability
to “learn” objects in a GUI the way a human
would. This enables your team to continue
test automation even in cases when tech-
nologies are not yet formally supported.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Foster communication and
developer collaboration
Manage requirements and schedule
tests against them
Test earlier – and more often – with
unified functional testing
Manage defects and generate
reports
Take advantage of integration with
other SAP solutions
Choose the version that suits
your needs
Extend test scenarios to include integrations and
end-to-end processes using the unified functional
testing module in SAP Quality Center.

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Manage defects and generate
reports
Managers can use SAP Quality Center to
assess application readiness and perform
activities across the application lifecycle
– from detecting and analyzing problems
to assigning resources and verifying fixes.
Before new defects are reported, SAP
Quality Center checks the database for simi-
lar defects, which eliminates the need for
time-consuming manual checking. This not
only saves a great deal of time and helps
ensure that nothing is overlooked, but it
also eliminates redundant defects to man-
age as you prepare to release software on
SAP HANA or other high-performance
environments.
The testing process generates tremendous
amounts of results data, which can be ana-
lyzed for deeper insights into software quality.
SAP Quality Center includes cross-project
reporting and dashboards and customizable
graphs and reports that help you analyze this
data, as well as make information continu-
ously available to other business users. For
example, executives and managers can use it
to make up-to-the-minute decisions regard-
ing application status and team productivity.
Use SAP Quality Center to identify and address
defects before implementation. This keeps projects
on budget and helps you realize expected value.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Foster communication and
developer collaboration
Manage requirements and schedule
tests against them
Test earlier – and more often – with
unified functional testing
Manage defects and generate
reports
Take advantage of integration with
other SAP solutions
Choose the version that suits
your needs

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Take advantage of integration with
other SAP solutions
SAP Quality Center integrates closely with
other SAP software. For example, you can use
the SAP Solution Manager application man-
agement solution to speed up QA on software
projects and transfer business blueprints and
test assets from SAP Solution Manager to SAP
Quality Center. In addition, the impact of any
change can be analyzed in the business pro-
cess change analyzer and the test scope opti-
mizer in SAP Solution Manager.
You can also automate business process test-
ing using the SAP Test Acceleration and
Optimization application. The software
automatically generates test components for
transactional processes taking place within
GUIs. Using this application in combination
with SAP Quality Center, you can compose and
execute automated business process tests in
SAP software development and test systems.
SAP Quality Center can also be integrated
with the SAP LoadRunner application by HP
for performance testing, SAP Fortify software
by HP for security testing, and the SAP
Service Virtualization application by HP for
testing with constrained resources.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Foster communication and
developer collaboration
Manage requirements and schedule
tests against them
Test earlier – and more often – with
unified functional testing
Manage defects and generate
reports
Take advantage of integration with
other SAP solutions
Choose the version that suits
your needs
Integrate SAP Quality Center with other SAP software
to enhance functionality and reduce overall cost of
ownership for your SAP HANA deployment.

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Choose the version that suits
your needs
SAP Quality Center is available in two
versions.
The enterprise edition is for QA organiza-
tions managing small to midsize application
releases and wanting to structure their test-
ing process. For example, business analysts
can define application requirements and
testing objectives based on the organization’s
priorities. QA managers can prioritize efforts
based on business risk. Test and project
leaders can design and develop test plans
and cases. Automation engineers can store
scripts and assets in the repository in
SAP Quality Center. Project managers can
review quality metrics to determine
release readiness.
The premier edition is ideal for companies
looking to create or improve a TCOE. It
includes all enterprise edition functions, plus
features such as integrated performance
management, cross-project reporting and
dashboards, integration with development
environments, and baselining testing assets
for reuse. With the open API, you can inte-
grate external productivity tools into your
testing environment. QA administrators can
use it to enforce standardized processes and
best practices across projects. Business
analysts, developers, and QA testers can
share and reuse asset libraries across proj-
ects to reduce duplication of effort.
Developers can share insight into defects
across projects to increase efficiency and
reduce risk.
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
Foster communication and
developer collaboration
Manage requirements and schedule
tests against them
Test earlier – and more often – with
unified functional testing
Manage defects and generate
reports
Take advantage of integration with
other SAP solutions
Choose the version that suits
your needs

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Deploy new software with
confidence
SAP Quality Center supports a consistent,
repeatable process for all stages of applica-
tion quality management – whether you are
deploying on SAP HANA or another environ-
ment. You can:
•• Boost efficiency with support for the entire
quality process: requirements manage-
ment; test planning, building, scheduling,
and execution; and defect management
and project status analysis
•• Increase testing accuracy with traceability
functions enabling comparison of applica-
tion requirements to assets and defects
•• Create a comprehensive quality-
management infrastructure through
integration with a wide range of SAP and
third-party applications
•• Accelerate testing cycles and run tests
automatically and unattended, 24x7
•• Improve decision making with continuously
available data displayed on integrated
graphs that can illustrate any aspect of the
testing process
•• Better align quality practices with business
goals and strategy
•• Reduce the cost of delivering new applica-
tions and services into production by auto-
mating, controlling, and enforcing quality
standards
•• Improve test coverage and accelerate time
to market
Deploy new software with
confidence
BenefitsSolutionObjectives Quick Facts
With SAP Quality Center, you can help ensure
that every deployment on high-performance
platforms such as SAP HANA is successful.

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Summary
With the SAP® Quality Center application by
HP, you can take a disciplined approach to
testing with tools and technologies that help
quality teams organize activities and find
problems before they reach production. A
single Web-based interface facilitates
requirements management, test planning,
test scheduling and execution, defects man-
agement, and project analysis. You can
increase testing efficiency and accuracy,
lower costs, and be sure that your applica-
tions deliver business results.
Objectives
•• Establish a consistent, repeatable process
for managing software quality
•• Gain control over the cost and timing of
software deployments
•• Validate the quality of software before
releasing it
•• Prevent IT backlogs
Solution
•• Quality management and automation
across the entire test process
•• Unified functional test automation to vali-
date software across end-to-end business
processes, application functionality, and
headless layer elements
•• Business process testing so analysts can
test application functionality
•• Communication dashboard that gives stake-
holders timely project status information
Benefits
•• Increase testing speed, efficiency, and
accuracy
•• Lower testing costs
•• Deliver software that meets business and
user expectations
•• Bring critical functionality to the market
more quickly
Learn more
To find out more, call your SAP repre-
sentative today or visit us online at
www.sap.com/quality-center.
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