Quality Center has been the most widely adopted test management solution in the market to date, but times are changing with the completed acquisition by Micro Focus. Unfortunately, Micro Focus’ published 4-year plan focuses on profits and cost cutting, meaning a shift away from innovation and customer service. Join us to learn how QASymphony champions the modern tester, as we highlight our 3-year strategic plan. We’ll highlight customers who have successful made the switch from Quality Center to qTest and share our experience migrating dozens of customers from HP Quality Center, following best practices for making a smooth transition into the next generation of test management.

1. Saying Goodbye to Quality Center: Our
Vision and Your Migration Options
Kevin Dunne | Ryan Yackel | Jose Franca | 10.11.2017
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2. Our Presenters
Kevin Dunne
VP of Strategy
Ryan Yackel
Director Product
Marketing
Jose Franca
QA Director

3. Agenda
QASymphony’s Vision vs Micro Focus ALM
• What is our plan for investing in the future of our products and customers?
Market Trends
• What new developments are shaping the way teams work?
Replacing Micro Focus/HP Quality Center? Migration is Needed…
• What hurdles are typically faced in replacing legacy Test Management?
Migration Methods and Best Practices
• How are leading companies making the switch?
QASymphony Customer Story: Successful HP Migration

4. INSERT PHOTO ON TOPChange before you have to.
Jack Welch

5. The Merge is Complete
Source: So, who is Micro Focus and why is it the right partner for HPE Software?

6. HP Acquisition By Micro Focus
- Gartner Report, 11/10/16
GARTNER SUGGESTED IMPACTS
● Adding Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) ITOM and ADM offerings to Micro Focus' portfolio
creates significant, complex and uncertain overlaps that I&O leaders must plan for now.
● Customers basing their information management and governance strategies on HPE's products
should carefully monitor investment, as long-term strategies under Micro Focus are unknown.
● Spinning off HPE's security software portfolio to Micro Focus creates uncertainty for I&O leaders
about future strategic investments in those products
GARTNER RECOMMENDATIONS
● Create migration options from HPE ITOM and ADM software...

7. MF- Investors-First, Customers-Second
Source: Our Strategy and Business Model

8. Key Takeaways
HP/Micro Focus
customers
deserve better.
1) Micro Focus’ New Strategic
Vision Reconfirms Quality Center
Customer Fears
2) Focus is on the bottom line – cost
cutting
3) R&D and Reducing Headcount
leads to slow development,
fewer products

10. Phase 1:
Invest in Scaling
Actions
• Hire best-in-class across all
company functions
• Grow product management and
customer council
• Create process for smart
expansion
• Instill customer success culture
Phase 2:
Expand in the Enterprise
Actions
• Accelerate global footprint
• Broaden channel partnerships
• Support predictive analytics and
natural language
• Optimize Enterprise migrations
Phase 3:
Grow Market Leadership
Actions
• Build a comprehensive analytics
hub with integration to relevant
3rd party data
• Organize around customer
success best practices
• Alignment of channel with global
SI testing leaders
FY17 FY18 FY19
QASymphony - Invest and Expand Vision

11. QASymphony | Hello, Real World
• Heading into 2018 QASymphony will have increased R&D spend by more
than 80% (since 2016) with a team of 50+ employees focused on developing
the test management market
• QASymphony was named 8th fastest growing software company in America
by Inc 5000
• Insight Venture Partners, one of the world’s largest software investors, is
behind QASymphony, and invested $40 million in May 2017

12. Market Trends

13. The percentage of respondents’
organizations that practice agile
2 0 15 95%
HOW MANY?
&
Percentage of Teams Using Agile
Only 4% of respondents work in a completely
traditional / non-agile development organization.
Contrast this with the 2009 report, in which (31%) of the respondents
worked where there were two teams or less practicing agile!
53%
Less than ½ of our
teams are agile
34%
More than ½of
our teams are
agile
9%
All of our
teams are agile
4 %
None of our
teams are
agile
TOP 3 BENEFITS
87%
Ability to manage
changing priorities
85%
Increased team
productivity
8 4 %
Improved project
visibility
*State of Agile, 2016 Report, VersionOne
Agile is Mainstream

14. Organizations
practicing agile
development
Organizations have or
are planning a DevOps
initiative in their
company in the next
12 months
The difference in the
number of code
deployments between
high performing and
low performing IT
organizations
94% 71% 46x
The Pace of Software Development is
Moving Faster Than Ever
Source: V1 2016 State of Agile, Puppet 2016 State of DevOps

15. HP - Legacy “End to End” Incumbent
Tools Amount of Companies
HPQC 4,618
HPQC + JIRA 1,953
HPQC + Unified Functional Tester 2,176
HPQC + Unified Functional Tester + LoadRunner 1,398
HPQC + Unified Functional Tester + LoadRunner + JIRA 901

16. Shifting to Best of Breed
The market is shifting to more agile best of breed tooling from HP
incumbent (stats as of 2012, for Australia):

17. Explosion of Tools

18. Benefits of Best of Breed
Smaller, more agile
best of breed
vendors supporting
the latest
technology and
trends to keep you
up to date
Ability to tailor
solutions to meet the
needs of individual
teams and
applications, with
better commercial
support and
partnerships
Today’s
technological
advancements
make it easier than
ever to integrate the
various elements of
a solution
Modern
Functionality
Solve Specific
Problems
Leverage
Modern API’s

19. Replacing HP Quality Center

20. Teams Face Challenges Migrating
Transferring
Attachments
Splitting
Objects into
Systems
Live
Migration vs.
One Time
Migration in
Phases
Switching
Deployment
Supporting
Traceability
Migration at
Scale

21. QAS Offers a Wealth of Migration Tools
Micro Focus /
HP
Migration Tool
Start
Fresh
Excel Import Custom

22. Proprietary Migration Tool
QASymphony partners with several partners to deliver a tool assisted
migration via our proprietary migration utility
Pros
• Low cost
• Complete Migration of objects and
traceability
• Ability to migrate project by project
Good For: Larger teams looking to migrate completely, a few projects at a
time with hard cutover
Cons
• One-time migration, need to cut
over
• Cannot support a big bang
approach, about 5-10 projects/day

23. Our Quality Center Migration Experience
Migrate your testing assets to QASymphony, regardless of
deployment or database type:
Requirements Test Cases / Run
History
Linkages
Defects Users Fields / Values

24. Comparison of Methods
Start Fresh Excel Import Migration Tool Custom
Transfer Attachments 𝗫 𝗫 ✔ ✔
Split into Systems 𝗫 ✔ 𝗫 ✔
Live Migration 𝗫 1/2 𝗫 ✔
Phased Migration 𝗫 ✔ ✔ ✔
Switch Deployments 𝗫 ✔ ✔ ✔
Traceability 𝗫 𝗫 ✔ ✔
Scale 𝗫 𝗫 ✔ ✔
Cost $0 $0 (+ time) $$ $$$$+

25. • Method: Migration Tool
• Package: qTest Elite
• Users: ~500
• Hosting: On-Premise
• HP QC Projects Migrated: 8
• HP QC Objects Migrated: ~200,000
• Migration Time Frame: ~2 weeks
• Migration Hands On Time: ~ 12 hours
• Training: QASymphony on site, 2 days/16 hours + additional remote
sessions
• QASymphony Product Influence: Docker installation support, support
for HP QC Migration for Version 10.x, concurrent licensing
Case Study: Nordstrom

26. “We were able to quickly migrate our
test cases from HP Quality Center to
qTest and get the team up-and-running
to just a few weeks.
The implementation process was
excellent.”
- Radka Iordanova,
Director of E-Commerce at Office Depot

27. Migration Best Practices

28. Do Some Housekeeping
Artifacts
• Migration is a good time to figure out what artifacts are truly needed
Process
• Evaluate compliance, reporting and SDLC needs
Project infrastructure
• Evaluate active users, projects, integrations

29. Minimize Unnecessary Work
• Leverage prebuilt solutions that can automate the majority of the
work to be done
• Look for tools that can be customized to fit the needs of your individual
migration
• Measure twice, cut once
• Plan the process in advance to minimize unnecessary rework and reimports
• Separate “Nice to Have” from “Must Have” migration items and
migrate in priority order

30. Protect Against Scope Creep
Size Effort Up Front, Work Backwards
• Identify Timelines, Migration files sizes, Hardware needs
Phase out approach
• Make sure to get most important data migrated up front
Set Realistic Timelines
• Add 20-30% contingency for migrations, make sure to account for "dead time"
Enforce Project Plan
• If not doing live migration, set hard cutoff dates for transition

31. Execute & Iterate
Perform iterative
migrations and
validation
• Complete the
migration and testing
on each iteration
Implement SDLC
refinement
• Incorporate any SDLC
process changes that
resulted from
housekeeping
Implement
Integrations
• Integrate any tools
that is not available
out box by qTest
Monitor Team
Adoption
• Be Agile, make
changes as needed

32. Why qTest over HP/Micro Focus?

33. Jose Franca
QA Director
GE Digital’s qTest Story
• Customer Since: March 2016
• Previous TCM: Leveraging Jira and Confluence
• Vendors Evaluated: HP QC / ALM; Practitest; QAComplete;
QMetry; Rational; TestLodge; TestRail; Testuff
• Problems: no test management tool, causing issues
around traceability, efficiency, and reporting around
testing.
• Transformations: Test-first approach, TDD, Continuous
Integration
• Integration Needs: Jira Software, Jenkins, Custom
automation frameworks

34. Best-in-Class Integration

35. Q&A