HP Quality Center is very very good for tracking defects - very fast and compact
April 14, 2016

HP Quality Center is very very good for tracking defects - very fast and compact

Abbas Virji | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Quality Center (formerly HP Quality Center)

We use HP Quality Control (QC) for tracking defects in our agile software development life cycle (SDLC) process. The global tech department is using it - unfortunately they are now deciding to get rid of QC and use JIRA only. I will explain why and why it’s a bad idea.
  • HP QC is not fancy - it takes seconds to load - it is fast and immediate. If I am on a call with a business client and if I need to find something on QC - it does not waste seconds over a call.
  • The filters are great - plus there are exports for pivots on Excel.
  • I like the fact that everything about a defect is compacted on one screen - the summary, the descriptions, and comments. I don't need to scroll unless the comments and summary are too long (which is NOT normally the case).
  • I am not able to filter by word, so If I want to search for the word "Tier" in all the defects - I can't find it.
  • I have to export, and filter it via Excel.
  • I want to be able to hit the"Tab" button on the keyboard to go to the next field. I don't think this works effectively today.
  • Also I want to be able to choose what fields should be required (or not required) when creating a new defect.
  • Keeps all defects in one place - searching a defect could take a long time.
  • As I said - the compact design is very efficient.
  • The speed of working on the app is very good - unlike a web application like JIRA.
JIRA is a web application - it is slow to load compared to the quick HP Quality Center.
One really strong reason for using HP Quality Control is - I am not sure how to describe this technically because it is something to do with the local laptop (desktop). I can open HP Quality Control without worrying about getting signed out from the actual production application.

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