HP Quality center - The reality in IT industry
June 06, 2017
HP Quality center - The reality in IT industry
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Quality Center (formerly HP Quality Center)
It is being used by my entire organization as a tool to manage testing and to log the defects and bugs that are found in our applications. It allows us to keep track of various scenarios used by testers for testing under various environments and also to log the results. It also provides us with enough metrics and other reports that enable us timely management of the defects and the various stages in a defect lifecycle.
- It is an excellent tool to manage defects - and lets us see all the defects logged for that application.
- It has provisions to enter detailed test scenarios that can be listed to be run on the test labs.
- It has various metrics and reports that enable the entire team to keep an eye on the various stages of the defect lifecycle.
- It is also synced to another project planning tool of this organization called the RTC.
- It could have better dashboard views of defects.
- The reverse sync between RTC and Quality Center could be a new area to explore.
- A new functionality to add the incidents and other walk-up tickets that are raised during the building of an application.
- Positive impact - have been always been able to track the defect SLAs and resolve them in a timely fashion and have the business objectives met on time.
- Negative impact - it could have development tasks added to meet the SLAs on the development and other project deadlines.
- Negative impact - it does not flexibly encourage various methods of software development - like agile and waterfall and hybrid.
HP Quality Center and IBM Rational Team Concert have an option for a sync up which allows a person to automatically create a defect on rational team concert from a Quality Center note just by using a sync up button. Though HP quality centre does not give us many options to track development on Quality Centre, it does let us view the metrics and SLAs on a defect life cycle. This enables the QA team to ensure the bugs are fixed in a timely fashion and the business needs are met. This is the reason why I picked Quality centre over the other tool.
OpenText ALM/Quality Center Feature Ratings
Using Quality Center (formerly HP Quality Center)
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Feel confident using | Slow to learn Lots to learn |
- Reports
- Filters
- Views
- Assigned to team
- Breaking of filters
- Building new filters