HP Quality Center

Get ready for the most significant release of HP Quality Center software in over two years. If you’ve been thinking of purchasing or upgrading, now is the time.

HP Quality Center manages and governs quality processes and automates software testing across your application environment. It arms you with the capabilities you need to manage the release process and make more informed release decisions.

By using consistent, repeatable and standardised processes, HP Quality Center can help you reduce costs and risk, increase quality and produce more frequent releases.

With our 9.2 release, you get a lot more, including:

Built-in sophisticated requirements management functionality
Risk-based testing based on business requirements
Cycle and release management for agile test methodologies
Enhanced functional and regressive testing capabilities

Why HP Software?

HP is ideally positioned to meet your most stringent quality management needs. We offer:

Market leadership - we have a 61.7 percent market share in distributed automated software quality, according to IDC.
Integrated approach - our solutions for quality management work together across the application lifecycle, spanning IT applications and IT operations.
Enterprise ready - unmatched scalability and enterprise architecture make HP Quality Center the solution of choice for centralisation and standardisation initiatives.

Requirements Management Capabilities

Organise, manage and prioritise requirements throughout the project lifecycle with top down and bottoms up traceability.

Improved collaboration with the business: Comprehensive requirements management capabilities help to facilitate communication and effective change management. For example, IT users can now easily import business requirements directly from Microsoft® Office Word. HP Quality Center also provides discussion threads to facilitate collaboration and allows users to compare requirement baselines and track changes with structured versioning functionality.
Support for multiple requirement types: The HP Quality Center workflow engine supports easy modifications to requirements fields and processes so that you can customise the layout and behaviour of each requirement type for each project. Requirements can also be organised into folders for easier navigation.
Linking, tracing and insight into changes: With HP Quality Center you can link and trace requirements to one another to highlight dependency relationships and verify that no requirements are inadvertently overlooked during the development and testing process. Furthermore, HP Quality Center can automatically send out traceability alerts via e-mail to inform stakeholders of potential changes so that they can take action, if need be, to avoid conflicts.

Proactive quality planning

In agile cycles, understand how to prioritise tests based on the risk to the business, and plan and manage testing cycles.

Risk-based decision-making: Powerful risk-based quality management capabilities enable you to calculate how much effort to spend on testing each requirement based on the business risk level of the requirement and the resources available. For each requirement, the software automatically calculates business criticality and failure probability. What-if scenario functionality also helps you estimate the resources it will take to test each requirement.
Release and cycle management: HP Quality Center helps you track activities across releases and across testing cycles for individual releases so that you can maintain quality and increase efficiency. Easy-to-read graphs provide a visual representation of critical issues such as planned versus actual coverage or release readiness. Analysis tools, moreover, allow you to evaluate the efficacy of progressive testing cycles so that you can identify the point of diminishing returns at which the effort and resources required for another testing cycle outweigh the likelihood of uncovering defects.

Center management: establishing a quality center of excellence

Providing high-quality software support and proven best practices, HP Quality Center gives you the tools you need to quickly establish a quality center of excellence so that you don’t have to start from scratch.

Managing the project lifecycle: To improve the project delivery process, a single dashboard view is provided that allows your project owners to initiate, manage and track multiple projects simultaneously. These dashboard views also display individual work items, based on role, assigned to users across all quality center projects and installations. In addition, center administrators have the ability to view global availability of resources and match the proper skill sets to the right projects to enable success.
Powerful reporting: HP Quality Center provides a one-stop management view of project quality and progress, complete with trend analysis on quality metrics over time and across multiple projects. Managers will be able to view real-time breakdown summaries of requirements, tests and defects and access aggregate results across all projects.
Process and compliance enforcement through workflow: HP Center Management for Quality Center software reduces costs through the automation and enforcement of project, program and portfolio processes. It facilitates compliance by leveraging a powerful and easy-to-configure workflow engine that is adaptable to any critical business processes and provides field level audit trails for all changes to critical applications and projects.

HP Quality Center components

The HP Quality Center Foundation is an enterprise-level J2EE platform that serves as a central repository for all quality assets, houses centralised workflow rules and facilitates collaboration among all parties involved in the quality process. In addition, HP Quality Center includes dashboard technology that provides an executive-level view of the entire quality process.

HP TestDirector for HP Quality Center software includes requirements management, test plan, test lab and defect management modules. It offers a seamless, consistent and repeatable process for all stages of application quality management—from gathering requirements, to planning and scheduling tests, analyzing results, and managing defects and issues.

Functional test components include HP QuickTest Professional and HP WinRunner software. QuickTest Professional is an advanced automated testing solution for building functional and regression tests. WinRunner is the standard functional testing solution for enterprise IT applications.

HP Business Process Testing software brings business analysts and SMEs into the process of defining business use cases and process flows to increase the accuracy of tests and help align testing to business outcomes. Based on the defined business processes, the test engineer can then create reusable test components using both manual and automated methods and share them with distributed quality teams in a single web-based QC repository.

Extensions for SAP and SOA provide out-of-the box capabilities for SAP, SOA and Oracle® quality management. Quality teams can focus testing on the business processes impacted by changes—so applications are released with increased quality and a reduced level of risk.

HP Service Test components enable effective quality management, including SOA test management, requirements, defects tracking, functional testing, regression testing and business process design validation.

Consider the typical quality assurance (QA) organisation. It uses stand-alone documents or a collection of disparate systems to keep track of its quality and testing efforts and assets. This can result in:

Inefficient and redundant testing due to missing information, ineffective communication and a lack of consistent and repeatable processes
Increased risk of deploying a bad application
User frustration with disorganisation, shifting priorities and rushed deadlines
Many hours spent compiling reports that are immediately out of date
Inadequate visibility into project progress and status, resulting in last-minute crunches, missed deadlines and poor quality

In addition, the work of a typical QA organisation is slowed by manual test methods used to functionally validate applications before they go live. Manual testing simply cannot keep up with the demand and complexity of today’s multi-tiered, multi-platformed, business service-oriented applications.

HP Quality Center is designed to address these wide-ranging challenges. By leveraging consistent, repeatable and standardised processes, it helps your QA teams turn quality into a competitive advantage.

Among other capabilities, HP Quality Center:

Provides real-time visibility of requirements coverage and associated defects to paint a clear picture of business risk
Enables your organisation to manage the release process and make more informed release decisions with real-time KPIs and reports
Helps your managers measure progress and effectiveness of quality activities
Allows your QA teams, developers and business analysts to collaborate in the quality lifecycle with a single global platform
Enables your organisation to centrally manage manual and automated testing assets
Facilitates standardised testing and quality processes that boost productivity through workflows and alerts
Allows your organisation to lower costs by capturing critical defects before they reach production

What is HP Quality Center?

HP Quality Center manages and governs quality processes and automates software testing across your application environment. It arms you with the capabilities you need to manage the release process and make more informed release decisions.

What are the New Features for HP Quality Center?

With our 9.2 release, you get a lot more, including:

Requirements Management Capabilities i.e. improved collaboration with the business, Support for multiple requirement types etc
Proactive quality planning i.e. Risk-based decision-making, Release and cycle management
Center management: establishing a quality center of excellence i.e. Managing the project lifecycle, Powerful reporting, Process and compliance enforcement through workflow
HP Quality Center components i.e. The HP Quality Center Foundation. HP TestDirector for HP Quality Center, Extensions for SAP and SOA etc

What are the benefits of HP Quality Center?

Provides real-time visibility of requirements coverage and associated defects to paint a clear picture of business risk
Enables your organisation to manage the release process and make more informed release decisions with real-time KPIs and reports
Helps your managers measure progress and effectiveness of quality activities
Allows your QA teams, developers and business analysts to collaborate in the quality lifecycle with a single global platform
Enables your organisation to centrally manage manual and automated testing assets
Facilitates standardised testing and quality processes that boost productivity through workflows and alerts
Allows your organisation to lower costs by capturing critical defects before they reach production

Are there White Papers or Demos available for HP Quality Center?

Yes, visit the HP download center for access to this information.

How can I find out more about HP Quality Center?

To find out more, you can either visit the HP download center for more information, such as whitepapers and demos. Or, you can contact us via phone or email. An HP representative can answer all your questions and tell you exactly what you need to know about Quality Center.

How can I buy HP Quality Center?

If you’re interested in purchasing HP Quality Center or upgrading to the latest version, please contact us.

Why should I choose HP Software?

HP is ideally positioned to meet your most stringent quality management needs. We offer:

Market leadership - we have a 61.7 percent market share in distributed automated software quality, according to IDC.
Integrated approach - our solutions for quality management work together across the application lifecycle, spanning IT applications and IT operations.
Enterprise ready - unmatched scalability and enterprise architecture make HP Quality Center the solution of choice for centralisation and standardisation initiatives.

How do I find out about other HP Software products?

To find out about other products offered by HP Software, you can either visit the HP download center or contact us.

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