Learning Objectives
To allow the student to successfully use Quality Center immediately following the end of the class. The student will have a comprehensive understanding of tool use and potential.
Audience
Those new to Quality Center or who have not used Quality Center recently.
Prerequisites
A fundamental understanding of the testing process and commonly used testing terms.
A small amount of SQL and VB are contained in the presentation; experience in these tools is an asset but not required for understanding the content.
Version
This course is based on Quality Center Enterprise Edition V11.0. Reference is occasionally made to other versions (ALM, Starter Edition) but such references are minimal and given as asides.
Duration
This is a three day course which can be reduced to two days by eliminating or minimizing selected topics or extended to four days by including extended sessions for the Excel Report Generator and Sprinter.
Course outline
Introduction
- An overview of Quality Center
- Roles
- Comment on Customizations
Management
- Releases and Cycles: Establishing the release schedule.
- Libraries and Baselines: Creating a Library or reference point for establishing a Baseline or snapshot of QC assets.
Requirements
- Building the Requirements Tree.
- Different Views of the Requirements.
- Risk, how and why to measure it.
- History.
- Reusing Requirements.
- Grid Filters.
- Version Control.
- Mass Updating.
Test Plan
- Building the Test Plan Tree.
- Types of Tests.
- Adding Tests.
- Requirements Coverage.
- Reusing Manual Test Elements:
- Parameterizing Manual Tests.
- Calling Tests.
Test Resources
- Building the resources tree.
- Importing external resources.
- Viewing resources.
- Baselining Resources.
- Dependencies
Test Lab
- Organizational Structure.
- Building test sets.
- Adding tests to test sets.
- Execution Flow.
- Controlling execution.
- Test Set Properties.
- Linked Defects.
Defects Module
- Understanding the Defects Module.
- Inserting a New Defect.
- Using the Grid Filters.
- Workflow - the life cycle of a defect.
- Relationship of Defects to other entities.
Reporting and Analysis
- What is missing from QC?
- Overview of Reporting and Analysis.
- Selected Reports and Graphs.
- Dashboard.
- The Document Generator.
- Live Analysis.
Accessing (Importing) Data in External Formats
- Accessing data in Word.
- Accessing data in Excel.
Excel Report Generator
- Overview
- Query
- Post Processing
- Pivot Tables
- Process
Sprinter
- Power mode
- Mirroring
- Screen annotation
- Creating and using macros
- Using data injection
- Analyzing results
Topics Not Covered
- Business Process Testing
- Setup and Administration
Lesson Schedule
- Day 1
- Introduction
- Management
- Requirements
- Test Plan
- Test Resources
- Day 2
- Test Lab
- Defects Module
- Reporting and Analysis
- Accessing Data in External Formats
- Day 3
- The Excel Report Generator
- Sprinter
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