Using Quality Center 10.0
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.
Duration
This is a two day course.
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.
Excel Report Generator
- Overview
- Query
- Post Processing
- Pivot Tables
- Process
Accessing (Importing) Data in External Formats
- Accessing data in Word.
- Accessing data in Excel.
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
- The Excel Report Generator
- Accessing Data in External Formats
