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What is HP ALM?
HP ALM (Application Life Cycle Management) is a web based tool that helps organizations to manage the application lifecycle right from project planning, requirements gathering, until Testing & deployment, which otherwise is a time-consuming task.
In its earlier avatar as Quality Center, the test management tool was developed by Mercury interactive.
It is now developed by HP as Application Life Cycle Management Tool (or) ALM that supports various phases of the software development life cycle.
ALM also provides integration to all other HP products such as UFT and Load Runner.
Why use HP ALM?
The various stakeholders involved in a typical project are –
These stakeholders perform diverse set of activities that need to be communicated to all concerned team members.
If we do not maintain centralized repository to record, maintain and track all the artifacts related to the product, the project will unquestionably FAIL.
We also need a mechanism to document and collaborate on all testing and development activities.
Enter HP ALM!
HP Quality Center Versions
It is important to understand the history of ALM.
Architecture of QC
Now let us understand the technology part of HP-ALM. ALM is an enterprise application developed using Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) that can have MS SQL Server or Oracle as its back end. ALM has 3 components – Client, Application Server and Database Server.
HP ALM Editions:
HP ALM is a commercially licensed tool and HP distributes ALM in 4 different flavors
ALM Edition Feature Comparison
Each one of the license allows users to access certain ALM functionalities. Following Table lists the features that a particular license give you =
Let's study why would you purchase a particular version and whom is it suited for
ALM Workflow
To learn the ALM workflow, Let's first study a typical test process-
HP ALM provides a module catering to each stage of the Testing Process. We will study them in detail in later tutorials.
Micro Focus Quality Center, formerly known as HP Quality Center is a quality management software offered by Micro Focus, who acquired the software division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017[1], with many capabilities acquired from Mercury Interactive Corporation.[2] Quality Center offers software quality assurance, including requirements management, test management and business process testing for IT and application environments.[3] Quality Center is a component of the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management software set.[4]
Product packaging[edit]
Micro Focus Quality Center is available in the following editions:[5]
Community and Express editions are designed for entry-level software qualityassurance organizations. The Enterprise edition, originally called Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center, is for software quality assurance organizations that manage medium to large releases. For large and global organizations, Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management incorporates the capabilities of Quality Center Enterprise Tracking, Enterprise Release Management and Asset Sharing for requirements management through application delivery.[6]Quality Center is also available as a Software-as-a-Service offering.[7]
System requirements[edit]
Micro Focus Quality Center runs on the Windows platforms with an Internet Explorer browser. In combination with the ALM Explorer Add-in, it can be executed as a normal desktop application.
Micro Focus has published information regarding about ALM's server-side and client-side system requirements, and are updated periodically as new versions and patches are released.
References[edit]
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