HP TestDirector for Quality Center

• Does your organization lack the software testing tools to deploy high-quality applications quickly and effectively?
• Does your organization have the appropriate level of communication, organization, documentation, and structure in place for every testing project?
• Do you have a consistent, repeatable testing process?
• Are you leveraging strategic sourcing initiatives for quality assurance (QA)?

HP TestDirector™ for Quality Center allows you to deploy high-quality applications quickly and effectively by providing a consistent, repeatable process for gathering requirements, planning and scheduling tests, analyzing results, and managing defects and issues. TestDirector is a single, web-based application for all essential aspects of test management — Requirements Management, Test Plan, Test Lab, and Defects Management. You can leverage these core modules either as a standalone solution or integrated within a global Quality Center of Excellence environment.

HP TestDirector for Quality Center also enables your organization to digitize specific quality processes and procedures within the larger application lifecycle. With the integration with HP Project and Portfolio Management Center™, you can enforce quality processes for application changes or new projects.

HP TestDirector for Quality Center supports high levels of communication and collaboration among IT teams. Whether you are coordinating the work of many disparate QA teams, or working with a large, distributed Center of Excellence, this test management tool helps facilitate information access across geographical and organization boundaries.

In addition, HP TestDirector for Quality Center provides real-time visibility for inter-related quality assets. Requirements designed in the Requirements Manager can be tied to test cases, defects, or even instances of a test run for detailed traceability.

Using TestDirector for Quality Center, multiple groups throughout your organization can contribute to the quality process:

• Business analysts define application requirements and testing objectives.
• Test managers and project leads design test plans and develop test cases.
• Test managers automatically create QA testing requirements and test assets for SOA services and environments.
• Test automation engineers create automated scripts and store them in the repository.
• QA testers run manual and automated tests, report execution results, and enter defects.
• Developers review and fix defects logged into the database.
• Project managers can export test and resource data in various reports, or in native Microsoft Excel for analysis.
• Product managers decide whether an application is ready to be released.
• QA analysts can auto-generate test asset documentation in Microsoft Word format.

HP QuickTest Professional

• Do you have a complete enterprise testing solution in place to ensure success?
• Do you understand the risk to your business and to your team’s credibility when software fails?
• Do you desire a test automation solution designed for collaboration among workgroups?
• Does your testing include environments such as .NET, Web services, JAVA, ERP/CRM, mainframe, and Windows applications?

 

HP QuickTest Professional™ provides the industry’s best solution for functional test and regression test automation - addressing every major software application and environment. This next-generation automated testing solution deploys the concept of Keyword-driven testing to radically simplify test creation and maintenance. Unique to QuickTest Professional’s Keyword-driven approach, test automation experts have full access to the underlying test and object properties, via an integrated scripting and debugging environment that is round-trip synchronized with the Keyword View.

QuickTest Professional satisfies the needs of both technical and non-technical users. It enables you to deploy higher-quality applications faster, cheaper, and with less risk. It works hand-in-hand with HP Business Process Testing™ to bring non-technical subject matter experts into the quality process in a meaningful way. Plus, it empowers the entire testing team to create sophisticated test suites with minimal training.

With QuickTest Professional, your QA organization can achieve a number of advantages:

• Empower the entire team to create sophisticated test suites with minimal training.
• Ensure correct functionality across all environments, data sets, and business processes.
• Fully document and replicate defects for developers, enabling them to fix defects faster and meet production deadlines.
• Easily regression-test ever-changing applications and environments.
• Collaborate as a tester workgroup, by sharing automated testing assets, functions, and object repositories.
• Become a key player in enabling the organization to deliver quality products and services, and improve revenues and profitability.

HP WinRunner

• How do you efficiently test multiple applications that are constantly evolving and required to work in diverse environments?
• Do you struggle with limited resources and increased pressure to deliver high-quality products on schedule?
• How can you ensure that mission-critical applications work as expected and meet business requirements?

 

The answer is functional and regression testing prior to deployment. HP WinRunner® offers your organization a powerful tool for enterprise-wide functional and regression testing. HP WinRunner captures, verifies, and replays user interactions automatically, so you can identify defects and ensure that business processes work flawlessly upon deployment and remain reliable.

With HP WinRunner, your organization gains several advantages, including:

• Reduced testing time by automating repetitive tasks.
• Optimized testing efforts by covering diverse environments with a single testing tool.
• Maximized return on investment through modifying and reusing test scripts as the application evolves.

HP Business Process Testing

• Do you need to streamline the creation and maintenance of both manual and automated test cases?
• Are your functional testing products too technical for your business analysts?
• Do miscommunications and different priorities between your company’s business analysts and quality engineers result in time-consuming test rework?
• Does limited business analyst involvement during testing lead to defects and breakdowns in critical business processes?
• Are defects found in production instead of by your functional testing team — hurting your group’s credibility?

 Bridging the quality chasm is no longer an IT goal. It’s a strategic imperative. That’s where HP Business Process Testing™, the industry’s first web-based test design solution, can add real value. HP Business Process Testing bridges the quality chasm between subject matter experts and quality engineers. It is a web-based test design system purpose-built to enable subject matter experts to build, data-drive, and execute manual and automated tests without any programming knowledge.

With HP Business Process Testing, you can:

• Start test case design early in the software development lifecycle.
• Automate maintenance of test cases and test plan documentation.
• Manage change impact for SAP applications.
• Unify distributed tests with test asset reuse.
• Detect and diagnose application problems before you go live.

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Automating Manual Test Cases
HP Business Process Testing introduces the concept of reusable business components for test design. This construct drastically reduce test maintenance and improve test creation efficiency. It enables the creation of data-driven manual test libraries in a fraction of the time of traditional test design solutions. Once a manual test case has been designed in HP Business Process Testing, it is easy to transition the same test case to automation, without losing existing design work.

To automate manual test cases, the solution enables quality engineers to leverage HP Functional Testing (i.e.: WinRunner or QuickTest Professional) to automate the existing componentized test definitions through a technology known as Keyword Driven testing. Through the use of these reusable business components, subject matter experts can leverage these same automated assets in the design of future test cases with no re-work.

HP Business Process Testing sits on top of a web-enabled enterprise-class technology platform that is fully integrated into HP Quality Center™. Our solution combines ease of use, scalability, fast deployment, and rich functionality to support quality throughout the entire development lifecycle.

In addition, you can copy and paste components, business process tests, and test sets within HP Quality Center™ projects and servers. This allows you to leverage your testing assets across multiple applications and different testing teams. It also saves testers time and effort, leading to improved productivity and efficiency.