HP QC ALM 11.0 Upgrade Benefits

In one of the HP’s obsolescence announcement around Quality Center 10, its support in organizations is no longer being available the next year, had entitled to a no cost software upgrade to version 11.0. HP will allow you to upgrade from the same level to the same level of Quality Center by providing you the updated software files for install. If you would like to upgrade to a higher level (such as QC 10 Enterprise to ALM 11.0), there is a slight up in charge for the New version QC 11.0

HP ALM QC version 11.0 has a number of cost and time saving benefits to keep in mind. Some of these features will help your organization better manage requirements, build/execute manual, automated and performance types of test cases, increase visibility of defects, plus gather and report on metrics with the touch of a button instead going through a lengthy navigation process.

1. Project planning and tracking:  

Only in ALM 11 we can find HP’s new PPT (Project Planning and Tracking) functionality that allows us to track application readiness by defining goals for activities of an application release.This functionality provides the opportunity to define these goals and activities at a more granular level and then use Milestones and KPI's (Key performance Indicators), Planning Charts and Scorecards to monitor, analyze and report on your progress.

2. Reporting:

If you gather and report metrics using manual processes, ALM 11 will speed up time to market by allowing the publishing and integration of graphs and scorecards directly from ALM to HTML types of pages (including Wiki & SharePoint), and the data will dynamically update when the information in ALM changes.

3. Requirements Management enhancements: 

Business process modeling: This feature helps in import and display business process models (BPMs), visually representing and communicating defined business process flows. A requirements hierarchy is automatically generated and directly linked to the BPM, allowing for detailed drill down to avoid the risk of requirements duplication or oversight.

New Rich Text editor: Enables rapid, easy adoption across our teams with a familiar content editor with the same functionality for data input as Microsoft Word. Content is fully searchable and report able.

4. Test configurations:

QA can design tests that run according to different use cases, each with different sets of data, creating lower script-maintenance costs. Each test configuration can be directly traced to the requirement, resulting in better test accuracy and coverage. HP Sprinter HP Sprinter dramatically reduces the time involved in manual testing, and improves accuracy

5. Development management

Improve collaboration and communication with developers in their home environment via out of the box integration with:

• Visual Studio/TFS
• Eclipse
• CollabNet 

6. Administration and Integration and Performance:

Side by Side Clients: Allows running multiple clients connecting to different versions of ALM and QC Servers (ALM 11; QC 9.2, 10.0, 11.0) Client Installation: User can install client on desktop without system administration rights REST APIs: New web services technology for simple integration with ALM platform. The ALM Synchronizer now leverages the REST APIs. QC Sense: Internal monitoring tool that collects data and reports on user actions performed in the user interface, and all client and server activity resulting from those actions. Smart Repository: Optimized repository system, that creates better performance for common actions, and reduces the size of the file system