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Quality Center (QC) is an HP web based software product for test management.

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Alternatives to HP Quality Center for small business

Which are the alternatives today? Not only freeware, but tools affordable for a development team of 3-5 men. I like the structure and flexibility of HP QC, so a similar tool would be nice to have.
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Should I try the evaluation version of HP Quality Center?

I'm trying to determine if I should spend some time working with a trial version of HP Quality Center. For a number of reasons, my time is very valuable to me right now both at work and in my ...
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How to change status of all test cases in QC test lab

In QC, How to change status of all test cases(including all steps) together. I need to make a large set of test cases "pass" in one go, hope there would be some query which can do this.
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How to export test cases from test plan in QC

We use QC for test management tool in our project. Usually, we write test cases & test steps in spreadsheets and load into QC using 'Export to QC' excel add-in. We have a set of test cases already ...
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Conversion failed when converting the varchar value to data type int

I am writing this query in HP ALM 11.52 and facing the error "Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'userid' to data type int" Query is select * from Testcycl join Audit_Log on ...
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RESTful JSON Web API Testing - what tools?

My company is working on its API which is RESTful JSON Web API. So far, all my testing was done using Selenium WebDriver. Starting from one and more tests I manage to create some sort of framework. ...
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How to filter defects / requirements by summary / name in HP-ALM with regexp-like syntax?

What kind of syntax is it possible to use in HP-ALM string filtering? For example something like this: *accounts?*(error|enter)*
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Downloading resource from HP Quality Center REST API

Do you know if there's a way to download the contents of test resources (files) using RESTful API? I can see the contents of the resources: http://<...>/qcbin/rest/domains/.../projects/.../...
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What resources will help me understand the data model for QC 10.0 in order to write my SQL queries?

I am a fresher in Quality Center 10.0 HP software testing tool. As per my understanding in order to generate reports from QC and to troubleshoot the scenarios, we need to write SQL queries in the QC ...
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Excel template for creating/retrieving/updating defects in quality center

Has anyone tried using an Excel template/macro for updating defects in Quality Center? Currently, I can use the Excel add-in to create new bug reports and then upload it to QC. But afterwards, I'd ...
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How to find and remove duplicate records in QC ALM?

I have 1,150 test cases in my QC ALM and in Excel spreadsheet I have 1,075 test cases. There are 75 test cases which are duplicate in QC ALM and I need to remove them so that it matches the Excel test ...
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Tracking defect time to fix

Wondering how other people are handling this, because with the teams I work with we are runnning into issues when tracking when our defects are being worked on. What we do now is fill out an ...
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ISO standards implement in Software Quality assurance/testing

Please help that how to implement the ISO standards in SOFTWARE QUAILTY"" if any one has any template about these, share me please. I have read about the ISO/IEC 9126 but don't know how to implement ...
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Filter with wildcard

I'm trying to filter the description. All the posts I'm trying to get start with "FoG" or "F&G". I can filter on "FoG*" or "F&G*". But can I search on "F.G*" where dot is one character of ...
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Where are defects stored in the HP ALM Database?

Starting to look into writing my own reports by extracting ALM data into excel. After looking through the HP documentation on the ALM Database I can't find any table that shows where they are storing ...
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How to filter QC test plan grid view to tests in specific folder tree

Given a test plan tree with test cases in folders and subfolders. How do I filter the grid view to only display all tests in a specific folder tree? Intention: update a field of these tests
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Open source code to upload test results into HP QC/ALM?

Is there some open source code, available to upload test results into HP QC via their api, or will I need to write something myself? Ideally via REST, so it can be done from non-windows machines.
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How can I "play" with QualityCenter OTA API without having a QC server?

I am in the process of developing an application that uses QC OTA API, and although I find OTA API Reference a good place to start, I really need to have a server I could connect to/try things out on. ...
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how to add an existing script to uft using AOM/vbScript? [closed]

So I have a script which connects to QC and opens a test in UFT and runs it. The problem with this is that the open command closes the previously opened tests. I want to copy the file -> add -> ...
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Test Manager. QC vs TFS

My department is currently looking at a Quality Assurance test manager. On top of that we currently use Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS) on the development side of the house. We're ...
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How to copy paste from OneNote to Quality Center?

Steps: Select a block of text in OneNote. Copy to clipboard Paste in Quality Center (defect description field or actual box of manual runner) Expected result: text is pasted in Quality Center. ...
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Test status got changed to 'Outdated' in Quality Center. How to change to Ready?

I deleted some Business components and consolidated tests in Quality center. Then I consolidated them again and created the Business components back. Now, the status of those testscripts got changed ...
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Updates to scripts in test lab

It's been my understanding that when using Test Lab in Quality Center, if changes are made within a script, i.e data/ criteria change those updates DO NOT go backwards and update the the case in Test ...
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How to filter with on column1 OR column2 in Quality Center?

Quality Center allows filtering in the defects view. Is it possible to filter on column1 = "value1" OR column2 = "value2", showing the union of the two filters?
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Quality Center - specifying the version in which a test set or a test were executed

My team is part of a project that is practicing the SCRUM methodology. We use continuous integration server to build our product. One of the requirements is to run our integration tests at least once ...
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How to calculate the number of tests in a test set in QC?

I have tests split to few test sets under the same folder. I can use the Live Analysis tab in order to see the number of tests in the folder. I wonder how can I see a number of tests per test set? ...
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Automate linking of requirements with test plan items

We are using HPQC on our project. I am new to the tool. I have an Excel sheet with the test plan ID and their related requirement IDs. The manual process is very time consuming. How do I automate the ...
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How can I export test step description as plain text?

I'm using an Excel report from Analysis view to export the design steps to Excel: SELECT DESSTEPS.DS_DESCRIPTION FROM DESSTEPS However, DESSTEPS.DS_DESCRIPTION field looks like this: <html> &...
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Is it possible to edit 'hard-value' parameters of 'Call to Test' in HP ALM?

When you create Call to Test there is a choice to set Actual Value of each parameter in called test (let's name it hard-value). If you do not specify the value it's possible to specify it in Test ...
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How to lock particular test case in Test plan module when some one is working in Particular TC

If a user is working on a particular test case in Test plan module.He is copying that test case to some other project but he wants to make sure no other person should work on it or just a information (...
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(QTP/UFT) How do I use a test's input action parameters to parameterize a test?

I am working with HP Unified Functional Testing 11.52. In my example below, I'd like to use the test's input action parameters "C1" and "C2" in Action1. Here is the code in action 1, it is just 1 ...
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How do I export test cases from HP Sprinter as XML import to HP UFT? [closed]

I have created a Test in HP Sprinter and want that test to execute in HP UFT. . I have gone through this link but I am unable to export the test cases in .xml format. According to the link this is the ...
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Modifying a called in test case

How do you modify a test case that has been used as a call in for other tests? In other words, if I have a test case that I want to modify or delete, how can I tell if it has been used as a call in ...
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How to reuse test steps in HP ALM test plan?

I'd like to reuse the same sequence of steps in different test scenarious. For example, scenario of testing printing functionality and testing calculation functionality both need address entering. So ...
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Find the bugs related to test a run in Quality Center via database query

I'm able to query a HPQC database to retrieve execution information from the TEST and STEP tables. I'm also able to query for defect information from the BUG tab. But, I'm struggling to find a way ...
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Analysis of test steps in HP ALM

Using HP Application Lifecycle Management v11 to track testing, defects, etc. Within this web app they have analysis features that let you create graphs/reports for defects/tests/test instances. Does ...
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How to change issue status from "In progress" to "Watchlist"?

I try to change status from In progress to Watchlist but it tells me that I don't have permission to go in that order.
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In HP QC 10 , how can I increase the font size of a field?

Several of my team's QC users have complained about the text in description & comments fields being too small to read. Is there a way to increase the font size? Is there a way to change the font?
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Excel Add In for Quality Center won't run in 64 bit excel - is there a workaround?

Our company recently upgraded everyone to Office 2010, the 64 bit version. This broke the functionality of the HP Excel ADD IN for Quality Center that I had been using. I prefer to write my test cases ...
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How to I find number of test cases executed for a period and number of test cases executed by tester in QC

How to I find number of test cases executed for a period and number of test cases executed by tester in QC, please explain in me in detail as I am novice to QC
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How can I uninstall HPQC 11 Client? [closed]

Simple question. The answer from the Official Installation Guide: Go to http://h20230.www2.hp.com/selfsolve/document/KM176290 and download a tool for uninstalling (nice). Going there (right now)...
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Alternative for HP ALM (QC) + Jira

For a semi-large company that plans to move away from HP ALM, I'm looking for an alternative software management tool. At the moment HP ALM is not being used optimally and since it's expensive it's ...
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Does parent-child defect relationship exist in HP ALM

There is a situation when it whould be useful to have parent-child defect relationship: Parent defect: 'Print' button only creates blank word document (it should be filled in with data) Child defect: ...
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How can I export test cases in HP ALM to be re-imported into another ALM project?

I've been put on a new project, which has some legacy test cases, these test cases exist in ALM. I would like to export certain sections of this test plan for usage in the new project, which again ...
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