Quality Center (QC) is an HP software product for managing testing.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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QC via REST API
I'm trying to update defects in quality centre using their REST API from a curl-based script.
So far, I've managed to authenticate, store the cookie, and retrieve a defect's data from QC.
My ...
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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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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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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:
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In HP Quality center 9.2, Manual run Popup window is coming but immediately minimizing and not able to open to execute the each steps of test case
In HP Quality center 9.2, when start running the test set
In test lab module, Selecting the test case of test set and click on Run->Manually Run.
then the 'Manual run:" Popup window is coming but ...
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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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QC Report: Which test cases have not been linked to at least one test set?
I am still pretty new here, but couldn't find an answer so far.
I want to know if there are any test cases (if possible of a specific folder in the Test Plan) that have not been linked to a test set, ...
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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 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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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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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 to find QC removed test scripts and bring them back
How to find out the vanished test scripts of a particular test set in a test lab of the QC.
How to bring them to the normal view as before.
Please refer to the work around perfomed for this issue and ...
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Modifying multiple Test Cases status [duplicate]
Sometimes I have a list of test cases in the Test Lab and I want to their Status to be changed. Is there any neat way to do it except of just going and doing that one by one?
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Attaching a defect to a blocked Test Case in QC
In QC there is an option to set a "Blocked" status for a testing scenarios which are unable to be tested due to a blocking defect. I wonder if there is an option to attach the actual blocking defect ...
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QC to QAComplete migration experience [closed]
Wanted to get inputs on experience in migrating QC to QAComplete. Please can you share your inputs and share your email contact if you are ok to receive specific questions
thanks,
Vimal
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Quality Center: How to check if a test is already included in any requirement [closed]
How can I check that a specific Test Case is already included in any of the existing requirements? Currently I see no other way rather than going through all the requirements and trying to locate this ...
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Create defect template in Quality Center
We are using Quality Center 10.00 Enterprise edition and I should have admin rights to my current project.
I would like to create a template for new defects, but can't find where to write the ...
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How can I uninstall HPQC 11 Client?
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 ...
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In QC, under the Dashboard module can reports be saved in .csv format?
In QC - Dashboard module - I have a report which has huge data that exceeds Excel limit. Is there a way to save it in .CSV format?
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Unable to Install Client Side QC 10.0
Unable to Install Quality Center Client Side on the client's machine.
Operating System: Windows Vista *
IE Version:*9****
We tried all the basic trouble shooting steps like deleting TD_80 folder ...
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QC 10: Shortcut keys for blocking a single step/all the steps?
I am looking for shortcut Keys which can be used during execution. Below are the keys that I am aware of. Hope this helps:
Ctrl+R: Begin Run
Ctrl+Alt+A: All Test Steps Pass
Ctrl+P: 1selected step ...
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How can I propagate requirements field changes in HP ALM 11?
I'm trying to figure out the customization of HP ALM 11. We'd like to be able to change a field at the folder level in the Requirements module, then send that change to all Requirement objects in ...
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Quality Management help [closed]
I have some misunderstandings in the following concept:
Quality Assurance vs Quality Management
Quality assurer tasks vs Quality Manager tasks
What is the scope of QA and QM
Thanks in advance
