Quality Center

1). What is meant by test lab in Quality Centre?

Test lab is a part of Quality Centre where we can execute our test on different cycles creating test tree
for each one of them. We need to add test to these test trees from the tests, which are placed under
test plan in the project. Internally Quality Centre will refer to this test while running then in the test lab.

2. Can you map the defects directly to the requirements(Not through the test cases) in the Quality
Centre?

Create your Req.Structure

Create the test case structure and the test cases
Map the test cases to the App.Req
Run and report bugs from your test cases in the test lab module.

3. how do you run reports from Quality Centre. Does any one have good white paper or articles?

. Open the Quality Centre project

2. Displays the requirements modules
3. Choose report
Analysis > reports > standard requirements report

6. How many types of tabs are there in Quality Centre. Explain?

There are four types of tabs are available
1. Requirement : To track the customer requirements
2. Testplan : To design the test cases and to store the test scripts
3. test lab : To execute the test cases and track the results.
4. Defect : To log a defect and to track the logged defects.

Test plan tab: Only individual test can be exported. no parent child export is possible. Select a test
script, click on the design steps tab, right click anywhere on the open window. Click on export and save
as.

Test lab tab: Select a child group. Click on execution grid if it is not selected. Right click anywhere.
Default save option is excel. But can be saved in documents and other formats. Select all or selected
option

Defects Tab: Right click anywhere on the window, export all or selected defects and save excel sheet or
document.

7. How to map the requirements with test cases in Quality Centre?

1. In requirements tab select coverage view
2. Select requirement by clicking on parent/child or grandchild
3. On right hand side(In coverage view window) another window will appear. It has two tabs
a) Tests coverage
b) Details
Test coverage tab will be selected by default or you click on it.
4. Click on select tests button a new window will appear on right hand side and you will see a list of all
tests. You cans elect any test case you want to map with your requirements.

8. How to use Quality Centre in real time project?

Once completed the preparing of test cases
1. Export the test cases into Quality Centre( It will contained total 8 steps)
2. The test cases will be loaded in the test plan module
3. Once the execution is started. We move the test cases from test plan tab to the test lab module.
4. In test lab, we execute the test cases and put as pass or fail or incomplete. We generate the graph in
the test lab for daily report and sent to the on site (where ever you want to deliver)

5. If we got any defects and raise the defects in the defect module. when raising the defects, attach the
defects with the screen shot.

9. Difference between Web Inspect-QA Inspect?

QA Inspect finds and prioritizes security vulnerabilities in an entire web application or in specific usage
scenarios during testing and presents detail information and remediation advise about each
vulnerability.Web Inspect ensures the security of your most critical information by identifying known
and unknown vulnerabilities within the web application. With web Inspect, auditors, compliance officers
and security experts can perform security assessments on a web enabled application. Web inspect
enables users to perform security assessments for any web application or web service, including the
industry leading application platforms.

10. How can w add requirements to test cases in Quality Centre?

Just you can use the option of add requirements.Two kinds of requirements are available in TD.
1. Parent Requirement
2. Child requirements.

Parent Requirements nothing but title of the requirements, it covers high level functions of the
requirements
Child requirement nothing but sub title of requirements, it covers low level functions of the
requirements.

11. What are the benefits of using Quality Center?

 Quality center is one of the best test management tools in the market. It has a lot of features
and can be accessed through an IE browser.
 It has a different set of modules and we can create releases, requirement and its traceability,
test plan, test lab, logging defects in defect modules.
 Defect assignment can be easily done in QC and in turn QC itself can generate emails to intimate
the responsible person assigned to a particular activity.
  QC provides various customization filters which can be used for creating reports and graphs.
 QC can be integrated with QTP and HP Load Runner and HP Performance Center

How to add Test Coverage to the Requirements in Quality Center?

Select the requirement created in the Requirements tab

 Double click on the created requirement and you will get a Requirement details window
 Click on “Test Coverage” option available in the Requirement details window
 Once you are in Test Coverage view, click on SELECT button which will show TEST PLAN tree at
the right side
 Browse through the Test Plan tree and select all the test cases and add it to the requirements
and click OK