Micro Focus ALM Quality Center Review

Flexible, customizable and easy to integrate, but high licensing cost

Valuable Features:

* Flexible licensing (In-house hosting or Cloud-based). * High capacity. Have heard of two Telco clients who have up to 4,000 licenses each. * Easy to use * Highly customizable * Can be integrated with a variety of automation tools * Can be integrated with a variety of Requirements Management tools * Can be integrated with a variety of Defect Tracking tools * Can store pretty much all testing artifacts (requirements, test cases, defects, automation scripts, and miscellaneous files) * Good linking between requirements, defects and test cases * New version of Quality Center comes with an advanced test case runner called "HP Sprinter". * Highly customizable reporting (now uses VBA for formatting reports) * Good technical support from HP and specialized consulting firms * Lots of new features being rolled out by HP including Business Process Testing (BPT) module which is at the cutting edge of testing (manual and automation wise) * HP is also adding new features for Total Application Lifecycle Management (including Performance Testing Module, Project Tracking Module, etc)

Room for Improvement:

* High licensing cost. * The Version Control feature is still quite primitive.
**Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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author avatarit_user4401 (Developer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees)
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You said that Quality Center can be integrated with a variety of automation tools. Can you give us some examples, please?

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author avatarit_user795 (Senior Manager of QA at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees)
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HP-QC can be integrated with "any" tool that can access Windows COM interface. This is because HP-QC's OTA interface (used for integrating with third party tools) is a COM interface (a Microsoft technology). So naturally, languages like Java will not be able to access the COM interface and therefore not able to interface with HP-QC.

Examples of tools that can be integrated with HP-QC are TestComplete, Selenium (if programming using C#, Python or Ruby), SilkTest, Ranorex. Not sure about AutoIt because it uses its own proprietary language and may or may not support COM interfacing.

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author avatarit_user122061 (User at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees)
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Hey Alin, Kovair Integration platform can integrate QC with test automation tools like QTP & RFT. Moreover Kovair platform supports integration between 50 + ALM & IT tools.

You can learn more here: http://www.kovair.com/list-of-tools-integration-from-kovair.html

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author avatarit_user255849 (Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees)
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Whats is the cost of License spanning 200 Projects and 3000 Users ?

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Highlights
Ability to customize modules, particularly Defect Tracking module on company specific needs
The AI and functionality interface are useful.
It has a good response time.
From reporting to team management, everything is better now.
By using QC we broke down silos (of teams), improved the organization of our tests, have a much better view of the testing status, and became much quicker in providing test results with document generation.
We can get an entire project into a single repository where we can view all the data in detail. This is where we keep all our test cases where everyone can reference them. This provides everyone access to the test cases and artifacts via the cloud. There is no need to contact anyone.
The best thing is that you can see your current status in real time... To see real-time updates, you just log in to ALM and you can see exactly what the progress is. You can also see if the plan for the day is being executed properly, and it's all tracked. From the management side, I find those features very valuable.
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