OpenText ALM / Quality Center Primary Use Case

Ajit Kumar Rout - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Quality Assurance Engineer at Wabtec Industrial

We used Quality Center for test case management. We wrote and uploaded test cases into it, and we also executed them manually. We could track the results of the test cases, and we could also track the defects that were found.

We also used it for higher-end requirements management and traceability. The managers and other stakeholders could track the requirements and see how they were being tested.

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MR
Quality Lead at Vodafone

We are from a Vodafone department that manages testing and quality. We brought this tool in to assist us. We are constantly using it. 95 percent of projects are running on it.

We mostly use this solution on our laptop devices.

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Robertino Catalin Ionescu - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Manager of Testing Automation Centre at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

We are using Micro Focus ALM Quality Center to test the software from the company. Additionally, we do manual and automated tests.

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OpenText ALM / Quality Center
March 2024
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LV
Head of Testing at Pick n Pay

We use all the major modules in ALM Quality Center. From the releases and management portion, we use the requirements, and we create our releases. We create requirements. We link our test spaces to these requirements and we schedule the execution in the test lab. Then we capture our results in Quality Center and we follow the management process that is not only for manual testing. 

We also have quite extensive automated testing in our environment with some of the other Micro Focus products. They are all integrated into Quality Center, like the UFT, we use service virtualization, we have RPA and we also use Mobile Center. Quality Center plays a major role in our test artifacts, our execution, and our order tracking, both in manual and automated.

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BJ
Program Test Manager at B and H Designs

I am using Micro Focus ALM Quality Center for test script preparation and test script execution and defect management. This will enable the programme to capture and store tests for easy re-usability for future deployments.

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Saket Pandey - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees

We used Micro Focus ALM for the bifurcation process. We have different health associations registering on our portal. We import their data into our channels or segments created by us. So, whenever the users import the data, we require a medium to bifurcate it into different divisions. The solution helps us segment the data.

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LG
IS Director, ERP PTP Solution Architecture at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

We started an SAP implementation about four years ago and it was selected as the test management tool at the time.

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Krishna Puti - PeerSpot reviewer
Director - Quality Assurance Engineering at QualiZeal

We use the solution for test management and gathering requirements and test cases.

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AravindKumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Test Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We primarily use Micro Focus ALM Quality Center for test management, including test case creation and execution, and we also use it for planning different test cycles during regression tests. We handpick the cases, plan different test cycles, and use Micro Focus ALM Quality Center for defect creation.

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MB
Global Lead at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We're pretty heavily dependent upon that tool, in terms of the test management overall and using UFT as an automation, as well.

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Mohana Bommena - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Manager at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

ALM is a well-known product and is one of the pioneers in providing test management facilities with a 360 degree view of requirements.

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Alice MacNeil - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Quality Engineering at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The primary use cases for this solution are testing, recording and auditing results, and creating test cases and test plans.  

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VC
Camera Software Engineer at L Soft Corp

We were using Micro Focus ALM Quality Center for our test management for lots of products. I installed ALM myself, and we were using it for SAP deployment. We were using Requirement modules, Test Plan modules, Test Lab modules as well as the Defect modules in ALM. Not only for this product, but also for other companies like Cooper, Active, Delphi, Allegis and DLM for test management.

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Don Ingerson - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Automation Engineer at Global Fortune 500 Company

To store all tests including manual and automated tests along with the results of tests after they were executed. Tracking defects, scheduling test sets for automated UFT tests to run unattended from the Test Lab, storing the test cases, and also storing the test requirements in the Requirements Module. 

The Application Lifecycle Management Process with ALM includes the following phases

  • Release Specifications: Develop a release-cycle management plan to help you manage application releases and cycles efficiently.
  • Requirement Specifications: Define requirements to meet your business and testing needs.
  • Test Planning: Based on the project requirements, you can build test plans and design tests.
  • Test Execution: Create a subset of the tests in your project designed to achieve specific test goals. Execute scheduled tests to diagnose and resolve problems.
  • Defect Tracking: Submit defects and track their progress and status.
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AS
Data Insights & Analytics Solution Architect at BT - British Telecom

We have been involved in a lot of IT projects which need test management and for the test execution process, we are using Micro Focus ALM Quality Center.

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AY
Managing Partner at Verve Square Technologies

We are using it for test management. We have distributed teams in three locations with one location in Portland, which is the newest, and also in India. We have a team of around 150 people (developers plus three testers). We are implementing an order migration legacy system to a new system based on AngularJS 5.0. We also have test automation being implemented on this account using Micro Focus UFT. 

Automation is triggered through ALM. We have the test scripts stored in ALM that are triggered through the execution dashboard. Also, the reports are available on the dashboard. 

We do defect management through ALM, which is the typical use case. The defects are raised in our different locations, then the collaboration between the development leads and testers happen through ALM.

We use the Test Plan module where we have test cases related to all our different releases up until now with a few current releases as well. We use the Test Lab tab to pull test cases from Test Plan and do executions accordingly. We have also created some smoke and sanity testing suites where we pull test cases, then execute them when required during the project phases.

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IM
Senior SW Quality Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I'm the admin for our organization's Quality Center. I define the guidelines and projects for use. We use also use it for management requirement testing. Though, we are not doing automated tests or defect management right now. 

We can't use the Quality Center for everything because the login is only about the user ID and password. Because of this, we are not using the data in Quality Center for all projects.

It is quite complicated because I have about 200 projects, mostly SAP, and all of them have to work in the same way. I do a lot of reporting and everything has to be more or less the same.

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Rafael Ferreira - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Manager at Bradesco Seguros

We use Quality Center to track functional testing and record automation testing scenarios results. There are around 1,000 users at my company. 

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PD
Test Manager at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

We used it for multiple platforms in our organization. The IT platform was divided into groups, into towers, and each tower was using it. I used it for multiple towers together. I was managing it for my individual tower. But if there was a roll-out of the regression plan and we needed to see how many would be impacted, we were pulling out the ALM regression part from each and every tower and building it into one.

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VR
Team Lead at Accenture

In our organization, the manual testing guys write manual test cases through Excel. Then they import them to ALM. They'll move in all the details. Based on that, the automation team will take care of developing the scripts through Micro Focus Unified Functional Testing and they'll add the script into the test plan.

Once the lead has approved the test plan he will move all the test cases into the test labs. If any defect is found in new releases, it is logged in the defects column.

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Tomas Hald - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at IT Hald Redo AB

We've primarily used most of the solution. Our requirements included test cases and defect handling in the past. We are using it for regression testing and maintenance of test cases to do regression testing when we are upgrading the system.

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Anil Kulkarni - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director/Practice Leader at Cirruslabs

We are customers of Micro Focus and I'm a senior director of our company. 

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SR
Tools Architect at S2 Integrators

We primarily use the solution for test management.

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WJ
Test Advisory, Management & Implementation at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

It's a business process requirement and is being used for test cases, test executions, defect locks, metrics, dashboards, etc.

In implementation projects, things work in the waterfall methodology so it's the best tool to collect all the requirements in one place to tie up into the test cases and test executions, so this solution is extensively being used in the company for implementation projects, particularly in test management activities. 

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FK
Executive Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is underutilized at the moment because we use this solution for tracking the test scenarios, test results, and defects.

We are looking at integrating a tool that can provide integrations with the other DevOps tools.

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ST
IT Quality and Architecture Senior Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

We use it for recording our requirements. We use it for recording our test cases and the data is done within the ALM itself. And, during execution, we use it to update services and to log defects.

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PA
Head of Testing - Warehouse Solutions at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Our primary use case for this solution is preparing test cases, and we deploy the solution via desktop.

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Anouar RAID - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior SAP Functional Consultant at YAAS IT

I'm using Micro Focus ALM Quality Center for testing purposes.

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VR
Quality Assurance Director at Charter Communications, Inc.
  • Test management for multiple products
  • Risk-based testing
  • Requirements mapping
  • Reporting.
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DG
Senior Specialist - Quality Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We use this solution primarily for doing test cases and running UFT cases.

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SF
Sr. Manager - SAP Authorization & Complaince at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for managing requirements, testing, and defects.

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DP
Tool Administrator at a non-profit with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for test management purposes. For sorting set cases, testing for possible defects, executions, and so on.

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it_user669378 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President - Test Management Lead at DBS Bank

I use 80 to 90 percent of the product's features. 

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JR
Software Engineer

We have it deployed in our Data Center and it integrates with it to write a custom application on it. You have to use a sole technology, which is risky. It takes more advanced developers than someone who does JavaScript and makes web pages.

Micro Focus is selling two test management solutions, ALM/Quality Center and ALM Octane, TM, which are identical, except ones built on newer technology

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CG
Presales Consultant at Oracle

Consolidate the testing process, centralised reporting, ease of analytics on metrics, easier bug management, consistent flow of requirements, flow of test cases, reusable test cases, testing history, bugs.

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AD
Project Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Our current environment is ALM QC 12.53 and for performance testing ALM PC 12.53, Vugen 12.53, and UFT 14.

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KA
Application Development Manager at a educational organization with 10,001+ employees

We've mainly been using the product for service requests and for migrating code and scripts for Oracle events.

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MG
Principal Consultant at Inspired Testing

We primarily use the solution for test management.

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KG
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We're primarily using the solution as a testing tool where we're recording our testing data. Our use cases vary, however. Right now, for example, we're merging two companies together. When we are doing that, we have various test cycles and we have gone through three test cycles so far. aNow we're heading into UAT. So we're testing all aspects of the business, including HR, operations, gas, and electric generation. We're doing pretty much our stand-alone tests, or unit testing. Then we will then go into our end-to-end testing where all of the systems are working together. After that is done, we'll be heading into more of our business testing, our UAT.

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CJ
National Solutions Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

When I use it, it is mostly for test management. The instances I've used are mostly on-prem.

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PG
Performance and Automation Testing Squad Lead at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

We use it for defect management and for test cases. We synchronize it with JIRA for the requirements and the defects side of things.

We're also using it for our UFT script repositories, but that is more than likely going to change, in the next couple of months, as we go across to GitLab. It's just simpler to have all the artifacts for a particular iteration in one place.

Quality Center is cloud-based with a local client.

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AG
Senior Vice President at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
  • Test management
  • Defect management, and 
  • Test case storage.
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JD
Quality Assurance Manager at Reliance Standard Life Insurance

My prior organization used the test execution and defect modules for QC. As a manager, I was able to set up reports that allowed me to finds areas of improvement for my team. We used the import functionality to import test cases for reusability and execution.

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ND
Consultor de tecnologia - QA at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

I used the solution to manage the tests that I would plan and record, and I would manage the flow of defects.

I work for a bank company that has a license to use this solution. I am using the solution through the internal internet, not on the cloud. I am using version 12.

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MR
Sr. Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We are a consultancy. We use ALM Quality Center for handling waterfall type projects. If our clients are taking an agile approach, then we talk to them about Octane, which is the agile solution.

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AB
Test Specialist at a consultancy with self employed

The primary use case is test management, e.g., test executions using UFT combined with Business Process Testing. We do also requirement traceability, where we pull requirements out of a source system, then we link test cases to those requirements in order to have a coverage matrix.

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SK
IT Business Analyst at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We use this solution for model testing and as a central location for the test case responses and some test automation.

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PT
System Engineer at Tata Consultancy

I primarily use ALM Quality Center as a conversion tool.

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SD
Head of SAP/ SAP Solution Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

We provide support for customers, which require this kind of solution.

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DK
Talent Acquisition Specialist at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

It is a test management tool where you write the test plan, test scripts, and test cases. You can log the defects that you found during the testing. You can also use it with other integrations, such as automation using UFT, where you execute the scripts from Micro Focus ALM Quality Center. We are using the latest version of this solution.

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SK
Sr. Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use it as a test management tool where our requirements and everything we need are entered into it and we manage the test cycles. When new products come out, the requirements are gathered and captured. Based on that, the test scripts or test cases are created and uploaded. Eventually, the functional analysts or testers run different test cycles, such as integration, user interface, and user acceptance test cycles. We log the defects with it as well. Based on the metrics, if a product qualifies, it is moved to the next cycle.

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IB
Product Development Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

We use it for manual and automatic testing along with defect and requirements management. We can check everything, know who is the sponsor for it, and make a test plan. Everything is very visible. 

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ND
Consultor de tecnologia - QA at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

I primarily use the models from Quality Center. The requirements, the plan, lab, and effects, et cetera. I use it to merge my entire cycle of debts.

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EZ
Test Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We planned on using the solution for defect testing but it was a low priority for us, we never got around to it.

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it_user1012047 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Quality Assurance Manager at Westar Energy, Inc.

Quality assurance, requirement, and testing.

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it_user1136214 - PeerSpot reviewer
Expert System Test and Test Tools at Airbus Operations

We use this solution for an Avionic System to test for integration and verification with real and simulated hardware.

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it_user791871 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder & Software Solutions Manager at infomera

It is a complete AQM suite: single repository for tests, requirements, defects, etc. 

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DS
QA Analyst at Tsoft

Our primary use case is for regression testing.

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Buyer's Guide
OpenText ALM / Quality Center
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about OpenText ALM / Quality Center. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.