e-academy – IT training excellence in Cardiff, Newport, Bristol and South Wales

Course details
Fee £800
Days 2
Code QC11
Course dates
May 
Jun14
Jul 
Aug 
Sep 
Oct 

Click on a course date to book
e-mail us
or call us on
0845 650 6500

Using Quality Centre '11

The Using Quality Centre '11 training course is available at our Cardiff training centre in Wales, which is also within easy reach of Newport, Bristol and South Wales

Overview

 

This course covers all aspects of using Quality Center 11 (Enterprise Edition) to manage your testing projects, from developing your requirements and planning your software releases, through to writing test scripts, executing them and raising and managing defects.

New features such as Sprinter, Business Models and Project Reports are explained in depth.

The course covers best practices, how the traceability model works and reporting facilities.

Throughout the course practical examples are demonstrated, and the delegates get to practice what they have learned in each chapter within Quality Center (QC).

 

 

Objectives

 

 

  • Understand what can be stored in QC and how to import existing data
  • Understand how to extract reports and metrics from QC
  • Understand how to use version control features to safeguard your test assets
  • By the end of the course you should have a complete understanding of all the modules within QC and how it should be used to manage your testing projects from start to finish

 

 

Course Outline

 

 

Management module

How to plan for your software releases and for each release how to plan your testing cycles

 

Test Requirements

How to create your own requirement types, how to write requirements, how to link them back to cycles & releases. How to implement requirement traceability. How to implement risk-based analysis against test requirements

 

Business Models

How to import existing Business Models into QC from other modelling tools

 

Test Planning

How to use the Test Plan module to develop test scripts. How to use parameterisation in your scripts. Creation of reusable scripts. How to link tests to requirements. How to create multiple Test Configurations to test multiple use-cases

 

Test Resources

How to store and manage shared test assets such as Function Libraries, Object Repositories, DataTables. How to check dependencies on shared assets

 

Test Execution

How to create Test Sets. Test Execution and results. Creating Host Groups, and configuring execution flow. Test Set Options. Traceability of defects raised in test runs

 

Sprinter

How to use the new Sprinter manual test runner. Configuration of Sprinter, Data Injection, using Macros, the Storyboard and screen capture and annotation are all covered in this chapter

 

Defect Tracking

The Defect Life Cycle. How to raise defects and track them through the life-cycle. The traceability model in Quality Center

 

Reporting

Using analysis and the Dashboard for generating reports and graphs. How to use the report generator and the Excel reporting utility. How to use the new Project Reports and how to create your own Template Reports

 

Version Control

Using version control, creating Libraries and Baselines. Pinning Test sets to Baselines. Comparing Baselines. Importing Libraries

 

Exporting from MS Office

How to install the MS Office add-ins. How to export data from Excel into Quality Center