Quality Center
Introduction
Mercury Quality center is a web
Based system for automated software quality testing across a wide range of IT
and application environments. It is designed to optimize and automate key
quality activities, including requirements, test and defects management,
functional testing and business process testing.
Four Primary
Functions of Quality Center
1.
Capturing
business requirements:
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Group requirements by business function
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Link requirements to test cases and defects
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Import/export facility from MS word/MS Excel
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View defects associated with a requirements
2.
Building
test cases and test plans
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Define test parameters(Add/delete/modify test
steps to confirm with business rules)
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Validate
test coverage for all requirements
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Record expected and actual results for each test
step.
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Provide a centralized repository that can store
all automated tests
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Integrate with WTP for automated testing
3.
Creating
test sets and test results in Test Lab.
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Group test scripts to achieve testing goals
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Schedule tests
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Record expected and actual results for each test
steps
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Record Pass/Fail result for each test steps.
4.
Tracking
and managing defects.
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Add and Track defects
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Follow up with the defect management life cycle.
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Links with email systems for defect notification
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Save graphs in MS word or MS Excel
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Generate reports as MS Word Documents
QC Login Window
Following Screen will appear after login
following section will be appear
Select “New Requirement
“from requirement menu as shown
Enter the name of the requirement
A new highlighted row will be added in the requirement
section as shown
Select “new folder” from
Planning or Test menu as shown below
Give a name for the folder under which all the test cases
have to be added and click OK Button
Right Click on the newly created folder and select “new test” from the menu
In the Create New Test dialog box, select test type as “MANUAL” enter the new test case name and click OK button
A new Test set will be created under the newly added folder
Enter the description of the Test Case under “Details” tab in the given pace provided
as description
Click the “design
steps” tab which will open as a frame
Click on New Step icon 
to add steps to the newly created test
set.
Enter the necessary details and Click Ok Button
to add steps to the newly created test
set.Enter the necessary details and Click Ok Button
The Login test case along with the design steps will be created
Mapping
Requirements to Test Cases
The requirement can be mapped
with the particular Test Case by selecting the “test case” from Test Plan and
click on the “Requirement coverage” tab
which will open a saperate frame in the right side of he page containing the
requirement tree structure.
Select a requirement from the
right pane that is to be mapped with Test Case and click on the Left arrow
button present in the top of the right pane
Selected requirement in the right pane will be mapped to the
selected Test Case under Test Plan.
Select the “Test Lab”
tab
to create test lab for test case execution.
tab
to create test lab for test case execution.
For test lab creation firstly create a new Test Set folder
by right clicking the root folder and select “new folder” option
On selecting new folder option screen will appear that
require providing a folder name. Give a folder name where the test sets haves
to be configured and click “OK” button.
Create new test set under the new folder by right clicking
on the new test set folder and selecting “New Test Set” option from the menu. Test
Set folder is created for grouping test cases as appropriate like separate Test
Set folder for requirement, module, functionality or GUI checklist.
Give a name to the Test Set folder where all the executable
Test Cases are to be present
Click OK button. It will open the test Plan tab on the right side of the screen; through this user can add test cases to a specific test set.
Select the test cases which you want to add in the newly
created Test.
Double Click the selected Test Case (Or select and click the
arrow button there)
Now the selected test case will be added to the test set under the “execution Grid” tab
Now the selected test case will be added to the test set under the “execution Grid” tab
Repeat this until you configured all the test cases Under
Test Set.
Now execute all the test cases in test lab and give the
status either ass or failed
Adding Defects
To add a new defect click the add defect icon 
The defects
Module
1.
Click the Defect
tab to display the list of defects for the project. 
To add a new defect click the add defect icon 
The screen to add new defects into the defect module. The
data fields and the descriptions are below:
Add Defect Dialog Box:
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The priority of the defect. Priority
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The date the defect is detected. Detected on Date
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The area responsible for the defect. Development Area*
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The severity of the defect. Severity*
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The current status of defect. By default, status
is New. Status*
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User ID of the person who found the defect. By
default, TD inserts the login User ID into this field. Detected By*
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Reproducible is set to Yes. Reproducible*
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Computer ID and a brief summary of the defect Summary*.
Generate Defect
Reports: Quality Center provide utilities to generate reports
Generate Defect
Reports:
Generate Graphs
Requirement Module –
Trend Graph
Indicates the number of status changes to the requirements
over a period of time
