Quality Center ALM Training Foundations

Course Description

Why choose ALPI for Quality Center ALM training?

We use certified live instructors in both our in-person and virtual classes so you can ask questions and get answers right away.
We focus on real-world examples.
We teach using interactive, hands-on exercises.
This ALPI course is eligible for a free refresher guarantee so you can re-take the course within 4 months at no additional charge. Contact us for information about this unique benefit that gives you peace of mind.

Overview
This course covers the core functionality of ALM/Quality Center from defining Releases and Cycles, Requirements, Test Planning and Executions, through Defect Tracking. The information presented will cover how a user can organize and track information over the lifecycle of a test project.

There is a large emphasis on hands on use of the tool and each lesson is reinforced with exercises and review.

This course is available with an optional certification exam in order to attain the ATP Certification. See prerequisites, below.

Duration

5 day(s)

Time

9 - 5 ET

Price

$3,675

Labs

Approximately 70% of the class is devoted to lab exercises

Intended Audience

The target audience for this course includes:

Quality assurance engineers
Testers
Business analysts.

Prerequisites

Working Knowledge of:

Windows
Software Testing Concepts

This course should be taken if you plan to take the optional ATP Certification Exam. If you wish to take the certification exam please select ATP Certification Exam along with your class registration.

Outline

Course Outline

Management Module

Working with Releases
Understanding the relationship between releases, milestones and cycles
Creating a release tree
Assigning requirements to releases and cycles
Assigning tests to releases and cycles

Working with Requirements

Understanding requirement types
Building a requirements tree
Linking requirements to defects, tests, test configurations
Requirements traceability
Coverage analysis
Risk analysis
Reporting and tracking requirements
Pinning Requirements

Test Planning

Working with Test Cases
Subject Tree and Test Grid Views
Creating Test Cases
Defining test steps and parameters
Test Configurations
Reporting and tracking test plans

Test Execution

Working with Test Sets
Test sets, cycles and releases
Creating test sets
Executing tests and test configurations
Test Scheduling
Results

Defect Tracking

Managing Defects
Tracking Defect changes and history
Associating defects to other entities
Tracking the status of defects

ALM/Quality Center Dashboard Module

Creating Analysis Items
Generating Dashboard Pages

Excel Reports

Creating Excel Reports
Creating SQL Queries
Adding Parameters to SQL Queries
Creating Post-Processing Scripts

Generating Live Analysis Graphs

Creating Live Analysis Graphs
Setting the Graph Appearance

Project Reports

Available Report Sections
Custom Templates

Business Views

Use pre-defined views
Creating custom views
Creating Business Views within Excel

Sprinter

Introduction to Sprinter
Running tests with Sprinter
Basic test execution
Exploratory Testing
Power Mode
Data Injection
Macros
Mirrored Testing

Version Control

Checking in/out
Viewing version history
Comparing and Promoting versions

Library Management

Defining libraries and baselines
Comparing baselines
Pinning a test set to a baseline

Business Models

Integrating Business Models
Linking to Requirements and Test Cases
Using the built-in Analysis View

Test Resources Module

Using the Test Resources Module

Importing Tests and Requirements

Importing data from Excel, MS Word

Using the Web Client

Viewing Requirements and Defects from any browser
Navigating the interface
Working with Workspaces

New Snapshot Tool

Capture, edit, and attach images of your application to ALM records

ALM Synchronizer

Setting up a HUB project for defects
Navigating the interface
Synchronizing defects across multiple projects

Integrating External Tests

Synch externally executed test results with ALM.
Configuring Jenkins to synch results with ALM
Synchronize an external result file to ALM by manually importing the file.

Integration with Lean Functional Testing

You can now manage and run LeanFT tests from ALM

ALM Project Customization

User Properties - Modify current user’s properties

User Properties

Modify current users properties

Project Users

Associate users with the project
Add new users

Groups

View properties of existing Groups
Add or Modify Groups
Add/Remove Users to Group

Module Access

Determining Module Access

Project Entities

Modifying System Fields
Adding User Fields
Field Types
Requirement Types
Modify existing types
Create New Requirement types

Risk Based Quality Management

Setup Business Criticality criterion
Setup failure probability
Setup risk constants

Project Lists

Define Project lists
Modify List Values

Automail

Setup automail trigger definitions

Alert Rules

Select alert rules

Workflow

Using workflow wizards

Cross Project Customization

Customize fields and lists across projects

Project Planning and Tracking

Define thresholds for KPIs
Create new KPIs