Note: Test Director is the old version of Quality Center
Introduction:
Test Director, the industry's first global test management solution, helps organizations deploy high-quality applications more quickly and effectively. Its four modules Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects are seamlessly integrated, allowing for a smooth information flow between various testing stage. The completely web enabled test director supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams, driving a more effective, efficient global application testing process
Features in Test Director 7.5
Web based Site Administrator
The site administrator includes tabs for managing projects, adding users and defining user properties, monitoring connected users, monitoring licenses and monitoring test director server information
Domain Management
Test director are grouped by domain. A domian contains a group of releated test director projects, and assists in organizing and managing a large number of projects
Enhanced Reports and Graphs
Additional standard report types and graphs were added, and the user interface is richer in functionality. The format enables to customize the features are above:
Version Control:
Version control enables to keep track of changes that are made in the testing information in the test direcor project. In this version it is used to control database for tracking manual, winrunner and Quick Test Professional tests in the test plan tree and test grid
Collaboration Module:
In collaboration module, available to existing customers as an optional upgrade, allows users to initiate an online chat session with another test director user. While in the chat session, users can share applications and make changes.
Features in Test Director 8.0
Test Director Advanced Reports Add-in
With the new Advanced Reports Add-in, test director users are able to maximize the value of their testing project information by generating customizable status and preogress reports. The advanced reports add-in offers the flexibility to create custom report configurations and layouts, unlimited ways to aggregate and compare data and ability to generate cross-project analysis reports
Automatic Tracibility Notification
The new traceablility automatically traces changes to the testing process entities such as requirements or tests, and notifies the user via flag or e-mail. For example, when the requirements changes, the associated test is flagged and tester is notified that the test may need to reviewed to reflect requirement changes.
Coverage Analysis view in Requirements Module
The graphical display enables you to analyze the requirements according to test coverage status and view associated tests - grouped according to test status
Hierarchical Test Sets
Hierarchical test sets provide the ability to better organize the test run process by grouping test sets into folders
Workflow for all Test Director Modules
The addition of the script editor to all modules enables organizations to customize test director to follow and enforce any methodology and best practices.
Improved Customization
With a greater number of available user fields, ability to add memo fields and create input masks users can customize their test director projects to capture any data required by their testing process. New rich edit option to add color and formatting options to all memo fields
Test Director Features and Benefits
Supports the entire testing process
Test Director incorporates all aspects of testing process, requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, issue management and project status analysis into a single browser based application
Leverages innovative web technology
Testers, developers and business analysts can participate in and can contribute to the testing process by working seamlessly across geographic and organizational boundaries
Uses industry-standard repositories
Test Director integrates easily with industry standard databases such as SQL, Oracle, Access and Sybase
Links test plans to requirements
Test Director connects requirements directly to test cases, ensuring that functional requirements have been covered by the test plan
Integrates with Microsoft Office
Test Director can import requirements and test plan from Microsoft Office, preserving investment and accelerating the testing process
Manages manual and automated tests
Test Director stores and runs both manual and automated tests, and can help jump start a user's automation project by converting manual tests to automated test scripts
Accelerates testing cycles
Test Director's Test lab manager accelerates the test execution cycles by scheduling and running tests automatically -- unattended, even overnight. The results are reported into Test Director's central repository, creating an accurate audit trail for analysis.
Test Director allows testers to run tests on their local machines and then report the results to the repository that resides on a remote server.
Integrates with internal and third party tools
Documentted COM API allows test director to be integrated both with internal tools (e.g., winrunner and loadrunner) and external third party life cycle applications
Enables structured information sharing
Test Director controls the information flow in a structured and organized manner. It defines the role of each tester in the process and sets the appropriate permissions to ensure information integrity
Provides Analysis and Decision Support Tools
Test Director's integrated graphs and reports help analyze application readiness at any point in the testing process. Using information about requirements coverage, planning progress, run schedules or defect statistics, managers are able to make informed decisions on whether the application is ready to go live.
Provides easy defect reporting
Test Director offers a defect tracking process that can identify similar defectes in a database
Generate customizable reports
Test Director features a variety of customizable graphs and reports that provide a snapshot of the preocess at any time during testing. We can save favorite views to have instant access to relevant project information
Supports decision-making through analysis
Test Director helps to make informed decisions about application readiness through dozens of reports and analysis features
Provides anytime, anywhere access to testing assets
Using Test Director's web interface, tester, developers and business analysts can participate in and contribute to the testing process by collaborating across geographic and organizational boundaries
Provides tracibility throughout the testing process
Test Director links requirements to test cases, and test cases to issues, to ensure tracibility throughout the testing cycle. When requirement changes or the defect is fixed, the tester is notified of the change.
Integrates with Third-Party Appliations
Whether an individual uses an industry standard configuration management solution, Microsoft Office or a homegrown defect management tool, any application can be integrated into Test Director. Through the open API, Test Director preserves the user's investment in their existing solutions and enables them to create an end-to-end lifesycle management solution.
Facilitates Consistent and Repetitive Testing Process
By Providing a central repository for all testing assets, Test Director facilitates the adoption of a more consistent testing process, which can be repeated throughout the application life cycle or shared across multiple applications or lines of business (LOB).
Testing Process
Test management is a method for organizing application test assets - such as test requirements, test plans, test documentation, test scripts or test results - to enable easy accessibility and reusability. Its aim is to deliver quality applications in less time.
The test management process is the main principle behind Mercury Interactive's Test Director. It is the first tool to capture the entire test management process - requirements management, test planning, test execution and defect management - in one powerful, scalable and flexible solution.
Managing Requirements
Requirements are what the users or the system needs. Requirements management, however, is a structured process for gathering, organizing, documenting and managing the requirements throughout the project life cycle. Too ofen, requirements are neglected during the testing effort, leading to a chaotic process of fixing what you can accepting that certain functionality will not be verified. In many organizations, requirements are maintained Excel or Word documents, which makes it difficult for team members to share information and to make frequent revisions and changes.
Test Director supports requirements based testing and provides the testing team with a clear, concise and functional blueprint for developing test cases. Requirements are linked to tests - that is, when the test passes or fails, this information is reflected in the requirement records. We can also generate a test based on functional requiement and instantly create a link between the requirement, the relevant test and any defects that are uncovered during the test run
Test Planning
Based on the requirements, testers can start building the test plan and designing the actual tests. Today, organizations no longer wait to start testing at the end of the development stage, before implementation. Instead, testing and development begin simultaneously. This parallel approach to test planning and application design ensures that the testers build a complete set of tests that cover every function the system is designed to perform
Test Director provides a centralized approach to test design, which is invaluable for gathering input from different members of the testing team and providing a central reference point for all future testing efforts. In test plan module, we can design tests - manual and automated - document the testing procedures and create quick graphs and reports to help measure the process of the test planning effort
Running Tests
After you have addressed the test deign nd development issues and built the test plan, testing team is ready to start running tests.
Test Director can help configure the test environment and determine which tests will run on which machines. Most applications much be tested on different operating systems, different browser versions or other configurations. In Test Director's Test lab, testers can set up groups of machines to most efficiently use their lab resources.
Test Director can also schedule automated tests, which saves testers time by running multiple tests simultaneously across multiple machines on the network. Tets with test director can be scheduled to run unattended, overnight or when the system is in least demand for other tasks. For both manual and automated tests, Test Director can keep a complete history for all test runs. By using this audit trail, testers can easily trace changes to tests and test runs
Managing Defects
The keys to creating a good defect management process are setting up the defect workflow and assigning permission rules. With Test Director, you can clearly define how the life cycle of defect should progress, who has the authority to open a new defect, who can change a defect's status to "fixed" and under which conditions the defect can be officially closed. Test Director will also help to maintain a complete history and audit trail throughout the defect life cycle.
Managers often decide whether the application is ready to go live based on defect analysis. By analyzing the defect statistics in Test Director, we can take snapshot of the application under test and see exactly how many defects you currently have, their status, severity, priority, age, etc., Because Test Director is completely web based, different members of the team can have instant access to defect information, greatly improving communication in the organization and ensuring everyone is up to data on the status of the application.
Introduction:
Test Director, the industry's first global test management solution, helps organizations deploy high-quality applications more quickly and effectively. Its four modules Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab and Defects are seamlessly integrated, allowing for a smooth information flow between various testing stage. The completely web enabled test director supports high levels of communication and collaboration among distributed testing teams, driving a more effective, efficient global application testing process
Features in Test Director 7.5
Web based Site Administrator
The site administrator includes tabs for managing projects, adding users and defining user properties, monitoring connected users, monitoring licenses and monitoring test director server information
Domain Management
Test director are grouped by domain. A domian contains a group of releated test director projects, and assists in organizing and managing a large number of projects
Enhanced Reports and Graphs
Additional standard report types and graphs were added, and the user interface is richer in functionality. The format enables to customize the features are above:
Version Control:
Version control enables to keep track of changes that are made in the testing information in the test direcor project. In this version it is used to control database for tracking manual, winrunner and Quick Test Professional tests in the test plan tree and test grid
Collaboration Module:
In collaboration module, available to existing customers as an optional upgrade, allows users to initiate an online chat session with another test director user. While in the chat session, users can share applications and make changes.
Features in Test Director 8.0
Test Director Advanced Reports Add-in
With the new Advanced Reports Add-in, test director users are able to maximize the value of their testing project information by generating customizable status and preogress reports. The advanced reports add-in offers the flexibility to create custom report configurations and layouts, unlimited ways to aggregate and compare data and ability to generate cross-project analysis reports
Automatic Tracibility Notification
The new traceablility automatically traces changes to the testing process entities such as requirements or tests, and notifies the user via flag or e-mail. For example, when the requirements changes, the associated test is flagged and tester is notified that the test may need to reviewed to reflect requirement changes.
Coverage Analysis view in Requirements Module
The graphical display enables you to analyze the requirements according to test coverage status and view associated tests - grouped according to test status
Hierarchical Test Sets
Hierarchical test sets provide the ability to better organize the test run process by grouping test sets into folders
Workflow for all Test Director Modules
The addition of the script editor to all modules enables organizations to customize test director to follow and enforce any methodology and best practices.
Improved Customization
With a greater number of available user fields, ability to add memo fields and create input masks users can customize their test director projects to capture any data required by their testing process. New rich edit option to add color and formatting options to all memo fields
Test Director Features and Benefits
Supports the entire testing process
Test Director incorporates all aspects of testing process, requirements management, planning, scheduling, running tests, issue management and project status analysis into a single browser based application
Leverages innovative web technology
Testers, developers and business analysts can participate in and can contribute to the testing process by working seamlessly across geographic and organizational boundaries
Uses industry-standard repositories
Test Director integrates easily with industry standard databases such as SQL, Oracle, Access and Sybase
Links test plans to requirements
Test Director connects requirements directly to test cases, ensuring that functional requirements have been covered by the test plan
Integrates with Microsoft Office
Test Director can import requirements and test plan from Microsoft Office, preserving investment and accelerating the testing process
Manages manual and automated tests
Test Director stores and runs both manual and automated tests, and can help jump start a user's automation project by converting manual tests to automated test scripts
Accelerates testing cycles
Test Director's Test lab manager accelerates the test execution cycles by scheduling and running tests automatically -- unattended, even overnight. The results are reported into Test Director's central repository, creating an accurate audit trail for analysis.
Test Director allows testers to run tests on their local machines and then report the results to the repository that resides on a remote server.
Integrates with internal and third party tools
Documentted COM API allows test director to be integrated both with internal tools (e.g., winrunner and loadrunner) and external third party life cycle applications
Enables structured information sharing
Test Director controls the information flow in a structured and organized manner. It defines the role of each tester in the process and sets the appropriate permissions to ensure information integrity
Provides Analysis and Decision Support Tools
Test Director's integrated graphs and reports help analyze application readiness at any point in the testing process. Using information about requirements coverage, planning progress, run schedules or defect statistics, managers are able to make informed decisions on whether the application is ready to go live.
Provides easy defect reporting
Test Director offers a defect tracking process that can identify similar defectes in a database
Generate customizable reports
Test Director features a variety of customizable graphs and reports that provide a snapshot of the preocess at any time during testing. We can save favorite views to have instant access to relevant project information
Supports decision-making through analysis
Test Director helps to make informed decisions about application readiness through dozens of reports and analysis features
Provides anytime, anywhere access to testing assets
Using Test Director's web interface, tester, developers and business analysts can participate in and contribute to the testing process by collaborating across geographic and organizational boundaries
Provides tracibility throughout the testing process
Test Director links requirements to test cases, and test cases to issues, to ensure tracibility throughout the testing cycle. When requirement changes or the defect is fixed, the tester is notified of the change.
Integrates with Third-Party Appliations
Whether an individual uses an industry standard configuration management solution, Microsoft Office or a homegrown defect management tool, any application can be integrated into Test Director. Through the open API, Test Director preserves the user's investment in their existing solutions and enables them to create an end-to-end lifesycle management solution.
Facilitates Consistent and Repetitive Testing Process
By Providing a central repository for all testing assets, Test Director facilitates the adoption of a more consistent testing process, which can be repeated throughout the application life cycle or shared across multiple applications or lines of business (LOB).
Testing Process
Test management is a method for organizing application test assets - such as test requirements, test plans, test documentation, test scripts or test results - to enable easy accessibility and reusability. Its aim is to deliver quality applications in less time.
The test management process is the main principle behind Mercury Interactive's Test Director. It is the first tool to capture the entire test management process - requirements management, test planning, test execution and defect management - in one powerful, scalable and flexible solution.
Managing Requirements
Requirements are what the users or the system needs. Requirements management, however, is a structured process for gathering, organizing, documenting and managing the requirements throughout the project life cycle. Too ofen, requirements are neglected during the testing effort, leading to a chaotic process of fixing what you can accepting that certain functionality will not be verified. In many organizations, requirements are maintained Excel or Word documents, which makes it difficult for team members to share information and to make frequent revisions and changes.
Test Director supports requirements based testing and provides the testing team with a clear, concise and functional blueprint for developing test cases. Requirements are linked to tests - that is, when the test passes or fails, this information is reflected in the requirement records. We can also generate a test based on functional requiement and instantly create a link between the requirement, the relevant test and any defects that are uncovered during the test run
Test Planning
Based on the requirements, testers can start building the test plan and designing the actual tests. Today, organizations no longer wait to start testing at the end of the development stage, before implementation. Instead, testing and development begin simultaneously. This parallel approach to test planning and application design ensures that the testers build a complete set of tests that cover every function the system is designed to perform
Test Director provides a centralized approach to test design, which is invaluable for gathering input from different members of the testing team and providing a central reference point for all future testing efforts. In test plan module, we can design tests - manual and automated - document the testing procedures and create quick graphs and reports to help measure the process of the test planning effort
Running Tests
After you have addressed the test deign nd development issues and built the test plan, testing team is ready to start running tests.
Test Director can help configure the test environment and determine which tests will run on which machines. Most applications much be tested on different operating systems, different browser versions or other configurations. In Test Director's Test lab, testers can set up groups of machines to most efficiently use their lab resources.
Test Director can also schedule automated tests, which saves testers time by running multiple tests simultaneously across multiple machines on the network. Tets with test director can be scheduled to run unattended, overnight or when the system is in least demand for other tasks. For both manual and automated tests, Test Director can keep a complete history for all test runs. By using this audit trail, testers can easily trace changes to tests and test runs
Managing Defects
The keys to creating a good defect management process are setting up the defect workflow and assigning permission rules. With Test Director, you can clearly define how the life cycle of defect should progress, who has the authority to open a new defect, who can change a defect's status to "fixed" and under which conditions the defect can be officially closed. Test Director will also help to maintain a complete history and audit trail throughout the defect life cycle.
Managers often decide whether the application is ready to go live based on defect analysis. By analyzing the defect statistics in Test Director, we can take snapshot of the application under test and see exactly how many defects you currently have, their status, severity, priority, age, etc., Because Test Director is completely web based, different members of the team can have instant access to defect information, greatly improving communication in the organization and ensuring everyone is up to data on the status of the application.
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