HP Application Lifecycle Management 11.00
HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) empowers IT to manage the core application lifecycle, from requirements through deployment, granting application teams the crucial visibility and collaboration needed for predictable, repeatable, and adaptable delivery of modern applications.
ALM supports you through all phases of the application lifecycle management. By integrating the tasks involved in application management, it enables you to better align IT with your business needs. For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: HP ALM Overview.
ALM also includes Performance Center functionality, enabling you to manage all aspects of a large-scale performance testing project, including resource allocation and scheduling, from a centralized location accessible through the Web. For details on new features in Performance Center, see What's New in HP ALM Performance Center.
The ALM solution also includes Application Governance functionality. This component is primarily a design-time governance platform for service infrastructure. For more information, refer to the HP ALM Application Governance documentation.
HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is also available in three editions which provide subsets of ALM functionality — HP Quality Center Starter Edition, HP Quality Center Enterprise Edition, and HP ALM Performance Center Edition.
For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: ALM Functionality by Edition.
Installation
The following updates have been made to the installation process. For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management Installation Guide.
Optimized Project Repositories
Project files are now saved over an optimized repository system, that ensures better performance for common actions, and extends the capacity of the file system.
Files in the project repository are stored in an optimized folder structure that allows maximum storage space. In addition, any two files with identical content are stored in the repository only once. This results in a significant reduction in disk space. For example, if you attach the same file to several ALM records, the file is stored only once in the project repository.
For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management Administrator Guide: About the Optimized Project Repository.
When upgrading from Quality Center 9.2 or 10.00, ALM migrates files from the legacy project repository to the optimized project repository. For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management Administrator Guide: Repository
You can now run multiple versions of HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) side-by-side on a workstation. This includes multiple ALM 11.00 clients connecting to different ALM Platform servers, and a single Quality Center 10.00 or 9.2 client.
Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) Releases
Using the Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) feature, you can now track application readiness by defining milestones for activities of an application release in the Releases module. PPT uses key performance indicators (KPIs) to analyze the data of your defined milestones. The overall health and deployment readiness of a release in displayed in the form of a scorecard. The scorecard monitors and tracks how well each milestone is being met on a daily basis. To further analyze your output, you can generate dashboard reports and graphs.
For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) Releases.
PPT is not available for HP Quality Center Starter Edition, HP Quality Center Enterprise Edition, or HP ALM Performance Center Edition.
Business Process Model Integration
You can now import business process models created in external model authoring tools. Importing business process models into the new Business Models module automatically creates a framework of requirements representing each model and activity. You can then create test coverage and assess the quality of your business process models.
In addition, you can add path entities to your models that represent end-to-end sequences of activities, enabling you to test your business flows.
For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: Business Process Models Overview, and to the HP ALM Business Models Module Best Practices Guide.
The Business Models module is not available for HP Quality Center Starter Edition or HP ALM Performance Center Edition
Traceability Matrix
You can now determine the extent of relationships between requirements and other requirements, and between requirements and tests using the Traceability Matrix view in the Requirements module. The traceability matrix helps you verify that all requirements are met, and identify changes to the scope of your requirements when they occur. For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: Traceability Matrix.
Test Configurations
Using the Test Configurations tab in the Test Plan module, you can now design tests that run according to different use-cases, each with different sets of data. Each use-case is called a test configuration. Values for the test configurations are supplied from within your ALM project or from an external data resource. For more information, refer to the HP Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: Test Configurations.
New Manual Runner - HP Sprinter
You can now run manual tests in ALM from the Test Lab module using the new HP Sprinter. Sprinter provides enhanced functionality and a variety of tools to assist in the manual testing process, including:
For more information, refer to the HP Sprinter User Guide, available from the HP Application Lifecycle Management Adds-ins Page (select Help > Add-ins Page).
Sprinter functionality is not available with HP Quality Center Starter Edition or HP ALM Performance Center Edition.
Project Reports
A new Project Report reporting tool is available in the Analysis View module, enabling you to design and generate comprehensive reports of project data. Using templates designed by the project administrator for each ALM entity, users create project reports, by selecting the entities that are included in report sections, and defining data filters.
User Updates
Administration Updates
Changes in Feature Availability
You can no longer create WinRunner tests in ALM 11.00. However, if you are upgrading from a previous version of Quality Center, you can still run your existing WinRunner tests.
The Visible Fields in Add Defect Dialog Box field in Groups customization is no longer available in ALM 11.00. To determine which Defect fields are visible, use the Select Fields dialog box from the Data-hiding tab of the Groups and Permissions page in the Customization module. Alternatively, you can create a workflow script.
In the Defects module, you can no longer print defects directly from the Defects Grid. Instead, you can export defect data, or generate graphs and reports of defect data.
The verification of broken links is no longer a part of the baseline creation process in ALM 11.00. The baseline creation process now automatically includes all the related entities that tests in the library need in order to run. For more information, see Library Enhancements.
When adding a test to a test set, or creating or updating a defect, the option to automatically add required fields to the grid is no longer available. Instead, you can use the Select Columns option to add the required fields.
When you create a new user group, you can assign the privileges of an existing user group that has similar access privileges to those you want to assign to the new group. The option of later resetting one user group's permissions according to another group's permissions is no longer available.
In ALM 11.00, you cannot add users to a project from an earlier version before you upgrade the project.
API and Database Updates
· ALM 11.00 can use Client-Side Deployment so that a client can connect to more than one ALM Platform. This affects APIs in the following ways:
· The OTA type library is no longer registered automatically on the client machine. Before connecting to an ALM Platform with an OTA application, register the library for the server by running HP ALM Client Registration from the ALM Add-ins page. For more information, see Registering ALM on a Workstation in the HP ALM Installation Guide.
· The coding and installation of custom test types has changed. See the HP ALM Custom Test Type Guide.
· The content of the HP Quality Center Entity Dependencies API Reference that was published with Quality Center has been merged into the HP ALM Open Test Architecture Reference. The dependencies reference is not delivered as a separate help with ALM.
· The OTA TreeMananager object is now responsible only for the Test Subject tree. For project lists, use Customization.Lists.
· The Site Administration API's CreateProjectCopy method no longer supports the SA_PROJECT_CREATION_FORCE_IF_ACTIVE option. A project must be deactivated before it can be copied.
· The HISTORY table no longer exists. Events are now logged in the AUDIT_LOG and AUDIT_PROPERTIES tables. There are corresponding changes to OTA.
· New items in the API and database references are marked with a red tag in the table of contents. The tag is at the object or table level. Individual fields, methods, and properties are not tagged.
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Business Process Testing
New HP Application Lifecycle Management 11.00 features are also supported for Business Process Testing entities. In addition, the Business Process Testing features described below have been introduced or enhanced in ALM 11.00.
Documentation Library
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Automation Testing Using QTP
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