Most HPE ALM users are aware of the numerous benefits of executing both manual and automated tests within HPE ALM. Some of these benefits include the ability to analyze test coverage against requirements, understand the status of the overall testing progress, and create drill-down analysis charts based on criteria important to your organization. However, many… Continue reading Integrating External Test Results into HPE ALM
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The Building Blocks of Test Data Management
Last month, I suggested mechanisms and tools to help testers acquire the data they need for testing. The process is simple and straightforward—if testers and test data engineers follow specific, definable steps. One of those steps is making precise, complete data requests, which in turn involves having well-defined data requirements. But what happens if the… Continue reading The Building Blocks of Test Data Management
Microsoft Silverlight Performance Testing with HPE LoadRunner
Microsoft Silverlight is a technology that delivers interactive web content. It is designed to give a rich web experience using various media and can be programmed using any of the languages in the .NET framework. Fortunately, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) LoadRunner has a Microsoft Silverlight protocol to assist with load testing applications that use this… Continue reading Microsoft Silverlight Performance Testing with HPE LoadRunner
Use Test Data Automation to Hypercharge Test Execution
How do you get the data you use for testing? Do you find it? Create it? Request it? What if you only had to find it/create it/request it once? How easy would your life be? MUCH EASIER is the answer. So, finding it or having to create it isn’t easy. What if you switched over… Continue reading Use Test Data Automation to Hypercharge Test Execution
How and Why You Need to Use HPE LoadRunner (GUI Virtual User)
The benefits of using HPE LoadRunner With minor customization, you can reuse your HPE UFT scripts to test the total end-to-end elapsed time to fully load a page to a client machine Ability to check how your application’s functionality is affected while under load Can check how the performance might be impacted with different client… Continue reading How and Why You Need to Use HPE LoadRunner (GUI Virtual User)
New Development Platforms Rewrite the Rules on Mobile Deployments
The world of mobile software development can be treacherous for developers and testers. On the one hand, users have high expectations for application functionality and speed. On the other, they hate change. Across this landscape, companies and their personnel walk a tightrope, trying to stay abreast of OS updates with minimal impact on the user—even… Continue reading New Development Platforms Rewrite the Rules on Mobile Deployments
Using HP Performance Center’s Command Line to Create Environmentally Universal Scripts
On a recent assignment, I was tasked with updating and maintaining five scripts each for three applications across three environments (5 * 3 * 3 = 45). Additionally, each of these environments was scheduled to receive a three-phase upgrade. Each phase would require re-scripting of one group of scripts or another. As you can imagine,… Continue reading Using HP Performance Center’s Command Line to Create Environmentally Universal Scripts
Upgrade Options for HP Quality Center 11.5x to 12.xx Site Administrator Database Schema Using SQL-Server
If you are upgrading from HP Quality Center (QC) 11 or 11.52, you may want to know about new behaviors of the install and configuration process for QC/HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) 12.xx. When upgrading from HP QC 11, there is a “new” special project created by the configuration wizard, called the Lab_Project. This is… Continue reading Upgrade Options for HP Quality Center 11.5x to 12.xx Site Administrator Database Schema Using SQL-Server
HP Quality Center Upgrade Tip: Warning about “Inherited” Project Tree in an Upgraded qcsiteadmin_db
Using the old project list can be dangerous, but it saves a lot of time to keep it during an upgrade. The list of projects seen by HP Quality Center (QC) are maintained by a table (called PROJECTS) in qcsiteadmin_db. If you upgrade your qcsiteadmin_db and don’t re-point your project’s database server and repository to… Continue reading HP Quality Center Upgrade Tip: Warning about “Inherited” Project Tree in an Upgraded qcsiteadmin_db
Quality Center Upgrade Tip: LDAP Settings
Sometimes when customers install HP Quality Center (QC) 12.xx and choose to upgrade the qcsiteadmin_db (Admin Schema), they run into problems regarding lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) settings/credentials. In some cases, the Server Configuration Wizard fails on the qcsiteadmin_db upgrade, and in some cases, it completes but nobody can log in to HP QC and… Continue reading Quality Center Upgrade Tip: LDAP Settings