HP ALM is more than a just a test management tool!

HP ALM is popularly known as Quality Center, a test management and Application Life Cycle Management Tool (ALM). It is no longer just a test management tool but a platform that supports various phases of the software development life cycle. HP Quality Center helps us to manage various project milestones, resources, and deliverables and helps to keep definite track of the health of projects, standards that allow Product owners to gauge the current status of the product. It is important to understand history, architecture and Quality Center Workflow.

Expertise in HP ALM allows users to generate reports and graphs at any time during the software development process. Project reports in ALM enable users to design and generate customized report by accessing the project information which will help stakeholders in taking informed decisions. Users can create graphs or project reports in the Analysis View module. They can also save the graphs and reports in the Analysis View module for future references.

Analysis View

Analysis view module enables users to create, manage and view analysis items such as graphs, project reports and Excel reports.

Entity Graph: ALM enables users to generate graphs based on certain entity type such as requirements, tests, test instances, test runs or defects. For each entity, different graph types are available that are listed below.

Requirement

•          Progress Graph
•          Coverage Graph
•          Summary Graph
•          Trend Graph

Test Plan

•          Summary Graph
•          Progress Graph

Test Lab

•          Test Set Progress Graph
•          Test Set Summary Graph
•          Test Run Summary Graph

Defects

•          Age Graph
•          Progress Graph
•          Summary Graph
•          Trend Graph

Business View Graph

A business view graph involves only those project entity fields that represent information which is useful from a business perspective.

Business views can either be based on single entities such as Requirement or Defects, or it can be based on more complex relationships between entities such as Defects with Linked Requirements/defects with linked tests.

Though on a high level, both business view graph and entity graph look at the same, at this juncture let us understand basic different between entity graph and business view graph.