The ALM name came from Quality Center version 10."Quality Center v10 Premier Edition" to "Application Lifecycle Management v11" and "Quality Center v10 Enterprise Edition" to "Application Lifecycle Management v11 Quality Center Edition". below we see different versions .
- TestDirector 1.52 - 1995
- TestDirector 4.0 - 1997
- TestDirector 6.01 - 1999
- TestDirector 7.0i - 2000
- TestDirector 7.2 - 2001
- TestDirector 7.5 - 2002
- TestDirector 7.6 - 2002
- TestDirector 8.0 - 2003
- Quality Center 8.0 - 2004
- Quality Center 8.2 - 2004
- Quality Center 9.0 - 2006
- Quality Center 9.2 - 2007
- Quality Center 10.0 - 2009
Feature
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HP ALM
Essentials
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HP QC
Enterprise Edition
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HP ALM
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HP ALM
Performance Center Edition
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Release Management
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Project Planning and Tracking
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Risk Based Quality Management
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No
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Yes
|
Yes
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No
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Test Authoring and Execution
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Test Resources
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Test Configurations
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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HP Sprinter Integration
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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HP QTP/UFT Integration
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Version Handling
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Baselines
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Cross Project Customization
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No
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No
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Yes
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No
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Why use Quality Center..?
ALM helps make project management, from requirements to deployment
easier. It increases predictability and creates a framework to manage projects from a central repository. With ALM you will be able to, rather easily:
- Setup and track Releases and subsequent release-cycles
- Create, organize and maintain Requirements & trace them to Tests
- Create Tests and Test Steps
- Organize tests into logical subsets
- Schedule tests and execute them, linking to Releases
- Collect results and analyze the data
- Create, monitor and analyze defects
- Track the progress of a project & Requirement Coverage
- Collect & create customized reports for metrics
- Integrate ALM with HP testing tools other third party tools for a complete automation experience
