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Mercury Quality Center
is a web-based test
management tool. It
gives you a centralized
control over your entire
testing Project. It can
make the task of the
testers and managers
easy by giving an easy
interface to manage and
organize activities like
Requirements coverage,
Test Case Management,
Test Execution
Reporting, Defect
Management, and Test
Automation. All these
activities are provided
from a single tool,
which is web-based and
can be accessed from any
where.
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Mercury Quality Centre
can be divided into two
parts. One for tool
administrator and
another for tool user.
These two parts are
called Site
Administrator Bin and
Quality Centre Bin.
These parts are
discussed in more detail
in the next section.
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Site Administration
Bin ( SABin ) : This
is an important part
of the software and
also starting point
for the usage of
Mercury Quality
Centre project. All
the administrative
activities like
creating the
projects, assigning
users to the
projects, creating
specific roles etc.
is done from this
area. This section
is also used for
configuring your
application with the
tool. For example,
if you want to use
the Winrunner or
Quality Test
Professional ( QTP )
scripts from Quality
Center, you need to
specify it here. If
you are using
Winrunner, you need
to make sure that
backward
compatibility
property of the
application to true.
SABin can also be
used to configure
the mail servers.
Password for site
admin is defined
during the
installation so make
sure that you
remember the
password during
installation.
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Quality
Center Bin (
QCBin ) : This is
how user interact
with tool.
QCBin interface
gives functionality
of creating test
plans, defining
requirements,
creating test cases,
creating test labs,
associating
requirements with
defects in essence,
everything that as a
tester or test
manager you need to
do in your day to
day activity apart
from execution.
This article will start
off with the explanation
about SABin and then
move towards using
Quality Center using the
QCbin.
Quality
Centre is installed as a
service in your windows
environment. Before
start working on it,
make sure that Mercury
Quality Centre service
is running. As mentioned
earlier, Quality Centre
can be accessed from web
browser using
http://<machinename>:8080/sabin/SiteAdmin.htm
format, assuming
that Quality Centre is
listening on default
port. This page is the
starting point and gives
a login screen where you
need to provide admin
credential which were
used during the
installation of Mercury
Quality Centre. Once you
are logged on to the
SABin, you can perform
all the administrative
tasks mentioned above.
You can also verify your
licensing information,
information about
database etc. using
SABin.
After you are done with
defining your projects,
user etc. it is time for
QCBin to come into the
picture.
This is the most
common interface used by
the customers or users.
Quality Center provides
the role based accessed
to the Projects. For
example,
A Test Manager can
create projects and Test
Lead can prepare test
plans and
tester can write the
test cases. This role
based access makes it
very easy to control
access to various
artifacts of the project
and also distribution of
responsibility among
team members.
There are four distinct
things which can be
managed in Mercury
Quality Centre -
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Requirements
-
Test Plan
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Test Lab
-
Defects
These four items can be
termed as the 4 pillars
of the Quality Process
for any organization.
Each of these components
sections contain
information about
different projects
created using SABin.
Steps
to get you started with
Quality Centre
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