Lesson 7 * Alerting on Changes Triggering an Alert 124 When a requirement, test, test instance, or defect in your project changes, Quality Center can notify those responsible for any associated entities. You can associate tests with requirements (see “Creating and Viewing Requirements Coverage” on page 61) and defects with other Quality Center entities (see “Linking Defects to Tests” on page 115). In addition, you can create traceability links between requirements. For more information on creating traceability links between requirements, see the HP Quality Center User's Guide. Quality Center can generate alerts for these changes: When a requirement changes (excluding change of status), Quality Center adds an alert flag to its associated tests and notifies their designers by e-mail When the status of a defect changes to “Fixed”, Quality Center adds an alert flag to its associated test instances and notifies their responsible testers by e-mail. When a test runs successfully, Quality Center adds an alert flag to its associated defects and notifies the users assigned to them by e-mail When a requirement changes, Quality Center adds an alert flag to its traced to requirements and child requirements, and notifies their authors by e-mail In this exercise, you will trigger alerts for tests by changing the associated requirement. You will modify the Cruise Booking requirement and then you will view the flagged tests To trigger an alert: Display the requirements tree. Click the Requirements button on the sidebar, and choose View > Requirement Details. Select the requirement that you want to change. Under Cruise Reservation, select the Cruise Booking requirement.