What’s New

ALM/Quality Center
Micro Focus® ALM/Quality Center provides an integrated quality management platform including
requirement management and test management across the application lifecycle, to continually
deliver high-quality applications on time and ensure that they meet your business requirements
and standards.

What’s New over the Last 2 Years Cloud Support Airbus

We now support installing ALM/Quality Center
Security
SSO AUTHENTICATION
on Microsoft Azure. You can migrate your On- “ALM/Quality Center
Prem databases to an Azure SQL DB Managed
Standard SAML and OpenID based Single Sign- Instance. automatically
On (SSO) is supported. SSO access to ALM/
generates Word
Quality Center can be authorized in a federated
Reporting
environment. This enhances your ability in en- documents of
HEALTH REPORTS
terprise security and regulatory compliance.
The health report provides an out-of-the-box test procedures,
API KEYS set of key metrics that will help you gain visi­ reports, and
bility and control of your project’s progress
API Key authentication is supported. It provides
and health. The health report dashboard can
compliance records.
a secure authentication mechanism for exter-
nal applications accessing ALM/Quality Center be used as a template and deployed over mul- These demonstrate
via either REST API or OTA API. tiple projects.
that our processes
Clients
are robust, and
ALM CLIENT LAUNCHER this instils trust
Using the ALM Client Launcher tool, you can now and confidence,
run an ALM/Quality Center client without depen-
dency on Internet Explorer browser. You can run
smoothing the
it on any Windows machine without the need path to regulatory
of deploying it from an ALM server and without
Windows administrator permissions.
compliance.”
FRANK WESTERBUHR
WEB RUNNER
Expert ‘System Test and Test Tools’
Web Runner is a web-based manual test execu-
tion tool. It enables you to run tests and submit
defects in a test environment without ALM/Quality
Center client deployment. Multiple browsers and
operation systems are supported.

SUPPORT FOR MICROSOFT

APPLICATION VIRTUALIZATION
You can now create ALM/Quality Center Client
App-V packages using Microsoft App-V Se­ Figure 1. Health Report
quencer. After deploying the package on an
App-V server, the package will be available to all
App-V clients, making deployment and upgrade
very convenient.
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EMAILING GRAPHS FROM THE ANALYSIS VIEW CUSTOMIZING LOGIN WINDOW

Enables you to email a selected graph from the You can customize the ALM/Quality Center
Analysis View. This option can also be triggered Login window, so that you can share any special
by OTA API. announcements with users that are using the
same ALM/Quality Center server.
BUSINESS VIEWS MICROSOFT EXCEL
ADD-IN ENHANCEMENTS Business Process Testing (BPT)
■■ The add-in now connects to ALM/
BPT BRANCHING
Quality Center using REST API Now you can add branches to your business
and supports 64 bit systems. process tests. BPT branches provide additional
structure to your test to support complex and
Administration dynamic applications, which have non-linear
SITE ADMINISTRATION REST API functions and interfaces.
You can use the REST API to access and work
with data in Site Administration to automate TRANSPOSE BUTTON
your routine administration tasks. This option enables you to switch the data table
to have parameter rows and iteration columns.
AUTOPASS LICENSE SERVER INTEGRATION
The AutoPass License Server (APLS) helps SKIP OPTION FOR DEBUG RUNS
you organize and manage ALM/Quality Center You can now configure a debug test run to
licenses, by providing better visibility and con- skip specific components to speed up the run
trol over license consumption. time—focusing only on those components
that need debugging.
IMPORTING QCP FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS
You can import QCP files from previous ver- Did You Know?
sions (ALM/Quality Center 12.00 or later) to ■■ Learn more about recent releases by
version 12.60 or later without the need to in- reviewing the ALM Documentation online.
clude them in the initial upgrade process. The
■■ Keep up to date on the latest news and
project in the QCP file will be upgraded to the
events with the Application Delivery
current version during the import process. This
Management Blog.
can be useful with archived or phased upgrade
projects.

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