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1 SAP Brief SAP Extensions SAP Quality Center by Micro Focus Deliver Winning Software s with Full Quality Assurance Management

2 SAP Brief Top-notch applications for business success and growth Technology from enterprise solutions to cloud and mobile applications is integral to core processes and positive business outcomes. It drives operations, customer satisfaction, and productivity, as well as revenues and profits. In an economic environment of fast change and tough competition, it s more important than ever to deliver high-quality IT solutions quickly. Top-notch applications for business success and growth Keeping critical business processes running smoothly in the digital economy depends upon the integrity and reliability of the applications and technology used. Software must function as expected, perform under high loads, and meet applicable security requirements. Nonstandard testing processes and repetitive manual activities can be error prone and time-consuming. Defects that make it to production can be especially costly. By using a range of standardized testing methods to identify quality issues early in the development process, organizations can improve software performance and the efficiency of testing processes. A sophisticated quality solution can help development and QA teams work together with line-of-business experts and analysts to develop and deploy new software efficiently. By taking a riskbased approach to test and accommodating demands of high-performance, in-memory computing platforms, development can keep pace with the speed of digital business. 2 / 10

3 SAP Brief The SAP Quality Center application by Micro Focus facilitates collaboration and testing processes and helps improve the quality, reliability, and security of your business-critical technology. Powerful functionality and tools enable quality assurance teams to work in partnership with development, business analysis, and deployment experts to deliver innovative solutions and meet time-sensitive deadlines. With SAP Quality Center, you can establish consistent, repeatable processes for managing requirements, tests, and business components especially for high-performance software such as SAP S/4HANA, the SAP Leonardo system, and SAP Hybris solutions. With this unified, extensible application software quality platform, you can employ multiple testing approaches, including waterfall, agile, and hybrid methods. You can manage and automate the delivery of cuttingedge applications. Your teams can ensure that the software functions as expected, performs under variable and high consumption loads, and meets security levels in line with the application s risk profile to the business. You can address security issues and risks associated with Web 2.0 mobile devices and cloud-based delivery models. Release and cycle, version, and baselines 3 / 10

4 SAP Brief SAP Quality Center lets you define, manage, and track all test script types functional, performance, and security in one place. Stakeholders can use risk-based test functionality to assign business risk to requirements and calculate where best to apply testing resources. You can perform functional, regression, load, unit, and integration testing each with its own set of requirements, schedules, and procedures with advanced planning functionality. Quality assurance teams can emulate business processes, run tests unattended, define and share test cases and business process test components, and execute manual and automated testing with integrated results. Release and cycle, version, and baselines Identify and address defects before implementation, keep projects within budget, and realize expected value. 4 / 10

5 SAP Brief Release and cycle, version, and baselines Accelerate development, testing, and release cycles with leading-edge quality functionality. Break large projects into meaningful phases for easier handling. Plan release efforts by identifying requirements and tests for each testing phase. Gain real-time visibility into actual versus planned testing status to make better decisions. Transition to an agile testing framework to manage customer stories. SAP Quality Center enables better version for requirements, tests, and test assets. Distributed teams can collaborate and manage multiple versions of assets in parallel, maintain data integrity, and provide an auditing history of changes for the project. With SAP Quality Center, you can create baselines by capturing groups of requirements, tests, and test assets at strategic points in the project lifecycle to mark milestones. You can use baselines for comparison to reveal the impact of changes and to enable rollbacks to previous conditions. You can schedule tests, execution of manual and automatic tests, and automate tests that can execute unattended. Tap in to the experience and knowledge of your line-of-business experts to improve testing processes and build even better solutions. Release and cycle, version, and baselines 5 / 10

6 SAP Brief SAP Quality Center facilitates and increases the efficiency of manual testing activities, enables exploratory testing and iterative manual testing, and helps development teams resolve issues effectively and as quickly as possible. Advanced tools including intuitive, user-friendly screen toolbars, screen annotation, video display, and textual test-step capture increase testing efficiency, productivity, and accuracy. The application captures intelligent defect information and automates data injection for repetitive testing to reduce the errors of manual test execution. It provides support for mirrored platforms for executing a single test targeted across multiple platforms. With SAP Quality Center, you can manage defects across the application lifecycle and identify, track, and enforce defect resolution. Testers can create functional, performance, and application security defects manually or from the execution of manual and automated tests. They can share defects with developers and include context from linked requirements and test execution results. Meet tight deadlines while performing thorough testing and delivering sound, innovative applications. Release and cycle, version, and baselines 6 / 10

7 SAP Brief SAP Quality Center promotes developer collaboration and quality throughout the application lifecycle. The user-friendly communication hub and decision-support system enables people to share requirements and defects with developers without having to learn how to use a new tool. You can work in integrated development environments and link tasks, requirements, and defects. You can monitor project status and evaluate risk by tracking developer tasks against requirements and defects. You can make real-time decisions based on application status across projects and QA initiatives using an integrated dashboard module that centralizes IT quality reporting. SAP Quality Center exports report sources to Microsoft Excel, so users wanting to manipulate data there can do so. SAP Quality Center can send requirements, tests, defects, and associated data to Microsoft Word files. The software lets you bridge the quality gap between subject-matter experts and quality engineers. Business-process testing functionality brings business analysts into the process of defining business-driven testing use cases and process flows for better test effectiveness and efficiency. Test engineers can create reusable test components that map to business-process test use cases using both manual and automated methods and can distribute them to QA teams. Release and cycle, version, and baselines 7 / 10

8 SAP Brief SAP Quality Center is available in two versions. The enterprise edition serves the needs of mainstream quality assurance organizations without a large global presence who are tasked to manage smaller, less complex initiatives. The premier edition is for global organizations managing large, complex requirements; agile programs; and hybrid development-operations initiatives. The unified, open, and extensible software platform enables you to manage and automate activities and assets, gain insights, and create applications from requirements to development, testing, and delivery. The premier edition integrates with development and testing tools and analytics and provides real-time visibility into the progress and quality of projects at all stages of development. It integrates with upstream project portfolio software and downstream deployment, monitoring, and incident software for comprehensive application lifecycle. Ideal for improving visibility across local, distributed, and outsourced teams and for managing the moving parts of today's applications, the premier edition supports methodologies from agile and iterative to traditional waterfall. With it, you can promote consistency across processes, drive best practices and asset sharing, and improve interactive communication. Release and cycle, version, and baselines 8 / 10

9 SAP Brief Quality technology and competitive advantage SAP Quality Center enables a comprehensive approach to quality and helps you roll out new software, functionality, and devices with confidence. You can increase testing efficiency and effectiveness; foster better collaboration among development, quality assurance, and lines of business; and speed the application development and testing lifecycle. With SAP Quality Center, you can take a risk-based approach to test planning and and improve the quality of software releases while minimizing the costs associated with software defect. You can find and address defects earlier in the process instead of in production, where the expense of making changes and fixes can rise dramatically. What s more, you can enable deployments with high-performance software such as SAP S/4HANA. SAP Quality Center integrates with the SAP LoadRunner application by Micro Focus to facilitate performance testing. It integrates with SAP Fortify software by Micro Focus for security testing and with the SAP Service Virtualization application by Micro Focus for testing with constrained resources. Improve collaboration between development and QA. Streamline the process of organizing, planning, and delivering software projects. Quality technology and competitive advantage 9 / 10

10 SAP Brief Summary The SAP Quality Center application by Micro Focus enables a comprehensive, risk-based approach to testing. It provides advanced, unified functionality for requirements, test planning, and test scheduling and execution. It supports defects and project analysis. With SAP Quality Center, you can catch defects early in the process and reduce the chances of defects occurring in the first place. You can increase testing efficiency and accuracy, reduce the risk and costs of defects, and deliver high-quality applications. Reduce the risk and expense of software defects Automate test cases for faster release cycles Support waterfall, agile, and hybrid QA methodologies Unified, automated validation testing Risk-based test planning and Quality release and cycle Version, baselines, and testing scheduling and execution Integrated manual testing Defect and reporting Development and testing collaboration Automate testing and speed software development and delivery Enhance collaboration and involve developers earlier in testing Improve quality through a range of testing methods and approaches Streamline test by sharing test cases across teams Learn more To find out more, call your SAP representative today or visit us online at 10 / 10

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