OpenText Quality Center, formerly known as Micro Focus Quality Center and HP Quality Center, is a quality management software offered by OpenText who acquired Micro Focus in 2023.[2] Micro Focus acquired the software division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017,[3] with many capabilities acquired from Mercury Interactive Corporation.[4] Quality Center offers software quality assurance, including requirements management, test management and business process testing for IT and application environments.[5] Quality Center is a component of the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management software set.[6]
| Developer(s) | OpenText |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 17.0.1
/ April 3, 2023[1] |
| Operating system | Windows, Linux |
| Type | Quality management/test management |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | OpenText ALM/Quality Center |
Product packaging
editQuality Center is available in the following editions:[7]
- Community
- Express
- Enterprise
Community and Express editions are designed for entry-level software quality assurance organizations. The Enterprise edition, originally called Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center, is for software quality assurance organizations that manage medium to large releases. For large and global organizations, OpenText Application Lifecycle Management incorporates the capabilities of Quality Center enterprise tracking, enterprise release management and asset sharing for requirements management through application delivery.[8] Quality Center is also available as a software-as-a-service offering.[9]
System requirements
editQuality Center desktop client runs on the Windows platforms without the need of any browser. It also has a web client[10] that runs on any browser.
OpenText has published information about ALM's server-side and client-side system requirements,[11] updated periodically as new versions and patches are released.
References
edit- ^ "Learn what's new in service pack 1 for ALM 17 – Micro Focus Community". community.microfocus.com. 3 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
- ^ "OpenText Buys Micro Focus" (Press release). Waterloo, Ontario: Open Text Corporation. January 31, 2023 – via PRNewswire.
- ^ "HPE Merger Status Update". Micro Focus (Press release). Retrieved March 9, 2018.
- ^ "HP Closes Landmark Mercury Acquisition; Companies Unite to Lead in Business Technology Optimization Software". Hewlett Packard (Press release). November 7, 2006. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ Jackson, Joab (November 30, 2010). "HP Fuses Dev Management and Testing Tools". CIO. Archived from the original on October 8, 2012. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
- ^ "Comparing ALM/Quality Center Editions and Offerings" (PDF). Open Text.
- ^ Jordon, Allen (2013-03-26). "What is Quality Center". Quality Center Basics. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
- ^ "HP Quality Center in the Cloud". EOH Application Management. Archived from the original on 2014-03-03. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
- ^ "Web Runner". ALM Help Center.
- ^ "OpenText ALM/QC Support Matrix". MicroFocus.