What is the difference between Quality centre and Test
Director
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Answer / raja
Test Director:
Upto ver 8.0 called as TD
Had 4 tabs (
Requirements: to track the customer requirements,
test plan: to design the test cases and store the test
scripts,
test lab: to execute the test sets and track the results,
defects: to log a defect and track the logged defects)
Data stored in the file system
Has choice of 1 platform: Windows
Can be clustered with a single server
Databases supported: MS Access, SQL, Oracle, Sybase
Virtual directory is tdbin
Technology: td:C++, IIS, COM
Quality Center:
After ver 8 it is called QC. Latest version is 9.2
It’s a client-server architecture
Has 5 tabs (requirements, testplan, test lab, defects and
dashboard which is used to run different types of reports)
Data stored in the database
Has choice of 3 platforms: windows, red hat linux and
solaris
Can be clustered with many servers
Databases supported are SQL and Oracle
QC server virtual directory is qcbin
Site Administrator server virtual directory is sabin
Change in GUI
Technology: Back-end is Java based, runs on application
server
Can be attached to our email center
It’s a client server architecture
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Answer / bindhu
Quality Center is the advanced version of Test Director. There is no much
difference between QC and TD. In QC we have one extra tab called Dashboard
which is used to prepare graph. All the other features are same.
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Answer / madhusudana reddy
in test director there is no user authentication but in
quality centre here it must have given the user name and
password after that we will enter the project ip address
then only we can access the quality centre
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Answer / xyz
quality center have 2 modules apart from what test director
have business components and dashboard......
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Answer / s saritha
Test Director's new version is Quality center(V 9.0)
I havent use QC so i dont know which new features are
available in QC.
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How to send autogenerated mails to concerned 1 when a new defect is logged ? 2 when defect status cahnged e.g from open to closed?
Can you please explain the procedure of connecting testdirector in qtp?
Trying to install Test Director 7.5 on my laptop which has windows vista home premium. The error message i am getting is IIS not installed. But IIS 7 is installed and working fine. I also installed IIS 6.0 Metabase Compatibility Layer in "Turn Windows Features on or off" in Vista. But still not successful. Can anyone tell me what is the problem? what version of IIS does test director 7.5 support?
what are the type of testing and methodologies
How to map testcases with requirements in test lab?
Does Windows Xp servicepack2 supports Quality center 9.2...? i got a QC 9.2 trial version..i tried to install on my sys but it says "HP QC 9.2 does not supported by Windows Service Pack2" please help me in this regard..
In the defect life cycle, if you find a defect in QC and think that it is not a valid defect. what will you do? just close it or store it in any document for future review, if yes what type of document and where?
What is the use of the Test Director software?
How we do the smoke testing?
Can we upload test cases from an excel sheet into test director?
After you have completed the first phase of running the 'Test Cases' in TD, now that you have set the status of each step as Pass/Fail. How will you run the same 'Test Cases' for regression testing (say for 2rd or 3th build)?
what was the advantage of Quality center? functions performed using Quality center? thanks in advance