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HP ALM and Lab Management – Review

of the Key Features

November 13, 2013

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Today’s Presenter

Dr. Eric Schmieder

Lead Test Architect

Haufe-Lexware

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HP ALM and Lab Management – Review

of the Key Features

November 13, 2013

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Company Profile: Haufe-Lexware

Haufe.Gruppe:

• approx. 1,300 employees in Freiburg (HQ), Timisoara

and Munich

• approx. € 250 million turnover

We make our customers more successful by:

• General Business Accounting Software

• Digital workplace solutions

• Web-based services

• Educational and training programs

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Software Development at HL

Software Development & Research Division:

• Size: approx. 250 employees

• Product Brand: Haufe-Lexware

SWD quality control (QC):

• Size: approx. 50 engineers & 5 managers. Plus external testing

companies and individuals

• Task: professional testing services in > 30 parallel development

projects.

In the SWD quality control standard tools used by Hewlett-Packard:

ALM ◊ Sprinter ◊ UFT ◊ QA Inspect ◊ Performance Center

Lab Manager Q3/2013

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Challenge

Nightly-Build on the TFS build server

vCloud Directory

pre-installed products on

virtual machines.

Installation via

Vmware vCloud API

• Coordination, scheduling and execution of testing inclusive of

preparation, set up and cleanup.

• Maintain test equipment, …

• Install, diagnose, service and …

…….

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Overview

Source : http://www.hpsoftwaregovsummit.com/2013/files/Apps-S6-MelindaCloverJakeBurman-16x9.pdf

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Log In: http://#####:8080/qcbin/

• Projects

• Lab Management

• Manage Testing Resources

• Pool resources

• Schedule timeslots for Tests

and resources

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Lab Management Administration

Lab Settings (monitoring, maintenance, and

distribution of resources to the projects)

Lab Resources (Host, Location and Schedule)

Performance Center (Reports, Health and

Diagnostics)

Servers

Lab Service (remotely trigger tests on Host )

PC Servers (manage Performance Center functionality)

CDA Servers (dynamic provisioning and deployment of resources)

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Lab Settings

• Manage project settings tab is a list of ALM project containing

configuration information

• Maintenance tasks overview tab is run server side tests to

constantly monitor the system’s key components

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Lab Resources

Server side check with one-time registration process:

validates the identity of the agent and

establishes a secure communication channel between ALM and the host.

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Performance Center

• Manage and maintain PC lab resources

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Servers

• PC Servers Module (manage Performance Center functionality

• CDA Servers Module (dynamic provisioning and deployment of

resources)

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Log In: http://#####:8080/qcbin/

• Manage Testing Resources

• Pool resources

• Schedule timeslots for Tests

and resources

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Lab Manager Overview

ALM tests can run using different modes of execution:

Functional test sets and

Performance test sets

Test sets can be run:

Immediate or

Scheduled tests on remote testing hosts

Build test set

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Test Lab

• Create test sets

• Run tests in a Functional test set

• Run tests in a Default test set (client-

side execution)

• Run Performance tests (schedule

run with ALM)

• View and analyze test results

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Switch Test Set Type

• Toggles the test set:

– Default

– Functional

• Define Hosts

– Automatic

– Request

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Build Verification Suites

• Add Functional Test Sets

• Add Performance Test

• Requested Hosts

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Timeslots

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Test Runs

In the Test Runs tab, you can view the results of test executions.

• Individual runs

• Test Set

• Build Verification Suite

Be careful: Don’t confuse “test run id” with “run id”

State

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Summary

• GUI interface simplifies the management and schedule of testing

assets and resources across projects.

• Project can create time slots dedicated for running functional and

performance test cases or both combine.

• Better visibility of resources usage and optimize utilization of

hardware.

• Slow performance, i.e. report generation.

• Issue converting BPT into Performance test cases.

• UFT Plugin Modules need to align with BC test case on the client,

there is no check for required add-ins.

• Timeslot Usage Report only display Vusers from reservation that

were attached to a test.

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Thank you