quality-center

What's the best way to export bug tracking data from hosted HP Quality Center?

This question may be too product specifc but I'd like to know if anyone is exporting bug track data from HP Quality Center. HP Quality Center (QC) has an old school COM API but I'd rather use a web service or maybe even screen scraper to export the data into an excel spreadsheet. In any case, what's the best way to export bug tracking ...

Is it possible to call a COM API from Java?

Is it possible to call a COM API from Java (specifically the HP/Mercury Quality Center OTA API)? If so, what's the best way? Is something like JACOB appropriate? Code fragments would be helpful for the basics :-) ...

Import Sharepoint XML based requirements to HP Quality Center

We're thinking of moving away from Sharepoint 2003 and to HP Quality Center for our requirements tracking system. Is there a way to import our current Sharepoint requirements and user stories to HP Quality Center? Has anyone had any issues/successes with HP Quality Center ...

Is it a good idea to use HP Quality Center for Continuous Integration?

We need to compile our code after check - ins, be notified if compile fails, run tests, be notified of test results and publish our application (publish a website or create an msi file for a desktop app) on a daily basis. We are using SVN and were considering using TeamCity or CruiseControl.NET for continuous integration server for our ...

Force .NET interop to use local COM DLL

Is it possible to force an interop assembly to reference a local copy of its associated COM DLL? Here's the scenario: I have a .NET app that references an interop assembly (Interop.OTAClient.dll), which is the interop for a COM DLL (OTAClient.dll, which is the automation API for HP Quality Center). I'm not very knowledgable on COM, but...

Store the results of the test sets executed from Quality Center when using RunTestSet.exe

Hi, I have used RunTestSet utility using ant to run testsets from QC automatically. i need to save the test results in a location. Earlier i used RunResultsOption in vbscript and got the results. Now when using RunTestSet, how can i create a RunResultsOption with RunTestSet? Please guide me. Thanks, Ramya. ...

How do I generate a Quality Center recordset with C#?

I am converting an application that connects to Quality Center via the OTA API from VB.net to C#. The application makes extensive use of recordsets, but I have not been able to get them to work in C#. Specifically, I have trouble casting Command and Recordset to the correct format for C#. Everything I have tried has failed. Following,...

Quality Center api using only HTTP?

So.. I set up IE to use WebScarab as a proxy, and then logged into Quality Center. Lo and behold, the program uses HTTP to do all its communication with the server, and the all commands and responses are human-readable text. It ain't XML, it ain't JSON, but its human-readable and I'm pretty sure I could write it if I had to. So.. is thi...

How to read the user email address in HP QC Script Editor?

Inside the HP Quality Center Scripting Editor, I can access current user info (like user name or full name) with the "user" object. How do I access the current user E-Mail address property? ...

Migrating test cases & defects from Quality Center to TFS 2008/2010

Tool that can be used to migrate (or even better..synchronize) test cases and bugs between: TFS 2008 and Quality Center 9.2 (or later) TFS 2010 and Quality Center 9.2 (or later) I am aware of the following tools: Test Case Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool TFS Bug Item Synchronizer 2.2 for Quality Center Also shai raiten mentions on his bl...

QTP, QC, Load Runner and RFT tutorials

Hello, I am newbie in testing. Can you please suggest me some good tutorials of Quality Center Quick Test Professional RFT Thanx in advance ...

Automating HP Quality Center with Python or Java

Hi, We have a project that uses HP Quality Center and one of the regular issues we face is people not updating comments on the defect. So I was thinkingif we could come up with a small script or tool that could be used to periodically throw up a reminder and force the user to update the comments. I came across the Open Test Architectu...

Attaching Files to QC defect by Java code from local machine

Hi All, When we open a defect in QC generally we need to attach the logs of the server i want to Make an application such that It will take files(logs from all the relevant server) and stores in our local machine and then we can rar those files and directly attach it to QC defect mentioned by person opening defect Now my question is how...

Visual Studio project remains "stuck" when stopped

Hi, Currently developing a connector DLL to HP's Quality Center. I'm using their (insert expelative) COM API to connect to the server. An Interop wrapper gets created automatically by VStudio. My solution has 2 projects: the DLL and a tester application - essentially a form with buttons that call functions in the DLL. Everything works...

Qtp, export datatable to Quality Center

I have my QTP Scripts in Test Scripts Tab and datasheets in the Attachment Tab of TestPlan of QC. I import these datasheets to Datatable (Global) of QTP and use the data in my application using the QTP Script Parameterization and then Script updates this Global Datatable with auto generated values from application. Now, the issue is whe...

QTP, access to QC field by label

I want to update a custom user field in QC using the Label of field instead of the name At the moment we are doing it this way Set currentRun = QCUtil.CurrentRun currentRun.Field("RN_USER_03") = 1 currentRun.Post But I would like to do it this way Set currentRun = QCUtil.CurrentRun currentRun.Field("Data Rows Passed") = 4 currentRun...

How to isolate a bad COM component (HP Quality Center 10.0) from a .Net application when performing integration tests

I'm currently working on some .Net based software (.Net Framework 3.5 SP1) that integrates with HP Quality Center 10.0 through it's COM Client API (often referred to as TDApiOle80 or TDApiOle80.TDConnection). We are using XUnit 1.6.1.1521 and Gallio 3.1.397.0 (invoked from an msbuild file) We go through a process of: Creating a conne...

QA team uses HP Quality Center, Dev team wants to use JIRA -- will this work?

Our QA team uses HP Quality Center for defect tracking, test plans, etc. The dev team really detests Quality Center and wants to use JIRA for internal task tracking. Can these two systems work seamlessly together? I have worked on projects where 2 teams used separate issue-tracking systems and keeping them in sync was a major headache....

HPQC usage and tips n tricks?

hi i am new HPQC could you tell me how to use the HPQC and some tips and tricks in HPQC. ...

How do you remove a step from a test in Quality Center via the OTA API

In the Quality Center OTA API how can you delete steps from a test. When I delete steps using the RemoveItem method of the DesignStepFactory, they still remain - I've tried deleting by both ID and step reference: Test test = _qcAccess.AddTest(folderId); test.Name = "Test 1"; test.Post(); DesignStepFactory factory = (DesignStepFactory)...