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Exploring HP ALM/QC Customization

As a life-long learner and practitioner, I taught myself many skills and techniques. In application to my job, I take on anything needed and figure it out.

The particular project I once had was to establish a structured Issue Management process in my Client company, utilizing HP ALM QC tool.

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I approached it and carried out with the following steps.

1. Learn about current processes, per project. Identify purposes and key steps. Understand interaction model – roles and responsibilities with regards to the issue management. Understand and document state transitioning and metrics.
2. Review the existing processes with the whole QA team and management. Facilitate definition of a unified structured model. Create a document to use as an operational guide.
3. Configure HP ALM tool according to the model defined.

(Of course, it’s not over after the step 3. Roll-out, training, and support steps are besides the scope of this blog entry as I’m focusing on the technical part.)

Step 3 – HP ALM Quality Center customization was a technical process I’ve never done before. It became a little project in itself – explore customization capabilities, experiment with the code and configuration, implement VBScripts, test the solution.

This kind of hands-on learning is cemented with note-taking and summarizing of experiences. I’ve used my blog for this purpose, sharing business-agnostic examples when possible.

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