HP QC/ALM IMPLEMENTATION

What is HP ALM?

HP Application Life Cycle Management is a web application companies use to manage the product from the ideation stage to designing, developing, and deploying. The team uses the tool to have transparency about the product and its status at every phase. The primary goal of the tool is to track down the project and easy-to-use report generation.

Why Use HP ALM?

1. A single platform where developers, testers, product owners, and business analysts collaborate.
2. Integration with other widely used applications like UFT and LoadRunner.
3. Extensive project reporting features and analysis.
4. Seamless mail integration to keep everyone informed at all times.

Features

1. HP ALM provides review analysis so that even the comment's progress can be tracked.
2. HP ALM supports live reporting for the test case execution.
3. Users can create custom fields based on their preferences.
4. Extensive, neat, and clean report generation.
5. Excel or Word import to allow traditional testing integration for the test case.
6. Additional add-ons to make the testing process smoother and more extensive.

Limitations

1. High Cost: Pricing of HP ALM is the highest among the products in this space. One has to buy the license, which makes it a premium product.
2. Not 100% automated: HP ALM is not 100% automated. Even though integration with many applications and import features are there, a lot of tasks are still manual.
3. Only Web Supported: HP ALM is not a desktop or mobile application. One needs a browser, and hence, it won't operate in offline mode. Also, HP ALM works only on Internet Explorer, which is another drawback.