OpenText Quality Center explained

Quality Center
Developer:OpenText
Latest Release Version:17.0.1
Latest Release Date:[1]
Operating System:Windows, Linux
Genre:Quality management/test management
License:Proprietary
Website:OpenText ALM/Quality Center

OpenText Quality Center, formerly known as Micro Focus Quality Center and HP Quality Center, is a quality management software offered by OpenText who acquired Micro Focus in 2023.[2] Micro Focus acquired the software division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017,[3] with many capabilities acquired from Mercury Interactive Corporation.[4] Quality Center offers software quality assurance, including requirements management, test management and business process testing for IT and application environments.[5] Quality Center is a component of the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management software set.[6]

Product packaging

Quality Center is available in the following editions:[7]

Community and Express editions are designed for entry-level software quality assurance organizations. The Enterprise edition, originally called Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center, is for software quality assurance organizations that manage medium to large releases. For large and global organizations, OpenText Application Lifecycle Management incorporates the capabilities of Quality Center enterprise tracking, enterprise release management and asset sharing for requirements management through application delivery.[8] Quality Center is also available as a software-as-a-service offering.[9]

System requirements

Quality Center desktop client runs on the Windows platforms without the need of any browser. It also has a web client[10] that runs on any browser.

OpenText has published information about ALM's server-side and client-side system requirements,[11] updated periodically as new versions and patches are released.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Learn what's new in service pack 1 for ALM 17 – Micro Focus Community . community.microfocus.com . 3 April 2023 . 2023-04-03.
  2. OpenText Buys Micro Focus . PRNewswire . Open Text Corporation . Waterloo, Ontario . January 31, 2023.
  3. HPE Merger Status Update . Micro Focus . March 9, 2018.
  4. HP Closes Landmark Mercury Acquisition; Companies Unite to Lead in Business Technology Optimization Software . Hewlett Packard . November 7, 2006 . February 11, 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130202041615/http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2006/061107xa.html . February 2, 2013.
  5. https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-127_4000_100__
  6. Web site: Jackson . Joab . HP Fuses Dev Management and Testing Tools . CIO . November 30, 2010 . February 11, 2013 . October 8, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121008044954/http://www.cio.com/article/641167/HP_Fuses_Dev_Management_and_Testing_Tools . dead.
  7. Web site: Comparing ALM/Quality Center Editions and Offerings . Open Text.
  8. Web site: Jordon . Allen . What is Quality Center . Quality Center Basics . 2013-03-26 . 2014-03-03.
  9. Web site: HP Quality Center in the Cloud . EOH Application Management . 2014-03-03 . 2014-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140303203220/http://www.eoh-am.co.za/live/content.php?Item_ID=2671 . dead.
  10. Web site: Web Runner . ALM Help Center.
  11. Web site: OpenText ALM/QC Support Matrix . MicroFocus.

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