Quality Center
Developer(s)OpenText / Micro Focus / Hewlett Packard Enterprise / Mercury Interactive
Stable release
17.0.1 / April 3, 2023 (2023-04-03)[1]
Operating systemWindows, Linux
TypeQuality management/Test management
LicenseProprietary
WebsiteOpenText ALM/Quality Center

OpenText Quality Center, formerly known as Micro Focus Quality Center, HP Quality Center is a quality management software offered by OpenText who acquired Micro Focus in 2023[8]. Micro Focus acquired the software division of Hewlett Packard Enterprise in 2017,[2] with many capabilities acquired from Mercury Interactive Corporation.[3] Quality Center offers software quality assurance, including requirements management, test management and business process testing for IT and application environments.[4] Quality Center is a component of the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management software set.[5]

Product packaging

Quality Center is available in the following editions:

  • Community
  • Express
  • Enterprise

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.[6] Quality Center is also available as a Software-as-a-Service offering.[7]

System requirements

Quality Center desktop client runs on the Windows platforms without the need of any browser. It also has a web client[9] that runs on any browser.

OpenText has published information regarding about ALM's server-side and client-side system requirements[7], and are updated periodically as new versions and patches are released.

References

  1. ↑ "Learn what's new in service pack 1 for ALM 17 - Micro Focus Community". community.microfocus.com. Retrieved 2023-04-03.
  2. ↑ "HPE Merger Status Update" (Press release). Micro Focus. Retrieved March 9, 2018.
  3. ↑ "HP Closes Landmark Mercury Acquisition; Companies Unite to Lead in Business Technology Optimization Software" (Press release). Hewlett Packard. November 7, 2006. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
  4. ↑ Archived December 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Jackson, Joab (November 30, 2010). "HP Fuses Dev Management and Testing Tools". CIO.com. Retrieved February 11, 2013.
  6. ↑ Jordon, Allen (2013-03-26). "Quality Center Basics". Quality-center-basics.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  7. ↑ "HP Quality Center in the Cloud". Eoh-am.co.za. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
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