NCDIT's test management tools include OpenText Application Lifecycle Management Quality Center and ALM Octane, which provide all the key elements of test management within a software development lifecycle.

OpenText ALM is designed to manage the various phases of the software development life cycle from managing releases, cycles, requirements, test cases and test execution to defects.

ALM increases predictability and creates a framework to manage projects from a central repository. It enables visibility of the project status to all, including stakeholders and reduces the risk associated with managing project artifacts related to various phases.

ALM Capabilities Infographic

Features & Benefits

Features

  • Release management – Achieves traceability between test cases to release
  • Requirement management – Ensures that the test cases cover all the specified requirements
  • Test case management – Maintains the version history of the changes done to test cases, and acts as a central repository for all the test cases of an application
  • Test execution management – Tracks multiple instances of test case runs, and ensures the credibility of the testing effort
  • Defect management – Ensures that the major defects uncovered are visible to all major project stakeholders and that the defects follow a specified life cycle till closure
  • Reports management – Ensures that reports and graphs are generated to keep track of project health
  • Dashboard management
  • Business process testing
  • Centralized database storage
  • Built-in sprint closure and retrospective capabilities
  • Task and release planning boards and seamless integrations

Benefits

  • Access testing resources 24/7 via a web browser interface
  • Facilitate and collaborate standardized testing and quality processes through a single platform
  • Manage manual and automated tests from a central location
  • Schedule and execute tests automatically, unattended, 24/7 when logged into an SQA Testing Services provided functional workstation
  • Capture, create, report, and review defects
  • Measure progress and effectiveness of testing activities
  • Evaluate application readiness of a given project at any point during the testing process
  • Real-time feedback on progress
  • Define and maintain requirements and tests.
  • Create tests
  • Organize tests into logical subsets
  • Schedule and execute tests
  • Collect results, and analyze the data
  • Create, monitor and analyze defects
  • Share defects across projects
  • Track project progress
  • Collect metrics
  • Share asset libraries across projects
  • Integrate ALM with other testing tools for a complete quality management workflow automation experience

Technical Information

ALM can be integrated with different products, open-source tools Jenkins, agile-management tools and third-party tools.

  • CI/CD – Jenkins and Azure DevOps
  • OpenText – ALM Octane, PPM, UFT One, UFT Mobile, Fortify and Solution Business Manager
  • Third-party applications – SAP Solman, Atlassian Jira and Confluence, ServiceNow, Broadcom Rally and Microsoft Excel and Word
  • Open-source test and code analysis – JUnite, Nunit, Seleniu, JMeter, SocarQube and Appium
ALM Integrations Diagram

Related Resources

ALM Help Center