Integrates HP Quality Center
and VMware vCenter Lab Manager
QC vLab for HP Quality Center brings the power of virtualized test environments
to your new and existing HP Quality Center implementations. With it, organizations that have or plan to implement
HP Quality Center can easily integrate VMware vCenter Lab Manager into their existing QA process.
QC vLab solves several problems for quality assurance teams:
- Provisioning the application under test (AUT) - Most QA teams spend at least two weeks waiting for Operations to setup physical hardware and
install the required operating system and applications before they can begin testing. VMware vCenter Lab Manager is a web portal that allows those teams to build new
environments from an existing set of templates in a matter of seconds. QC vLab can deploy and undeploy the AUT as part of an execution flow for a Quality Center test set so
that memory and CPU in your VMware infrastructure is conserved.
- Solving the test data destruction problem - Because the AUT is inside one or more virtual machines, snapshots and restores can be used as a
simple mechanism to rewind the AUT back to its initial state so that test can be re-run without data population requirements.
- Capturing the state of the AUT when a test step fails - Snapshots can also be taken automatically
by QC vLab when an HP QuickTest Professional test encounters a checkpoint that fails. This means that the development team can rewind the AUT state to the instant of
failure to debug the problem.
- Parallel testing and data conflicts - QC vLab enables concurrent testing against the AUT through a VMware vCenter Lab Manager feature called linked cloning.
Linked clones are thin copies (delta disks) of all the virtual machines making up the AUT. Because the clones share the same IP addresses and hostnames as the original,
VMware vCenter Lab Manager has the ability to place a network fence around the clones. This means that complete copies of the AUT can be tested simultaneously without
data conflicts.
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