Integrates HP Quality Center / ALM
and VMware vCloud Director
QC vLab brings the power of cloud-based test environments
to new and existing HP Quality Center / ALM implementations. With it, organizations can easily integrate VMware vCloud Director 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 vCloud Director 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 / ALM 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 vSphere feature called Fast Provisioning.
Fast Provisioned 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 vCloud Director can automatically place the clones in a network fence. This means that complete copies of the AUT can be tested simultaneously without
data or networking conflicts.
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