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„Reportingmöglichkeiten in HP QC/ALM“ Gerald Heller, Software.Process.Management

Vortrag beim Vivit TQA Anwendertreffen am 3. April 2014 in Köln

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Reporting with HP ALM/QC Vivit TQA, Köln

Gerald Heller Software.Process.Management April 3, 2014

HP ALM/QC REPORTING CAPABILITIES

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Business Reasons for Reporting

Status display (overview of work) Project tracking (time based) Quality assurance (reviews and analysis) Coordination and collaboration (internal) Specification for supplier (external) Compliance (legal, standards, archiving) Product/project documentation


Documents

Basic Types that Support Business Reports


Graphs

Tables Drill down Reports

Reporting



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Changes in Reporting from QC 10 – 12

New since QC 11.0: Project reports New since QC 11.5: Business views New since QC 12.0: Business views cross project Document generator to be discontinued QC 12: Excel Reports


HP QC Report Types (QC 12)


Standard Report

Graph

Project Report

Excel Report

Scorecard Graph

Business View Graph



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Reporting Detailed

§ Business Views § Project Reports


Business Views

§  Business views reports provide fine granular access to all ALM data without DB table knowledge

§  Business views provide a logical view into the requirement view

§  Business views can be generated via drag and drop


Physical database(s)

Reports

Physical database(s)

ALM Business views

Reports

ALM 11.5 Prior



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Business Views Report Construction


Project Reports

Server side report generation Support customer specific templates Support customer specific styles Reports may have multiple sections using different styles Output format: html, pdf, docx




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Desired Report


Company header

Flow format including attributes

and graphics

Table format including rich text

and graphics

Project Reports


Analysis menu defines what will be seen in individual modules



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Provide Project Templates for All Users


Project templates available

for all users

Create Compound Requirements Documents


Individual sections may use

specific templates



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Create Template


Create report template with custom layout

Customize Template


Edit templates by selecting fields from

QC or ALM



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Retrieve Project Specific Attributes


Connect to QC project to retrieve

custom values

Generate Reports


Save template reports as private or

public (shared)

Generate template based reports with

QC Data



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Share Reports Outside of QC


Provide report to other stakeholders in the organization

Access to server stored report

Embedded Web Scorecards & Graphs


Publish scorecards and graphs in HTML pages



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Experiences

Acceptable reports can be generated with varying layout in different chapters Graphics are best handled in rich text format

“Description” field does not properly handle graphics in reporting

Generated reports need some “massaging” with macros Strange behavior of QC may happen (bugs!)


Contact

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Vielen Dank

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Gerald Heller

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