OpenText Quality Center, formerly known as Micro Focus Quality Center and HP Quality Center, is a quality management software offered by

OpenText OpenText Corporation (styled as opentext) is a global software company that develops and sells information management software. OpenText, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, is Canada's fourth-largest software company as of 2022, and r ...

who acquired Micro Focus in 2023. Micro Focus acquired the software division of

Hewlett Packard Enterprise The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas. It is a business-focused organization which works in servers, storage, networking, containerization software and ...

in 2017, with many capabilities acquired from

Mercury Interactive Mercury Interactive Corporation was an Israeli company acquired by the HP Software Division. Mercury offered software for application management, application delivery, change and configuration management, service-oriented architecture, change r ...

Corporation. Quality Center offers

software quality assurance Software quality assurance (SQA) is a means and practice of monitoring all software engineering processes, methods, and work products to ensure compliance against defined standards. It may include ensuring conformance to standards or models, suc ...

, including

requirements management Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A requ ...

test management Test management most commonly refers to the activity of managing a testing process. A test management tool is software used to manage tests (automated or manual) that have been previously specified by a test procedure. It is often associated with ...

and

business process A business process, business method, or business function is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks performed by people or equipment in which a specific sequence produces a service or product (that serves a particular business g ...

testing for IT and application environments. Quality Center is a component of the

Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management OpenText ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is a software suite designed to support application development and management. It provides tools for planning, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. OpenText ALM is a set of software ...

software set.

Product packaging

Quality Center is available in the following editions: * Community * Express * Enterprise Community and Express editions are designed for entry-level

software quality In the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions: * Software's functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specificat ...

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. Quality Center is also available as a software-as-a-service offering.

System requirements

Quality Center desktop client runs on the Windows platforms without the need of any browser. It also has a web client that runs on any browser. OpenText has published information about ALM's server-side and client-side system requirements, updated periodically as new versions and patches are released.

References

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