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Intended for: quality assurance engineers; quality testers; project managers; other TestDirector users

Pre-requisites: Experience with Microsoft Windows; basic understanding of the testing process

Objectives
At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Define test requirements
• Export data from Microsoft Excel to Quality Center
• Organize subjects and tests in the test plan tree
• Design and create test plans
• Generate test scripts from design steps
• Create test sets
• Execute manual and automated tests
• Record and track test execution results
• Log and manage defects
• Generate reports and graphs

Course content

Introduction

Defining Test Requirements

• Creating and defining requirements
• Building a requirements tree
• Tracking the status of requirements

• Installing the Microsoft Office Add-Ins
• Exporting data from Excel to Quality Center

• Building a test plan tree
• Creating tests
• Linking tests and requirements
• Designing test steps
• Using parameters in tests
• Configuring a test to call other tests
• Generating test scripts
• Monitoring the status of test plans

• Building a test sets tree
• Creating test sets
• Organizing tests in a test set
• Defining and scheduling test execution flows
• Configure automated test rerun and cleanup rules
• Executing manual and automated tests
• Recording and reviewing test execution results
• Monitoring the status of test sets

• Logging defects
• Searching and reviewing defects
• Associating defects to other entities
• Updating a defect
• Tracking the status of defects

• Filtering and organizing data for reports and graphs
• Generating reports and graphs
• Generating formatted project documentation