Overview

Convert your existing HP Quality Center Projects to the structure of your HP ALM Project Templates

Take control over your HP ALM by aligning your existing Projects against a Project Template and take Cross-Project Customization in use!

Assure Project Harmonizer is an intuitive and easy to use product and guides you through the different stages of the project harmonization process.

The Challenge

HP ALM projects are often customized to suit different testing needs and testing processes. However, this benefit and flexibility can easily become a challenge. Each HP ALM project has its own database and since HP ALM projects can be customized independently of each other - it will often lead to the situation where projects have different structures in the database.

Mismatching project structures can pose challenges when taking HP ALM's cross-project features in use. Assure Project Harmonizer will resolve these issues safely and quickly - it is a HP Certified software product!

Key Features

• Use HP ALM's Process Enablement & Cross-Project Customization for all your existing Projects
• Conversion of project fields from all entities including their data, links, permissions, history, favorites and graphs to the Project Template structure
• Full documentation of the changes done to your projects
• Save time and minimize risk using a battle-tested, proven technology with many innovative features and an intuitive and easy-to-use user interface!

What is Project Harmonization?

"Project Harmonization" is the process of mapping and converting the structure of existing HP Quality Center Projects to be compatible with a pre-defined HP Quality Center / HP Application Lifecycle Management Project Template.

Why is Project Harmonization Needed?

Traditionally, HP Quality Center Projects have been customized to suit different kind of testing needs and testing processes. This benefit and flexibility easily becomes a challenge.

Since the projects can be customized independently of each other, usually they have different structures in the database.

Projects with different structures present challenges with

• Sharing and Copying data between the projects
• Integration and Reporting solutions have to be tailored for each project
• No common 'testing language' and processes between projects

HP Application Lifecycle Management and Project Harmonization

HP ALM and HP Quality Center Premier offer extremely valuable features, such as:

• Process Enablement - Project Templates, fields, user groups, lists and workflow customizations are centrally managed and distributed
• Asset Sharing - sharing of tests, requirements and defect across projects
• Cross project reporting - Creating graphs and metrics from multiple projects as data source

HP ALM new features may only bring limited benefits for non-harmonized projects as ALM's Cross-Project Customization feature that links projects to templates might not work.

As HP ALM projects tend to have a long lifecycle, this can be a major drawback.

We ensure that our customers can benefit from these exciting new features for all their existing Projects!

Harmonization Process Overview

Once you have created your QC Template Project in QC your next step is to link the projects to the templates and apply QC’s cross-project customization. That’s when you might encounter problems as the template and project might have conflicts with the project fields.

The Project Harmonization Process consists of the following main steps:

Assure Project Harmonizer consists of three tools. The reason is that different tools are used in different stages of the Project Harmonization Process and by different people.

The first tool to be used is the Template Documentation Tool. This tool is used by the Template Project creator. The purpose of the tool is to document the template fields and provide a description for each of the fields to the next phase, the mapping.

The Mapping Tool is distributed to and used by the project owners. Project owners are responsible to map the fields of the projects they own to the template project fields. The mapping files produced are then passed to the Administrator.

The Project Conversion Tool is used by the project administrator. This tool is used to convert the project fields and data according to the mapping done previously. After the conversion is done you are all set to go!

Under the Hood

Assure has gone to great lengths to ensure that all valuable data and the data integrity that exists in customer's HP Application Lifecycle Management / HP Quality Center Projects is not damaged or lost in the Harmonization process.

Assure Project Harmonizer supports all of the basic modules and entities, and converts safely all data within the database to the new Template model.

Assure Project Harmonizer supports not only User Defined Fields, but also System fields are available for mapping and conversion. Finally you can restructure the Projects exactly the way you want!

Supported modules and entities

• Releases
  • Release
  • Cycle
• Libraries
  • Library
  • Baseline
• Requirements
• Test Plan
• Business Components
• Test Lab
  • Test Set
  • Test Instance
  • Run
• Defects
• Dashboard
  • Analysis items

Supported data

• All data in the entities
• Data captured into Baselines
• Data captured into different Versions of entities (Versioning)
• History data
• Favorites
• Graphs
• Reports
• Group permissions
• Transition rules
• Data hiding filters

Performance

Assure Project Harmonizer will process the projects in record time, as we implemented many optimizations. Read more about the performance.

Supported Environments

Quality Center Versions

• HP Application Lifecycle Management 11
• HP Quality Center 10 Premier

Databases

HP Quality Center and HP ALM supported database versions:

• Oracle
• Microsoft SQL Server

System Requirements

• 2 GB of RAM
• 5 MB free disk space
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution or higher
• Keyboard and mouse
• Network connection