OpenText ALM / Quality Center Reviews

Our primary use case is for regression testing.

We use Micro Focus products together to improve organizational SLAs.

Lab Management is a valuable feature, because you have a 360 view.

The QA needs improvement.

You can plan your test execution very thoroughly with configurations and setups in the test lab. This is very unique in comparison with other tools.

To add test cases from the test plan in test lab, the filtering function is not very user-friendly. Comparing the functionality with the querying/filtering functionality from TFS, which is much more user-friendly, it is clearer and the default screen is almost full-sized,

Two years.

No.

No.

I do not know.

I have worked at other companies, I cannot choose between solutions.

No, I was not the admin of this application, and the setup itself is not complex, nor very straightforward (but somewhere in the middle).

I would not recommend this product If you have a small organization, which would not use this tool very often.

The pricing is very expensive, but it covers a full solution, which means, you will use a lot of functionalities and gain in time and efficiency.

No.

Features that support documentation and test results from Requirements through Test Cases to Scripts to Execution results (pass or fail), then to Defects.

Life was made easy by shifting the MS Office documentation to the product. We deal with our test cases and execution, and the mapping is taken care by the product. You pass/fail a test case and product tells you what requirements/features of the product are good to go into production.

Auto-generation of automation scripts. Integration into the UTF (earlier QTP) has little more scope to improve.

I've used this solution for four years.

No.

No.

A nine out of 10.

No.

Straightforward.

Very expensive.

Some Open Source tools, but did not choose them as they lack support.

Have a skilled person to do the administration. You will love the ease of reporting that results in.

The report feature has helped me to generate a quality index report which is a critical report for management decisions. The report is generated monthly.

There are many reports that are generated monthly from the tools which assist us in making key decisions concerning the quality of software and products.

The product creates a database per project and this results in poor disk space management, as well as frequent backup and restore. This should be improved upon.

We have been using this solution for four years.

There were no issues with stability.

There were no issues with scalability.

Technical support is good.

We did not use a different solution previously.

The initial setup was straightforward.

I suggest organizations should attempt cloud services.

We did not evaluate other options before this one.

It is a good product, but it still requires customization.

From a testing point of view, it takes us a step closer to automation. Our testing is quite manual at the moment. We can use it from start to finish; from testing business requirements right through user acceptance testing, load testing, and performance testing. That's a positive feature.

It has dramatically reduced the number of defects that go into production. There have been no serious outages, nor serious problems where we had to do a rollback or anything like that. The transition into production has been very smooth.

From a tool point of view, I would like see some integration into release management. That is the biggest pain point at this moment.

We bought this solution three years ago.

From a performance point of view, stability is very good.

ALM has not directly assisted scalability. I wouldn't say ALM assists with scalability at all.

I haven’t used technical support, but my team has. I don't know about their experience with them, but if they were not satisfied, I would have found out about it.

Don’t just focus on the technology and buying it, but rather focus on the processes behind the support of the technology. That was our biggest lesson.

• Test Management
• Test Report Generation

Option to trace bug directly from App.

• Test Report Generation
• Creating test iterations/projects

I've used it for over two years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Did not use it, as it was enterprise provided.

We have an internal technical team.

We previously used RTM, and we switched because ALM is better than IBM RTM tool.

Our internal technical team did it, but It was not tough though.

In-house implementation.

Good.

Good product.

• Entering requirements and mapping of requirements with test cases.
• Writing and execution of test cases and reporting defects.
• Generating customized reports.

Our organization has developed a product for automating test cases and we track the test cases' automation status with HPE ALM. It includes a column which made it easy to track them.

It needs a feature for scheduling of automation scripts to run automatically. This feature would be very useful.

Five years.

No.

No.

Quick response.

We checked out other tools like JIRA and Rally which also have good features, but HPE ALM has is user friendly.

Straightforward.

No suggestions.

No.

As long as you can afford it, go for this product. Otherwise, there are less expensive or open source products with almost the same features.