Hello Everyone,

How to create projects and assign users in Quality Center (Site Adminstration)

Hope you have got good knowledge of mercury quality centre on the previous page. To take it further, let us explore functionality of qcbin in step by step manner. Create a test project in sabin. Now log on to qcbin by providing your credentials and access the project that you have created. After you log in to the qcbin you will notice different tabs for requirement, testplan, testlab and defects. Click on the requirements tab. Under this tab, you can organize your project requirements. You can also create folder hierarchy to represent various features in your project. This can be accomplished by just right-clicking and choosing appropriate options. After you have created new requirements its time for the test plan. Test plan will have information about the test cases. These test cases can also be mapped to requirements created in the earlier steps, thus makes foundation for the traceability metrics. Each requirement can be mapped to one or more than one test cases. After creating new test case you will see in the left hand pane. The right hand pane will have tabs for writing the steps, mapping to requirements, description, expected result etc. Every test case will have steps and for every step you can specify the expected behavior. These test cases can also be linked to the qtp or winrunner scripts, thereby providing you better management for the automation and capability of executing automation scripts from quality centre itself. After the test plan preparation its time for the test execution. You have to create a test lab for managing test execution for specific release. Test labs can be created, specific to the release and execution of test cases specific to release can be managed very easily using this concept. In the test lab you can identify the set of test cases already written under test plan to include for execution. These test cases are already linked to the requirement so after each test cycle the management will be able to trace what requirements have been tested. Automated tests can be fired from test lab if you have integration with qtp in place. When you choose the option of manual test execution, a window will open up containing the steps to execute. These steps are executed and after every step you can specify whether it is passed or not. Quality center also allows parameterized manual test execution, where some of the default parameters like username, password etc. Can automatically be read during the manual execution. For example, suppose you have a template test which logs in a user with a specific password when you start your application, you need to call this test at the beginning of each test. In some cases, you will want to log in as a regular user while in others, you will need to log in as the administrator. You can therefore create two parameters, <> and <>, and change the value according to which type of test is calling your template test. The defects encountered during the failure of any of the steps can automatically be logged in to the defect tracking system, already integrated with quality centre. After the test execution the important part is defects as already mentioned, this is integrated with the qulaity center and incase of any failure from the manual or automated tests, defects can be logged. One of the most important part of the test management is generating reports. After all the planning and execution, its reporting time. Quality center provides a very good reporting feature by providing certain pre-defined reports and also capability to create your own reports. Hope information provided above would have provided you a good overview about mercury quality center. In the next article we will cover some more information about the mercury quality centre with focus on specific features.

Hi, you can create quality center projects in oracle, microsoft sql, or msde. When you create a new project, you can: 1.create an empty project. 2.copy the contents of an existing project. 3.import data from an exported quality center project file. To create a project: 1.in site administration, click the site projects tab. 2.click the create project button.the create project dialog box opens. 3.choose the create an empty project option and click next. 4.in the project name box, type a name for your quality center project. 5.in the in domain box, select a domain. Tip: after the project has been created, you can move it to a different domain in the projects list using a drag-and-drop operation. 6.click next. 7.under database type, select oracle or ms-sql. If you are working in msde, select ms-sql. 8.by default, values defined during the quality center installation are displayed for server name, db admin user, and db admin password. If additional database servers are defined, you can select another name from the server name list. 9.click next. If your selected database server does not have the text search feature enabled, a message box opens. It indicates that after this process completes, you can enable the text search feature. 10. You are creating a microsoft sql project, proceed to step 11. In the create in tablespace box, select a storage location from the list. In the temporary tablespace box, select a temporary storage location for the new project. 11.click next. The add project administrators dialog box opens. Selected project administrators lists quality center users that are assigned as project administrators. Available users lists quality center users available in the project. When you assign project administrators, they are moved from the available users list to the selected project administrators list. -refresh: click the refresh button to refresh the list of available users. -find: type the name of a user in the find box, and click the find button to search the available users list. -add selected users: select the users you want to assign as project administrators, and click the add selected users button . The selected users are displayed in the selected project administrators list. Note: you can also assign project administrators after you have created the project. -to remove a user from the selected project administrators list, right-click the user and click delete. 12.click next. Verify the project details. To change any of the details, click back. 13.you can select activate project to instruct quality center to activate the new project. 14.you can select store project's repository in the database to store project data in the project's database instead of in the file system. 15.click create. The new project is added to the projects list.

Hi Iam sorry,
the above description seems to be so confusing.Here are the steps to create project:

you can create quality center projects in oracle, microsoft sql, or msde. When you create a new project, you can:
1.create an empty project.

2.copy the contents of an existing project.

3.import data from an exported quality center project file.

To create a project:
1.in site administration, click the site projects tab.

2.click the create project button.the create project dialog box opens.

3.choose the create an empty project option and click next.

4.in the project name box, type a name for your quality center project.

5.in the in domain box, select a domain. Tip: after the project has been created, you can move it to a different domain in the projects list using a drag-and-drop operation.

6.click next.

7.under database type, select oracle or ms-sql. If you are working in msde, select ms-sql.

8.by default, values defined during the quality center installation are displayed for server name, db admin user, and db admin password. If additional database servers are defined, you can select another name from the server name list.

9.click next. If your selected database server does not have the text search feature enabled, a message box opens. It indicates that after this process completes, you can enable the text search feature.

10.You are creating a microsoft sql project, proceed to step 11. In the create in tablespace box, select a storage location from the list. In the temporary tablespace box, select a temporary storage location for the new project.

11.click next. The add project
administrators dialog box opens.

Selected project administrators lists quality center users that are assigned as project administrators.

Available users lists quality center users available in the project. When you assign project administrators, they are moved from the available users list to the selected project administrators list.

-refresh: click the refresh button to refresh the list of available users.

-find: type the name of a user in the find box, and click the find button to search the available users list.

-add selected users: select the users you want to assign as project administrators, and click the add selected users button

The selected users are displayed in the selected project administrators list.

Note: you can also assign project administrators after you have created the project. -to remove a user from the selected project administrators list, right-click the user and click delete.

12.click next. Verify the project details. To change any of the details, click back.

13.you can select activate project to instruct quality center to activate the new project.

14.you can select store project's repository in the database to store project data in the project's database instead of in the file system.

15.click create. The new project is added to the projects list.

Assigning Users to Projects

As a site administrator, you can control access to Quality Center projects by defining the users that can log on to the project. You can assign users to projects from the Quality Center Users list, or copy users from existing Quality Center projects. You can also assign users as project administrators.

When a user is no longer working on a project, you should remove the user from the project to ensure project security. Note that removing a user from a project does not delete the user from the Quality Center Users list.

Note:

1.As a Quality Center project administrator, you can assign and remove users from projects, and change user privileges from the Project Customization window.

2.You can assign projects to users from the Site Users tab.

To assign users to a project:

1.In Site Administration, click the Site Projects tab.

2.In the Projects list, select a project. In the right pane, select the Project Users tab.
The users for the selected project are displayed.

You can click the User Name or Full Name column to change the sort order of user names or full names in the Project Users list from ascending to descending. You can also click the Project Administrator column to group users by project administrators.

3.click the add button,and choose one of the following options: a)add from the users list: the users list is displayed to the right of the project users tab. Select the users that you want to assign to the project. You can search for users by typing a search string in the find box above the users list, and clicking the find button . B)copy from another project: the projects list is displayed to the right of the project users tab. To copy a user, click a project to expand the project directory, and select the user name check box. To copy all users from a project, select the project's check box. To clear all selected users, click clear all.

4.select users from the users list or projects list, and click the add selected users to the project button . The selected users are displayed in the project users list. 5.to remove a user from a project, select the user in the project users list and click the remove button . Click yes to confirm. The user is removed from the project users list. 6.to refresh the project users list or users list, click the refresh button above the appropriate list.

If you have any doubts still in creating projects or assigning users can ping me back.I can help you always as iam working as QC Admin.

Thanks
Deepika.P