Mercury TestDirector

• Can you estimate efforts required to fully test requirements and make informed decisions regarding effort and risk tradeoffs?
• Does your organization lack the software testing tools to deploy high-quality applications quickly and effectively?
• Does your organization have the appropriate level of communication, organization, documentation, and structure in place for every testing project?
• Do you have a consistent, repeatable testing process?
• Are you able to track application release progress and project tasks?

Mercury TestDirector™ for Quality Center allows you to deploy high-quality applications quickly and effectively by providing a consistent, repeatable process for gathering requirements, planning and scheduling tests, analyzing results, and managing defects and issues. TestDirector is a single, web-based application for all essential aspects of test management — Requirements Management, Test Plan, Test Lab, and Defects Management. You can leverage these core modules either as a standalone solution or integrated within a global Quality Center of Excellence environment.

With Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center, you can:

• Proactively track the progress of releases and cycles so your organization can make more informed budgetary and release decisions and have the ability to analyze, evaluate, and improve your current processes over the lifetime of the application.
• Perform risk-based quality management enabling you to create appropriate test strategies by calculating test requirements against business risk levels and available resources.
• Facilitate information access across geographical and organization boundaries by supporting high levels of communication and collaboration among IT teams.
• Get real-time visibility for inter-related quality assets allowing you to test only what’s been impacted, giving you the time to run a full regression test after each change.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Test Management

Mercury Service Test Management™ automatically imports SOA services from the Mercury Systinet Registry into Mercury Quality Center to create test requirements and plans. Once the services are imported, Mercury Service Test Management identifies any changes to the services and automatically generates the necessary test cases that need to be run.

Using TestDirector for Quality Center, multiple groups throughout your organization can contribute to the quality process:

• Business analysts define application requirements and testing objectives.
• Test managers and project leads design test plans and develop test cases.
• Test managers automatically create QA testing requirements and test assets for SOA services and environments.
• Test automation engineers create automated scripts and store them in the repository.
• QA testers run manual and automated tests, report execution results, and enter defects.
• Developers review and fix defects logged into the database.
• Project managers can export test and resource data in various reports, or in native Microsoft Excel for analysis.
• Product managers decide whether an application is ready to be released.
• QA analysts can auto-generate test asset documentation in Microsoft Word format.