Micro Focus Quality Center, formerly known as HP Quality Center is a quality management software offered by

Micro Focus Micro Focus International plc is a British multinational software and information technology business based in Newbury, Berkshire, England. The firm provides software and consultancy. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is ...

, who acquired the software division of

Hewlett Packard Enterprise The Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company based in Spring, Texas, United States. HPE was founded on November 1, 2015, in Palo Alto, California, as part of the splitting of the H ...

in 2017, with many capabilities acquired from

Mercury Interactive Mercury Interactive Corporation was an Israeli company acquired by the HP Software Division. Mercury offered software for application management, application delivery, change and configuration management, service-oriented architecture, change r ...

Corporation. Quality Center offers

software quality assurance Software quality assurance (SQA) is a means and practice of monitoring all software engineering processes, methods, and work products to ensure compliance against defined standards. It may include ensuring conformance to standards or models, suc ...

, including

requirements management Requirements management is the process of documenting, analyzing, tracing, prioritizing and agreeing on requirements and then controlling change and communicating to relevant stakeholders. It is a continuous process throughout a project. A require ...

test management Test management most commonly refers to the activity of managing a testing process. A test management tool is software used to manage tests (automated or manual) that have been previously specified by a test procedure. It is often associated with ...

and

business process A business process, business method or business function is a collection of related, structured activities or tasks by people or equipment in which a specific sequence produces a service or product (serves a particular business goal) for a parti ...

testing for IT and application environments. Quality Center is a component of the

Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is a set of software tools developed and marketed by Micro Focus (previously Hewlett-Packard and Hewlett Packard Enterprise) for application development and testing. It includes tools for require ...

software set.

Product packaging

Micro Focus Quality Center is available in the following editions: * Community * Express * Enterprise Community and Express editions are designed for entry-level

software quality In the context of software engineering, software quality refers to two related but distinct notions: * Software functional quality reflects how well it complies with or conforms to a given design, based on functional requirements or specification ...

assurance organizations. The Enterprise edition, originally called Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center, is for software quality assurance organizations that manage medium to large releases. For large and global organizations, Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management incorporates the capabilities of Quality Center Enterprise Tracking,

Enterprise Release Management Enterprise release management (ERM) is a multi-disciplinary IT governance framework for managing software delivery and software change across multiple departments in a large organization. ERM builds upon release management and combines it with ot ...

and Asset Sharing for requirements management through application delivery. Quality Center is also available as a Software-as-a-Service offering.

System requirements

Micro Focus Quality Center runs on the Windows platforms with an

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browser. In combination with the ALM Explorer Add-in, it can be executed as a normal desktop application. Micro Focus has published information regarding about ALM's server-side and client-side system requirements, and are updated periodically as new versions and patches are released.

References

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