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Software Testing and Quality Assurance

Some practical examples of test metrics are:

1. Total number of bugs found daily over the course of the project.
2. Record of bugs that still need to be fixed.
3. Current bugs ranked based on their severity.
4. Total bugs found per tester.
5. Total number of bugs found per software feature or area.

Trooper Ltd. deploys HP Quality Center and saves $400,000
annually
T
rooper Ltd. is a leading pay-television solutions provider, which has offices in 12 countries.
The company witnessed substantial growth in the past few years. Consequently, there were
many quality testing tools and processes that existed across the organization, creating a
heterogeneous test environment.
Trooper Ltd. needed a standardized, centralized global quality testing platform to create more
efficient testing processes, to lower costs, to accommodate changing manufacturing processes, and to
improve cooperation and communication between the research and development centers.
To achieve this goal, testers and developers assessed many tools to establish a standard testing
platform. The testers and developers then decided to adopt HP Quality Center (a Test Management
Tool) as the standardized platform for all test development and management worldwide. This
solution combines all tests into reusable sets, which lower the turn-around time for new set-top
boxes.
Following improvements were observed after using the HP Quality Center to manage the written
test cases:
1. Single, centralized, and efficient worldwide testing capability increased productivity.
2. On-demand customer status reports delivered proof of testing.

3. Embedded systems and customized test automation tools could be easily tested saving time and
money.
The company was able to save $400,000 annually because of this efficient testing practice. The quality
of the product was improved to a greater extent and the customer expectations could be met almost
immediately. The issues related to quality were able to be resolved due to improved communication
and cooperation.

Questions
1. How did Quality Centre help Trooper Ltd.?
2. “By using Quality Center to manage the written test cases, many improvements were observed.”
Justify.

Adapted from http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/getdocument.aspx?docname=4AA3-2682EEW.pdf

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