Upgrades are the strategic business decisions that can address existing as well as emerging requirements. HP’s presence in the global technology landscape makes its products, formidable business components. Asset management and cross project asset sharing with HP’sQC and ALM is an essential step for organizations to ensure faster and more effective processes.
Since the new business environments are experience increasing convergence, it is essential to have an enterprise view, team orientation, optimum resource utilization, effective delivery cycle, minimum down time and strategic stakeholder participation.
HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM) is a set of software products designed for accelerating the delivery of secure, reliable modern applications. It is a combination of a common platform, several key applications and a dashboard targeted at managing the core lifecycle of applications.
The benefits are compellingly obvious. QC incorporates requirements, business process testing, agile testing, automated testing, enterprise synchronization, test and defect management. On the other hand the ALM encompasses Project Planning and Tracking, Application Lifecycle Intelligence, Lab Management Automation, Asset Sharing and Re-use, Cross-project Reporting, HP Enterprise Collaboration, HP Performance Center, Quality Assurance, Requirements Definition and Management, HP Fortify Security and Multi-environment Support.
Businesses choose one of the two upgrade path options available to them – Direct Upgrade & Phased upgrade, based on the number of projects, infrastructure, downtimes and priority. The options include Upgrade QC 9.2 directly to ALM 11, Upgrade <QC 9.2 to QC 9.2 or 10 and then to ALM 11, Quality Centre Enterprise 9.2 or 10 upgrades to Quality Centre Enterprise 11 and Quality Centre Premier 10 upgrades to ALM 11.
For a company with lesser number of projects and consistent schema and infrastructure, the Direct Upgrade is an ideal option. This path has a higher server downtime. For larger business environments which need to maintain the operations of the legacy systems during Migrationof HP QC 9.2 to HP QC ALM 11, the Phased Upgrade is an ideal solution because it is compatible with the sandbox infrastructure and can be made live upon incorporation of the required processes.
To accomplish these upgrades, enterprises need to assess the Infrastructure and tool integration, define upgrade criteria along with validation rules, downtimes, determine the upgrade approach with the backup specifications and the upgrade workflow with sandbox and upload models.
For definite alignment with the business environment and optimum benefit from the migration, the enterprises need to validate upgrade and data, end user validation, track issues raised and Restore from backup in case of issues and recognize the updated issues.
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