OpenText Application Quality Management Reviews & Product Details

Micro Focus is now part of OpenText! OpenText™ Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)/Quality Center empowers you to achieve high efficiency in testing and manage quality with a requirements-driven, risk-based approach, align people with processes, mitigate application complexities, automate manual tasks, and establish end-to-end traceability. Gaining a complete view across all releases and projects grants you insights that help informed decisions. Multiple deployment options, open integrations with common tools, and strong data control make ALM/Quality Center ideal for ensuring compliance and adapting to changes. OpenText™ ALM/Quality Center serves as the single pane of glass to govern software quality and implement rigorous, auditable lifecycle processes. Designed for complex multi-application environments, organizations can achieve high efficiency in their testing and measure quality with a requirements-driven and risk-based testing approach. Advanced reporting provides a complete view across all releases to gain new insights and make informed decisions. With numerous deployment options, open integrations with common tools and strong data controls, ALM/Quality Center is a perfect choice for enterprises that need to enforce standards, ensure compliance and adapt to changing tools.

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OpenText

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OpenText Application Quality Management Community

Solution Type

All-in-One

Overview by

Trish Schnupp

Value at a Glance

Averages based on real user reviews.

Time to Implement

4 months

Return on Investment

20 months

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Average based on 133 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

4 months

Perceived Cost

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Jyotirmoy K.

Senior Agile Business Analyst

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/30/2015

"HP ALM user as a Senior BA with focus on defect identification throughout product life cycle"

4/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

Requirements, Test Cases, Test Execution, Defect management are easily available in one place. Defects could be tracked with the flexibility to add new fields per organizational requirements and could be used for better management. Feature to bring up report from HP ALM for senior management to expedite the trends in defect management process and improve on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

Not easily navigable between multiple defects at the same time. Not readily supported by other browser types. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText Application Quality Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

Business problem - Agile development requires shorter development cycles and an efficient and fast defect management process. Also we need to produce report from HP ALM which show cases the correct state of the project in terms of the defects. Benefits - Using HP ALM with some customization on the fields we are able to effectively manage the defects using each cycle of development and also reporting on the defects from HP ALM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sean W.

Research Technician

Higher Education

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/22/2015

"HP Quality Center"

1.5/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

The HP Quality lends itself well to users of computers of the HP brand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

The quality center's usefulness is dependent primarily on the system itself, whether a computer or a laptop. Often, the price of the computer will tell you how much the quality center will approve or disapprove of the laptop/computer's functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText Application Quality Management:

The quality center's usefulness is derived from how much HP itself values your system. As seen by me, it only compliments what the company has deemed expensive enough to satisfy its own monetary needs, and as such will slowly try to push any consumers or users to spend more money on more expensive parts or another computer period. The usefulness of the actual program itself is limited. I cannot think of a time where something I was informed of by this program was not something I could tell just by being on my computer. I use the quality center with my printing software, as it is the software that is automatically used with printing. However, it is frustrating to deal with as a printing software, which is not a software you should ever really struggle with. All I really want is something that prints the papers I want to print when I click the print button, but somehow this process is complicated with this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText Application Quality Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

The HP quality center helps your computer and system run and keeps checks on the system as a whole, allowing you in a small sense to detect problems from within the computer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shubhangi C.

Test Analyst

Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/18/2015

"Robust test management tool"

4/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

The best feature of HP ALM is the traceability matrix against the tests covered. I have used that feature a lot for one of big project. It gave us a good feedback on test coverage so as to know which requirements are covered and which are still pending. Thus, minimizing the risk involved with mising requirement. Also, this is the unique feature of HP ALM, which is not found in other test management tools.

The other functionality is the ability to add defects using ALM, which provides an end to end solution from requirement tracing to test case preparation to test runs, reports and raising bugs and linking them to tests.

Best one stop shop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

There is no way to set up a communication channel or a feature so that content can be added apart from files upload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText Application Quality Management:

HP ALM has lots of users which are often not known to lot of users. Probably more user knowledge, easy os training videos or stuff like that might help bring awareness to make the most of the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText Application Quality Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am a tester and I have been immensely helped by ALMs Test Management Tool which solved the end to end daily tasks of a tester. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jamedith P.

Support Center Specialist

Staffing and Recruiting

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/15/2015

"I manage test cases, create test sets and execute test sets using manual runner and log in defects."

5/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

The fact that testers can link defects to test runs is awesome. Also, for any status change or mandatory fields changed during the workflow, an email is triggered from ALM and sent to Assigned Tester of the project. ALM is also a great tool for auditing purposes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

It is a great tool. One minor issue is the fact that the application takes long when initializing and there is also major delay when the wrong password is typed when trying to sign in. Loading takes quite a while before the invalid password message is displayed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText Application Quality Management:

It is good practice to learn as much as possible about the tool. It has many features that one may not be utilizing in one's area of work but reading about and watching as many tutorials as possible about the tool will be helpful in using the tool effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText Application Quality Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am using manual runner to execute test sets, linking defects to these test runs as they are found and assigning defects to developers. I am also using the tool to audit testing practices that testers are implementing within my team from reports pulled out of ALM. Through the audit we have realized that testers may welcome opportunities for more training on the tool. Also, with defects linked to given test runs, testers have the ability to use defects logged as reference to easily resolve similar issues that arise when testing is in progress. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/15/2015

"Great tool to manage the entire application life cycle - from requirements to testing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

I like how requirements can be linked to tests (both manual and automated). The best part is how end to end testing is possible with and without BPT for both technical and non-technical members of the team. I like the integration of tests to defects and the reporting that helps visualize the status of any project at any time. Within setup of test cases and test sets, I like the linking of output fields, there has been a lot of improvement to this feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

Would like to see more options in selecting the test scenarios that we would like to run for test sets. Sometimes it makes me feel like there are a lot of manual steps involved than required. I also feel that the BPT can run a bit faster, just like actions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText Application Quality Management:

Great tool to be considered if you are planning on keeping track of your requirements, its coverage with manual and automated testing (using UFT, which is another good product from HP), Tracking defects and more. Everything that you will need to manage the lifecycle of an application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText Application Quality Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

We implement test automation frameworks for organizations and help them create end-to-end scenarios for regression testing. We are reducing time, effort and resource involved if the same was to be done manually. Further, we are able to hit all the major risk areas by using a simple framework that can be used even by business analysts and manual testers making automation as simple as it should be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dave B.

Sr. QA Engineer Lead/Manager

Telecommunications

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/10/2015

"HP ALM User and Admin Experience Feedback"

4.5/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

Streamline with different modules and ease of use. I like the reporting aspect of HP ALM from Release to Requirements, to Test Cases, To Defects and etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

Administration is not as friendly as others. I highly suggest that upgrading and administering the tool should have a great step by step instructions in the help menu for admin and also in the documentation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText Application Quality Management:

I highly recommend HP ALM for any company that is thinking of evaluating a Test Management Tool. Over the years, HP ALM has improved its ability managing test data, requirements, and defects. Because of the flexibility of HP ALM it can cater small, medium, to large enterprises. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText Application Quality Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

The business problem resolved was the traceability of Requirements, Test Cases and Defects. The benefits I learned is that having a traceability is key to implementing a successful release. Traceability gives you the ability to know which requirements has been tested or not. Having a single repository of the SDLC makes testing be much more efficient than saving it all in a spreadsheet etc... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Entertainment

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/19/2016

"I am the HP ALM admin at AMC"

5/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

I love that all of the components are fully integrated and can be used enterprise wide for all of the SDLC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

I wish it were chrome compatible. Alot of my users prefer to only use Chrome not IE, which makes it a hard sell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText Application Quality Management:

Its very expensive and keeps smaller companies from using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText Application Quality Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it for Testing and Defect Tracking. It allows users access to information with far more ease that Excel or Sharepoint Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/20/2016

"Very Good."

3.5/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

The integration with Microsoft Visual Studio, TeamForge and Collabnet is one of the things I like about it the most. It contains tools for performance testing, test planning and functional testing. They are very much useful when you want to test. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

It should be open source, and it should support more than the key stakeholders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek C.

Software Developer

Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/21/2016

"Slow and Old Style"

1.5/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

Its works

It does the Job

Sometimes performs

It starts

Sometime it hangs less Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

Extremely Old Style

Boring workboard

Slow

Expensive and lot better products are out there

Hangs all the time

Starts like some old age computer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tony T.

Master Test Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/12/2016

"HP ALM 12.2 review"

5/5

What do you like best about OpenText Application Quality Management?

This tool does everything for the software life cycle. It allows requirements and test cases to be mapped along with tracking defects. Extremely robust. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Quality Management?

The Dashboards for reporting could be better and more intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText Application Quality Management:

If you can afford it, this is the most robust tool for software testing. It consolidates at least 4 others tools into one realizing a huge cost savings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText Application Quality Management solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are writing test cases for an ETL process. We have realized benefits of not having to change tools even though we switched from a waterfall approach to SCRUM agile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.