Product Brochure: VMware Lab Manager Add-In For HP Quality Center

HP TestDirector for Quality Center pioneered the management of information related to the testing process. Today, Quality Center is the de facto standard in QA for managing requirements, tests, results, defects and the workflow that surrounds them. But with all the efficiencies gained by using it, the bottleneck of provisioning test machines, setting up applications under test (AUTs), and enabling access to widely distributed QA teams has remained.

VMware Lab Manager is the solution. Building on the industry-leading VMware Infrastructure, it provides a self-service portal for distributed teams to create, share and manage multi-tier dev/test environments. VMware Lab Manager delivers cost savings beyond traditional virtualization for IT Operations by removing time-consuming system provisioning tasks. Additionally, VMware Lab Manager provides functionality that was never before available such as the ability to capture a point in time snapshot of a test environment's memory and storage state as a URL that can be forwarded from QA to development.

The VMware Lab Manager Add-in for HP Quality Center provides an automation bridge between testing and deployment of test environments. QA staff now have the power to seamlessly invoke operations in VMware Lab Manager as part of a Test Set within HP Quality Center or from QuickTest Professional. Test Sets can now deploy variations of applications under test in a virtualized environment and direct other testing tools such as QuickTest Professional and WinRunner to run against them. When defects are encountered, the Add-in facilitates the creation of LiveLinks to capture the running state of the application when it failed. When the tests are finished running, the Add-in can undeploy the virtualized environment to save memory and processing resources.