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Annoyance in Quality Center Reporting

Not only am I an Automation Engineer, I'm also one of the Quality Center admins at my current job.

And for the record, the out of the box reporting capabilities of Quality Center SUCK.  I had a situation last week where the Manual Testing Manager wanted a list of test cases that appear in one test set but not in another.  Simple "intersection" of two test sets right?

WRONG! I tried every concievable report schema to get this to work and kept failing.

Ultimately, I was forced to go to the DB and do a direct select statement with about 5 table joins to get the Test Plan location of the test cases.

In a word...ANNOYING!!!

Its the weakest part of that application and ye gods is it frustrating.

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posted @ Sunday, September 09, 2007 10:07 AM
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# re: Annoyance in Quality Center Reporting

Left by saravjit at 9/15/2008 5:22 AM
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i agreee with you. even we are also facing similar problem in our organisation wrt to reportign from QC.

# re: Annoyance in Quality Center Reporting

Left by bklabel at 11/16/2008 1:54 PM
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We are also having difficulty with reporting simple things in QC. Have you found any solution to this since you started your blog? Is there a way to see the rest of your blog? Thank you,

Kevin

# re: Annoyance in Quality Center Reporting

Left by MES at 11/17/2008 6:25 AM
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Can't say I've found a good solution to the QC reporting situation aside from a 3rd party integration like Crystal Reports for example. In the latest release of QC, they have added an Excel export function which allows the design of the export to configure SQL queries into the DB. You can generate a lot of very interesting reports this way. It also has post processing which you can script in VBscript to do some Excel macros for you etc. This is in QC 9.2 if you wanted to explore that some. Good Luck!

And to see the rest of my blog the address is http://geekswithblogs.net/MaryanneSweat/

# re: Annoyance in Quality Center Reporting

Left by Kevin at 11/17/2008 9:58 AM
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Thank you for the feedback.

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Left by MES at 11/18/2008 8:05 AM
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Sure, always happy to help a fellow HP/Mercury veteran. GL on your quest for a reporting solution!

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Left by RM at 8/1/2010 10:32 PM
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Take a look at the HP Quality Center reports here: http://www.rbreporting.com

My QA team (and I am the lead) uses the reports from http://www.rbreporting.com on daily basis. I found the "Test Run Progress" report to be especially helpful for my test execution planning because the report shows which areas my group tested for the last few weeks, so I can assess the progress and shift the priorities if needed. We subscribed to receive some of the reports by email and found it very practical. I hope you will also find the reports helpful.

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