ALM Editions
Application Lifecycle Management is available in several editions which provide subsets of ALM functionality.
ALM Edition |
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ALM | A unified platform for managing and automating processes, activities, and assets for building, testing, delivering, and maintaining applications. It includes modules for requirements, test, defect, and development management, and overall release and project planning. ALM helps organizations drive consistent processes, shared best-practices, and asset sharing across projects. |
Quality Center (QC) Enterprise Edition |
QC resides on the same unified platform as ALM. It is a unified quality management platform that efficiently scales from a single project to multiple, enterprise-wide projects and releases. QC enables you to manage application quality with consistent, repeatable processes regardless of your methodology of choice, from Waterfall to iterative methodologies such as Agile. |
Quality Center (QC) Express Edition |
Provides a subset of ALM product functionality, and is designed to introduce new customers to ALM. It provides core functionality for test management and defect management. |
Quality Center (QC) Community Edition |
Provides a subset of ALM product functionality, and is designed to introduce new customers to ALM. It provides core functionality for test management and defect management. Note: Before using the community edition, you must assign named licenses to your users. Only then can the users successfully log in to ALM and see the appropriate modules. |
ALM Functionality by Edition
The following table indicates the availability of ALM functionality according to edition. Further information on each function is provided below.
Functionality | Micro Focus ALM Edition | Micro Focus Quality Center Enterprise Edition | Micro Focus Quality Center Express Edition | Micro Focus Quality Center Community Edition |
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Licensing |
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Release Management |
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Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) Releases
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Multiple Requirement Types |
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Requirement to Requirement Traceability |
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Risk-Based Quality Management |
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Business Models Module |
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Test Authoring and Execution |
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Test Resources |
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Test Configurations |
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Sprinter |
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Lab Management |
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Automatic Provisioning of Cloud Test Hosts |
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Versioning |
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Baselining |
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Sharing Requirements and Tests |
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Sharing Defects |
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Cross Project Customization |
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Cross Project Reporting |
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Global Search |
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External Integration |
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Export Data to Excel |
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Business Process Testing |
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Extensions |
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Upgrading Editions | -- |
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