News : Utility Tools

Offer: When purchasing 5 or more OffRoad licenses, General Reporting and Import Export Utilities are included

ilpo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 07:25:00 GMT

For purchases of OffRoad with 5 or more licenses Juvander Consulting includes now General Reporting and Import Export Utilities.

So when purchasing 5 OffRoad licenses, you will also get 5 General Reporting and 5 Import Export Utility licenses. If purchasing floating OffRoad licenses, these utilities are also provided as floating licenses.

OffRoad is an offline client for Quality Center which is used to execute test cases an report defects. OffRoad is also great way to save on Quality Center license costs: Term licenses starting as low as 85€ per month per user.

General Reporting Utility is a tool to extract data from Quality Center into Excel in various types of reports.

Import Export Utility can export test cases into Excel for (including design steps) and also transfer test cases and requirements between projects and preserve links between requirements and test cases and also between call to test cases.

Released Data Import Export Tool 1.7 for Quality Center

ilpo — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:42:46 GMT

Answering an growing interest on exporting data out from Quality Center we now have available new version of Data Import Export Tool for Quality Center.

This adds an simple feature to export test cases with design steps into Excel format.

Tool works like this:

First Connect to Quality Center

Select server, username, domain, project and click Ok

Select test cases from test plan tree that you want to have in Excel format and click 'Export to Excel'.

Select file name for exported data

Select fields to be exported and order for them and click Ok

And there you are

And the end result is Excel file which also includes formatting used in Quality Center

This tool can be downloaded from our downloads section.

TFS Bug Item Synchronizer 1.2 for HP Quality Center, New Features

ilpo — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:53:24 GMT

New version of TFS But Item Synchronizer is getting closer with hoped new features, which includes

Field value mappings between TFS and QC field values. This allows for example Severity fields be synchronized between these two systems without modifying default list values
Automatic lookup list synchronization between TFS and QC
TFS and QC project specific field settings
Field transition rules for QC defects which allows changing of other fields based on another field
Defragmenter and statistical utilities to see and fix internal database
Possibility to update Created By -field in TFS and Defected By -field in QC

These at least and some minor fixes and modifications are on the way.

This version is planned to be released in the next 2-3 weeks.

Released: Utility Tools 1.3.1 for Mercury Quality Center

ilpo — Thu, 17 May 2007 06:44:00 GMT

Updated version of Utility Tools for Mercury Quality Center released.

Biggest change in this release is in General Reporting side, it is now supporting parameters when exporting Test Cases with Design Steps which use Call to Test -feature into Excel.

Utility Tools setup can be downloaded from our Downloads section.

Setup provides 14 days fully functional trial period.

More information about the release can be found in Utility Tools Release Notes.

Tool and Utilities Trial License

ilpo — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:56:00 GMT

All of our downloadable tools and utilities come with 14 days trial period which you can use to fully evaluate and make decision on if the product meets your needs or not.

This license is automatically given from our licensing server, but in case you have issues with your network, you can also request trial license through form found in here:

License Request Form

We will then generate manually license file and send it via e-mail to you, after that it is just matter of copying it to installation folder.

This form applies to

OnRoad Test Management
OffRoad - Offline client for Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector
Utility Tools for Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector
TFS Bug Item Synchronizer for Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector

Utility Tools Reporting Change

ilpo — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:00:00 GMT

As many of you have requested, following change will happen in the Utility Tools structure: XMLReporting, SQLReporting and General Reporting will become as one.

All current licensed users for these tools with valid maintenance will be upgraded to the new tool free of charge (for General Reporting users this will require no actions, just download and install new version).

This new version is now available on the Download -> Beta and will be shortly moved into production version.

There is also a nother bigger change: previously there was two different versions of Utility Tools and these have now merged into one. So when you install new version, make sure that during the installation you select the correct Quality Center version!

Release Notes for coming version is found in here: Utility Tools Release Notes.

Additions: Grouping Report into General Reporting Utility

ilpo — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:25:00 GMT

General Reporting Utility for Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector has new report available: Grouping Grid Report:

What this report allows to do, is grouping based on any Requirement, Test Case, Test Set, Test Case in Test Set, Run or Defect field and see how many matching items there exists.

Grouping Grid Report gives option for multi level grouping, sorting and filtering across the data that is exported from Quality Center or TestDirector.

General Reporting Utility is part of Utility Tools and can be downloaded from here:

Installation provides 14 days fully functional trial period.

More information about release can be found in Utility Tools Release Notes.

Additions: New Reporting options into General Reporting Utility

ilpo — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:44:00 GMT

General Reporting Utility for Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector has new reporting options available:

Cumulative Test Case per Day
Cumulative Test Case per Week
Cumulative Test Case per Month

These three reports produce data-, summary- and graph information:

General Reporting Utility is part of Utility Tools and can be downloaded from here:

Installation provides 14 days fully functional trial period.

More information about release can be found in Utility Tools Release Notes.

Utility Tools for Mercury Quality Center 9.0 is available

ilpo — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:28:00 GMT

We are happy to announce, that Utility Tools for Mercury Quality Center 9.0 is now available together with all the same features as Utility Tools for Mercury Quality Center 8.2 and TestDirector has.

At the same time new version has been published for both of these versions, more information can be found in here:

Utility Tools Release Notes

You can download these from here:

Addition: Tree Graph Report from Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector Data

ilpo — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:52:00 GMT

For those who need a better view on their testing data, we are creating an tree graph out from Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector data.

It will be much more intuitive to work with, you see right away what is relevant and where everything is linked!

You can just click and expand your way down to the bottom of it or then select to view item in Quality Center / TestDirector by clicking an item in the graph!

Here is some of the preview pictures on how it will look:

Will still wait for feedback on what is really needed, what links are to be shown and to what details. It is also possible to show summary graphs, tables etc. etc. inside the hyperbolic tree it self!

Additions: Detailed Test Case Report into General Reporting Tool

ilpo — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:43:00 GMT

It is now possible to get a report of Test Case, Last Run, Test Case in Test Set and all Defects in one Excel sheet from selected data using General Reporting Tool for Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector.

You can select which fields to show in the report and their order of appearance.

Here is a sample how the report looks:

General Reporting Tool is part of Utility Tools which is found in here:

Utility Tools Setup

Additions: New Filtering Option to import data into General Reporting Tool

ilpo — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:51:00 GMT

It is now possible to select import data into General Reporting Tool for Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector using two methods:

Test Set based
Advanced Filtering

Advanced filtering uses same methods which have been available in XML Reporting, meaning that by selecting filter fields and values, tool will build needed relationships on the background and import data.

General Reporting Tool is part of Utility Tools which is found in here:

Utility Tools Setup

Additions: Detailed Requirement Report

ilpo — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:26:00 GMT

Added new Requirement report into General Reporting Tool for Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector:

Detailed Requirement Report

Report looks like this:

What this shows is requirement Run Rate % and Pass Rate %, detailed numbers for these and on one page linked test cases and defects as well in the form that can be expanded to see only that information that is needed.

Utility Tools Setup is found in here.

Additions: Test Performance Graphs into General Reporting Tool

ilpo — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:33:00 GMT

Added two more reporting options into General Reporting Tool for Mercury Quality Center and TestDirector:

Daily Test Performance Graph
Weekly Test Performance Graph

Graphs look like this:

What these offer is possibility to view how efficient the testing has been. In this version the key numbers that influence these graphs are number of passed test case runs per day or per week, test cases not run and total number of test cases.

Utility Tools Setup is found in here.