Not so long ago I was again asked 'how can we export full requirements from Quality Center and save it into Excel, including requirement path?'

I started wondering that hey, isn't this already done many times and found out that the answer to that is simply no. There is no good way of getting requirements out from Quality Center / TestDirector in the form that could be sent out for reviews and comments and if you want to include requirement path and ordering, you are left totally alone.

What makes this so difficult? Nothing really.

So how can this be done then? Well, you can always write your own little Visual Basic script to export this information from Quality Center / TestDirector using theAPI or you could use ready made reporting option found in General Reporting Utility that we make.

You will find an detailed instruction how to do this in here: Export Requirements from Quality Center into Excel and...

We are happy to announce, that next version of synchronizer between Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) bug items and Mercury Quality Center defects is now available.

What this does is

For every selected defect for synchronization in TestDirector / Quality Center, it creates matching bug item in TFS (with a http link to original defect) For every selected bug item in TFS, it creates matching defect in TestDirector / Quality Center For every defect updated in TestDirector / Quality Center, it updates matching bug item in TFS For every update in TFS, it updates matching defect in TestDirector / Quality Center accordingly Offers also possibility to link one TFS bug item into many TestDirector / Quality Center defects (inside same project or in different projects, does not really matter) and update all related TestDirector / Quality Center defects when TFS bug is updated New added functionality is that you can create defects from TFS bug items and that you can have default values for fields...