HP ALM Administration
The HP ALM Site and Project Administration Training course offers site and project administrators the opportunity to develop hands-on experience in applying the fundamental concepts, principles, and methodologies for implementing, customizing and managing HP ALM (ALM). This course is recommended for individuals who are responsible for creating projects, modifying existing fields, creating user-defined fields, creating users, setting user permissions, and defining basic workflow.
Duration: 40hours
Course Content:
Introduction
- Review the overall course objectives
Implementation Planning
- Identify hardware and software considerations for installation
- Understand the steps necessary for upgrading to ALM 11.5 from previous versions
Introduction to Site Administration
- Navigate Site Administration
- Understand the structure of a project
- Analyze the Site Analysis data
Domains and Projects
- Define domains, projects, and templates
- Create a domain and project
- Understand the project structure
- Define a template and its use
- Verify the project is connected to the database
- Enable versioning when creating a project
Maintaining HP ALM Projects
- Query project tables
- Copy and rename a project
- Export and import a project
- Remove and restore a project
- Add email capability
- Understand the new optimized repository
- Realign repositories
- Convert a project to Unicode
- Rename a module
- Learn options to optimize ALM performance
Upgrading a Project
- Know previous project versions that can be upgraded to ALM 11.5
- Understand items to consider before upgrading a project
- Verify and repair a project
- Upgrade a project
Managing Users
- Add users to HP ALM (ALM)
- Assign users to projects
- Assign site and/or project administrator privileges to a user
- Configure login authentication
- Deactivate and delete users
- Interpret the data in Site Connections
Managing Licenses
- Load an ALM license
- Assign licenses to domains and projects
- Assign a named license
Configuring Servers and Parameters
- Modify server configurations
- Define a new database server
- Modify an existing database server
- Update default configuration parameters
- Add optional configuration parameter
Project Planning and Tracking
- Define Project Planning and Tracking
- Set scheduling options
- Manually activate PPT
- Purge PPT data
- Fine-tune PPT database activity
HP Quality Center Sense
- Define QC Sense
- Recognize the QC Sense monitors
- Set configuration options
- Create QC Sense reports
Planning Project-Level Customizations
- Identify the available project-level customizations
- Plan project groups and permissions
- Determine the entities to customize
- Determine new lookup lists to add
- Plan the workflow customizations needed for e-mail notifications and defect fields
Managing User Groups
- Manage a user group
- Assign permissions to user groups
- Add transition rules
- Add a user to a project
- Add a user to a user group
Customizing Entities
- Customize system fields
- Add user-defined fields to a project
Customizing Requirement Types and Risk-Based Management
- Customize default requirements
- Add user-defined requirement types
- Customize the risk-based quality management criteria
Customizing Lookup Lists
- Identify parts of a lookup list
- Create a lookup list
- Update a lookup list
- Associate a list to a field
Customizing Automail and Alert Rules
- Designate automail fields for a project
- Define automail conditions
- Enable alerts
Customizing Key Performance Indicators
- Customize KPIs
- Configure the transitions
Creating Business Views and Configuring Sprinter
- Create and manage business views
- Create business views graph
- Configure Sprinter
Customizing Workflow
- Access the ALM workflow page
- Customize the Defects module lists
- Customize the fields in the Defects module
Implementing Workflow Using Script Editor
- Use the elements of Script Editor
- Identify the events in Script Editor
- Add a button to an ALM module