HP Service Test Management Readme
Software version: 10.50 / April 2010
This file provides information about HP Service Test Management 10.50.
Documentation
For system specifications, refer to the HP Quality Center Installation Guide. This guide is located on the installation DVD in the Quality Center directory or through Help > Documentation Library.
For installation instructions for Service Test Management, see the HP Service Test Management Installation Guide. This file is included as hpstm_install.pdf on the product's DVD media.
After installation, you can access the complete Service Test Management documentation set from the Service Test Management Documentation Library in the online help. To access the Service Test Management Documentation Library, click on the Application Component Module. Choose Help > Help on this page and click the Search and Navigate button in the top left corner of the Help screen or the Home icon.
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Software Configurations
You can install Service Test Management 10.50 as a full installation or as a patch to version 10.00 or 10.01. The installation program prompts you to choose an installation type.
Patch Installation
When you install version 10.50 as a patch to version 10.x, it requires:
- Server machine: Quality Center 10.00 with Patch 9. Patch 12 is recommended.
- Client machine: Service Test (version 9.53 or 9.10 with Feature Pack 9.17) or the Service Test Add-in 9.53 for Quality Center. The Service Test add-in is recommended, but not mandatory. For information about the benefits of the add-in, see the Quality Center Add-in Page.
Full Installation
The full installation of version 10.50 requires:
- Server machine: Quality Center 10.00 with Patch 9. Patch 12 is recommended.
- Client machine: Service Test (version 9.53 or 9.10 with Feature Pack 9.17) or the Service Test Add-in 9.53 for Quality Center. The Service Test add-in installation is recommended, but not mandatory. For information about the benefits of the add-in, see the Quality Center Add-in Page.
For installation instructions, refer to the HP Service Test Management Installation Guide, the hpstm_install.pdf file on the DVD.
What's New
HP Service Test Management 10.50 includes the following enhancements:
- Application Components Module. This version replaces the Services module with the Application Components module, for working with a different application component types. This version provides the following built-in component types: JMS, Web Services, and General.
- Custom Application Components. Ability to define new component types and indicate the fields to display in their details.
- License Enforcement. Enhanced license mechanism integrated with Quality Center.
- Upgrades. Streamlined upgrade mechanism.
In addition, version 10.50 includes the enhancements released with earlier versions of HP Service Test Management.
- Testing Status tab. This tab provides a graphical display of the component's coverage of aspects, requirements, tests, operations, rules, and defects.
- Aggregate Views. Ability to view the status of all components in a folder or belonging to a group, in a single pane.
- Modeling. A graphical mapping tool that allows you to join components into a group, and define dependencies between components.
- Test Generator Integration. Support for other script generators, aside from HP Service Test, when using the Generate Requirements/Tests wizard.
- Required Fields. Using the Customization tool, you can define custom required fields for your project. When generating a test through the wizard or manually, Service Test Management prompts your for a value for the required field.
- Rules. The Customization tool lets you define rules for your project based on filters and testing aspects. For example, you can indicate that all tests created by user John, must undergo the Security testing aspect.
- Alerts. The alerts mechanism indicates rule violations and guides you in resolving them.
- Spot Testing. The Web Service Call utility lets you spot-test single operations in Web Services. You provide request values, submit them to the server, and view the SOAP response.
- Add Manual Changes and Modify Changes. You can now manually define a new change through the Changes tab in the Application Components module. This is useful when a change cannot be detected when updating a component, for example, when an implementation of an operation changes.
Notes and Limitations
Installation
- For WebLogic and WebSphere users: The installation adds a prefix to the .war files, 20qcbin.war and 30stm.war. This naming convention only complies with JBoss. For WebLogic and WebSphere, rename the war file you want to deploy—20qcbin.war to qcbin.war and 30stm.war to stm.war. Install the application using the WebLogic or WebSphere management tools.
- For WebLogic and WebSphere users: After deployment, the installation places the 20qcbin.war and 30stm.war files (rename them to qcbin.war and stm.war as per previous limitation) in the .../HP/Quality Center/jboss/server/default/deploy folder instead of the WebLogic/Websphere specific folders.
- When installing Service Test Management on a Linux machine, disregard the following message: `Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in /opt/HP/STM/_jvm/lib/tools.jar'.
- The following error occurs if the Quality Center server is not restarted after adding an SOA license. When you click the Site Connections tab and there is at least one user connection, an error is returned. Workaround: Restart Quality Center server after installing the SOA license.
- The Client Side installation of Service Test Management is not supported for Vista users.
- Vista users must log into the Quality Center project with administrative privileges.
- To install Service Test Management on a Windows 8 Server, use the following command: setup.exe -W platformCheck.active=false.
General
- When filtering by the Component Type field, if the type name contains a space, you must enclose it with single quotes.
- You cannot change a requirement's Testing Aspect Type field.
- When defining a new change in the Changes tab, and selecting Operation as the Affected part type, the Affected part field does not provide a dropdown list of the available operations. Workaround: Manually type in the operation name.
- Certain graphs generated by the Quality Center dashboard, cannot be filtered by the Component Name field. When you post a request for an undefined component type, the posting will fail.
Customization
- In the customization for Service Test Management (Tools > Customize), when working in the Aspects tab—if you select a requirement type whose coverage is set to None (Requirement Type link in customization), or if you deleted the requirement type—you may encounter unexpected results when generating requirements for that aspect.
- Test generation is not supported if the test entity has a required field of Memo type.
- Memo type fields, such as Description, Comment, and so forth, are not added to the Interaction tab, even if they are designated to be included through the Customization.
- When creating custom rules with filtering, the Application Components tree may show old alerts that no longer apply.
Web Services
- WSDL files with non-English characters are not supported.
- You cannot import WSDL files that are located in a secured network share. Workaround: Copy the file to a local folder or to a non-secure location.
- Importing from UDDIs through proxy servers is not supported.
- Spot Testing may result in the following message "Failed to generate metadata" if changes are made to the WSDL native name field.
Upgrade Issues
- When upgrading a project from Quality Center version 9.2 to 10.00 or Service Test Management from version 9.4x to 10.x, you can only enable Service Test Management after the upgrade.
- When performing a cascaded upgrade from Service Test Management 9.2 to 9.4x, and then to version 10.x, you must manually remove the certificates. First, perform an upgrade from 9.2 to 9.41 and then manually remove the sv_ssl_certificate and sv_use_ntlm certificates. Proceed with the upgrade from 9.41 to 10.x.
- After upgrading a project from Service Test Management version 9.20 to version 10.x, the application issues an error when accessing the Requirements module.
- After upgrading a project from Service Test Management version 9.4x to version 10.x, the Interoperability Aspect view wrongly shows the aspect as not covered. The tests were covered and this is visible in the expanded tree view.
- Policy rules are lost when upgrading Oracle projects with policy rules containing dates. Redefine the policy rule.
For more information about upgrading projects, see the HP Service Test Management Installation Guide, the hpstm_install.pdf file on the DVD.
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