Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management Readme

Software Version: 14.00 - SaaS Only

 

Document Release Date: November 2017

Software Release Date: November 2017

This Readme contains the following topics:

You can view the most recent ALM help on the Web at ALM Help Center.

For details on ALM add-ins and extensions, see ALM Add-ins and Extensions.

What's New

For a list of new enhancements in ALM, see What's New in ALM 14.00 - SaaS Only.

Installation Instructions

System Requirements

The following section describes the system requirements for installing ALM.

For the most up-to-date system requirements and supported environments information, see ALM System Requirements.

Note: ALM and Quality Center Enterprise have been tested against FDCC regulations.

ALM Client System Requirements

The following are the client-side system requirements and configurations for installing ALM on client machines:

CPU

Core duo 1.6 GHz (or faster) or equivalent compatible processor

Memory (RAM) 2 GB
Free disk space 2 GB

Recommended ALM Client Environments

The following table lists the recommended client configuration:

Operating System Browser Office Suite
Microsoft Windows 8.1 64-bit Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Microsoft Office 2013 32-bit

ALM Desktop Client Supported Environments

The following table lists all supported ALM Desktop client configurations.

However, to ensure best performance and quick support resolutions, use one of the Recommended ALM Client Environments.

Prerequisites
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5
  • Microsoft Office 2010 / Microsoft Office 2013
  • Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 - 32 bit version (installation requires administrator privileges)

Operating Systems
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1
  • Microsoft Windows 10

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Microsoft Windows Server 2016

Note:  

  • If you are integrating Quality Center with other Micro Focus testing tools, you must modify the DCOM permissions on your client machine.
  • DCOM is not required for running functional test sets (server-side execution).
  • Functional test sets are available only in ALM Edition.
  • ALM/QCALM Client on Windows 64-bit runs in WOW64 mode.
Browsers
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 32-bit

Note: For customers who have restrictions on plug-ins in their browsers, such as ActiveX, ALM can be loaded in the ALM Explorer Add-in. For more information, see https://marketplace.microfocus.com/appdelivery/content/alm-explorer-add.

Office Suites
  • Microsoft Office 2010 32-bit

  • Microsoft Office 2010 64-bit

  • Microsoft Office 2013 32-bit

  • Microsoft Office 2013 64-bit

  • Microsoft Office 2016 32 Bit

  • Microsoft Office 2016 64 Bit

  • Microsoft Office 365

Virtual Environments
  • Citrix XenApp 6.0 or later
  • Microsoft Terminal Services
  • Remote Desktop Services

Note: ALM is certified to work with Citrix XenApp, Microsoft Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Services. Due to the rapidly evolving architectures provided by Virtualization vendors as long as the above stated vendor guarantees full compatibility of the virtualized environment to the ALM approved system requirements for physical hardware, then ALM will function as designed.

Other Configuration Settings

Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768 (minimum)

DPI Setting: 100%

ALM Integration

For details about the supported integrations for ALM, see ALM Integration Support Matrix.

ALM Notes and Limitations

This section includes:

ALM Installation

ALM Client Installation

Project Upgrade

Site Administration

Project Customization

Cross-Project Customization

General

Version Control

Releases Module

Project Planning and Tracking

Libraries Module

Requirements Module

Risk-Based Quality Management

Business Models Module

Test Resources Module

Test Lab Module

Lab Management/Server Side Execution

Text Search/Global Search

Memo Images

Dashboard Module

TLS 1.2

Integrations

OTA/API and Workflow

Business Process Testing

The issues described below relate to working with business components, flows, and business process tests in ALM. For information on issues related to working with business components in UFT, refer to the relevant product's readme file.

Multilingual Support

This section includes the following sections:

Internationalization Limitations

Localization Limitations


Legal Notices

Disclaimer

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Warranty

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Comodo Code Signing Certificate

The code signing certificate for Application Lifecycle Management Readme was changed from Verisign to Comodo starting on January 1, 2017.

If you are installing this product on a computer with an older version of Windows, or on a computer without automatic Windows updates, the Comodo root certificate may not automatically be included as a trusted root certificate.

In such cases, we recommend manually configuring Comodo as a trusted root certificate.

For more details, see: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/dn265983.aspx.

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