Shai Raiten's Blog : Migration, QC

Quality Center Migration To TFS 2012 RC

shair — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:00:00 GMT

As Sela Group continues to move hundreds of customers from Quality Center to TFS we have upgrade our migration tool called – Scrat to support migration to TFS 2012 RC.

The migration process is Easy, Fast and doesn't required any special customization it’s just a simple wizard application that will allow you to migrate everything from Quality Center to TFS.

Requirements, Bugs, Test Cases, Attachments, Links between items and more.

Just download the trial version and follow my steps:

Step 1: Define Migration Plan

After installing Scrat the first page will ask you for two things, a configuration file that will save all completed items and migration settings and the second is defining what items would you like to migrate from Quality Center to TFS (Requirements, Bugs and Test Cases).

The configuration file will also allow you to repeat the migration process for Failed items and will skip the work items that previously migrate successfully.

Step 2: Connecting Quality Center and TFS

The connections page will ask you to connect to a specific Team Project under TFS 2010 or 2012 and connect to specific Project in Quality Center.

Step 3: User Mapping

Quality Center allow users to work without LDAP users this means that we need to create a mapping between Quality Center users to TFS Users, you will use this page to define which user from Quality Center will be translate to LDAP user in TFS.

Step 4: Area Mapping

Area Mapping is one of the important steps in Scrat, Areas will allow you to keep Quality Center folders hierarchy as Areas in TFS.

At the picture below you can see Scrat presenting the folders hierarchy, you can also modify and add new values before creating those areas in TFS.

After Scrat will finish Area creation you will see the same folders hierarchy in TFS but as Areas.

Step 5: Fields Mapping

In this steps you’ll map Quality Center fields to TFS Fields, this page will show also Customize fields in Quality Center and TFS.

Fields that you’ll not choose will not be copied during the migration.

Step 6: Data Mapping

After you choose fields for the migration you might have to define new values for those fields, it’s more than possible that the field values will be different from Quality Center and TFS.

You can also prepare for the migration by defining the proper values and fields before you start migrating.

Step 7: State Mapping

Just before you’ll start the migration we need to define one more thing, the States.

As you know TFS doesn't allow you to open Work Item and change the State field to any field that you like, you have to save the work item and than change the state again, furthermore State field in TFS works on Work Flow mechanism that force the user to work based on the state flow.

This means that we also need to define the flow for each state from Quality Center.

Step 8: Migration

In this page all you need to to is click “Start” to begin the migration, but you can also choose to migrate based on a specific filter, expend the advanced option and choose as many fields as you like to help you filtering the items for the migration.

When the migration is completed you can see those items in TFS:

Step 9: Test Suites Hierarchy – Just for Test Cases

The migration process is the same for all items except Test Case, there you will have additional Page allowing you to build the Test Suites hierarchy for Microsoft Test Manager.

First you need to create a plan or select an existing one, this will create new Test Plan in Microsoft Test Manager.

Then select the desire Test Suites to create(you don’t need to create all just those you want) and click start.

After the process is done you can enter Microsoft Test Manager and you’ll see the same Suites hierarchy as in Quality Center, and each suite has his Test Cases assigned to it.

Test Case after the migration:

Enjoy.

The Future of Testing: Quality Center vs. Team Foundation Server

shair — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 05:12:00 GMT

MSDN Webcast - Migrate Quality Center to Team Foundation Server 2010 Using Scrat

shair — Tue, 24 May 2011 23:44:00 GMT

A week ago I blogged about Quality Center 11 and Test Director are Now Supported by Scrat and did a MSDN Webcast on how to migrate Quality Center to TFS 2010.

In this webcast, learn how to use the Scrat Migration Tool (Download) from SELA Group to migrate defects, requirements, test cases, attachments, and links between the items from HP Quality Center to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 in seconds.

View the video - Download PowerPoint Slides

Event Page - http://www.microsoft.com/events/podcasts/default.aspx?topic=Topic-bc030dfe-9889-4267-a71f-58572317c4f1&pageId=x9028&source=Microsoft-Visual-Studio-2010-Podcasts&WT.rss_ev=a

Download: WMA | MP3 (44 min)

Download Scrat

Enjoy

Quality Center 11 and Test Director are Now Supported by Scrat

shair — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:05:29 GMT

I’m happy to announce that Scrat (Quality Center To TFS 2010 Migration Tool) is now supporting all HP Quality Center Versions including the latest - Quality Center 11 (Application Lifecycle Management)

For more information please visit Sela ALM Tools page.

In couple of hours I’ll present Scrat in MSDN Web Cast (MSDN Webcast - Migrate Quality Center to Team Foundation Server 2010 Using...) and you can learn how to use Scrat to move all Quality Center Item to TFS 2010 in hours!

When: Registration

Pacific Time –> Thursday, May 12, 2011 10:00 AM (GMT-08:00)
Israel Time –> Thursday, May 12, 2011 08:00 PM (20:00) (GMT +02:00)

Scrat Product Page

Scrat 2.0 – Quality Center To TFS 2010

shair — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:00:00 GMT

Scrat 2.0 – Quality Center To TFS 2010

Couple of mounts ago Sela Collage has release a unique Migration Tool for customers who wants to Migration their Quality Center items to TFS 2010.

In the last couple of mounts we have completed several migration for around the world customers who are now working with TFS 2010 with the entire data from Quality Center:

Requirements
Defects
Test Cases
Relations
Attachments

Scrat 2.0 has many bug fixes and performance improvements and one important new Feature to allow customers to filter based on their needs:

Using the new filter you can choose which Items you want to migrate from Quality Center to TFS 2010.

Brian Harry on Scrat | Read More About Scrat | Download Trial | ALM-support@selagroup.com

Scrat – Now Support for Recursive Shared Steps

shair — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:05:40 GMT

Scrat – Now Support for Recursive Shared Steps

A new version of Scrat is now available at Scrat Home Page with support for “Recursive Shared Steps”

Quality Center allow you to define Generic Steps inside Test Cases (Call 2 Test), you can call Test Cases from any other Test Case.

The current version of TFS 2010 does support Shared Step (Generic Steps) but you can't call Shared Step from another Shared Step.

I’ve add a new feature for customers using that in Quality Center, this option will duplicate the Shared Step steps in the parent Shared Step.

Download Here

Enjoy

Scrat - Quality Center To TFS 2010 In Hours Instead Of Months

shair — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:47:00 GMT

Scrat - Quality Center To TFS 2010 In Hours Instead Of Months

Regarding previous posts like Quality Center Migration To Team System 2010 – Done, Quality Center 2 TFS 2010 Migration In 3 Hours and more,

Today I’m happy to announce – Scrat is no more in Beta stages and has been tested successfully with various customers.

Scrat Includes:

Wizard based tool
Test hierarchy builder(Automatically build Test Plans, Test Suite and find matching Test Cases)
Migrate Test Cases, Defect and Requirements
Links between items (Tested By etc..)
User Mapping
Easy and simple Data Mapping
Simulate States (See who moved the Item from one state to another)
Based on Simple XML configuration file.
And a lot more!

Are you using Quality Center? if so, this is your chance to perform smooth and quick migration to Microsoft Test Manager 2010, because not all migrations have to be painful.

Scrat Home Page

Shai Raiten's Blog : Migration, QC

Quality Center Migration To TFS 2012 RC

Step 1: Define Migration Plan

Step 2: Connecting Quality Center and TFS

Step 3: User Mapping

Step 4: Area Mapping

Step 5: Fields Mapping

Step 6: Data Mapping

Step 7: State Mapping

Step 8: Migration

Step 9: Test Suites Hierarchy – Just for Test Cases

The Future of Testing: Quality Center vs. Team Foundation Server

The Full Article

MSDN Webcast - Migrate Quality Center to Team Foundation Server 2010 Using Scrat

Quality Center 11 and Test Director are Now Supported by Scrat

Scrat 2.0 – Quality Center To TFS 2010

Scrat 2.0 – Quality Center To TFS 2010

Scrat – Now Support for Recursive Shared Steps

Scrat – Now Support for Recursive Shared Steps

Scrat - Quality Center To TFS 2010 In Hours Instead Of Months

Scrat - Quality Center To TFS 2010 In Hours Instead Of Months