Software test management: MKS Integrity and Mercury Quality Center

MKS for HP/Mercury Quality Center: Software Test Management

Improved quality assurance enhances productivity and innovation

MKS supports integrations with market leading, complementary development life cycle tools, including leading software testing technologies. Our deep integrations result in a well managed cohesive development environment that is highly functional and user friendly.

"Quality Assurance is a crucial component of any IT project and is the responsibility of everyone involved - not just the QA Engineer, which makes it imperative for companies to ensure close, consistent collaboration between development, QA, and the business."
-Mark Sarbiewski, senior director of products at Mercury

Benefits of MKS and Mercury integration for improved software testing:

Support IT governance by directly linking software change to defects
Improve communication between QA and Development with continuous process
Close the loop between defects found in QA and fixed in development.

Integration Points:

Integration with Software Configuration Management - Quality assurance professionals can tap into MKS’s source management functionality to organize, manage and protect all your manual and automated test scripts, test plans and test data, make changes in the test scripts, and effectively share information regarding changes across development teams. A seamless integration to SCM enhances QA productivity and shortens the learning curve, accelerating the return on investment in your application lifecycle management solutions.
Integration with Process and Workflow Management - Mercury Quality Center is also integrated with MKS’s process and workflow capabilities to build a continuous and two-way process flow between Development and Quality Assurance teams. Defects identified with the Mercury Quality Center are automatically cycled back into the development process via MKS Integrity Manager, and travel with associated development artifacts such as source code or documentation. The integration enables organizations to establish an enforceable and auditable process for defect resolution, improving software quality, enhancing development and QA team efficiency, and supporting IT governance initiatives.

MKS is a leader in software application management, harmonizing the disciplines of application lifecycle management (ALM) and IT Service Management with its enterprise software platform, MKS Integrity. Delivering end to end coverage across the application development lifecycle. MKS Integrity's capabilities include requirements management, software configuration management (SCM), software change management, software build management and software test management, through to software deployment and release management, and IT portfolio management. Our customers can better meet IT governance and compliance goals, achieve high levels of software process maturity, measure project performance and make substantial productivity gains at an overall low total cost of ownership.