HP brings developers into the loop with Quality Center Mylyn Connector
, November 14th, 2010|
We’re pleased to announce a collaboration with HP to deliver the Tasktop HP Quality Center Mylyn Connector. The new connector will dramatically improve developers’ interaction with HP’s ALM solution by providing IDE integration that makes it effortless for developers to keep Quality Center up to date and stay in the loop as requirements and defects are updated. Furthermore, developers will now be able to take full advantage of Mylyn’s task-focused interface technology that provides one-click multitasking and interruption recovery. |
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The connector is bundled with the fully supported Tasktop Enterprise product, which provides advanced productivity features and integrations with commercial ALM solutions. Tasktop Enterprise with the HP Quality Center Connector will be available November 30, 2010, along with a free version of the basic Eclipse IDE integration. The connector provides support for both HP Quality Center 10 and HP ALM 11.
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As developers work on HP Quality Center requirements, defects and tasks, a “context” of relevant resources is automatically captured. In the example below, only Java classes and methods relevant to a given defect are displayed in the Package Explorer view on the left. While this provides an immediate benefit to the developer by drastically reducing the need for repeated searching and scrolling, the context can also be attached to the associated defect or other artifact for future use by others. For example, in a distributed team a remote colleague can view the context to gain instant awareness of the relevant resources and resume coding where the previous developer left off.
Another key benefit of HP Connector’s task-focused interface technology is that it provides traceability from specific lines of code to the relevant HP Quality Center artifact such as a requirement or defect fix that was in progress at the time the code was changed. This code-to-task traceability is supported for multiple SCM systems such as CVS, Subversion, ClearCase, and Perforce, with Git support to be available soon.
On-site evaluations of Tasktop Enterprise with the HP Quality Center Mylyn connector will begin soon. Contact us to evaluate it in your development environment.
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Get a live demo at the Tasktop booth at W-JAX this week in Munich or HP Software Universe, Nov. 30th – Dec. 2nd in Barcelona | |
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November 15th, 2010 at 3:06 am
Nice to read. I tried many times to contact hp. Asking for support our project qcmylyn (with a demo version of qc – but without response). What codebase do you use?
Please visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/qcmylyn
Regards
Andreas
November 19th, 2010 at 5:00 am
While we have been happy to support the open source HP QC connectors via the Mylyn channels, we saw what looked to be a large gap between our enterprise customers’ needs and what was possible to do without a partnership with HP. We realized that to get the sort of integration that we needed we would need to work closely with HP and that’s exactly what we have done. In general, we try to avoid having duplicate open source and closed source connectors, but in case like this it is the best approach for meeting users’ needs. We are happy to see the free and open source connectors to QC exist and will continue supporting you and others involved in creating them. If you would like to discuss collaboration opportunities around the connectors more please let us know here or by contacting us at info at tasktop.com.
November 19th, 2010 at 7:48 am
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November 24th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Is this an replacement for:
http://update.external.hp.com/qualitycenter/qc100/others/mylynconnector/index.html
described here:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/Extensions#HP_Quality_Center
or is this the same as above? As we have serious problems with that connector for enterprise use. HP is basically saying they cannot support our use case, and that use case i think most enterprise customers have.
Best regards
David
November 24th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
David, this is a new connector that is supported by Tasktop and endorsed by HP. We’re looking forward to speaking with you about your use case.
December 2nd, 2010 at 5:40 pm
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