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24 October, 2018

Why might Quality Center be the wrong tool for the job

Have you ever started a DIY job and just not had the right tools?   Frustrating, isn’t it!

You know that the right tool will get the job don’t faster and to a higher standard.

If using Quality Center and you are moving or have moved to Agile, then that is how it could feel.

Everybody has heard of Quality Center…. Universally it’s the most successful test management platform in the world.  It’s a great tool and absolutely the right one for Waterfall development, however, if Agile is your thing – it could be holding you back.

This video will cover:

  • An alternative tool Test Management to ALM or Quality Center
  • What significant improvements this tool can make to your testing projects
  • Other tools that it integrates to

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Stephen Davis is the founder of Calleo Software, a OpenText (formerly Micro Focus) Gold Partner. His passion is to help test professionals improve the efficiency and effectiveness of software testing.

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