Overview

XQual is an Application Life-Cycle Management (ALM) solution focused on quality management throughout the complete life-cycle of your products and projects.

All the features included in XQual are listed below, but if you're in a hurry you can also download:
quick overview (PDF) flyer (PDF)

XQual is available in 3 editions (Professional, Business and Enterprise) and provides a large set of features described below:

Life-Cycle Management

Adapts to your methodologies
  • Agile, V-Model, RUP, Kanban or your own methodology
  • Integrated management of ALL entities involved in your product's life-cycle
  • Teams/Squads and users
  • Projects, products, releases and sprints
  • Any type of requirement, be it stories, use cases, formal or soft requirements
  • Technical/functional Specifications (optional)
  • Assets(environments, datasets, resources
  • Tests and Test Cases
  • Exploratory Sessions
  • Test Campaigns and Sessions
  • Coverage, plans and quality Reports
  • Bugs
  • Easy-to-manage bidirectional traceability

Automation Connectivity

Don't let your ALM dictate what automation to use
  • Instead, pick the automation framework you want and we'll provide the launcher so that you can interface with it
  • More than 90 LAUNCHERS in our catalog to execute your automated tests (incl. QTP/UFT, Selenium/WebDriver, JMeter, soapUI, Robot Framework, Cucumber, Telerik, Ranorex, TestComplete, Postman, Tape, Mocha, xUnit.net, pyUnit, Protractor, TestNG, Neotys, Agilitest, SmartBear, Squish, Gatling, webui, TestPartner, AutoIt, Sahi, JUnit, Nunit, Marathon, TestStand, Odin, SilkTest, etc.)
    A full list of launchers is available here

    The launchers allow XQual to integrate with any type of technologies or products: desktop/native/web/mobile application in C, C++, python, Java, qt, Angular, NodeJs, PHP, Javascript, iOS, Android applications etc.
    Any big system an be addressed (mainframes, SAP, Dynamics 365, Oracle, Salesforce, cloud computing engines etc.)
    There's no limit!

Enabling DevOps

Efficiency at its best
  • Connectors to any Continuous Integration systems including ()but not limited to) Bamboo, Jenkins, Hudson or TeamCity
  • Distributed tests on remote agents
  • Scheduled test campaigns execution
  • Tracing of results in real-time during execution
  • Merge and consolidation of results from different campaigns
  • Rule-based execution behavior when a test is failing
  • SNMP Monitoring of resources (CPU, RAM, Storage etc.) during testing

Connectors

Integrates nicely with the rest of your infrastructure
  • Real-time connectors to third-party requirements management systems (Generic, Jira, VersionOne)
  • Real-time connectors to the most used bug-tracking systems (Generic, Jira, Trac, Bugzilla, Mantis, Clearquest, VersionOne, Redmine, QC, YouTrack)
  • REST API with 400+ methods available to programmatically drive any type of actions
  • Simple and flexible open source SDK for launchers configuration/development
  • Ability to develop custom triggers to customize automated processes

Visual Data analysis

Just out of the box
  • Out-of-the-box dimension-based and time-based data analysis diagrams for any object
  • Dashboard including your tasks and your favorite charts/metrics
  • Export/Generation of one-click reports in xml, html, csv (Excel), docx (Word) and pdf formats
  • Products coverage/results
  • Requirements coverage/results
  • Specification coverage/results
  • History of all test executions
  • Campaign coverage/results
  • Campaign trends/progress
  • Campaign results comparison (per configuration/operator/agent)
  • Defect metrics per status/per user
  • Defect submission rate vs resolution rate trend
  • Graph of dependencies between tests
  • Tracking of test readiness for manual/automated execution
  • Tracking of bugs status (submission rate vs resolution rate)
  • Tracking of scrum projects (velocity graph automatically generated)
  • Tracking of user's calendar/absences and holidays management
  • Real-time status on on-going test campaigns as they are running
  • Monitoring of resources during testing
  • Generation of coverage/results metrics on any sub-domains of requirements, specifications and tests
  • Automatic generation of the traceability matrix
  • Always-on visual real-time statistics and clues

Modern UX

Any browser, any device
  • 3 different clients that can be used concurrently: XQual.web (our web client compatible with ALL browsers, and any type of device), XQual (our JNLP/Java client), and a fat client for Windows, Linux and MacOSX
  • Consistent UX among all modules
  • Tree-based management
  • Web-style navigation (backward, forward and last viewed items)
  • Wizards, right-click/contextual menus
  • Embedded contextual chat widget to keep a record of any discussion on any specific item
  • Powerful search engine (free text, Id or a combination of criteria)
  • Embedded spell-checker ( multilingual)
  • Keyword and attribute filtering
  • UTF-8 compliant (support of any accentuated languages such as French, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew etc.)
  • Copy of entire folder hierarchy of requirements, specifications, tests, campaigns and defects
  • Document sharing (including versioning and locking capabilities)
  • simple workflow on requirements, specifications, test authoring, test implementation status and defects
  • Versioning and change tracking on requirements, specifications, tests, test cases, defects and attachments
  • Freeze/Unfreeze of SUTs, requirements, specifications, tests and campaigns
  • E-signature to control validation processes
  • Time shifting feature to get back to a specific point in time
  • Configurable type setting for Requirements, Specification, Tests
  • WYSIWYG rich-text field (supporting images, outer and inner links)
  • Customization of all generated documents (test plans, test reports etc.)
  • Custom fields
  • Importing SUTs, Requirements, Specifications, Tests, Test cases, Steps, Bugs, Assets and links from Excel or XML
  • Email notifications
  • Per-user task assignment

Quality focus

Quality deserves the best tools
  • Support for automated and manual tests execution
  • Dedicated exploratory testing module based on Session-Based Test Management
  • Automatic conversion of exploratory notes to scripted tests
  • 5 different interfaces to execute your manual tests the way you prefer
  • Ability to control automated script's version-controlled files
  • Automatic scan/referencing of automated tests scripts
  • Shared/Reusable test cases (templating)
  • Test case parameterization (including an implementation of the pairwise algorithm)
  • Real-time execution graph stored
  • Execution of the tests on several agents simultaneously (and on N independent threads on each if necessary)
  • Dependencies between tests
  • Automatic scaffolding of tests from Requirements or specifications

KPIs you need

No need for extra BI tools
  • One-click progression assessment on requirements and specifications completion
  • One-click testability and quality assessment
  • Radar-based at-a-glance status assessment before moving to production
  • Quality-driven development assessment using the test pyramid

Campaign and Sessions

Orchestrate your assets
  • Smart Campaign design filtering on SUT, Requirements, Risks, Specifications, Defects, Environments/Assets, and Test attributes)
  • Automatic ordering of tests in campaign based on dependencies and/or priorities
  • Merge of several test campaigns for consolidation
  • Generation of residual campaigns from master campaigns
  • Automatic build of traceability matrix
  • Automated conversion of exploratory tests to manual tests

Documentation

All the documents you need
  • Full customizable documentation
  • Attachments on Requirements, Specifications, Tests, Test cases, Defects, Campaigns, Folders/Container, Test results etc.
  • Attachments are stored either in the DB or on SMB File System

User management & Security

Teams, Squads, Workforce
  • User profile customization (rights management)
  • User groups/teams/Squad (access to specific projects)
  • Remote secured connection using SSH or port forwarding
  • SSL, Https support
  • Integration with ANY LDAP/Active Directory dictionary
XQual is a cloud solution so you connect through your preferred browser.
It supports any client OS (Windows, Linux, MacOSX, iOS, Android), any browser (Firefox, Edge, Chrome, Safari) and any screen size (Desktop, laptop, tablet, phone).

Alternatively, you can also use our JNLP/Java or fat clients for Windows, Linux or MacOSX.
You can even install XQual on-premises if you prefer.
In that case, the following database servers are supported:

Enabling compliance with standards, norms and maturity models

Be prepared for audits and improve your methods
  • Simplifies your preparation for regulatory audits:
    -FDA (incl. 21 CFR part 11)
    -EU (GMP Annex 11)
    -DO-178C(DAL A, DAL B, DAL C, ...)
    -ISO 26262 (ASIL A, ASIL B, ASIL C, ASIL D)
    -IEC 61508 (SIL 1, SIL 2, SIL 3, SIL 4)
    -EN 50128 (SIL 0, SIL 1, SIL 2, SIL 3, SIL 4)
    -IEC 60880
    -ISO 9001
    -ISO 27001
  • Conforms to standards:
    -IEEE 830 (requirements management)
    -IEEE 829 (tests management)
    -IEEE 1028 (software approval)
    -IEEE 1044 (anomaly classification)
    -ISO 25000 (SQuaRE) (software quality)
    -GDPR, RGPD (security)
  • Enables your practices with methodology standards such as:
    -CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration)
    -TMMi (Test Maturity Model integration)
    -GxP ("good practice" quality guidelines and regulations)

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