What is the difference between Quality centre and Test
Director

Answer Posted / raja

Test Director:

Upto ver 8.0 called as TD
Had 4 tabs (
Requirements: to track the customer requirements,
test plan: to design the test cases and store the test
scripts,
test lab: to execute the test sets and track the results,
defects: to log a defect and track the logged defects)
Data stored in the file system
Has choice of 1 platform: Windows
Can be clustered with a single server
Databases supported: MS Access, SQL, Oracle, Sybase
Virtual directory is tdbin

Technology: td:C++, IIS, COM



Quality Center:

After ver 8 it is called QC. Latest version is 9.2
It’s a client-server architecture
Has 5 tabs (requirements, testplan, test lab, defects and
dashboard which is used to run different types of reports)
Data stored in the database
Has choice of 3 platforms: windows, red hat linux and
solaris
Can be clustered with many servers
Databases supported are SQL and Oracle
QC server virtual directory is qcbin
Site Administrator server virtual directory is sabin
Change in GUI
Technology: Back-end is Java based, runs on application
server
Can be attached to our email center
It’s a client server architecture

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