OpenText ALM

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OpenText AQM
Stable release	25.1
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	application lifecycle management tools, application quality tools, application testing tools
License	Proprietary
Website	Open Text AQM product page

OpenText AQM (Application Quality Management), formerly known as Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), is a software suite used in application development and management. It includes modules for planning, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance. OpenText AQM is a software suite for application development and testing. It is developed and marketed by OpenText—the product was previously owned by Micro Focus ^{[citation needed]}, Hewlett Packard Enterprise ^{[citation needed]}, Hewlett-Packard ^{[citation needed]}, and Mercury Interactive ^{[citation needed]}. It includes tools for requirements management, test planning and functional testing, performance testing (when used with Performance Center), developer management (through integration with developer environments such as Collabnet, TeamForge and Microsoft Visual Studio), and defect management.^[1][2]

AQM is a combination of a common platform, several key applications and a dashboard used for Fmanaging the core lifecycle of applications, from design through readiness for delivery to operations.^{[citation needed]} All of these core lifecycle activities are connected together from a workflow perspective with a common management console, layer of project tracking and planning and built on a common software foundation containing a consistent repository and open integration architecture with a supported SDK.^[3]

AQM is intended to provide Information Technology departments with a centralized application management platform for managing and automating within and across application teams and throughout the complete process of developing an application, within a single workflow.^[1]

AQM includes features for project planning and tracking, allowing development teams to define milestones and monitor progress using performance indicators. ^[4]

Real-time traceability of requirements and defects. ^{[citation needed]}

The Lab Management module supports provisioning of test environments across hybrid infrastructures, including physical servers, virtual machines, on-premises systems, and cloud platforms, through integration with Continuous Delivery Automation (CDA)^[5]

ALM supports sharable asset libraries that can be reused across projects while maintaining traceability. Specific changes can be applied to shared assets for each project while maintaining library integrity, and projects can re-synch with the library as needed. Cross-project defect collaboration is also supported.^[6]

ALM provides cross-project reporting and pre-configured business views for reports such as aggregated project status metrics, application quality metrics, requirements coverage, and defect trends for both an enterprise release and individual projects.^[7]

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise (formerly known as Performance Center) is a performance testing platform and framework. The platform is used by IT departments to standardize, centralize and conduct performance testing, as well as reuse^[8] previous test cases. LoadRunner Enterprise was integrated with ALM (versions 12.6x and prior), but these have now been decoupled and are considered two separate products.

AQM includes quality assurance features for risk-based test planning and management, version control, baselining, quality release and cycle management, test scheduling and execution, integrated manual testing and defect management.^[7]

OpenText Quality Center is a quality management platform that can be used for a single project or across multiple IT projects to manage application quality across the entire application lifecycle. The platform provides requirements management, release and cycle management, test management, defect management and reporting from a single platform.^[9]

AQM is used by IT departments to capture, manage and track requirements throughout the application development and testing cycle.^[10]

Fortify is an application security suite now part of OpenText's Application Security portfolio. It offers static application security testing (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), and tools for integrating security testing into development workflows. ^[11]

Earlier releases of AQM included features intended to support integration with Fortify, but according to recent release notes, AQM support in Fortify Software Security Center is deprecated in version 25.4.0, and will be removed in version 26.2.0. ^[12]

AQM can be installed on-site or delivered through the cloud in a software as a service model.^[13] ALM is also available for mobile device support, including Apple iPhone and Android mobile devices.^[14]

• Application lifecycle management