TFS and Quality Center

Providing Feedback on the TFS-QC Connector

JimLamb — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:00:50 GMT

If you have questions or feedback on the TFS-QC Connector, you can also contact me directly by email from the main "Connection" page on Microsoft Connect linked to from my post. Alternatively, you can use the Contact page on my blog to email me:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jimlamb/contact.aspx

re: TFS and Quality Center

Denise Fitzgerald — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:57:50 GMT

Are there any plans to sync the requirements from tfs (which we'll assume are the user stories) to QC requirements - to allow us to test case to requirements mapping in QC?

re: TFS and Quality Center

bharry — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:05:58 GMT

We have talked about it and are going to investigate the possibility but no commitments right now.

Brian

re: TFS and Quality Center

Rich Marshall — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:28:14 GMT

When is the scheduled date for the general availability release of the TFS 2008 - HP Quality Center Connector?

re: TFS and Quality Center

bharry — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:13:20 GMT

We don't have a committed release date yet. We plan a public Beta in early April and will then release it when we've gotten sufficient feedback that it is ready.

Brian

re: TFS and Quality Center

Andrew Spiteri — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:39:03 GMT

If the requirements could be synced between tfs and QC, then that would mean an integrated end to end solution would be available. This would be very useful.

re: TFS and Quality Center

Greg Clinton — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:12:17 GMT

I'm currently trying to get the beta version working and I'm having issues. It works great adding items form one side to the other but when you try to update it throws errors. I've sent an email about the issue and postes on the General forum but haven't gotten any responses. Is there any where else or anyone else someone can go to get answers?

I think this connector is great and I would love to get it to work to make my teams life easier.

re: TFS and Quality Center

Noel Anderton — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:51:30 GMT

Is this work dead? I have tried looking for help on Microsoft Connect, Codeplex and the TFS General forum but there seems to be nobody interested in helping. Would you guys consider publishing the code so that the community could use it? HP has advised us to not use the competing product from Juvender. So at this point it is build our own, or drop the effort and continue to do double work in 2 tools.

re: TFS and Quality Center

bharry — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:20:14 GMT

It is definitely not dead. We are still working on it but have had some problems. Send me an email and I'll have someone follow up with you.

Brian

re: TFS and Quality Center

Ilkka — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:46:40 GMT

"HP has advised us to not use the competing product from Juvender"

Any particular reason why they through this comment out?

We are also in a search for tool to synchronize TFS and QC and evaluated both this and Juvander version, right now thinking on which way to turn. And right now it looks like going into Juvander direction as it just seems to work for us and support we got during our evaluation was just superb!

re: TFS and Quality Center

bharry — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:14:34 GMT

I don't know why they would advise that. I've generally heard reasonably positive reports about the Juvender tool.

Brian

re: TFS and Quality Center

Venu Kumar FM — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:35:03 GMT

What parameters should I specify during the QC Connector MSi installations for the "Set Server Login" screen. I tried the Windows Live ID that i used for registration but that didnot work

re: TFS and Quality Center

Prudhviraj — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:20:23 GMT

Hi all,

Even we are using Juvander to sync between QC and TFS, but we are facing a major problem. once the TFS template has been created no futher changes can be done in both QC and TFS . and if we want to make any change its taking long time to get them updated. Is this the same with the connector as well?

re: TFS and Quality Center

Matt — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:53:42 GMT

Hello Prudhviraj,

Sorry to hear that you are having trouble with the Juvander tool. I'm not familiar with this issue, but I would recommend you contact them to see if it is a limitation of their tool, or a problem they can fix. I have heard good feedback from customers that they have been responsive to fixing issues with the tool.

Regarding the QC Connector, what we have currently available will allow the bug definition to change on either TFS or QC, and updating the configuration settings would allow this to continue working correctly. However, this tool is not moving forward rapidly due to other work our team has for other tools to migrate/sync with TFS. In the meantime, working with Juvander is probably the best way to get past this problem.