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ALM Editions: The ALM Business Models module is available for ALM Edition and Quality Center Enterprise Edition. For information about ALM editions and their functionality, see ALM Editions. To find out what edition of ALM you are using, ask your ALM site administrator.
The Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Business Models module addresses the need for a stronger connection between business process modeling, quality assurance management, and requirement definitions. The module integrates business process models into the application lifecycle.
This integration fosters collaboration between the various roles involved in the business process modeling and testing lifecycles, thereby facilitating communication between business users and people in more technical departments. This collaboration facilitates better business outcomes by identifying high level activities, thus guiding the QA manager in determining the high level test requirements.
Integrating business process models into ALM involves importing business process models into ALM, and linking requirements and tests to models, activities, and end-to-end business flows. After executing tests, you can display quality status views on the business process model level.
To work with business process models in ALM, you must first design models with standard modeling tools, and import the models to ALM. For details, see Business Process Models File Import.
In addition to the standard business process model entities, ALM enables you to perform quality testing on end-to-end business flows ("paths"). For details, see Business Process Model Paths.
For details on working with business process models, see How to Work with Business Process Models.
