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OpenText™ Application Quality Management empowers organizations to manage the core application lifecycle from requirements through deployment. It provides application teams with the visibility and collaboration they need to deliver modern applications in a predictable and adaptable way.

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## Overview

OpenText Application Quality Management serves as a central tool to govern software quality and impl rigorous auditable processes. The tool is designed for complex multi-application environments. Organizations can achieve high efficiency and measure quality with a requirements-driven and risk-based testing approach.

With the tool, you can:

- Optimize testing efforts through shared assets and reuse.

- Standardize testing processes, so your testing efforts are efficient and aligned.

- Gain real-time visibility into the progress and status of quality, enabling data-based decisions and continuous improvement.

- Significantly reduce defects before releasing into production.

- Achieve regulatory compliance with comprehensive traceability and detailed records.

- Manage quality aspects across methodologies or tools through evolving synchronization capabilities.

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## First steps

| New to the system Learn how OpenText Application Quality Management continues to innovate and deliver value by reading Busting ALM Myths.
| End-to-end workflow Understand the phases from defining a release-cycle plan, defining requirements, building test plans, running tests, to submitting defects. For details, see Editions and lifecycle.
| Watch videos Watch the videos to get to know the core functionality. For details, see Video gallery.

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## Install and configure

| Install and configure Before users start working, admins need to perform initial install and configuration tasks: Install Site Administration Project customization Desktop Client workflow customization
| API references Using the API, developers can retrieve and perform CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations on the entities that are available in the application. For details, see API references.
| Plan your future path Upgrade to the latest version, migrate to SaaS, or evolve to ALM Octane or ValueEdge. For details, see Explore your ALM options.
| Learn more For more insights on working with the system, resources, and case studies, see End-to-end OpenText Application Quality Management.

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See also:

- What's New
- Editions and lifecycle

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