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# FAQ

This section provides a brief introductions to available clients and answers some of the questions that are frequently asked about clients.

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## Available clients

ALM continually evolves and innovates to enhance user experience and improve administration efficiency. To meet your demand in various scenarios, ALM offers the following clients:

Client | Description
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Desktop Client | Desktop Client is a fully functional client, including release management, requirement management, test plan, test lab, defect management, data analysis and reporting. It also enables you to customize your project and workflow. It is supported to run the same ALM Desktop Client using either of the following: (Recommended) ALM Client Launcher Microsoft Edge with IE mode enabled
Web Client | Web Client is a pure lightweight web-based client with release management, requirement management, test plan, test lab, defect management, dashboard view, and workflow customization functions. It contains a subset of Desktop Client functions and features simple and modern UI, providing friendly and productive user experiences.
Quality of Things (QoT) | QoT is a manual test execution client used on tablet devices running Android, iOS, or Windows. You can run manual tests and submit defects in both online and offline modes.
Site Administration | Site Administration is a web-based client that enables site administrators (for on-premises) and customer administrators (for SaaS) to manage their ALM environments from anywhere and any browser with full admin functionality.
Lab Management | Lab Management is a non-web client that enables you to manage testing resources and systems that you use for ALM server-side functional and performance testing. You can use either ALM Client Launcher (recommended) or Microsoft Edge IE mode to open ALM Lab Management.

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## Client FAQ

Check the following topics for questions frequently asked about clients.

- Desktop Client FAQ

- Web Client FAQ

- QoT FAQ

- Site Administration FAQ

- Cross-client FAQ

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