Entities Introduced with the Integration

The View Project Quality configuration page

This page allows administrators to register ALM instances for OpenText PPM to retrieve KPI information and quality matrices from ALM and to display the data on the Project Overview page in OpenText PPM.

To access the View Project Quality configuration page, from the Administration menu, click Integrations > View Project Quality with ALM Integration.

QC/ALM Release Information field group

The QC/ALM Release Information field group can be added to new or existing request types for creating or modifying projects that are to be linked to ALM releases.

The field group contains the following fields:

Field	Description
QC/ALM Server	Retrieved from the ALM server registered on the View Project Quality configuration page.
QC/ALM Domain	Retrieved from the ALM server registered on the View Project Quality configuration page.
QC/ALM Project	Retrieved from the registered ALM Server.
QC/ALM Release	Retrieved from the ALM Project.
SCORECARD URL	To display ALM scorecard on the Project Overview page in OpenText PPM, administrators need to define the scorecard as an analysis item in ALM so that project managers can paste the link into this field. For detailed information about defining the scorecard as an analysis item in ALM, see ALM documentation.

QC Integration Sync KPI Service

The QC Integration Sync KPI Service synchronizes quality KPI data from ALM to OpenText PPM. The default synchronization interval is 24 hours. You can set the synchronization interval on the Schedule Services page.

The QC Integration Sync KPI Service gets all valid ALM server configurations and loops through all configurations to retrieve KPI information from ALM and stores them in OpenText PPM database.

If the service found that the quality KPI for current day already exists, it skips the project and continues to process next project.

Only projects that are NOT cancelled, failed, closed, or complete will be synchronized.

For details about KPI data to be retrieved from ALM, see KPI Data Retrieved from ALM.

Four default portlets included in the Project Overview page

After installation of OpenText PPM version 24.4 for newly created project types, the following new portlets are included in the Project Overview page by default and are displayed when there is data in the portlets.

Portlet	Description
Requirement Trends	Displays requirement status trend in the last 10 days. The requirement status includes requirement coverage.
Open Defect Trends	Displays open defects trend in the last 10 days. The open defects include open defects number and total defects number.
Priority Defect Trends	Displays trend of defects of higher severity in the last 10 days. The higher severity defects include defects of priority S1 and S2.
Project Quality Scorecard	Displays ALM release scorecard information. The scorecard portlet is displayed only when the ALM scorecard information is configured in the project request field of the Project Planning and Tracking (PPT) module in ALM.

However, if you create a project type by copying from an existing project type created in an earlier version of OpenText PPM, you need to manually add the new portlets to the Project Overview page on the Project Overview Layout policy page. For more information, see (Optional) Configure Project Overview Layout.