Displays details of the current domain and project.

Click to switch to another open project on the same machine, or to select a different project from the Login window.

Provides commands that you can run from each of the ALM modules. For details, see ALM Options.

Displays help for the current page.

Logout

Logs you out of your current project and returns you to the ALM Login window.

ALM Editions:ALM is also available in several editions which provide subsets of ALM functionality: Quality Center Enterprise Edition, Performance Center Edition, Quality Center Express Edition, and Quality Center Community Edition. For more 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.

If the sidebar is hidden, click the expand button.

Enables you to navigate to your previous/next view in ALM.

Includes the following modules:

• Analysis View. Enables you to create graphs, reports, and Excel reports.

• Dashboard View. Enables you to create dashboard pages, in which you can view multiple graphs in a single display.

Includes the following modules:

• Releases. Enables you to define releases and cycles for the application management process.

• Libraries. Enables you to define libraries to track changes in your project, reuse entities in a project, or share entities across multiple projects.

Includes the following modules:

• Requirements. Enables you to manage requirements in a hierarchical tree-structure. Requirements can be linked to other requirements, tests, or defects.

• Business Models. Enables you to import business process models, and test the quality of the models and their components. Access to this module is dependent on your ALM license.

Includes the following modules:

• Cloud Accounts. Enables you to add your external cloud accounts to ALM. These cloud accounts can then be used to provision cloud testing hosts.

• Host Templates. Enables you to create and modify the templates used to provision cloud hosts.

Includes the following modules:

• Test Resources. Enables you to manage test resources in a hierarchical tree-structure. Test resources can be associated with tests.

• Business Components. Depending on your ALM license, you may also have access to the Business Components module. This module enables subject matter experts to drive the quality optimization process using Business Process Testing. For details, refer to the HPE Business Process Testing User Guide : Business Components Overview .

• Test Plan. Enables you to develop and manage tests in a hierarchical tree-structure. Tests can be linked to requirements and defects.

• Test Lab. Enables you to manage and run tests.

• Lab Management: Build Verification.Enables you to define a suite of automated functional test sets bundled together with a single performance test (called a build verification suite) to provide an end-to-end deployment and testing solution.

  Available for: ALM Edition only

• Lab Management: Timeslots. Enables you to reserve testing resources for the purposes of running a performance test or for performing maintenance tasks on them.

  Available for: Performance Center Edition and ALM Edition only

• Test Runs. Enables you to analyze the results of test executions.

Includes the following modules:

• Testing Hosts. Enables you to manage the allocation and availability of hosts for performance and functional testing. For detrails, refer to the HPE ALM Lab Management Guide.

• AUT Environments. Enables you to manage AUT environment parameters which can be used for performance and functional testing.

Available for: Performance Center Edition and ALM Edition only

Enables you to add defects, determine repair priorities, repair open defects, and analyze the data.

Includes the following modules:

• Usage Reports. Enables you to analyze Performance Center site users and resource usage.

• Performance Lifecycle. Enables you to access trending and performance application lifecycle (PAL) reports. For details, refer to the HPE ALM Performance Center Guide.

• AUT Hosts. Enables you to manage the host machines that make up the Application Under Test (AUT). For details, refer to the HPE ALM Lab Management Guide.

• Topologies. Enables you to create topologies that graphically display the logical components that make up the Application Under Test (AUT) and the relationships between them. For details, refer to the HPE ALM Performance Center Guide.

Help

Enables you to open additional online HPE Application Lifecycle Management resources. For details, see Additional Online Resources.

Displays version information for each ALM client component.

If an error occurs, ALM collects detailed system and usage information, which you can send as an email attachment. This feature is useful for when you contact ALM support. To send an error report, select Help > Send Error Details. For more details, see Send Error Details Dialog Box.