Released of Quicktest Profesisonal 10, Quality Center 10 and LoadRunner 9.5.

HP has held a conference (30/3) regarding the release of Quicktest Profesisonal 10, Quality Center 10 and LoadRunner 9.5. While the presentations did not present a detailed account of the products (due to severe time constraints):

The tweets are presented from first to last (reversed from the usual twitter display): At HP’s BTO conference.
Starting with Uri Bergman’s introduction
@GlennHalstead Yeah, Ayal Cohen will present QTP 10, Elad Shulman will present QC. Alon Linetzki will also give a lecture.
Giving a general overview of HP software services, and HP software @ Israel
Yuval Riess giving a general overview of HP’s BTO approach.
An original way for presenting BTO services.
Elad Shulman now presenting QC 10.
Elad presents Baseline - A very cool version-freeze ability for all QC entities.
Check-in / Check-out is pretty well implemented in QC
Now in Beta - importing VS / Clearcase entities to QC - Completely replaces the integrations to external tools
New central authority for defining and publishing policy and template updates.
The old QC dashboard is now the standard reporting module.
Though there is no longer the ability to write crazy free SQLs for reportss.
Some of the old Dashboard reports won’t import well to QC 10! HP will offer per-case support for the migration.
Test resources are now REALLY managed (you can see and manage callback and "who uses" for every resource).
QC upgrade will be greatly improved, both in compatibility, and in change traceability.
New version of QC synchronizer for quickly developing custom integrations for QC.
Elad finishing the Q&A session. Next, Ayal Cohen on QTP. http://twitpic.com/2ll3r
Ayal will give a hardcore presentation - most of it will be live demonstration.
QTP will make use of QC resource management. This will prevent us from stupidly deleting a valuable function / Excel sheet.
Excellent resource viewers to look at object repositories, excel and function libraries straight from QC.
Ayal dramatically presents the amazing Version compare of QTP versions.
You can compare everything from code, test-settings, external resources, and MUCH more.
The detailed script-compare mechanism brings the best of the best programmers text-compare tools.
Don’t miss AdvancedQTP full review of QTP 10:
Running through the new Local System Monitor feature. The report resource graphs are excellent.
Showing the new report graphs.
Ayal is rushing through the reporter improvements. No time left, and it’s a shame as these are really cool features.
Going through the new IDE improvements. Sadly, there’s no time for a detailed walkthrough.
The rushed presentation doesn’t do justice to the new IDE features. Read about them in our review:
At least the "Save with resources" got the attention it deserve. You can very easily pack a test with all its resources for relocation.
The crowed awes at the dynamic "LoadAndRunAction", which allows to call actions without pre-associating them.
Ayal finishes his presentation. If only he had 15 more minutes.
Ayal gives an important Q
Out for a coffee break.
As a general note - all the presentations are very well constructed from a technical, visual and a delivery standpoint
Staring the LoadRunner session
LR session http://twitpic.com/2lm0x
As a general theme - LR will open much more APIs, both for reporting and for the actual controller.
New protocol Advisor - LR monitors the business process, and generates a list of relevant add-ins and protocols for the AUT
LR 9.5 renews the partnership with Shunra for simulating WAN conditions of different virtual users
Extracting run-data from the LR run-session database is not extremely easy via the API. Also, there’s a fast result exporting engine.
The ability to perform cross result session comparisons is enhanced with a summery view which highlights the meaningful differences.
Finally! A new secure channel for encrypting and validating the communications between the controller and generation.
LR 9.5 adds support for RTMP. It’s an old protocol, but now that Flex have adopted it, HP have added support for RTMP on TCP.
YES! LR can now reference custom Serialize / Deserialize functions. This allows LR to decrypt encrypted / compressed communications.
Some improvements to Click-And-Script, both in coverage (DOM mostly), and in performance. Nothing too exciting.
New in recording Remote Desktop communication. If you could install a small component on the server side, LR will produce dramatically m …
Also, you can now adjust the tolerance of RDP / Citrix image comparisons.
Reviewing the new supported environments. All the usual suspects, nothing worth mentioning.
Now sidetracking for a minute to "Performance Center". For LR analysis and dashboarding.
The new performance center now includes a new Trends view that compares run results either to the past, or to a baseline.
Demonstrating Performance Center reports.
I didn’t work with Performance Center, but all the new features are pretty much what I would’ve expected in version 1.0.
The LR session has Ended. Next - a presenter from Elbit presents a client story on using HP tools.
Yevgeni presenting on behalf of Elbit Systems.
Elbit is a multi-tool company. Uses QTP, QC, IBM RTF, Compuware DevPartner, IBM Purify, Enterprise Architect, VSTS, ClearCase, VSS, and …
Computer out of power. Use iPhone to tweet.
Only now moving to something remotely relevant. Talking about the project lifecycle and the constraints on automation and CM.
This presentation really highlights how good were the HP presentations. This is just death by powerpoint.
How not to build a slide. NM The actual text, it’s just an endless flat list.
It’s over! Next up, Alon Linetzki - ITCB vice president.
Alon wil discuss testing certification details and impact.
The ISTQB global organization for testing certificate now operates in over 40 countries.
Claims you cannot get a job as a tester in the UK without ISTQB certification. Can anyone comment on this?
It seems that soon many companies will make the certification mandatory for new recruits.
Makes an interesting point: there are dozens of conflicting definitions for test-case, STP, etc. ISTQB sets to put an end to all that.
Closing word on the importance of certification. Personally, as for HP certification - it’s worthless.
Well, that all, the event has ended. Thanks for following it, and make sure to visit AdvancedQTP for all your QTP needs.