Mercury Interactive (HP) vs. Rational Toolset
To Betty, the "President" of Vivit.com, regarding your recent blog entry.
Why do you say that "metrics...can be labor intensive"? If you are using Quality Center's (QC) metrics generation program[me], then it should be a breeze – shouldn't it? Just tongue-in-cheek kiddin' of course. I don't use QC for any kind of metrics generation.
I use, of course, Microsoft Excel with a stats analysis program added on. If you want top SQA metrics, Defects Management, Requirements Managements, test scheduling, metrics, and etc etc etc , you would be wise to switch to Rational Tools (now owned, of course, by IBM).
Once HP bought Mercury, it should have been expected that ultimately it would be buh-BYE Mercury (sooner rather than later). It's strange how Mercury has switched places with Rational in the marketplace for SQA tools. You can of course furgit 'open-source' or 'cheap' tools, there is no real comparison. Open-source has its place, but not in the commercial world of big bucks and mid-to-large sized companies.
Both Rational and Mercury (HP) provide the same functions (CompuWare, who??, is a very distant third), but IBM has opened Rational Tools to FREE learning via 30 days access after an email registration, and thus, every 30 days, another free 30 days learning, just signup again with a different email address). On the other hand, HP has scr*wed over Merc users by first, firing all the top Merc people (aka 'high salaried employees') and via their infamous 15-day 'key only' trial of their Merc products.
So I say again "buh-BYE" Mercury, sad to see you go. Been with you since XRunner was your only tool and its help files were frequently in Hebrew. But ah! life is short and Rational Certified Expert[ise] pays way more money than QTP or QC work.
C'est la vie!, said the pragmatist. Life is short then you die, money DOES make one's life happier. I learned that in the late 80s when I worked on Johnston Atoll, in the South Pacific (848 nautical miles wsw of the 'Big Island' (Hawai'i), on the chem demil project (JACADS). Every single person on that 648 acre island was making more money than they ever made before. Everyone was happy and filled with joie de vivre (love of life). Moola ain't ever'thang, but it shore kin buy pretty sparkly thangs.
Why do you say that "metrics...can be labor intensive"? If you are using Quality Center's (QC) metrics generation program[me], then it should be a breeze – shouldn't it? Just tongue-in-cheek kiddin' of course. I don't use QC for any kind of metrics generation.
I use, of course, Microsoft Excel with a stats analysis program added on. If you want top SQA metrics, Defects Management, Requirements Managements, test scheduling, metrics, and etc etc etc , you would be wise to switch to Rational Tools (now owned, of course, by IBM).
Once HP bought Mercury, it should have been expected that ultimately it would be buh-BYE Mercury (sooner rather than later). It's strange how Mercury has switched places with Rational in the marketplace for SQA tools. You can of course furgit 'open-source' or 'cheap' tools, there is no real comparison. Open-source has its place, but not in the commercial world of big bucks and mid-to-large sized companies.
Both Rational and Mercury (HP) provide the same functions (CompuWare, who??, is a very distant third), but IBM has opened Rational Tools to FREE learning via 30 days access after an email registration, and thus, every 30 days, another free 30 days learning, just signup again with a different email address). On the other hand, HP has scr*wed over Merc users by first, firing all the top Merc people (aka 'high salaried employees') and via their infamous 15-day 'key only' trial of their Merc products.
So I say again "buh-BYE" Mercury, sad to see you go. Been with you since XRunner was your only tool and its help files were frequently in Hebrew. But ah! life is short and Rational Certified Expert[ise] pays way more money than QTP or QC work.
C'est la vie!, said the pragmatist. Life is short then you die, money DOES make one's life happier. I learned that in the late 80s when I worked on Johnston Atoll, in the South Pacific (848 nautical miles wsw of the 'Big Island' (Hawai'i), on the chem demil project (JACADS). Every single person on that 648 acre island was making more money than they ever made before. Everyone was happy and filled with joie de vivre (love of life). Moola ain't ever'thang, but it shore kin buy pretty sparkly thangs.
Labels: happiness, JACADS, Mercury Interactive, money, Rational, South Pacific.
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