Automating HP Quality Center with Python or Java

Question

We have a project that uses HP Quality Center and one of the regular issues we face is people not updating comments on the defect.

So I was thinkingif we could come up w

Answer 1

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To start all this You will need install pywin32, like from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build216/

First of all You will need to import pywin32

'''@author: www.qcintegration.com  @mailto:contact@qcintegration.com'''
import pywintypes
import win32com.client as w32c
from win32com.client import gencache, DispatchWithEvents, constants

Then as second operation I include here action on login to server

def connect_server(qc, server):
        '''Connect to QC server
        input = str(http adress)
        output = bool(connected) TRUE/FALSE  '''
        try:
            qc.InitConnectionEx(server); 
        except:
            text = "Unable connect to Quality Center database: '%s'"%(server); 
        return qc.Connected;

def connect_login(qc, username, password):
    '''Login to QC server
    input = str(UserName), str(Password)
    output = bool(Logged) TRUE/FALSE  '''
    try:
        qc.Login(username, password);
    except pywintypes.com_error, err:
        text = unicode(err[2][2]);
    return qc.LoggedIn;

def connect_project(qc, domainname, projectname):
    '''Connect to Project in QC server
    input = str(DomainName), str(ProjectName)
    output = bool(ProjectConnected) TRUE/FALSE  '''

    try:
        qc.Connect(domainname, projectname)
    except pywintypes.com_error, err:
        text = "Repository of project '%s' in domain '%s' doesn't exist or is not accessible. Please contact your Site Administrator"%(projectname, domainname); 
    return qc.ProjectConnected;

Second of all method which will include OTAapi dll file

def qc_instance():
        '''Create QualityServer instance under variable qc
        input = None
        output = bool(True/False)'''
        qc= None;
        try:
            qc = w32c.Dispatch("TDApiole80.TDConnection");
            text = "DLL QualityCenter file correctly Dispatched"
            return True, qc;
        except:
            return False, qc;

Then main method to connect to QCserver

def qcConnect(server, username, password, domainname, projectname):
    print("Getting QC running files");

    status, qc = qc_instance();
    if status:
        print("Connecting to QC server");
        if connect_server(qc, server):
            ##connected to server
            print("Checking username and password");
            if connect_login(qc, username, password):
                print("Connecting to QC domain and project");
                if connect_project(qc, domainname, projectname):
                    text = "Connected"
                    connected = True;
                    return connected, text;
                else:
                    text = "Not connected to Project in QC server.\nPlease, correct DomainName and/or ProjectName";
                    connected = False;
                    return connected, text;
            else:
                text = "Not logged to QC server.\nPlease, correct UserName and/or Password";
                connected = False;
                return connected, text;
        else:
            text = "Not connected to QC server.\nPlease, correct server http address"; 
            connected = False;
            return connected, text;
    else:
        connected = False;
        text = "Unable to find QualityCenter installation files.\nPlease connect first to QualityCenter by web page to install needed files" 
        return connected, text;

And at the end how to execute all of those methods in one place with example of use

if __name__ == "__main__":
    server= r"http://qualitycenterServer:8080/qcbin"
    username= "alex_qc"
    password= ""
    domainname= "DEFAULT"
    projectname= "QualityCenter_Demo" 

    connection_status, text  = qcConnect(server, username, password, domainname, projectname);
    print "connection_status:", connection_status

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