I recently had the pleasure of evaluating Quality Center 9.0. Our department uses QuickTest Pro 8.2 for our automation suite and have used Quality Center extensively for managing and maintaining our scripts. I installed the QC Connectivity add-in and the QTP for QualityCenter Add-in and proceeded to test out the demonstration system. Well, I quickly noticed that we were unable to get a list of projects from Quality Center when connecting from QTP. I took the time to read through the documentation… found nothing. It was time to contact support… and the response was as follows:

When connecting to Quality Center 9.0 from previous version of testing tools (WinRunner 8.2, QuickTest Professional 8.2.1, LoadRunner 8.0 Athena, or earlier), the “Failed create list of projects” error message displays. This is due to the new login method introduced in Quality Center 9.0.

Workaround: In the Site Configuration tab in Site Administration, add the parameter BACKWARD_SUPPORT_ALL_DOMAINS_PROJECTS and set its value to “Y”.

This solved our issue… let the evaluation continue.