User Guide

Table of Contents

• 1. What is MQC and how can it help you?
  • 1.1. What is MQC?
  • 1.2. From data to quality
  • 1.3. How MQC supports quality assurance and quality improvement
• 2. Highlights in MES Quality Commander® (MQC)
  • 2.1. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.6.2
  • 2.2. Highlights History
    • 2.2.1. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.6.1
    • 2.2.2. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.6.0
    • 2.2.3. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.5.3
    • 2.2.4. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.5.2
    • 2.2.5. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.5.1
    • 2.2.6. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.5.0
    • 2.2.7. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.4.5
    • 2.2.8. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.4.4
    • 2.2.9. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.4.3
    • 2.2.10. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.4.2
    • 2.2.11. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.4.1
    • 2.2.12. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.4.0
    • 2.2.13. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.3.5
    • 2.2.14. MES Quality Commander® (MQC) v.3.4
• 3. Installation
  • 3.1. Install MQC Editor
  • 3.2. Change Default Password
  • 3.3. System Requirements MQC Editor
• 4. Quick Start Guide
  • 4.1. Open Sample Project
  • 4.2. Check Data Availability
  • 4.3. Check Quality Status
  • 4.4. Work with MQC
• 5. Dimensions and Structures
  • 5.1. Artifacts and Artifact Structure
  • 5.2. Revisions
  • 5.3. Milestones
  • 5.4. Measures and Measurements
  • 5.5. Derived Measures
• 6. Quality Concept
  • 6.1. Quality Computation
  • 6.2. Quality Bins
  • 6.3. Quality Model Structure
  • 6.4. Quality Aggregation
• 7. Creating an MQC project
  • 7.1. Creating a project from scratch
  • 7.2. Creating a project using a Setup Configuration
    • 7.2.1. Exporting a setup configuration from an existing project
    • 7.2.2. Manually configuring a setup configuration
    • 7.2.3. Importing a setup configuration
• 8. Data Sources
  • 8.1. Local File System / Network / Sample Projects
  • 8.2. Version Control Systems
    • 8.2.1. Git
• 9. Data Source Adapters
  • 9.1. MES Model Examiner® (MXAM)
    • 9.1.1. Standard MXAM Report (.mxmr)
    • 9.1.2. MXAM Excel Report
  • 9.2. MES M-XRAY® (MXRAY)
  • 9.3. MES Test Manager® (MTest)
  • 9.4. PikeTec TPT
    • 9.4.1. Standard XML report format
    • 9.4.2. Standard HTML report format
  • 9.5. Razorcat Tessy
  • 9.6. MathWorks Polyspace
    • 9.6.1. Polyspace Xml-adapter
    • 9.6.2. Polyspace Text-adapter
  • 9.7. BTC EmbeddedTester
    • 9.7.1. Standard XML report format
    • 9.7.2. MQC XML report format
  • 9.8. Verifysoft Testwell CTC++
    • 9.8.1. Standard XML report format
    • 9.8.2. Standard HTML report format
  • 9.9. Danlawinc MxSuite
  • 9.10. MathWorks Simulink Check
  • 9.11. Simulink Design Verifier
  • 9.12. Perforce Helix QAC
    • 9.12.1. Standard XML report format
    • 9.12.2. Standard HTML report format
  • 9.13. TargetLink Code Coverage
  • 9.14. Rational Test RealTime (RTRT)
  • 9.15. MathWorks Simulink Requirements
  • 9.16. Manual data import for unsupported data sources (Excel Template)
  • 9.17. Generic data sheet
    • 9.17.1. Adapter Options
    • 9.17.2. Importing Adapter Option Sources
    • 9.17.3. Exporting Adapter Option Sources
• 10. Menu with Actions and Configuration
  • 10.1. Actions
    • 10.1.1. Refresh Data
    • 10.1.2. Dashboard Customization
    • 10.1.3. Show Diff View
    • 10.1.4. Show Data Details
    • 10.1.5. Show Data Origins
    • 10.1.6. Manage Pages
    • 10.1.7. Create Report
  • 10.2. Configuration
    • 10.2.1. Adapters
    • 10.2.2. Data Sources
    • 10.2.3. Project Structures and Artifact Mapping
    • 10.2.4. Quality Model and Quality Bin Configuration
    • 10.2.5. Target Values
    • 10.2.6. Annotations
    • 10.2.7. Settings
• 11. Pages and Visualizations in Detail
  • 11.1. The MQC Pages Concept
  • 11.2. Dashboard
  • 11.3. Data pages
    • 11.3.1. Data Trend
    • 11.3.2. Data Status
  • 11.4. Quality pages
    • 11.4.1. Quality Status
    • 11.4.2. Quality Sunburst
    • 11.4.3. Quality Heatmap
    • 11.4.4. Quality Trend
  • 11.5. Distribution Charts
    • 11.5.1. Display Mode
    • 11.5.2. Milestones
  • 11.6. Color Schemes
  • 11.7. Structure Levels
    • 11.7.1. Structure level selection in KPIs
    • 11.7.2. Structure level selection in the main visualization
    • 11.7.3. Search and sorting
  • 11.8. Marking
• 12. Quality Diff and Availability Diff
  • 12.1. Dashboard
  • 12.2. Diff Pages
• 13. Project Structure Configuration
  • 13.1. Importing Project Structure Sources
  • 13.2. Exporting Project Structure Sources
  • 13.3. Configuration Details
    • 13.3.1. Project Naming
    • 13.3.2. Project Milestone Structure
    • 13.3.3. Artifact Structure
    • 13.3.4. Artifact Mapping
    • 13.3.5. Artifact Weights
• 14. Quality Model Configuration
  • 14.1. Importing Quality Model Sources
  • 14.2. Exporting Quality Model Sources
  • 14.3. Configuration Details
    • 14.3.1. Base Measures and Default Values
    • 14.3.2. Derived Measures
    • 14.3.3. Quality Properties
    • 14.3.4. Quality Model Structure
    • 14.3.5. Context Categories
  • 14.4. Quality Model for MES data sources
    • 14.4.1. Quality Model for MXAM
    • 14.4.2. Quality Model for M-XRAY
    • 14.4.3. Quality Model for MTest
  • 14.5. Measurement function definition
• 15. Validation of Configuration
  • 15.1. Validation of Artifacts
  • 15.2. Validation of Measures
  • 15.3. Validation of Context Categories
  • 15.4. Validation of Report Date Times
• 16. Data Propagation
  • 16.1. Motivation
  • 16.2. How to Propagate Data?
  • 16.3. Propagate Data For The Entire Project
  • 16.4. Propagate Data Towards Next Milestone
  • 16.5. Remove Propagated Data
• 17. Context Categories
  • 17.1. Configuration of Context Categories
  • 17.2. Assign Context Categories to Artifacts
  • 17.3. Apply Context Category configuration to analysis
• 18. Target Values
  • 18.1. Configuration of Target Values
  • 18.2. Importing Target Value source files
  • 18.3. Calculation of Target Values per Revision
• 19. Annotation Configuration
  • 19.1. Create and Edit Annotations
  • 19.2. Import Annotation Source
  • 19.3. Save and Export Annotation Sources
  • 19.4. When not to use Annotations
• 20. Actions
  • 20.1. Definition of Actions
  • 20.2. Priority Groups
  • 20.3. Action List Page
• 21. Data Details
  • 21.1. Data Details Drill Down
    • 21.1.1. Data Selection for Drill Down
    • 21.1.2. Drill down to Data Trend
    • 21.1.3. Drill down to Data Status
  • 21.2. Custom Pages
• 22. Data Origins
  • 22.1. Data Origin Entry
• 23. Status Report
  • 23.1. Configuration of the Status Report
    • 23.1.1. Artifact selection
    • 23.1.2. Revision selection
    • 23.1.3. Report Type
    • 23.1.4. Output Format
  • 23.2. Content of the report
    • 23.2.1. Report and Project Information
    • 23.2.2. Quality Overview
    • 23.2.3. Data Availability Overview
    • 23.2.4. Data Trend Overview
    • 23.2.5. Data Status Overview
    • 23.2.6. Artifact Details
    • 23.2.7. Quality Property Details
    • 23.2.8. User Configured Custom Pages
    • 23.2.9. Configuration Information
    • 23.2.10. Annotations
• 24. Custom Pages
  • 24.1. Custom Page Structure
    • 24.1.1. Status Charts
    • 24.1.2. Trend Charts
    • 24.1.3. Adapt Visualizations on Custom Pages
  • 24.2. Custom Page Configuration
  • 24.3. Configuration Data Import and Page Creation
• 25. Custom Adapters
  • 25.1. Managing Adapters
  • 25.2. Developing a Custom Adapter
    • 25.2.1. CustomAdapter
    • 25.2.2. AdapterMessageBag
    • 25.2.3. DataEntry
• 26. Server
  • 26.1. User Groups
    • 26.1.1. MQC Editors
    • 26.1.2. MQC Users
  • 26.2. Library
  • 26.3. Web Player

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