Lot of testers are involved in integration of test management tools with automation tools to read and execute the cases and finally updating the results back to test management tool. Here are the some info. The below link will help you to integrate HP Quality Center with other tools http://qtpcodes.blogspot.com/2011/10/retrieve-values-from-quality-center.html Integrate Test Link with other tools ---------will continue here....
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