Ensuring Package Quality Using QualityMonitor
AdminStudio 2025 | 29.0 | QualityMonitor
QualityMonitor is included with AdminStudio Professional and Enterprise Editions.
QualityMonitor allows you to run a series of built-in tests to installed Windows Installer-based products, helping to ensure they run correctly. When failures occur, QualityMonitor can help identify where problems exist, and ultimately direct you to the solution.
QualityMonitor user documentation is presented in the following sections:
| Section | Description |
|---|---|
| About QualityMonitor | Explains the purpose and benefits of using QualityMonitor. |
| Creating New QualityMonitor Project Files | Explains how to create a new QualityMonitor project. |
| Opening Existing QualityMonitor Project Files | Explains how to open QualityMonitor project files, which have an .iqm extension. |
| Working with Test Cases | Describes the most common tasks you may perform when working with Test Cases. |
| Deployment Testing | Explains how to perform deployment tests against the installed product, ensuring that the product has been installed correctly. |
| Lockdown and Runtime Testing | Explains how to test an application when its target environment is restricted in some way, such as in a locked-down environment. |
| Using MSI Doctor to Verify Package Deployment Status | Explains how to use MSI Doctor to verify if an MSI package is installed properly. This helps prevent users from seeing an auto-repair dialog box when they run the application. |
| Creating Custom Test Cases | Explains how to add additional, custom Test Cases to projects—based on your business needs. |
| Test Reports | Explains how to create an HTML test report for the current project. |
| Running QualityMonitor from the Command Line | Explains how to run QualityMonitor from the command line. |
| QualityMonitor Reference | Provides detailed reference on each user interface element, dialog box, and view in QualityMonitor. |