TestLink

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TestLink
Developed by TestLink Community
OS Any
Platform PHP
Genre Project management
License GPL v2
Website www.teamst.org

TestLink is a Web-based Test management and software testing execution tool. The tool includes reporting and requirements tracking and cooperates with well-known bug tracking systems. The community project is Open Source under the GPL license.

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[edit] Main features

  • Products tested in Test Plans, according to Standard testing procedures. See IEEE 829.
  • Users have defined roles (for example: Leader, Tester, Guest)
  • Test cases organized in a hierarchical structure and holds traceable history
  • Keyword support, allowing greater depth in test organization
  • Testing prioritization, tester-specific assignment, and milestone definitions
  • Reporting and test metrics
  • Documentation export to HTML, MS Word and MS Excel
  • Direct e-mailing of reports from the tool
  • Localisation and internationalization (into English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Czech, etc.)
  • Direct collaboration with bug tracking systems
  • Requirements-based testing (include SRS repository)
  • SOAP API for collaboration with functional testing tools

[edit] System Requirements

  • Browser: Firefox 1.0 or higher, or IE 6 (not IE 7)1
  • Database: MySQL 4.1.x and higher; Postgres 8.x and higher; or MS SQL 2000 and higher (experimental)
  • Scripting Language: PHP 5.0 or higher (at least 5.2 is recommended)
  • Web server: (Apache 1.3.x or 2.x and higher, IIS 3 and higher)
  • Bug Tracking System (optional): Bugzilla 0.19.1 and higher, Mantis 1.0.1 and higher, JIRA 3.1.1 and higher, TrackPlus 3.3 and higher, Eventum 2.0 and higher, or Trac 0.10 and higher[1]

[edit] Other Tools

The crutial feature of software development is a problem tracing. TestLink has direct interface into several well-known bug tracking systems:

The generalized system allows to integrate other tools to the system with a little effort.

[edit] See also

Software Testing Portal
Free software Portal

[edit] References

  1. ^ According to TestLink's documentation, "Generally any other browser should work if it suports [sic] javascript, XHTML and CSS"[1]

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