Software Testing - Suggestions for test case management solutions

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Suggestions for test case management solutions

Terrence Chen

2005-07-25, 9:35 am

Hi,

I'm looking for suggestions for test case management solutions. I've
currently found about 14 but realistically only 6 of them can probably
work in our enterprise environment.

The ones that I've found are:

- Mercury's Quality Center (formerly known as Test Director)
- Compuware's QADirector
- T-Plan Proffessional from T-Plan
- Worksoft's Certify
- Segue's Silk Central Test Manager
- Rational's TestManager

Do you know any others that I might be missing that can work in an
enterprise envirionment.

The main criterias that I'm looking at are:

- scalability (we have multiple sites with 3,000+ employees)
- maintenance (we shouldn't need a team to support this tool)
- cost (this is certainly relative)
- reporting ablitity (management loves pretty reports)

Also if you have used any of these mentioned products, I would greatly
appreciate some feedback. I've talked to somebody who has used Test
Director and I was given a Test Director demo and I was pretty
impressed. The only downside that I found was cost. I'm thinking this
tool will cost 100,000+ to deploy in our environment.

Thanks,
Terrence

Phlip

2005-07-25, 5:37 pm

Terrence Chen wrote:

> Do you know any others that I might be missing that can work in an
> enterprise envirionment.

Some jerk on this newsgroup keeps pushing this open source claptrap:

http://fitnesse.org

I haven't tried it yet. I can barely get it started. But I have heard
that...

> The main criterias that I'm looking at are:
>
> - scalability (we have multiple sites with 3,000+ employees)

It's a web site, so everyone can access it

> - maintenance (we shouldn't need a team to support this tool)

It's an editable web site, so anyone can add a test to it.

> - cost (this is certainly relative)

The cost of ownership is probably not zero, because you have to learn to use
it. But the upfront cost is nothing.

> - reporting ablitity (management loves pretty reports)

Each web page IS a pretty report. With an edit button so you can upgrade it,
and a test button so you can run it.

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Terrence Chen

2005-07-25, 5:37 pm

Phil,

Thanks for the response. I can't access the website
http://fitnesse.org.

Maybe I should have elaborated on the scalability issue. I have no
interest in writing my own tool to load balance the website or the
database backend so the tool should at least be able to load balance
the DB backend.

I also should have also elborated on the reporting ability. We need
something that can generate word documents because we can't say go here
(by giving them some URL) or say you we can only give you the raw data.

Terrence

Phlip

2005-07-25, 5:37 pm

Terrence Chen wrote:

> Thanks for the response. I can't access the website
> http://fitnesse.org.
>
> Maybe I should have elaborated on the scalability issue. I have no
> interest in writing my own tool to load balance the website or the
> database backend so the tool should at least be able to load balance
> the DB backend.

Nonono. FITnesse _is_ a web server. If you hit a scaling limit, ping one
Micah Martin. He will be delighted (and slacked) enough to push that
boundary for you.

> I also should have also elborated on the reporting ability. We need
> something that can generate word documents because we can't say go here
> (by giving them some URL) or say you we can only give you the raw data.

Okay. FITnesse is based on FIT, which was invented in MS Word. I'm sure
there's a path.

However, I like test servers that say this:

http://testbench/TestSuiteFrobUnit

Here's some URL that contains a _living_ report on the state of the Frob
Unit. Every day when you look at it, you should see green, and you might see
more tests. So I don't need to mail you a Word document every w

, out of
and order you to read it. You can look at the records _on_demand_, when your
workflow takes you to them.

What is the test for the Foo feature in the Frob unit? Here's its link:

http://testbench/TestSuiteFrobUnit#TestFoo

If you ask more FIT-specific questions on the FITnesse mailing list (Yahoo
Groups), and I'm sure you'l get enough introductory support to lower the
cost of starting to zero.

Assuming you know Java.

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Phlip

2005-07-25, 5:37 pm

Terrence Chen wrote:

> Thanks for the response. I can't access the website
> http://fitnesse.org.

It just worked for me.

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Andy

2005-07-25, 5:37 pm

ApTest Manager (http://www.aptest.com/atm2/) should handle those
requirements. You did not specify what kind of testing you're doing, so
please note that ApTest Manager is oriented towards manual testing.

Terrence Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for suggestions for test case management solutions. I've
> currently found about 14 but realistically only 6 of them can probably
> work in our enterprise environment.
>
> The ones that I've found are:
>
> - Mercury's Quality Center (formerly known as Test Director)
> - Compuware's QADirector
> - T-Plan Proffessional from T-Plan
> - Worksoft's Certify
> - Segue's Silk Central Test Manager
> - Rational's TestManager
>
> Do you know any others that I might be missing that can work in an
> enterprise envirionment.
>
> The main criterias that I'm looking at are:
>
> - scalability (we have multiple sites with 3,000+ employees)
> - maintenance (we shouldn't need a team to support this tool)
> - cost (this is certainly relative)
> - reporting ablitity (management loves pretty reports)
>
> Also if you have used any of these mentioned products, I would greatly
> appreciate some feedback. I've talked to somebody who has used Test
> Director and I was given a Test Director demo and I was pretty
> impressed. The only downside that I found was cost. I'm thinking this
> tool will cost 100,000+ to deploy in our environment.
>
> Thanks,
> Terrence
>

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