Software Test Management Tool

Abstract

When it comes to test management support tools, there are a large variety of options to choose from. Some are open source and some are commercial. No doubt all these products offer some benefit, but why is the functionality so fragmented? For example, one of the commercial application QAComplete needs TestComplete to run automated tests. Is it simply badly organized product strategies brought on by a series of separate tool acquisitions? Perhaps each tool is designed for slightly different needs, but should we really be required to buy them all and then frequently jump between different tools? – No. Software support tools are supposed to make testing easier. Testing activities need to be recorded in a single application despite it is manual or automated tests, and should have a track of activities performed by QA personals. Even though there is high number of open-source solutions out there for this mater, not single open-source solution would enable to run both manual and automated tests via single GUI. The very first consideration is therefore, is to look for a single solution that offers a wide variety of test support capability and secondly it should be able to share its data across other third-party applications like JIRA via API.This Test Management Tool will serve as a web application that can be access over the internet to ease all QA activities. PHP is used as the programming language with CodeIgniter Web Framework. Also, MySQL is used as the database. The outcome of this Test Management Tool is to centralize all QA activities, starting from daily statuses to test case execution.