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Open source QA tools: Mantis and Testlink |
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Kineo Open Source has introduced several new applications to our product suite this year. We are now offering a number of solutions aimed at supporting software quality assurance teams in their efforts to manage the software testing process and deliver high quality software. In this article we review two of the tools we now offer professional support services for.
TestLink is a test management system which easily allows you to create and manage test cases as well as organize them into test plans, allowing teams to track test results, generate QA reports, trace software requirements and prioritize and assign QA tasks.
Mantis is a popular and customisable web-based issue tracking system that allows users to report, assign, prioritise and track software bugs.
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Course Merchant: E-commerce for Moodle |
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Kineo Open Source is now reselling the Course Merchant e-commerce plugin to our Moodle customers. Course Merchant is a full featured e-commerce shopping cart application that has been developed to work with Moodle and supports a full range of features that you'd expect to see on any ecommerce website system, and has been successfully used in many Moodle sites.
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Review paper - Virtual classrooms |
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In this Kineo Open Source review paper Mark Aberdour and Steve Rayson
look at the fast evolving area of virtual classroom products and how to
make them work for you. This market has been recently shaken up by the
introduction of the DimDim open source product and the advent of hosted
software-as-a-service solutions, so we thought we’d see what the state
of the union was in this sector.
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Product review: Mindtouch Deki |
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All of us at Kineo Open Source are big fans of using wikis for knowledge sharing. For those new to this type of product, a wiki is essentially a website creation tool which allows users not just look at web pages, but also to collaboratively add and edit pages too. In this article, Nick Chase Grey (Kineo Open Source Support Engineer, Wikipedia Editor and long time Mediawiki Administrator) looks at how MediaWiki compares to the rising star of the wiki world, Mindtouch Deki.
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This time we take a look at Dokeos. Whisper it – could it be easier to use than Moodle?
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Top 10 Tools for Learning |
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Our CEO Mark Aberdour has been evangelising open source tools and solutions for the best part of a decade. Here Mark shares his top ten open source productivity tools. First published on Jane Hart’s excellent Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies website.
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Book review: Elgg Social Networking |
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Elgg is a social networking platform that is gaining increasing traction in the Education sector, no doubt helped by recently winning an Infoworld BOSSIE award for best open source social networking platform. Elgg Social Networking, by Mayank Sharma, provides a good overview of the product and how to get the best out of it for your organisation.
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Free resources 