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.

Manage your QA at a low cost

If you are a QA manager, there are a number of effective open source solutions that can meet your needs. You can use open source software to:

• Capture project requirements
• Create and manage test cases for each requirement
• Monitor test coverage and completion
• Capture, track, search and analyse your bugs
• Enable remote tracking, monitoring and updating of bugs
• Determine readiness for product delivery.

TestLink

TestLink is a testing management system which easily allows you to create and manage test cases as well as organize them into test plans. These Test plans allow team members to execute Test cases and track test results dynamically, generate reports, trace software requirements, prioritize and assign tasks.

Testlink integrates with issue tracking systems such as Bugzilla and Mantis. Testlink provides:

• An affordable, feature rich test management system which is suitable both for new users or experienced users migrating away from an existing system
• A system that is easy to configure, modify and customise
• Capture, track, search and analyse results and metrics easily using a simplistic browser interface
• Create an unlimited amount of projects, sub-projects and categories
• A high quality, robust solution with a large development community
• Rapid innovation due to the large open source development community
• An excellent range of features and simplistic design for non-technical end-users

The product is split into core features:

• Test project management allows you to setup new projects and assign user roles
• Test plan management is where you can create high level test plans and specify builds, milestones and test completion criteria
• Test plan contents allows you to add and remove test cases and assign test case execution tasks to members of the test team
• Requirements allows users to build requirements specifications, importing from Excel if needed, and assign test cases to requirements
• The Test Specification is a place where a user can view and edit all of the existing Test project, test suite,and Test case information. A user can look at a different versions of test cases.
• Test execution allows users to execute Test cases. User can assign Test result to Test Case for Build. It is here that users can review test reports and metrics.

Mantis

Mantis is a popular and customisable web-based issue tracking system that allows users to report, assign, prioritise and track your software bugs. Mantis provides: 

• An affordable, feature rich issue tracking system suitable both for new and experienced users
• A high quality, robust solution with a large development community
• An excellent range of features and simplistic design for non-technical end-users
• An easily customisable solution that can be amended to fit your business
• Rapid innovation due to the large open source development community
• The ability to capture, track, search and analyse your issues easily using a simplistic browser interface.
• The ability to upload and add images and other content to issues
• Create an unlimited amount of projects, sub-projects and categories
• Conduct remote tracking and monitoring with RSS Feeds and Twitter, and remote updating via Mobile devices.
• Management of far more than just bugs – can be used for internal task management and helpdesk management.

Kineo Open Source offers services for Mantis and Testlink users.

By using a Kineo Open Source solution you also get:

• Installation and configuration services
• Customisation and theme development services
• Free and unlimited professional support from our service desk specialists
• Free upgrades to major, compatible version releases
• Administrator training
• No vendor lock-in – you are free to export your site and data at any time.

To find out how Kineo Open Source can bring an Open Source QA solution to your organisation, with hosting, customisation and support, please contact us.