I’ve started recently in a company that has no test-case management tool. Since there is no budget for such a tool I wonder if there are any free test-case managent tools that I could consider.
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Yea, I found one for a side project of mine it is called QA Touch, it can integarte with Jira, but I didn’t get around to do much in it. The free version does seem sufficient for all the basic test managment needa of a smaller project. There are other free one out there probably.
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Vim + Git + Markdown may be a good start.
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Kiwi TCMS looks quite promising. It is open source, so probably you could give it a try.
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Thanks for the really smart solution!
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Free Test Case Management Tools:
1. qaManager - qaManager is a free test case management web-based tool. It is an application for managing both testing projects and teams. Features include tracking releases, managing test cases, resource allocation, track code reviews, and reports.
2. Testopia (A Bugzilla extension) - Testopia is an extension for Bugzilla that enables simple test case management. With Testopia, you can integrate bug reporting with the results of a test run. They also allow you to export test cases and results. With Testopia, users can log in to one tool and use the Bugzilla group permissions to control permissions and access for modifying the tests.
3. TestLink - TestLink is one of the more popular free test case management tools available today and is a great alternative to paying for a service or using spreadsheets for test case management. This web-based tool allows you to import and export test cases, designate various user roles, and it supports manual and automated test execution. TestLink also integrates with many popular issue tracking tools, so you can link test cases to bug tickets.
4. TestMaster - TestMaster is a web-based tool created from the need to report which test cases are complete or incomplete. It offers email reports, test cases importing from word docs and CSV files, search, and simple reporting. TestMaster runs on Linux and uses Apache to serve web pages. This tool is a great alternative to managing your testing projects in a spreadsheet.
5. Nitrate - The nitrate test case management system helps manage test plans, cases, and test runs. It is available under an open-source license, downloadable via GitHub. Nitrate has many useful features, such as tracking external issues with test cases, a fast search facility, and it also has the benefit of an XML-RPC API.
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Just doing a roll-up. I’m hopeing other folk have some other options available. Right now looking at trying out KIWI https://kiwitcms.org/
This tool appears to no longer exist except in name.
https://testlink.org/ Currently maintained - I’m using this tool, it’s a bit of hard work, but it’s completely free
http://testmaster.sourceforge.net/ Literally was lasted touched in 2014 , probably not worth it.
GitHub - Nitrate/Nitrate: Django based full-featured test case management system Appears to be a successor to Testopia is Jango/Python based and is currently active
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@conrad.braam how is Kiwi TCMS so far? I read about it while researching test management tools, but never got around to give it a whirl.
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Mikey , I get where @countertestserism is coming from on the whole “dont manage test cases” thing. It’s very easy if your product only does one thing, but my situation is that I have to herd multiple cats. Features that are ~20 years old, features that only a few people know of and cannot automate, and some features that use some obscure api and tooling that is a bit hidden in Jenkins. So yeah, not having test cases works for lots of people, but not here.
I want to find time to look at the “beer free” tier on KWIKTest because it might help me save about 1 or 2 days every release in a small area. Let me explain my use-case: I have loads of automated tests, but I have known gaps.
- Test cases that only make sense to run at release time, and cannot be sensibly automated for around a million sanity related reasons
- A way to look back and work out which recent feature releases added which new tests, so we can easily just analyze and find the new “test gaps” (Using TCMS as a planning aid)
- Track the release process itself in Jira but with more detail - I’m doing this using wiki automation lately, but a custom “test cycle” would be nice to track each release and log it for posterity.
Since it’s a thing I only use a dozen times a year, I don’t see the need to pay, we have a load of automation that gives us 90% of what a CMS tool would do.
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We’ve largely gone test case free but previously used TestLink. It’s decent enough at what it does and of course at free, definitely good value.
I would certainly advocate going test case free. This depends on how much manual regression test cases you execute. I say execute not have as we have about 10,000 test cases across our product suite and in the past 18 months ran about 50 of them, largely for release testing.
Last year I copied many of those 50 into Google docs, and created a google sheet for release testing. My colleagues were happy and called it a vast improvement!
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