Test Link -Test management Tool

Hi ALL:

I need more detail about Test Link -Test management Tool.im going to evaluate and implement in my company.

guide me , if any one knows.

thanks in advance.

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Sathish

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Permalink Reply by Alligatortek on February 27, 2012 at 11:18am

Test Link - is a free open source test case management and execution tool.

Having recently joined a startup product development company, where test cases are all over the place stored in Excel spreadsheets, we realised the difficulties of management of test cases - making changes to existing tests, adding new tests, monitoring test runs and still maintaining versioning for tracking purposes.

That's when I started looking around for a test case management tool. In my company, usage of open source software is greatly encouraged, for the simple reason that it's free of cost. Only other thing to take note is that the software project should be active and well supported.

Having done some research of a few test case management tools on google , I settled on Test Link.

Test Link features

Collect and organize your test cases dynamically
Track results and metrics associated with test execution
Track specific information about individual tests
Capture and report details to assist you in conducting a more thorough testing process
Customize TestLink to fit your requirements and processes.
Test Case history / versioning
Unlimited structure of Test Specification
Support for other databases (SQL standard, generalized DB interdace)
Improved user management (editable)
Attachments
Revision of Standard terminology
Enhanced reports
XML import/export
Custom fields for Test Cases

Download Test Link

You can download TestLink from the following URL

http://sourceforge.net/projects/testlink/

Once you are on that page, Click on the 'Download TestLink' link and follow instructions.
Installation requirements

A linux server
A reliable webserver (Apache is recommended)
PHP5 (5.2 is recommended)
MySQL 4.1 (and higher) or MS-SQL

If you are uncomfortable downloading, installing and configuring the above, download a pre-configured infrastructure stack from Bitnami (http://bitnami.org/stack/lampstack)

Installation steps as I did it (I'm using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586))

Login as root
Install the infrastructure stack (LAMP stack) downloaded from Bitnami (Sorry, installation instructions are out of scope in this article. Btw, Bitnami has very good documentation and the stacks are easy to install)
Test your webserver and php and MySQL works by running (http://<your server name>/test.php). That should display a page with lots of information about PHP.
ftp/sftp/scp/winscp the testlink.tgz/testlink.zip file to your Linux/Windows server into the webroot directory of your webserver
Extract the tar ball (tar zxvf testlink_1.7.4.tgz)
Start a browser (Firefox or Internet Explorer)
Type http://<your-server>/testlink/install/index.php
Click on New install. (I had to chmod 777 gui/templates_c directory for the installation to continue as it complained that it could not write to that directory)
Select Database type - MySQL, Database host - localhost
Enter the Database name (I chose to have'testlink')
Enter Database administrative username and password (in my case, it is root, Mapinkbo)
Choose a username and password for testlink DB
Click on 'Setup TestLink!'
Tick the checkbox to agree with the terms of usage of this software
Click on 'Proceed'
Follow instructions and finish installation
After installation You will have the following default login for TestLink Administrator.
login name: admin
password : admin
I had a failure creating a file config_db.inc.php. TestLink displayed a piece of php code with the testlink DB details you just entered. In the testlink folder where you can also see config.inc.php file, open a file config_db.inc.php, copy the php code into it and save it.
Now if there are no further errors, remove the install directory
Then launch testlink application from http://<your-server>/testlink
Login using user admin, password admin and then play around before you actually start implementing the testlink test case management tool.