Opensource Hosted Platforms
Hosted platforms like Testopia, Mantis and Redmine help Customer-vendor/service provider collaboration for Information transfer and QA progress visibility in an outsourced engagement.
Testopia (An integration of TestRunner Test bench management platform with Bugzilla, a Defect management platform), offers mutual visibility & collaborative leverage on all structured phases of a QA exercise starting from Test Case creation to Defect reporting, through the intermediary stage of Test run creation. A Test run is the execution of a partial set of Test cases, as per Testopia terminology.
The customer has to periodically monitor the Test cases for their adequacy in scoping total behavior of the product. The Test run contents help the customer appraise the level of coverage planned and achieved. As 100% Test coverage is not a practical possibility, Test run reports can help the Customer verify whether the Test cases selected during a run have been well optimized to the time & tester resources available.
These three elements of QA delivery, namely; Test case authoring & Organization, Test- Run Creation & Execution and Defect Reporting & Escalation, all sufficiently facilitated by a Hosted platform helps to consistently monitor and improve a testing