Comments on: Exploring free and open source test tools

By: Omer

Omer — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:06:34 +0000

New free, open source tool (complete GUI, Desktop and Web apps, testing framework )which emphasis the exact points in this article:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/qaliber/

(co-developer of QAliber)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:32:59 +0000

It might be no 100% objective statement (I am project member) but I think that Requirements and Testing Hub (RTH) should be mentioned in this list since its a web based open source test- and requirements management tool. You can check out a demo system on our web page https://sourceforge.net/projects/rth/.

best regards

Thanks for the recommendation Andreas. Has anyone used this tool and can comment?

By: Nick Tulett

Nick Tulett — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:23:46 +0000

Most of the comments you made don’t apply to TestComplete – and yes it does support multiple ‘real’ scripting languages. I have found AutomatedQA to be very responsive and helpful over the last 6 years I have dealt with them. Yes, there has been a worrying shift towards demo-pestering and paid support contracts but my strategy is to ignore the former and use the public forums (and my own experience) rather than the latter.

On the whole, though, commercial test tools are usually sold by a bunch of shysters who bedazzle management with carefully crafted demos but disappear once the cheque’s cleared and we need to start doing some real work. It’s a good job management learn from these costly, embarassing mistakes – oh no, wait, they don’t…

Thanks for the clarification, and the alternative strategies. AutomatedQA also have a blog so people can stay up to date with their tool.

By: Pete H

Pete H — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:31:22 +0000

Hello,

Your link to “FreeMind – a mind map tool” actually links to Notepad++ rather than FreeMind.

Thanks, Pete H

Thanks for the bug report Pete – now amended to point to freemind.