Avaliação do suporte fornecido por ferramentas de gestão de teste ao processo de teste

Abstract

Software testing is defined as the process of executing a program with the aim of revealing the presence of errors. Since software development is a complex task, test tools can be used to support activities related to validation of software, from the definition of test cases, at the beginning of development, until test step, which occurs in end of development, aiming to ensure that the software developed meets the requirements set by the client and it does not features defects. There are different tools available to assist the testing activity, making it difficult choosing the most appropriate tool to project needs. To facilitate the analysis of test management tools, this paper defines, based on the literature, a set of criteria for evaluation of test management tools. Therefore, the objective of this work is to identify this set of criteria that can be used to evaluate management tools test and evaluate some tools analyzing the results. In this work, we selected three test management tools, for the application of the criteria for their evaluation, two of these being open source and one proprietary. In analyzing the results, one can realize greater effectiveness in supporting the activities required for the testing process in an open source tool, although the proprietary tool features include a number of improvements generating more complete functionality, such as the activity reporting.