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Permalink Reply by Justin Hunter on August 8, 2009 at 0:29

Jon,

Please check out: http://qaguild.com/resources_tools.php#free4
They have a long list of free testing tools, including Bugzilla and Mantis which might meet your needs. I hope that helps.

Incidentally, if you're also looking for a free test design tool (to help you identify what test cases to execute to maximize coverage in the smallest possible number of test cases based on your desired level of thoroughness), I'd be happy to give you free licenses.

Free trials of our Hexawise test design tool are available at www.hexawise.com/users/new for anyone.

For anyone else working at non-profits, free licenses of Hexawise are also currently available to Software Testing Club members who work at non-profit groups. Contact me through my STC email if you're interested and I'll get you a free license. (This will probably always remain our policy).

- Justin
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Founder and CEO
Hexawise
"More coverage. Fewer tests."

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Permalink Reply by Jon Salud on August 8, 2009 at 7:13

Justin,

Thanks a lot! I really appreciate the offer. I will register for a free trial of Hexawise and will try it out. I am really interested and will present this to our core group. In any case, I will be in touch.

Again, many, many thanks!

-Jon

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Permalink Reply by Justin Hunter on August 11, 2009 at 10:06

Jon,

Sure. I'm happy to help. Also, you might find the many user comparisons of bug trackers in the following link to be useful to narrow down the right tool for you.

http://ifdefined.com/blog/post/2007/10/Links-to-other-comparisons-o...

Please let me know if you have any questions about how to use our Hexawise test case generator and/or if you have any feedback about things you like, feature requests, things you don't like, etc. Many new users of Hexawise are able to figure out the basic test design concepts of inputting parameters and values into Hexawise as they design straightforward test plans but then run into questions with things like "How much detail should I input for this particular part of the application I'm testing?" etc. It can take some practice and experience to work through where it is important to include more detail vs. other parts of the application being tested that can be appropriately handled with more abstracted / more general treatments like "Valid entry, Invalid entry, or Blank/no entry".

If you have any questions or would like me to review a set of test cases you put together using Hexawise, don't hesitate to ask. I'd be happy to take a quick look and share my comments and questions.

Thanks.

- Justin

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Permalink Reply by Peter L on August 13, 2009 at 12:48

Jon,
You may also want to try http://www.opensourcetesting.org

Peter

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Permalink Reply by Jon Salud on August 14, 2009 at 0:34

Thanks, Peter, I will look into those tools.

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Permalink Reply by Joel Montvelisky on August 14, 2009 at 0:22

Hi Jon,

A bit late, but we also have a free licenses for non-profits at Practitest.

You can also check the demo of the 30 day evaluation from our site (http://www.practitest.com) and if you want to move forward with it, just drop us a line explaining that you are a non-profit and would like to request a free license.

Cheers!

-joel

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Permalink Reply by Jon Salud on August 14, 2009 at 0:35

Great! I will look into the tool as well. Thanks, Joel.

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Permalink Reply by Emile Zwiggelaar on August 14, 2009 at 9:30

You might wanna try Mantis, find it at http://www.mantisbt.org/

(it's referred to in earlier comments allready, but at our company we use it and it seems to meet your req's...)
Regards,
Emile

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