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I have mostly worked on hardware testing in my professional career and would like to get onto the software development side. I thought working on a practically usable project will help motivate me and help acquire some skills. I have decided to build a test plan management tool for the QA team I work in (We use excel sheets!). The test plan management tool should be browser based and should support this: There would be many test plans, each test plan having test sets, test sets having test cases and test cases having instructions, attachments and Pass/fail status marking and bug info in case of failure. It should also have an export to excel option. I have a visual picture of the tool I am looking to build but I don't have enough experience to figure our where to start.

My current programming skills are limited to C and shell programming and I want to pick up python.

What tools (programming language, database and anything else?) would you recommend for me to get this done? Also what are the key concepts in the recommended programming language that I should focus on to build a browser based tool like this?

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Why aren't you using a spread sheet in Google Documents? – S.Lott Feb 23 '11 at 18:06

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I am guessing you were really after writing your own tool, but if you really need one a good one to review is HP Quality Center.

I am not a QA person but the company I work for uses this software and our QA guys think its great.

Maybe it will give you some ideas of extra features to add to you own tool.

Good Luck

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As another data point, as a tester, I actually dislike HP Quality Center enough that I found I was skipping job ads that mentioned the company used it. – testerab Feb 26 '11 at 22:24
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its good as a concept, but as a tool it falls into the 'enterprise java tool' bucket - unpleasant to actually use, once you've got the security reduced enough to install the applets in IE (only IE). – gbjbaanb May 11 '11 at 10:08
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You could try TestRail - I've not used it but it certainly looks good, and integrates with quite a few bugtracking tools.

I've seen XStudio too, which looks interesting.

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