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April 30, 2008

Added LogStomper from BugStomper Software to the Miscellaneous Tools list.
Added DevCreek from Intelliware Development Inc. to the Miscellaneous Tools list.

April 22, 2008

Updated TestTrack TCM from Seapine Software on the Testcase Management Tools list.
Updated TestTrack Pro from Seapine Software on the Defect Tracking Tools list.
Updated QA Wizard Pro from Seapine Software on the Test Drivers list (formerly called "QA Wizard").

March 24, 2008

Several changes on the Defect Tracking Tools list -

Removed Pragmatic Software Company's Defect Tracker. They are no longer marketing the tool, though they are marketing Software Planner, which includes a defect tracking feature. Note that New Fire also sells a tool named Defect Tracker, which is still on the market.
Removed Neuma Technology Corporation's NeumaPT tool. They no longer sell this tool, though their configuration management tool includes a problem tracking feature.
Removed Avensoft's Perfect Tracking, which is no longer available. Added Avensoft's Bug Tracker Server.
Removed Most Media's ProjectPortal. The tool is no longer availaable, and was last captured on archive.org in August 2003. The company says that other tools named ProjectPortal are not related.
Removed Eden Communications' ProjectTrack Bug Tracker. The tool's web site is no longer up. Eden Communications was acquired by UNICOM Systems, Inc., which sells the possibly related Issue Tracker for Lotus Notes.
Updated Remedy Quality Management with the new name BMC Remedy Quality Management. Remedy Corporation was acquired by BMC some time ago.
Changed the name of SilkRadar to SilkCentral Issue Manager.
Removed Team Tracker. The vendor, hs technologies pty ltd., doesn't seem to be in business any longer.

March 21, 2008

Updated Bugcentral.com from Bugcentral Inc. on the Defect Tracking Tools list.
Updated Telelogic Change on the Defect Tracking Tools List to reflect a name change from Telelogic ChangeSynergy.
Remove BugLink from the Defect Tracking Tools list. The tool is no longer on the market.
Corrected numerous errors in the Boneyard caused by an earlier database move.

March 20, 2008

Removed BugCollector Pro, sold by Nesbitt Software Corporation, from the Defect Tracking Tools page. The company's web site is no longer up.
Removed Fe Software & Development's Bug Cracker from the Defect Tracking Tools page. The company's web site is no longer up.

March 18, 2008

Added DevSuite from TechExcel, Inc. to the Bundled Tool Suites list.

February 26, 2008

Added NCQA to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.

February 13, 2008

Added incisif.net from InCisif.net to the GUI Test Drivers list.

February 12, 2008

Added Ranorex from Ranorex GmbH to the GUI Test Drivers list.
Updated the contact information for T-Plan Limited.
Added SQL DB Validator from C and C Productions to the Test Implementation Tools list.

February 8, 2007

Changed the name of McCabe & Associates, Inc. to McCabe Software, Inc., and updated McCabe's tool listings -

Added McCabe IQ to the Test Coverage Tools list.
Removed McCabe Test, McCabe TestCompress (both on the Test Design Tools list) and McCabe QA (Static Analysis Tools list). All are now incorporated into McCabe IQ.

February 7, 2008

Added the following entries to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.

January 9, 2008

Updated Scapa Test and Performance Platform from Scapa Technologies on the Load and Performance Tools list.
Added the open source csvdiff tool to the Test Implementation Tools list.
Added PesterCat from PesterCat LLC to the GUI Test Drivers list.
Added Atreides Technologies to the Boneyard. They sold the AT-Project bug tracking tool, but are no longer reachable.

January 4, 2008

Added LISA Integration Testing from iTKO, Inc. to the Test Design Tools list.

December 27, 2007

Added LISA Virtual Service Environment from iTKO, Inc. to the Test Implementation Tools list.
Added LISA Load & Performance Testing from iTKO, Inc. to the Load and Performance Tools list.

December 19, 2007

Added LISA Functional Testing from iTKO, Inc. to the GUI Test Drivers list.
Added LISA Business Process Validation from iTKO, Inc. to the Test Design Tools list.
Added LISA Continuous Validation Service from iTKO, Inc. to the Test Implementation Tools list.

December 6, 2007

Updated STAG Software Private Limited's entry on the Testing Courses list.
Added the freeware tool VNCRobot to the GUI Test Drivers list.

December 5, 2007

Added vPerformer from Verisium, Inc. to the Load and Performance Tools list.
Removed ReliAgent from the Load and Performance Tools list. The company is no longer reachable.
Added a stub entry for Automated Test Designer (ATD) from AtYourSide Consulting to the Testcase Management Tools page.

November 1, 2007

Removed Migration Software Systems, Ltd. from the Contractors & Consultants List. The company is no longer reachable.
Added Wilson-Quality Consulting to the Contractors & Consultants List. Its principal consultant Rodney Wilson used to be Director of QA Technology for Migration Software Systems.

October 22, 2007

Added AppLabs Technologies to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Added Testhouse Ltd. to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Added Moniforce to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Added Pretty Good Testing to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.

October 18, 2007

The Boneyard is now included in the custom search index along with the tools.

October 17, 2007

Added xmlMessageTest from SmartEdge LLC to the Unit Test Tools list.
Updated the courses from STAG Software Pvt LtdSTAG Software Pvt Ltd on the Testing Courses List.
Updated kSETT from Software SETT Corporation on the Testcase Management Tools list.
Added CoverageMeter from CoverageMeter to the Test Coverage Tools list.

October 12, 2007

Added Insight Test Services Ltd to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Added the open source tool pywinauto to the GUI Test Drivers list.
Added Paul Jacques to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Added R&B Software Testing to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.

October 11, 2007

Updated Orlando Castro's entry on the Contractors & Consultants List, changing the company name to Software Regulatory Services.

October 9, 2007

Removed Compaq IQ Center New England from the Contractors & Consultants List. The organization is no longer reachable.
Removed Vermont Software Testing Group from the Contractors & Consultants List, and removed their Dragonfly tool from the Defect Tracking Tools list. The company is no longer reachable.
Removed Ashutosh Chandra from the Contractors & Consultants List. The email address provided is no longer working.
Removed Bulldog Partners, Inc. from the Contractors & Consultants List. The former Colorado-based company is no longer in business.
Updated the entry for Hughes Software Systems (HSS) on the Contractors & Consultants List to reflect the name change to Aricent.
Updated Prabodhan Infosystems Pvt. Ltd. on the Contractors & Consultants List to reflect the name change to Verisoft Infosystems and new location.

October 8, 2007

Added IssueNet Intercept from Elsinore Technologies to the Defect Tracking Tools list.
Added Blue Star Infotech Ltd. to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Removed RedLine Software from the Testing Contractors and Consultants List. The company is no longer reachable. It's hard to tell whether this Virginia, USA-based consultancy, whose principal engineer was cited as the author of the Performix/EMPOWER tool, has any relationship to other companies with the same name.
Removed AvaTech, Inc. from the Testing Contractors and Consultants List. The company is no longer reachable.
Removed Uniscape from the Testing Contractors and Consultants List. The company is no longer reachable.
Updated AZOR, Inc. on the Contractors & Consultants List, including a name change to Gregory M. Pope Consulting.
Removed Perisol Technology from the Contractors & Consultants List. Their web site went offline some time between August and December 2006. The company's software services devision seems to have been spun off into EvolveWare, Inc.
Removed Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc. (CleanSoft) from the Contractors & Consultants List. Michael Deck has closed the practice.
Removed CSST Technologies, Inc. from the Contractors & Consultants List. Daniel Mosley has retired.

October 5, 2007

Removed Serena's PVCS Tracker/Merant Tracker from the Defect Tracking Tools list. Serena now sells Serena TeamTrack instead. Updated the TeamTrack entry to reflect Serena's acquisition of TeamShare, Inc.
Added QuEdge Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Added DrivenQA to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.

October 4, 2007

I accidentally left the Workshop On Performance and Reliability (WOPR) off of the last change log entry for the Testing Conferences List, but it has been listed there from the beginning.
Added the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON) to the Testing Conferences List.
Added the Montreal Workshop on Internationalized Software Testing (MOIST) to the Testing Conferences List.
Removed the link to the ACR Library of Programmer's and Developer's Tools from the Other Sources of Tool Information page. It is no longer sold by Applied Computer Research, Inc. The link still worked in September 2006 but ACR says the report was off the market before then.
Removed the bibliography of test tool reviews from the Other Sources of Tool Information page, which hadn't been updated recently.

October 2, 2007

Announcing a new page on the site - the Testing Conferences List. My goal is to have a comprehensive list of conferences and peer workshops that focus on software testing and quality assurance. I'll still be chasing down leads for a while, but I might as well announce what I have so far. The conferences listed so far are:

Intercontinental: Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC), IFIP International Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems (TestCom), International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Validation (ICST), International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), World Congress for Software Quality (WCSQ)
Asia: ASTA Software Testing Conference & Tutorials, International Conference on Software Test Engineering, Process & Automation (STEP-Auto), International Software Testing Conference in India (STC)
Australia: Software Testing Australia/New Zealand (STANZ)
Europe: Conference on Quality Engineering in Software Technology (CONQUEST), International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP), Quality Assurance Management & Technologies Conference (QAMT), SIGIST Conference, Software & Systems Quality Conference (SQC), Software Testing Analysis & Review Europe (EuroSTAR), Software-QS-Tag, Swiss Testing Day (STD), Test, Analyse und Verifikation von Software (GI-TAV), Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference (TAIC PART), The London Exploratory Workshop in Testing (LEWT), expo:QA
North America: Austin Workshop on Test Automation (AWTA), Better Software Conference & Expo (BSC), Conference of the Association for Software Testing (CAST), FutureTest, International Conference on Practical Software Quality and Testing (PSQT), International Conference on Software Process Improvement (ICSPI), International Conference on Software Quality (ICSQ), International IT Quality Conference, Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC), QAI's Annual Software Testing Conference, Software Engineering Process Group Conference (SEPG), Software Test & Performance Conference (STPCON), Software Testing in Financial Services Workshop (STiFS), Software Testing, Analysis, and Review East (STAREAST), Software Testing, Analysis, and Review West (STARWEST), VERIFY, Workshop on Heuristic & Exploratory Techniques (WHET), Workshop on Open Certification of Software Testers (WOC), Workshop on Regulated Software Testing (WREST), Workshop on Teaching Software Testing (WTST), Worldwide Quality Software & Testing Conference

October 1, 2007

Added JBlitz Pro from Clan Productions to the Load and Performance Tools list. Many thanks for the PayPal donation.

August 28, 2007

Added QTPGenie from Sierra Atlantic, Inc. to the Miscellaneous Tools list.
Added DevTest from TechExcel, Inc. to the Testcase Management Tools list.
Added the open source tool Salomé TMF to the Testcase Management Tools list.
Added TestUP from InformUP to the Testcase Management Tools list.
Removed EasyTest from the Testcase Management Tools list. ID Consultants has rebranded the tool as DuxQA, which has now been moved to the Testcase Management Tools list.

August 27, 2007

Updated the entries for the freeware formerly distributed by Pierce Business Systems, which is no longer in business: Test Case Manager (TCM) - Testcase Management Tools, Buggit - Defect Tracking Tools, and MDBDiff - Test Implementation Tools. The tools are still available on other sites, except for the Access 97 version of TCM - the URLs have been updated.
Removed TEO from the Testcase Management Tools list. The vendor, GAKO Informatique, is no longer reachable.
Updated Test Manager on the Testcase Management Tools page to reflect a change in the vendor's name from Launch Software Ltd to Durable Software Ltd.

August 23, 2007

Several changes to the Testcase Management Tools page.

Removed QCIT. The vendor, QIS (Quality Information Systems), took down their web site in November, 2002. The company also sold the WinEZ and Architect tools.
Moved Aegis to the Miscellaneous Tools list, because its primary function is not testcase management.
Removed Aptest's Testify tool, which is no longer on the market. They still sell ApTest Manager.

August 23, 2007

Removed AutoTester's tools: AutoAdviser, TestStation, and Test Library Manager (Testcase Management Tools), AutoTester for Windows and AutoTester for OS/2 (GUI Test Drivers), AutoTester Client/Server for SAP R/3 (Test Drivers), AutoController and AutoController with Virtual DirectTest (Load and Performance Tools). Their web site went offline in July 2007 and their phone is disconnected.

August 22, 2007

Removed tools from QES, Inc. - their qestest.com web site is no longer online. Removed QES/Architect and QES/EZ from the Testcase Management Tools list, QES/DatEZ from the Test Design Tools list, and QES/EZ for GUI from the GUI Test Drivers list.

August 17, 2007

Updated the Unit Test Tools list:

Added the open source mockpp tool.
Removed Testwell's CTB (C Test Bed System). The tool is no longer on the market.
Removed the freeware cUnit tool that was hosted on the now-defunct codefactory.se site. A different tool named cUnit is still alive and well on SourceForge.

August 16, 2007

Added a stub entry for JStudio SiteWalker from Jarsch Software JStudio to the GUI Test Drivers list.
Updated Mercury's tools to reflect the acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. Updated TestDirector (now called Mercury TestDirector for Quality Center), and combined WinRunner and QuickTest Pro into a Mercury Functional Testing entry.

August 15, 2007

Added TestTrack TCM from Seapine Software to the Testcase Management Tools list.

August 14, 2007

Added QAS.TCS (Test Case Studio) from OBJENTIS Software Integration GmbH to the Testcase Management Tools list.

August 29, 2007

Several updates to the Defect Tracking Tools list:

Added QAS.PTAR (Problem Tracking and Reporting) from OBJENTIS Software Integration GmbH.
Added Bug Trail from Osmosys.
Added BugUP from InformUP.
Updated T-Plan Incident Manager from T-Plan.
Added the open source tool JTrac.
Updated the URL for the open source tool Mantis.
Added the open source tool Trac.
Updated Bug Station from Bugopolis LLC.

May 9, 2007

Updated TestComplete to reflect a name change from AQTest, and moved it from the Unit Test Tools list to the GUI Test Drivers list to better fit the primary features of the tool.

May 8, 2007

Updated Web Performance Suite on the Load and Performance Tools list, formerly called Web Performance Trainer.

April 19, 2007

Added WebCorder from Crimson Solutions Ltd to the GUI Test Drivers list.
Updated three tools from Alvicon: LoadManager on the Load and Performance Tools list, TestManager on the Test Drivers list, and JavaCov on the Test Coverage Tools list.

April 5, 2007

Updated Tejas Software Consulting on the Testing Contractors and Consultants List. Yes, that's me, and boy was it due for an update.

March 27, 2007

Added OpenLoad from OpenDemand Systems, Inc. to the Load and Performance Tools list.
Added DTM DB Stress from DTM soft to the Load and Performance Tools list.
Updated PolySpace (formerly called PolySpace verifier) from PolySpace Technologies Inc. on the Static Analysis Tools list.

March 7, 2007

Updated Quardev, Inc. (formerly referred to here as Quardev Laboratories) on the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Added eTest IT, Inc. to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Added SAPTAN Consulting to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
Added Tescom USA to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.

February 28, 2007

It's time to send out another edition of Testing FAQ News, which is when I always take a moment to thank the sponsors who help keep this site running:

It's overwhelming when I list them like that - I'm very grateful to all the companies who see testingfaqs.org as a resource worth paying for.

February 23, 2007

Testingfaqs.org moved to a higher-capacity server today, so hopefully performance and reliability will be better. Let me know if you see any problems on the site.
Added Squish from froglogic GmbH to the GUI Test Drivers list.
Added DTM Data Generator from DTM soft to the Test Design Tools list.

February 2, 2007

Added SpiraTest from Inflectra Corporation to the Testcase Management Tools list.

January 30, 2007

Updated the Test Implementation Tools list:

Added vSIM from veriSMART Software.
Removed James Veale's Complite File Comparison Family. The web site for the tool no longer works.
Removed SilkRealizer. It's not clear whether Borland dropped it after acquiring Segue or is selling it under a different name.

January 25, 2007

Removed OTF (Object Testing Framework) from the Unit Test Tools list. The vendor, MCG Software, Inc., is no longer reachable.
Removed TBGEN (Test Bed Generator for Ada) from the Unit Test Tools list. Testwell took the tool off the market.

January 24, 2007

Updated the Test Drivers and Test Suite Management Tools list:

Add the freeware tool actiWATE from Actimind, Inc.
Updated VersaTest to reflect the vendor's name change from SoftSell to Ascert, and updated the vendor contact information.
Updated MYNAH to reflect the vendor name change eons ago from Bellcore to Telcordia Technology, Inc.

And something I've been needing to do for a long time - I split the ponderously named Test Drivers and Test Suite Management Tools page into a Test Drivers page and a Test Management Tools page. Let me know if you think I miscategorized anything.

January 23, 2007

Sorry about the long hiatus. I got overbooked for a while.

Updated BUGtrack to reflect the vendor's name change from SkyeyTech, Inc. last fall to ForeSoft Corporation, and updated the vendor's contact information.

Changes prior to 2007

Notes on previous changes are archived here.

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