The Optimization Of TESTLINK And MANTIS And Its Application

Software testing is an main method which ensures software quality and reliability,it also plays an important and irreplaceable role in ensuring the software quality. Nowadays, Software companies will have to pay more and more attention and strengthen the software testing to improve their competitiveness. The software testing is a complex process, which runs through the entire project cycle and requires a large human source, material and time. Therefore, organizing testing into the software management process effectively is the main content of software quality control. At the same time, test cases and bug tracking are always the indispensable part of software testing. As a result, with high-quality, comprehensive and practical tools for test management and defect management are the factors essential to the success of the software testing as well as the whole project.TESTLINK and MANTIS both are the use of web page, without additional client side installation, which can log into the system quickly and easily through the IE, Firefox or other browsers too. Both of them are the popular management tools that commonly used in domestic and international, optimizing them would be more beneficial in controlling project quality and managing test processes, to achieve the purpose of test cases and test process optimization in the end.This article firstly describes the effect and significance of software testing in detail, while analyzes the importance of test cases and defect management tools as well as the impact to software testing. Then, base on the situation of TESTLINK and MANTIS using in Hui Xun Software Co. Ltd, explain issue, analyze defect and then leads to the requirement of test cases and bug tracking tools improving. Develop a series of optimization points by actual analysis, data collection and research. Design a rectification plan to integrate and optimize them, including: creating new bug intelligently, which can reduce time of manual operation; besides, configuring the defects associated management in TESTLINK, which can trace the defects status. Similarly, making the TESTLINK cases associated with MANTIS bugs so that we can refer test case and generate report .etc. Via using PHP language to add, delete and modify data to complete the implementation. Finally, this will be verified by an example of the integrated and intimidated function to achieve win-win situation, benefit the staff in entire project test quality management and improvement.