Plan, organize and collaborate

Meliora Testlab allows you to design and keep your specification related assets up to date with intuitive requirement management features. With hierarchical tree-like specification structure, in-built review process, requirement traceability tracking, change history, file attachments and many other usability features Meliora Testlab guides your work to achieve a good foundation on your soon to be designed test plan.

A good specification process enhances communication between parties and drives collaboration between the supplier and the customer. 

 

Visualize and report

Testlab provides you with reporting features to get up-to-date PDF-formatted reports of your project’s specification as listings and as graphs with the progress of your testing in mind.

 

Adapt to your workflow

The so called requirement management in Testlab is process agnostic and allows you to model your application in a best possible way for your needs: apply user stories, use cases or business requirements as needed. If needed, you can customize the workflow for your requirements to match your way your working and add the needed customized fields for your assets.

Remember that efficient testing is always based on application specification. For example, if you are using agile methods and designing the application in sprints producing fully functional features Testlab suits this well: your requirement design, test planning, execution and issue management cycle is just shorter. 

 

Get verified

Testlab has simple yet powerful interface which allows you to put your effort on the thinking the test cases – not thinking how and where to put them. Test cases are easily repeatable steps of instructions for your testers to verify that your application works as planned. With intuitive execution step oriented paradigm, rich-text editing, file attachments and change history designing and keeping test cases up to date is easy.

 

Track changes and versions

All changes in your in test cases are automatically tracked and reported. When you’ve planned and accepted test cases as ready and edit them later on Testlab automatically freezes the old version and creates a new version under the hood for you. Separately archived old versions of ready-accepted test cases and live change tracking keeps the old details of your tests at your fingertips always when you need them.

 

Achieve repeatibility

Organizing test cases to repeatable sets of tests makes it possible to plan your testing ahead and help you in ensuring that each version of your application is tested coherently. Test sets can be seen as templates with which you can add the needed test runs and assign the added runs to testers in your team.

 

Execute tests

For testers Meliora Testlab offers an intuitive in-built user interface for running of tests which guides the testing work by presenting the needed assets for tester and recording the test results as they are entered.

 

Record issues

To make sure defects will be dealt with they are recorded as issues during the testing. Added issues are automatically tied to your current test case and test run to achieve good transparency from the issue to the tested feature. 

 

Track the progress

As soon as the test case has been tested Testlab has that information. You can track test execution in real time without the need to collect the data from each tester.

 

Re-test with ease

To avoid regression and verifying fixed issues re-testing is essential. To pick the test cases needed for re-testing Testlab helps you with a set of quick filters for easy picking.

 

Estimate testing effort

As you execute your test cases Testlab automatically tracks the time taken for each execution. Access the average execution times for your test cases easily and easily report statistical metrics for a set of test cases from your project.

 

Track issues

Testlab integrates a fully featured issue tracking system with rich-text editing, configurable issue workflows, file attachments, change history, customizable fields and commenting which makes it effortless to make issue management an integral part of your quality process.

 

Achieve traceability

Integrating issue management directly to test management system is essential for issue traceability and powerful reporting. Testlab offers reporting and coverage views on your application’s features to track issues still to be dealt with.

Good traceability in your application quality helps you to point out where the problems are and direct your testing efforts in as efficient way as possible.

 

Get notified

Timeliness is a crucial feature in issue management. To help you to keep up with the issues (especially issues assigned for you) Testlab notifies you via e-mail if preferred and offers real time notifications in your user interface about events in your project.

 

Get insight through coverage

From a dedicated test coverage view you can easily see what has been tested for your application. You can drill down to the coverage to see what has been tested for which version of your application, in which test run, what issues are still open and what test cases have failed.

 

Report progress

Tracking the progress of your project should be easy. Testlab offers out-of-box configured reports to track the progress of your testing from requirements’ coverage, test cases’ and issues’ point of view.

 

Track changes and revisions

Testlab tracks changes automatically for your project’s requirements, test cases and issues for you to easily see what has been changes, who has changed what and when. For requirements and test cases already approved as ready Testlab automatically creates new versions under the hood. This archiving helps you in tracking changes in your already approved assets.

 

PDF/Excel/Writer reporting

All reports in Testlab are by default rendered as PDF documents. You have an option to export each report as a Excel spreadsheet file for further analysis and in addition, to OpenOffice Writer as an editable document.

 

Customize workflows

Testlab makes it easy to configure workflows for your requirements, test cases and issues. Workflow concept features user role bound actions which transition the asset from a state to another. We’ve pre-thinked a set of default workflows for you to use to make the start easy for you. 

 

Add custom fields

Have some data you would like to store with your requirements, test cases or issues ? No problem – Testlab offers a set of customizable fields which allow you to define the needed set of data to fulfill the needs of your testing process.

 

Manage roles

To make permission management easy Meliora Testlab offers you a role based permission model which you can customize for your company if needed.

 

Tagging assets

Ever had a situation where you’d like to pin some data in your system of choice to find it later on or, group it up with similar data ? Testlab implements tagging of assets where you can pin your assets with keywords of your choice. You can tag requirements, test cases, test sets, test runs, issues and reports, find them easily by searching content by tags and use tags as filtering parameters in reporting and coverage analysis. You can even tag multiple assets easily from a tree selection and by filtering the issue listing appropriately.

 

Enjoy modern user interface

The user interface of Testlab is implemented with latest browser technologies to achieve a desktop-like user experience.

 

Use keyboard shortcuts

The most commonly used features of Testlab are tied with keyboard shortcuts. This makes the use of Testlab more productive without too many extra clicks.

 

Drag and drop

The user interface utilizes dragging and dropping for various functions: binding test cases to requirements and managing test sets for example. Files can also be attached to assets by just dropping them on your browser window.

 

Search with ease

Enjoy a fast and thorough searching function to find the assets you are interested in your project. The search is implemented as an always accessible and easy to use component in your Testlab toolbar.

 

Integrate with and automate

Testlab integrates with Atlassian JIRA with a true two-way synchronization protocol, Atlassian Confluence with macros to pull content from Testlab to your site, Jenkins CI integration server to control Jenkins jobs and push automated testing results to your project and centralized authentication solutions such as Microsoft Active Directory.

 

Control and monitor automated tests

Dashboard of Testlab features a widget Jenkins Jobs which enables you to monitor and trigger jobs in your Jenkins CI server. This enables you to view your builds’ trend and latest result, launch builds and easily jump to the needed build related pages in your CI server.

 

Import and export

For easy adoption Testlab offers import feature for your existing test cases, requirements or issues with a CSV format using office tools such as Microsoft Excel. Data from your projects can also be exported in identical format.

Something else ?

We are committed to develop Testlab to a tool that fits best to the QA needs of our customers. We have an feature-togglable cloud based architecture which allows us to develop customer specific extensions under the hood. Development team of Meliora is open for any feature requests from our customers to ensure that the tool is in use as efficiently as possible.