Hosted Platforms adding value to QA
Hosted platforms like Testopia, Mantis and Redmine help Customer-vendor/service provider collaboration for Information transfer and QA progress visibility in an outsourced engagement.
Testopia (An integration of TestRunner Test bench management platform with Bugzilla, a Defect management platform), offers mutual visibility & collaborative leverage on all structured phases of a QA exercise starting from Test Case creation to Defect reporting, through the intermediary stage of Test run creation. A Test run is the execution of a partial set of Test cases, as per Testopia terminology.