A Case for Test Case Web

One piece of software I’ve been experimenting with is Test Case Web (Online Demo), Of all of the open-source web test case software, this one was among the least difficult to fix from the broken state it was in when I downloaded it to my test server. Unfortunately the reason for the ease installing is that it is very bare bones. It does have some excellent functionality in the ability to just toss random html in the test cases, it lacks the ability to part out test cases and re-use those parts beyond simple copy and paste operations.

Normally TCW would be a keeper despite the bare-bones appearence.
However, due to mysterious errors I am getting (really, it just says “Database error!” without any extra debugging information), and the fact that the developer’s e-mail address bounces, I’m going to have to move on to my next test case software (Mozilla project’s Testopia/TestRunner).

If you force the debugging information on - tcw/includio.fil line 23, change $SQLDEBUG=$_GET['dbdb']; to $SQLDEBUG=1; - you get slightly more information, but not really enough to fix the problem. I suspect this would turn out to be a comedy of errors if I continued onwards with trying to force it to work, though I may have to anyway if I can’t find another solution.

No food for test team unless you make with the clicky-clicky:
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