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November 5, 2011

  • Updated SpiraTest from Inflectra Corporation on the Testcase Management Tools list.

November 1, 2011

  • Added Rapise from Inflectra Corporation to the GUI Test Drivers list.

October 23, 2011

  • Added AppLoader from NRG Global, Inc. to the Load and Performance Tools list.
  • Added AppsWatch from NRG Global to the Load and Performance Tools list.

October 17, 2011

  • Updated PVS-Studio from OOO "Program Verification Systems" on the Static Analysis Tools list. The tool was formerly called Viva64.

October 13, 2011

  • Updated csvdiff on the Test Implementation Tools list.

October 10, 2011


October 2, 2011

  • Added AgitarOne from Agitar Software to the Unit Test Tools list.

February 24, 2011

  • Added LoadStorm to the Load and Performance Tools list.

August 4, 2010

  • Added PractiTest from PractiTest Ltd. to the Testcase Management Tools list.

December 28, 2009

  • Added Sentry from Vigilant Software, LLC. to the Static Analysis Tools list.

December 4, 2009

  • Added Testuff to the Testcase Management Tools list.

September 6, 2009

  • Updated JStudio SiteWalker Professional from Jarsch Software Studio on the GUI Test Drivers list.
  • Updated QEngine from ZOHO Corporation (formerly AdventNet, Inc) on the Load and Performance Tools list.
  • Udpated VectorCAST from Vector Software, Inc. on the Unit Test Tools list.

August 23, 2009

  • Updated WebLOAD Professional from RadView on the Load and Performance Tools list.
  • Updated PesterCat from PesterCat LLC on the GUI Test Drivers list.

May 10, 2009

  • Added web2test from itcampus to the GUI Test Drivers list.

April 24, 2009

  • Updated BenderRBt from Bender RBT, Inc on the Test Design Tools list.

April 10, 2009

  • Added Viva64 from OOO "Program Verification Systems" to the Static Analysis Tools list.
  • Added Charles C. Howe, CSQA, CSTE, CSTM to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.
  • Added Qcon to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.

April 9, 2009

  • Added Load Impact's Load Impact to the Load and Performance Tools list.
  • Updated qftestJUI from Quality First Software GmbH, and changed the name to QF-Test.

April 8, 2009

  • Added Loadtracer from Trace Technologies Pvt. Ltd to the Load and Performance Tools list.
  • Added SQL Stress Test from Agilist Technologies Inc. to the Load and Performance Tools list.
  • Added USBTester from Jungo Ltd to the Test Implementation Tools list.

April 1, 2009

  • Empirix sold the e-TEST suite to Oracle Corporation. Removed e-Tester, e-Monitor, and e-Load. Also removed d-Tracker, which doesn't seem to be on the market now. Added a stub for Oracle Application Testing Suite.
  • Added a stub for Empirix's Hammer Test Engine.

March 31, 2009

More changes on the Contractors & Consultants List:

March 30, 2009

More changes on the Contractors & Consultants List:
  • Removed Automated Testing Specialists (ATS). The company is no longer reachable.
  • Removed inQA.labs, which was acquired by Sogeti. Added a stub listing for Sogeti.
  • Removed Test & Caetera. Their web site is no longer functional.
  • Removed Bulldog Partners, Inc. The company has disappeared. Thought I had removed it earlier.
  • Removed Sundial Support Limited. There was no web site listed, and the email address for the company is no longer valid.
  • Removed Sona Global. The company is no longer reachable.
  • Removed enterpriseQA, Inc. Another company that disappeared.
  • Replaced the entry for Ready Test Go with a stub for CSS Corporation. CSS acquired Ready Test Go.
  • Removed XP Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. The company's web site has changed hands.
  • Removed tnd labs (software) Pvt Ltd. Also no longer reachable.
  • Removed Kenneth D. Brown's listing. Ditto.
  • Removed Brainwave Solutions. Ditto.
  • Removed Surton Limited. Ditto.

March 27, 2009

Several changes on the Contractors & Consultants List:
  • Removed Ovation Software Testing, Inc. The company is no longer reachable.
  • Removed SWQuality, Inc. The owner is retired.
  • Removed Crisis Testing Center. The company is no longer in business.
  • Updated the VeriTest entry to reflect the acquisition by Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.
  • Removed Software QA Associates (from Rhinebeck, NY) - they are no longer in business.

March 26, 2009

  • Removed QualTech International Pty. Ltd. from the Contractors and Consultants List. The company was acquired by Revolution IT, which now has a stub entry on the list..
  • Changed the name of Inspection and Testing Solutions to OCS Consulting Plc on the Contractors & Consultants List, to match the company's current name. There seems to have been an acquisition or name change several years ago.
  • Replaced the QA Labs entry on the Contractors & Consultants List - they are now a division of UST Global.

March 25, 2009

  • Updated Brian Marick's entry on the Contractors & Consultants List to reflect the name change from Testing Foundations to Exampler Consulting.

March 19, 2009

  • Added PowerTest to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List. Many thanks to PowerTest for being a donor.
  • Added to the Testing Conferences List: Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, and the International Conference on Software QA and Testing on Embedded Systems (QA&TEST). Thanks to Steven Woody for the suggestions.
  • Updated QA Wizard Pro from Seapine Software on the Test Drivers page.

March 17, 2009


February 18, 2009

  • Added the SQuAD Software Quality Conference to the Testing Conferences List. I'm now starting to add local conferences to the list.

February 4, 2009

  • Added ZenTEST Labs to the Testing Contractors and Consultants List.

February 3, 2009

  • Removed Flats HelpDesk from the Defect Tracking Tools page. The vendor, WarrinerWare, is no longer reachable.
  • Removed AutomX from the GUI Test Tools page. The vendor, Vantage View Software, no longer has a working web site.
  • Updated Logiscope and Telelogic Change to reflect the acquisition of Telelogic AB by IBM.
  • Removed TALC2000 from the Test Drivers page. The vendor, Tallecom Software, seems to be defunct.

February 2, 2009

  • Removed Integra Enterprise from the Test Implementation Tools list. The vendor, Solstice Software, was acquired by Green Hat Software and the tool seems to have been incorporated into Green Hat's tools.
  • Removed Software SETT Corporation from the Contractors & Consultants List and the Courses List, and removed their kSETT tool from the Testcase Management Tools page. The company is no longer reachable.
  • Removed the open source Android tool from the GUI Test Tools list. It no longer seems to be available.
  • Updated vendor information for ExtraView to reflect the name change from Sesame Technology to ExtraView Corporation.

January 29, 2009

  • Added a URL for Satheesh Kumar's entry on the Contractors and Consultants list.
  • Updated vendor information for Polyspace, reflecting the acquisition of PolySpace Technologies Inc. by The MathWorks, Inc.
  • Removed tools from Princeton Softech Inc. The company was acquired by IBM, which may have incorporated some of the tools into IBM's Optim product. Tools removed: Compare for Servers, Move for Servers, Edit for Servers, Access for DB2, Compare for DB2, Move for DB2, and Move for Legacy.

January 26, 2009

  • Removed Red Horizon's SourceAction tool from the Defect Tracking Tools page. The company is no longer reachable.

January 9, 2009

  • Removed Pikon Innovations' Track'em tool from the Defect Tracking Tools list. The company's domain name has been abandoned.

January 3, 2009

  • Removed loadtesting.com's Portent tool from the Load and Performance Tools page. The web site is no longer working.

January 2, 2009


December 30, 2008

  • Added TestExplorer from Sirius Software Quality Associates to the Test Implementation Tools list.

December 19, 2008

  • Removed Lightspeed Software's ChangeCommander from the Defect Tracking Tools page. The company is no longer reachable.
  • Removed Moniforce from the Contractors & Consultants List. They were acquired by Oracle.

December 18, 2008

  • Removed the Glass JAR Toolkit from the Test Coverage Tools page. The vendor, Tester's Edge, Inc., has disappeared.
  • Removed Hindsight/TCA, Hindsight/TPA (both on the Test Coverage Tools page), and Hindsight/SQA (Static Analysis Tools page). They were still listed under IntegriSoft, Inc., which had become Tester's Edge, Inc. in a merger, and both companies are now gone.
  • Removed interNetwork, Inc.'s smartTest from the Load and Performance Tool page. The vendor changed its name to Q Inc and renamed the tool as Q-realTest. Q Inc is no longer reachable.
  • Removed IOS/Track from the Defect Tracking Tools list. The vendor, Interobject Systems, was last seen under the name Atalvo Systems, Inc., and their web site now seems to be owned by an unrelated company.

December 15, 2008

  • Removed IA Technical Consulting from the Contractors & Consultants List. The company is no longer reachable.
  • Removed DuxQA from the Test Management Tools list (though as an incident management tool, it seems misplaced). The vendor, ID Consultants Ltd, no longer has a valid web site.

December 12, 2008

  • Updated Eventcorder suite on the GUI Test Drivers page. The URL has changed, and the vendor name changed from "CM Software" to "CMS."
  • Updated itracker on the Defect Tracking Tools page. The tool now lives at itracker.org rather than cowsultants.com.
  • Changed the maintainer for the Debian Bug Tracking System from Darren Benham to Ian Jackson.
  • Removed defectX from the Defect Tracking Tools page. The company is no longer reachable, with the last appearance on archive.org in 2006 and the last recorded copyright date in 2004.
  • Removed Helis from the Defect Tracking Tools page. Its helis.org site is no longer up.
  • Removed HAHN data & information e.K. from the Contractors & Consultants List. The company is no longer reachable.

December 11, 2008

  • Updated QC/Replay, now called Replay Xcessory, on the GUI Test Drivers page. The tool changed hands when Integrated Computer Solutions acquired CenterLine Development Systems.
  • Removed Centerline's TestCenter tool from the Test Coverage Tools page. The tool is no longer on the market.
  • Removed Test Now from the GUI Test Drivers page. Tom Arnold took down the site that used to host it.

December 10, 2008

  • Removed Bug Tracker Software from the Defect Tracking Tools list. The web site for the tool is no longer valid.
  • Removed BugTracker Software's LogStomper from the Miscellaneous Tools list. The company is no longer reachable.
  • Changed the vendor for Clover on the Test Coverage Tools page. Cenqua Pty Ltd. was acquired by Atlassian Pty Ltd.
  • Reflected an apparent name change from Atlassian Software Systems Pty Ltd. to Atlassian Pty Ltd. and updated their contact information.

December 9, 2008


November 23, 2008

  • Removed WinFeedback from the GUI Test Drivers page. The vendor, Beson Data, has disappeared.

November 22, 2008

  • Removed Applied Innovation Management, Inc.'s Bug/Defect Tracking Expert tool from the Defect Tracking Tools list. The tool disappeared from the market some time between 2004 and 2007.

November 20, 2008

  • Updated the vendor for Malpas. Advantage Business Group (listed here as Advantage Technical Consulting) was acquired by Atkins Limited on March 16, 2007.

November 12, 2008


September 18, 2008

  • Added GH Tester from Green Hat to the Test Implementation Tools list.

September 3, 2008

  • Added ACA Capture Pro from ACASystems to the Test Implementation Tools list.

July 31, 2008

  • Updated Qtest, formerly called QuotiumPro, on the Load and Performance Tools list, on behalf of Quotium Technologies, Inc.

July 28, 2008

  • Added expecco from eXept Software AG to the GUI Test Drivers list.

June 28, 2008

  • Added Accelerated Technology Corporation to the Boneyard. They were acquired by Mentor Graphics Corporation in 2002.
  • Replaced the listing for Accelerated Technology Corporation's E-SIM tool with Mentor Graphics' EDGE SimTest. It's hard to tell whether EDGE SimTest is an evoluation of E-SIM.

June 27, 2008

  • Removed Aamkhao Technologies, Inc. from the Contractors & Consultants list. The company's contact information is no longer valid, and the aamkhao.com web site seemed to changed hands some time between August and October, 2005.

June 26, 2008

  • Added TestTrack Studio from Seapine Software to the Bundled Tool Suites list.
  • Updated Seapine's entries for TestTrack Pro, TestTrack TCM, and QA Wizard.
  • Updated KaNest on the Test Drivers list to reflect the vendor's name change from KaSYS Canada to GALITT Canada.
  • Added IBM's acquisition of Telelogic AB to the Boneyard. IBM seems to be associating Telelogic with its Rational brand.
  • Added Midnight Networks, Inc. to the Boneyard to reflect its acquisition by Teradyne, Inc. back in 1996. Their ANVL tool has passed hands to Teradyne, then Empirix, then Ixia. Updated the entry for ANVL to reflect a new vendor and a name change to IxANVL.

June 25, 2008

  • Updated the contact information for Tevron, LLC to reflect a move from Massachusetts to New Hampshire.

June 3, 2008

  • Added CrashFinder from NeoCom LLC to the GUI Test Drivers list.

June 2, 2008

  • Added fixx from hedgehog lab to the Defect Tracking Tools list.

May 30, 2008

  • Updated RTTS on the Testing Courses List.

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 available, 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, 2008

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


Changes prior to 2008

Notes on previous changes are archived here.


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