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The following are another free Quality Assurance and Software Testing tools for best, good, or emerging free Quality Assurance and Software Testing tool identification and evaluation. Enjoy the list below.

Tracking System

1. f2w Helpdesk - f2w Helpdesk is a helpdesk support system based on requests (some people call them tickets), with a simple web interface. Requests can be classified into categories and assigned a priority… read more | New

Test Automation

1. BuildBot - The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly… read more | New

Unit Testing

1. C Unit Tester - C Unit Tester (CUT) is designed to aid the C (or C-derived language) programmer in implementing unit or programmer tests, primarily to facilitate test-driven development practices… read more | New

2. jf-unittest - jf-unittest is a C++ unit test framework modeled after the way the Python unittest module is used in the Confix test suites. It was written out of frustration with the existing unittest frameworks… read more | New

Memory Usage Tracker and Leak Finder

1. MemCheck Deluxe - MemCheck Deluxe is a memory usage tracker and leak finder. It allows developers to find memory leaks quickly, as well as providing some memory usage information… read more | New

2. Memwatch - Memwatch is a fault tolerant (can repair its own data structures) memory leak and corruption detection tool. You add a header file to your souce code files, and compile with MEMWATCH defined or not… read more | New

3. diapergluforth - diapergluforth lets you access functions in shared object libraries without having to recompile against the library’s header files. It also tracks buffer allocations and automatically frees them when you exit… read more | New

4. memcheck - memcheck provides the ability to fault on pointer overrun (read or write) or freed pointer deference (read or write), logs double free and realloc of already freed pointers and memory not freed on exit, checks for pointer underrun on free and realloc… read more | New

PNG, JNG, and MNG Testing

1. pngcheck - pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files (by checking the internal 32-bit CRCs [checksums] and decompressing the image data); it can optionally dump almost all of the chunk-level info in the image in human-readable form… read more | New

In developing a software organization’s policy and strategy, one can manage their Tracking System tools to support and improve their operation and total life cycle performance. And in the light of the impact on business, society, customer and people, the following are free Tracking System tools for best, good, or emerging Tracking System tool identification and evaluation.

Tracking System

1. Bosco - Bosco is a rewrite of the popular Bugzilla defect tracking software in PHP. It is database-independent, and aims to be easy to maintain and modify. It also has an API to allow external applications to work with its data… read more

2. Bug-A-Boo - Bug-A-Boo is a bug reporting and tracking system that runs on any Web server that supports CGI. It can handle any number of projects, users, and bug classifications, and is really flexible in their setup… read more

3. Bugdar - Bugdar is a free, fast, and powerful bug tracker just took another large leap in terms of features and speed. Bugdar 1.2 hosts a series of new features, but fixes, speed enhancements, and minor tinkering… read more

4. Bugtrack - Bugtrack is a Web-based bug tracking system written in Perl. It supports multiple users and projects with multiple components and versions, provides e-mail notification, and should work with any DBI compliant database… read more

5. Bugzilla - Bugzilla is the leading open-source/free software bug tracking system. It is server software designed to help you manage software development… read more

6. Double Choco Latte - Double Choco Latte is a system for tracking bugs, changes and enhancements to software, and requests for software. It is suitable for multiple products and multiple accounts (clients)… read more

7. EnterTrack - EnterTrack is an open source web-based artifact tracking/management system written in PHP. EnterTrack is derived from Issue-Tracker v4.0.1 (www.issue-tracker.com) and adds a number of features particularly useful to larger groups… read more

8. Eventum - Eventum is a user-friendly and flexible issue tracking system that can be used by a support department to track incoming technical support requests, or by a software development team to quickly organize tasks and bugs… read more

9. GNU GNATS - GNU GNATS is a set of tools for tracking bugs reported by users to a central site. It allows problem report management and communication with users via various means… read more

10. Mantis - Mantis is a free popular web-based bugtracking system. It is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver. Mantis has been installed on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, OS/2, and others… read more

11. OTRS - OTRS is an Open source Ticket Request System with many features to manage customer telephone calls and e-mails. It allows your support, sales, pre-sales, billing, internal IT, helpdesk, etc. department to react quickly to inbound inquiries… read more

12. RT: Request Tracker - RT is an enterprise-grade ticketing system which enables a group of people to intelligently and efficiently manage tasks, issues, and requests submitted by a community of users… read more

13. Roundup - Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry “Track” design competition… read more

14. gwyple - gwyple is a GUI, implemented in Perl and Perl/Tk, for handling bug reports. These reports usually arrive by email, are stored by helper scripts called from procmail, and can then be organized by gwyple independently from the used BTS… read more

15. pg Request Tracker 2/3 Report - pg Request Tracker 2/3 Report is a set of tools for generating reports for Request Tracker 2/3 (RT 2/3). Currently, it only supports the Postgres (”pg”) and MySQL backends… read more

16. phpBugTracker - phpBugTracker is a web-based bug tracker with functionality similar to other issue tracking systems, such as Bugzilla. Design focuses on separating the presentation, application, and database layers… read more

17. phpSupport 5.0 - phpSupport 5.0 is your customer friendly trouble ticket system. With 5.0 you allow users to register to open trouble tickets and keep track of their tickets… read more