Sony is recognized the world over as the leading manufacturer of audio, video, communications, and information technology products for the consumer and professional markets.

They were looking for a customized, distributed QA and Test management system which they could use for managing the testing of certain specialized products and for collaboration between test engineers and leads, beta testers and developers.

We developed a web based application using open source technologies on the PHP and MySQL platform that addressed all of their requirements and allowed them to efficiently track and manage their testing activities.

The main features of the application were:

• Centralized QA management system with extensive use of AJAX to provide spontaneous feedback to users and improved usability.
• Support for their complete Software Quality Assurance processes.
• Online Test Planning and creation.
• Preparation of test cases and test metrics.
• Management of bug dependencies and selection of test cases based on modules in the build cycle.
• Scheduling and execution of the test cases.
• Bug reporting and assignment of bugs, reporting of bug fixes.
• Regression planning and scheduling.
• Dashboard for bugs reported, test execution progress and burn down charts.
• Secure environment for providing access to the web application to authorized users.