{"id":6203,"date":"2013-02-28T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2559563"},"modified":"2013-02-28T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T14:39:00","slug":"a-cloud-based-testing-tool-for-the-budget-minded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/a-cloud-based-testing-tool-for-the-budget-minded\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cloud-Based Testing Tool for the Budget-Minded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a low-cost cloud-based QA testing tool hits the market. After an extensive beta program by software testers at 500 companies from 23 countries, QASymphony announced general availability of qTest, a cloud-based enterprise test management solution.<br \/>\nThe testing tool is aimed at small and growing QA teams looking to escape the heavy lifting and expense required from enterprise-focused systems such as HP Quality Center.<br \/>\nIts vendor claims qTest is on par with large enterprise systems, yet unlike those heavyweights the platform\u2019s SaaS subscription model makes it a low-risk proposition to pilot and adopt.<br \/>\nAt a scant $20 per user per month, it certainly offers teams an affordable path towards formalizing their quality control procedures.<br \/>\nThe tool offers a collaborative work environment for teams to manage requirements, design test cases, plan test execution, track defects, and generate status and quality-metrics reports. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2559563\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a low-cost cloud-based QA testing tool hits the market. After an extensive beta program by software testers at 500 companies from 23 countries, QASymphony announced general availability of qTest, a cloud-based enterprise test management soluti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}