1. Testlink Installation Manual
2. Testlink Software
3. Testlink Install
4. Testlink Installation Manual 1.9
5. Testlink User Guide

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• TestLink Tutorial

• TestLink Useful Resources

• Selected Reading

TestLink is a test management tool used for project management, bug tracking and test management. It follows a centralized test management concept that helps to communicate easily for rapid development of tasks across QA teams and other stakeholders. It keeps the requirement specification and test specification in sync.

Points to Note

Following salient features of TestLink need to be noted to understand the topic better.

• TestLink is open source test management tool. There is no license is required to use TestLink.

• It is developed and maintained by Teamtest.

• It is licensed under GPL – General Public License.

• It supports different Windows OS such as Windows XP, Vista, 7, etc. along with other cloud-based support.

• It provides free access to tools for multiple users.

• It can be integrated with many other tools – JIRA, Bugzilla, FogBugz, VersionOne, etc.

TestLink Uses

Following points describe the various usages of TestLink.

• Useful in tracking all QA activities from the first phase of software testing lifecycle.

• Useful in Project Management, Task Tracking, Requirement Management and Test Management.

• Supports all macro level activities performed by QA.

• Useful in performing QA tasks such as writing test cases, execution reports, etc.

• Supports both manual as well as automated test execution.

TestLink Specifications

Following table lists some of the important specifications of TestLink.

• TestLink Tutorial

• TestLink Useful Resources

Testlink Installation Manual

• Selected Reading

Following are some points to note before we go for the installation of TestLink.

• TestLink is a web application; it provides a private website to an individual or a set of requested users belonging to the same company/project.

• TestLink can be run at the server side.

• TestLink is a PHP based application and supports all OS platforms such as Windows, Linux of different versions, MAC, etc.

• TestLink supports all famous browsers such as Chrome, IE, Mozilla, and Safari.

System Requirements

Since TestLink is a web-application it follows the concept of client/server. It means that TestLink can be installed centrally on a server and users can interact with it through web browsers using a website from any computer.

• Web Server − TestLink supports Apache 2.2.2.1. However, it can work with any latest web server software. TestLink only uses .php file. Configure the web server with .php extension only.

• PHP − The web server should support PHP. It can be installed as CGI or any other integration technology. It is recommended to use 5.3.8 PHP version.

• Mandatory PHP Extensions − Extensions for RDBMS are mysqli, pgsql, oci8, sqlsrv.Mbstring is required for Unicode – UTF-8 support.

• Optional Extensions − Curl, GD, Fileinfo

• Database − TestLink requires database to store its data. MySQL (5.5.16) is recommended.

• FileZilla FTP Server − FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.39 is required to install XAMPP as optional.

You can install all the requirements separately either manually or through an automatic process to use TestLink.

Installation of System Requirements

Testlink Software

If the user has required knowledge about the installation process, the user can install all the discussed requirements one-by-one separately before proceeding to TestLink.

Alternatively, there are many all-in-one packages available and can automatically install in the system by exe file. Here, we will take the help of XAMPP to install the pre-requisites easily.

Step 1 − Go to https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html and click XAMPP for Windows as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 2 − A pop-up will be displayed to save the file. Click Save File. It will start to download the file.

Step 3 − Run the .exe file to run the installation wizard. After clicking the .exe file, the XAMPP Setup wizard is displayed as shown in the following screenshot. Click Next.

Step 4 − Next, the wizard displays all the component files (shown in the following screenshot) that will be installed. Click Next after selecting the components.

Step 5 − Provide a folder name where XAMPP will be installed and click Next.

Step 6 − Ready to Install wizard is displayed. Click Next to start the installation.

Step 7 − After successful installation, it will prompt to start the control panel. Select the checkbox and click Finish. It will open the XAMPP control panel as displayed in the following screenshot.

Step 8 − Click the Start button for Apache and MySQL required for TestLink as shown in the above screenshot.

Step 9 − To verify whether all the pre-requisites such as Apache, PHP and MySQL is installed properly, navigate to any of the browser and type http://localhost. Then, press Enter.

Step 10 − It will display the dashboard of XAMPP. Click phpAdmin at the right top corner of the screenshot.

It will display General Settings, Application Settings, Details of Database, Web Server and phpMyAdmin as shown in the following screenshot.

Testlink Install

If the installation is not proper, this page won’t display. Till this point, all the pre-requisites are successfully installed in the system.

Install and Launch TestLink

After successful installation of XAMPP, we need to work with TestLink.

Step 1 − Go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/testlink/ and click Download.

Step 2 − Now unzip the downloaded .tar file and rename the folder name as TestLink.

Step 3 − Go to XAMPP folder where it is installed and navigate to htdocs folder. Place the TestLink folder here as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 4 − Go to TestLink package and open “config.inc.php” file, update path “$tlCfg→log_path” and “$g_repositoryPath” as below −

$tlCfg→log_path = ‘D:/xampp/htdocs/testlink/logs/’;

$g_repositoryPath = ‘D:/xampp/htdocs/testlink/upload area/’;

Step 5 − Now open a browser and type http://localhost/Testlink in the navigation bar and press Enter. It will display the installation page of TestLink.

Step 6 − Click New Installation.

Step 7 − Check the checkbox for Terms and Conditions and click the Continue button.

The system will check the pre-requisites to ensure everything is fine. A Continue button will appear at the bottom, otherwise an error message will be displayed.

Testlink Installation Manual 1.9

Step 8 − Click Continue as shown in the following screenshot.

Step 9 − In the next step, Database Admin and Admin password is required to define MySQL access. TestLink admin username/password can be anything given by the user.

Database login/password: root/<empty> (Default login/password of MYSQL for xampp)

Step 10 − Click “Process TestLink Setup” button. You should see the TestLink “Installation was successful!” message being displayed.

Step 11 − Now again navigate to http://localhost/testlink

Testlink User Guide

You will see the login page as shown in the following screenshot.