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    TestLink 1.7 - Readme
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1. Introduction
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    TestLink is a web based test management and test execution system.
    It enables quality assurance teams to create and manage their test 
    cases as well as to organize them into test plans. These test plans 
    allow team members to execute test cases and track test results 
    dynamically.
    
    TestLink is a GPL licensed open source project. All of the source code 
    behind TestLink is freely available for download via SourceForge 
    at http://www.sourceforge.net If you are interested in contributing 
    to the TestLink effort feel free to contact us.


2. Release notes
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This is final and stable release and we recommend to update from older version.

New features within 1.7:
  # Test Case history/ versioning
  # Unlimited structure of Test Specification
  # Support for other databases (SQL standard, generalized DB interdace)
  # Improved user management (editable)
  # Attachments
  # Revision of Standard terminology
  # Enhanced reports
  # XML import/export
  # Custom fields for Test Cases


3. Installation and System Requirements
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- reliable webserver (Apache is recommended)
- PHP5 (5.2 is recommended)
- MySQL 4.1 (and higher) or MS-SQL
    

4. Contributors
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* Francisco Mancardi - Project lead, core developer
* Martin Havlat - Project lead, builds, infrastructure, core developer
* Andreas Morsing - Core developer, German localization
* Kevin Levy - Core developer
* Asiel Brumfield - Infrastructure, developer
* Prem Kumar Aparanji - Developer
* Jason B. Archibald - Developer
* Chad Rosen - Originator of the project (TL 1.0.x)

* Tools R Us - contributing company
* Oscar Castroviejo - contributor (trackplus interface)
* Seweryn Plywaczyk - contributor (text area custom field)  
* weeBaldFella  - contributor 
  
* grdscarabe@grdscarabe.net and Alexandre Da Costa - French localization
* Walter Giaquinto/Alessandro Lia	and  bruno.busco@gmail.com - Italian localization
* Toshiyuki Kawansihi and http://sourceforge.jp/projects/testlinkjp/ - Japanese localization
* Leonardo Molinari - Portuguese localization
* jorgesf@jsf.jazztel.es - Spanish localization

   

5. Bug Reports and Feedback
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    The Bug Overview on the TestLink web site lets you search for and
    examine existing bug reports, submit your own bug reports, and tell us
    which bug fixes matter most to you. To submit a bug or a feature, please 
    use our  Mantis installation at http://www.testlink.org/mantis/ for 
    TestLink. 
    
    You can see ther also the current bugs and requests.
    You may also contact us at the TestLink forum at 
    http://www.teamst.org/
    
    