Mercury TestDirector™ allows you to deploy high-quality applications quickly and effectively by providing a consistent, repeatable process for gathering requirements, planning and scheduling tests, analyzing results, and managing defects and issues. TestDirector is a single, Web-based application for all essential aspects of test management — Requirements Management, Test Plan, Test Lab, and Defects Management. You can leverage these core modules either as a standalone solution or integrated within a global Quality Center of Excellence environment.

TestDirector supports high levels of communication and collaboration among IT teams. Whether you are coordinating the work of many disparate QA teams, or working with a large, distributed Center of Excellence, this test management tool helps facilitate information access across geographical and organization boundaries.

Using TestDirector, multiple groups throughout your organization can contribute to the quality process:

• Business analysts define application requirements and testing objectives

• Test managers and project leads design test plans and develop test cases

• Test automation engineers create automated scripts and store them in the repository

• QA testers run manual and automated tests, report execution results, and enter defects

• Developers review and fix defects logged into the database

• Project managers create application status reports and manage resource allocation

Product managers decide whether an application is ready to be released.