April 14, 2005 Shu Lee Turner Test Director http://www.mercury.com/us/products/quality-center/testdirector/?swf_src=us_opt-center-diagram_testdirector Mercury Interactive 8.0 SP2 1 month 3 No idea No idea No idea Yes Yes Good Good Yes Yes No idea Yes No Yes No idea Source Control and Versioning are built in Yes No No No Yes Excellent technical support, not sure about cost No idea Strengths Ease of use, great search engine (filtering/sort) basic reporting is great can be adapt to different people with different process add rules/fields customization easy to keep track of buy life cycle great security / administration restrict users usage everyone can access as long as they can login attachments (files, pics, etc...)Weaknesses - Only one level of status per bug. When a bug is closed, there is no status code to indicate why it was closed, and there is no search on comments (where people stated why the bug is closed)- Does require project and system admin to manage the tool- Only works on IE, wont run on netscape and other browsers- Crashes quite often especially when IE is not stable