I participated in EWT34 to check the possibility to use a session based testing tool.

A work of a tester needs to be reported and measured and for this you need something. If the company doesn’t care or opts for quick easy solutions, like measuring test cases and test scripts, things are wrapped up (actually is more like hidden and work is faked) just to be something there.

If you need to find real problems and twist the software and use temporary scripts, spend time on configurations, work on multiple machines you need something for visibility.

One quick solution is a simple doc to be filled, but its not a nice solution if you need to measure time, split in areas or threads, put bugs in some locations, screen-shots and different types of notes are needed. So helpful would be a tool for this.

That’s why I looked at the tool presented in the session, http://testing.gershon.info/reporter/ . It had some issues and I couldn’t get very familiar with it in a short time. But the real problem is that I need something cross-platform and this tool was for Microsoft products only.

So what I want to look for and find, maybe try to design something myself and improve on the way, is something cross platform.

As a though I would consider building it as Firefox plugin, since its cross platform, many people use it and in the worst case you just need to install the browser (and the plugin of course for it).