I'm currently evaluating a QA tool for our company's QA Team; I don't have much experience in this area so many things are new for me and probably there are many reasons for what I consider a design problem in our case.
The "problem" is that in all the tools I have seen or installed, the information is grouped project by project, and uses cases like getting a metric of how many tests were run in a week by each member of the team, independent of the project, requires me to build a report for each project and then aggregate the info outside of the tool (or make SQL Scripts to "add" the info).
Also, if we define a test like "withdraw from an mutual fund", and we want to use that definition in more than one project, let's say a standalone front-office application and an internet mobile application for our clients, then we have to re-write the test for each case. What I would expect here is to have a "test definition" and a "test implementation", so if I change the definition I get some kind of warning that the X number of implementations should be reviewed.
At the end, we need to manage a QA team, and to reuse knowledge where possible, but the "project" does not translate accurately to our needs, or maybe I am miss understanding many things and there is another way to organize info into "projects" that could meet our needs.
Any idea or reference would be appreciated.
