Test Management

Test Management means "Management of Tests" or "Managing the testing process".
Management of tests applies over the whole of the Software Development Life Cycle,
so a Test Management Tool could be among the first to be used in a project.

Test Management Tools
A test management tool manages the tests, from early in the project and then continue to be used throughout the project and also after the system had been released.

Test management tools are typically used by specialist testers or test managers at "system or acceptance" test levels.

Features of Test Management Tools

- Management of tests(keeping track of the associated data for a given set of tests, knowing which tests      need to run in a common environment, number of tests planned, written, run, passed or failed);
-Scheduling of tests to be executed(manually or by a text execution tools);
-Management of testing activities(time spent in test design, test execution, schedule, budget)
-Interfaces to other tools:
  .test execution tools(test running tools)
  .incident mangement tools
  .requirement management tools
  .Configuration management tools
- Tracebility of tests, test results and defects to requirements or other sources
-Logging test results
-Preparing progress reports based on metrics(quantitative analysis),such as
  test run and test passed;
  incidents raised, defects fixed and outstanding.

Test Management Tools help to gather, Organize and Communicate information about testing on a project.

Source(ISTQB).