TestLink Alternative for Hosted Test Management

TestMu AI Test Manager fits a team that wants test management without a web server, a database or upgrade scripts to look after. TestMu AI hosts it, the AI Test Case Generator drafts test cases for your review, and a test run can target a browser or a real device that TestMu AI also hosts. The gain is largest where one person looks after the TestLink server in spare hours, or where most test cases are still written by hand and the AI can draft them. If your test data must stay on your own servers, or you need a tool with no licence cost at any size, stay with TestLink or choose another tool you can host yourself. For other comparisons, see the Testomat.io alternative page or the full comparison directory.

Yes. The last numbered release is 1.9.20 from January 2020, and commits have continued on a maintenance branch since then, the latest on December 8, 2025. The project's README says 1.9.20 is the last version of the 1.9.x family and that a 2.x version with a new interface is still being worked on. It also says the project has no company or foundation behind it and is written in its maintainers' free time. On security, the NVD lists 16 CVE records for TestLink published since January 2020, as read on October 8, 2026: the 1.9.20 release itself fixed many earlier issues, and fixes published since then are commits on the maintenance branch, not a new release, so the team hosting TestLink applies them.

TestLink is free: it is open source under the GPL v2 licence and has no per-user fee. What it asks for is a web server with PHP, a MySQL, MariaDB or Postgres database, and the time to install, upgrade, back up and patch them. Test Manager has a free plan, and Premium costs $49 per user a month billed annually, as published on the Test Manager pricing page in October 2026. Which one costs your team less depends on how much time the team spends running TestLink today.

Teams that put licence cost, control of their own servers or the number of connected trackers first. TestLink has no licence fee at any team size, and its source code is open, so a team can read it and change it. The data stays on servers the team runs. Requirements are built in, with a coverage report, where Test Manager relies on linked Jira, Azure DevOps or Linear issues. TestLink connects to 13 issue trackers, among them Mantis, Bugzilla, Redmine, GitHub and GitLab, against three for issue linking in Test Manager. LDAP and OAuth sign-in come with the free tool, while single sign-on in Test Manager is on the Enterprise plan. A team that has the people to run TestLink and needs any of these should keep it.

You export XML from TestLink, convert it to CSV yourself, and import the CSV. Test Manager has no importer for TestLink and reads CSV files only. In TestLink, export the test specification as XML, for a whole project or for one suite with its child suites. Convert that file to CSV with a script of your own: one row per test case or one row per step, the suite path in a single column with >, / or a period between levels, the test case name as the title, each step's actions as the steps and its expected results as the outcome. Importance, preconditions and summary can be mapped to fields or added as custom fields, which are best created in the project before the import. The CSV import guide covers the mapping screen, the 10 MB limit per file and the preview shown before anything is written. The pricing page lists CSV import and custom fields under the Premium plan, so check which plan you are on before you start. A CSV import does not carry attachments (TestLink can include them in its XML, but the CSV import has no place for them), executions and build results, test plan assignments, requirement objects or version history. Requirements can be kept as linked Jira issues or as a custom field. Try the whole route on one suite before you move the rest.