Introducing EZTest – The Open Source Alternative to Testiny & Testrail

There’s basically no modern open source test management tool out there. The ones everyone uses like Testiny orTestRail are glorified Excel sheets with a hefty subscription fee. They charge $20 per user per month but barely do anything worthwhile. At this point, the best LLMs cost the same, so the pricing makes zero sense.

We needed something that actually works for real projects and cross-functional teams, so we ended up building EZTest. It’s a simple, lightweight test and defect management tool you can self host and actually rely on. Nothing fancy. Just the basics done right.

In this talk, I’ll walk through why we built it, what “test management” should actually mean today, and how a tool like this fits into normal workflows alongside Jira, GitHub, and everything else teams already use.

• A clear picture of what an ideal test case + defect lifecycle actually looks like

• Why most test management tools today are basically overpriced spreadsheets

• How EZTest approaches this without the bloat or the SaaS tax

• An open invite for contributors — code, early adopters, feature voters, everything