Widely used commercial systems that provide functionality comparable to the Test Tool include

• Schoolhouse Test 3,
• TestCommander,
• Quiz Faber,
• Quiz Egg,
• Easy Test Maker,
• ExamView Assessment Suite,

Each of these systems provides a wide variety of test creating functionality. In terms of such functionality, the goal for the Test Tool is to provide the important core features found in these tools, not the full range of features found in all of them. The Test Tool does provide modest functional improvements in three areas, when compared to most commercially available tools. These improvements are:

1. the ability to have a database of custom questions for future tests

2. the ability to create programming questions

3. the ability to automatically grade some questions

The goals for the Test Tool relating to public domain source code and sound pedagogical development are not met by any of the above commercial systems.

A detailed review of each related tool follows in these subsections:

• Schoolhouse Test 3 review
• TestCommander review
• Quiz Faber review
• Quiz Egg review
• Easy Test Maker review
• ExamView review