Nitrate - Test Case Management System¶
Nitrate is a new test plan, test run and test case management system, which is written in Python and Django (the Python web framework). It has a lot of great features, such as:
Ease of use in creating and managing test life cycles with plans, cases and runs.
Multiple and configurable authentication backends, e.g. Bugzilla and Kerberos.
Fast search for plans, cases and runs.
Powerful access control for each plan, run and case.
Ready-to-use and extensible issue tracker that allows to track external issues with test cases and test case runs.
Accessibility with regards to XMLRPC APIs.
Nitrate works with:
Python:
3.6
and3.7
.Django:
2.x
.
What’s more, Nitrate is tested with the following database versions:
MariaDB:
10.4.12
.MySQL:
8.0.20
.PostgreSQL:
12.2
.
Brief History¶
Nitrate was created by Red Hat originally back to the year 2009. A small group of engineers, who were working at Red Hat (Beijing), initiated the project to develop a Django-based test case management system being compatible with the Testopia from database level. After that, more engineers got involved into the development. TCMS is the project name, and Nitrate is the code name which has been being used as the name in open source community all the time to this day.
The project was hosted in fedorahosted.org at the very early age to build the community. The site had vaiours artifacts of Nitrate, including the source code, kinds of development and project management documentations, roadmaps, mailing list, etc. The source code was managed by SVN in the beginning. Along with more contributors started to contribute to Nitrate, the team decided to migrate to Git eventually.
Since 2009, there were three major version releases, that were version 1.0 released in October 2009, version 2.0 released in January 2010, and version 3.0 released in April 2010. After version 3.0, the team had been adding new features, fixing bugs, improving performance and user experience continously in a series of minor releases. As of year 2014, Nitrate was open sourced to community and hosted in GitHub based on the version 3.18, and new journey had began.
Up to this day, at the moment of writing this brief history review, Nitrate has been 11 years old and it still has strong vitality.
Useful Links¶
Nitrate @ Gitee: A mirror repo of GitHub. GitHub的镜像,定期更新。
The Development Guide
The Deployment Guide
The Community Guide
The API Documentation
The User Guide
- Introduction
- Use Cases
- Database Schema
- Environment Variables
- Test Plans
- Test Cases
- Test Case workflow
- Creating a Test Case
- Searching for Test Cases
- Editing a Test Case
- Using an existing Test Case
- Importing a Test Case
- Cloning Test Cases
- Changing Test Case status
- Reviewing a Test Case
- Test Case Tags
- Changing the order of Test Cases in a Plan or Run
- Removing a Test Case from a Test Plan
- Test Runs
- Issue Tracker
- Reports
- Administration
- Appendix: Writing a Test Case