Rhe/tcms requirements proposal

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Overview

This proposal analyses our current mediawiki-based system workflow and use cases, list the pro's and con's and compare them with nitrate system. The purpose is to find out what features we Must-Have and Nice-to-have in future TCMS, aka nitrate, and nitrate should be customized bases on these requirements.

wiki-based TCMS VS Nitrate System

Wiki	Nitrate
Use cases
General Manual Test Use case： For each release: Create test plan (Update Release Criteria) Search from categories or Create new test cases Create test result template Then for each build: Create test result page Use redirect link as current links Send announcement Execute tests and provide test results Summarize the report manually	Manual testing Use Case: QE Project/Team Lead assigns feature to be tested QA searches TCMS for Test Plan QA creates new Test Run QA Executes Test Run Test Run report available for viewing Writing a Test Plan Use Case: QE Project/Team Lead assigns feature to be tested QA writes a new Test Plan QA adds Test Cases: Create new Test Case Import XML Test Case Add existing Test Case QA Executes Test Run
pass Pros
Easy to edit/modify Support anonymous feedback Integrated with FAS Supports a decent API for extracting content and useful for metrics gathering History roll back, easy recovery Multi-testers contribute one case Low barriers to entry Flexibility User can apply for different permission Pages with different name space have diff permission. Different name spaces and categories to organize pages. Templates designed to fit for different instance.	Tree view showing the current plan, and its parents and children using a tree style layout. It provides the ability to edit both parent and child plans. . Email Notification in workflow. Runs and cases easily cloned along with more additional options Bug list automatically generated Test run report auto-generated Test cases have reviewing status Different status of a Test Run for tracking More than one tag for a test case
fail Cons
Results tracking Results querying Data statistics Simple appearance Syntax editing without forms Cases without a category existed Cases have no 'review' phase	Users without authentication (Guests) are granted read only permission to Test Cases and Test Plans multi-testers contribute to one case not supported? no history roll back permissions for users are not well grouped

Must-Have and Nice-to-Have

<<TBD>>

Migration work