Nitrate
Nitrate a new test case management system, it's written in Python and uses the Django web framework.
The TCMS provides:
- Managers with a source of information on planning, cases and execution status.
- Reproducibility across planning, cases and execution.
- Audit traceability.
- Increased productivity - Associates are able to identify and work on gaps in product coverage.
- Fully functional XML-RPC interface.
- Multiple authentication backends.
"If it is not in the TCMS then we do not do it", and the converse: "If we do it then it is in the TCMS".
That motto has been the paradigm driving the development of the TCMS. The development team has created a canonical source of information about testing that is useful to both managers and QE Associates.
Source Code
We are using "git" to manage our source code. An excellent tutorial on the use of git can be found at Git-Scm.
The source code is hosted in Github.
Installation
Deploy with Apache
A workable example of installation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is supplied in the project's docmentation. Refer to Installing nitrate on RHEL6 with Apache and MySQL
Deploy with Nginx
With benchmark, we found Nginx + FCGI is faster than Apache + Mod_python, To use the Nginix to deploy the Nitrate will be a good idea for production environment.
The configuration sample located at: https://github.com/Nitrate/Nitrate/blob/develop/contrib/conf/nitrate-nginx.conf
The file is very initial and probably out-dated. Patches are welcome.
Contact us
- Email: nitrate-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org
- Mailing list: https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/nitrate-devel
- IRC Channel: nitrate @ irc.freenode.org