We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 13.0!

IMPORTANT: This is a backwards incompatible release which contains security and functional improvements, runtime, settings and API changes, bug fixes, internal refactoring and updated translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  088187a81d3c    686MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

         volumes:
-            - ./local_settings.py:/venv/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/tcms/settings/local_settings.py
+            - ./local_settings.py:/venv/lib64/python3.11/site-packages/tcms/settings/local_settings.py

For a long time now Kiwi TCMS has supported integration with external issue tracking systems, such as JIRA. This integration is usually configured via bot accounts and their respective credentials and our flagship functionality is 1-click bug report! This is how it looks like:

• For any TestExecution click on the menu in the corner

• Select an existing Issue Tracker configuration and click Report bug

• Your browser will open a new window with the resulting report inside the external Issue Tracker

Notice that Reporter (field 1) is kiwitcms-bot although the currently logged in user (field 2) is different. The Reporter text reference (field 3) is the full name of the tester working on the Kiwi TCMS side and may not match neither of fields 1 and 2! This presents a challenge if you are tracking any metrics based on the actual Reporter field in JIRA.

The new Personal API tokens functionality allows Kiwi TCMS users to override existing issue tracker configurations with their own API credentials. Here's how it works:

• In JIRA click on your account and select Manage account

• Then select the Security tab

• Then click on Create and manage API tokens

• And create a new API token; Copy the token value for use inside Kiwi TCMS!

• From the Kiwi TCMS navigation menu select PLUGINS -> Personal API tokens

• Select an existing Issue Tracker via its URL and fill-in your credentials. The drop-down choices represent all Issue Tracker records accessible to the current user across all tenants they are authorized for! For JIRA api_username is your JIRA email and api_password is your JIRA API token. Other issue trackers may only require the api_password field. The meaning of these fields can be found in documentation for each different type of issue tracker that Kiwi TCMS can integrate with

• Repeat the 1-click bug report steps shown in the beginning. Your browser will open a new window with the resulting report inside JIRA

Notice that Reporter (field 1), the currently logged in user (field 2) and the Reporter text reference (field 3) now represent the same person!

Happy Testing!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

Attention testers! On behalf of the Testing and Continuous Delivery devroom we'd like to announce that call for participation is still open. This room is about building better software through a focus on testing and continuous delivery practices across all layers of the stack. The purpose of this devroom is to share good and bad examples around the question “how to improve quality of our software by automating tests, deliveries or deployments” and to showcase new open source tools and practices.

Note: for FOSDEM 2024 this devroom is a merger between the former Testing and Automation and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment devrooms and is jointly co-organized between devroom managers in previous FOSDEM editions! Kiwi TCMS is proud to be part of the team hosting this devroom!

Important: devroom will take place on Sunday, February 4th 2024 at ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium! Presentations will be streamed online but all accepted speakers are required to deliver their talks in person!

Here are some ideas for topics that are a good fit for this devroom:

Testing in the real, open source world

• War stories/strategies for testing large scale or complex projects
• Tools that extend the ability to test low-level code, e.g. bootloaders, init systems, etc.
• Projects that are introducing new/interesting ways of testing "systems"
• Address the automated testing frameworks fragmentation
• Stories from end-users (e.g. success/failure)
• Continuous Integration
• Continuous Delivery
• Continuous Deployment
• Security in Software Supply Chain
• Pipeline standardization
• Interoperability in CI/CD
• Lessons learned

Cool Tools (good candidates for lightning talks)

• Project showcases, modern tooling
• How your open source tool made developing quality software better
• What tools do you use to setup your CI/CD
• Combining projects/plugins/tools to build amazing things "Not enough people in the open source community know how to use $X, but here's a tutorial on how to use $X to make your project better."

In the past the devroom has seen both newbies/students and experienced professionals and past speakers as part of the audience and talks covering from beginner/practical to advanced/abstract topics. If you have doubts then submit your proposal and leave a comment for the devroom managers and we'll get back to you.

To submit a talk proposal (you can submit multiple proposals if you'd like) use Pretalx, the FOSDEM paper submission system. Be sure to select Testing and Continuous delivery!

Checkout https://fosdem-testingautomation.github.io/ for more information!

Happy Testing!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.7!

IMPORTANT: This is our first release after reaching 2 million downloads on Docker Hub earlier this month! It is a small release which contains security related updates, several improvements, bug fixes and internal refactoring!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  973df48a2f82    613MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

We are happy to share that Kiwi TCMS has surpassed 2 million downloads on Docker Hub. At the time of writing this blog post the exact number is 2004544! We say a big THANK YOU you to our entire community!

As luck would have it we were able to announce this achievement at the annual OpenFest conference in Bulgaria and celebrate the day with not one, but two kiwi bird mascots.

Thank you and Happy testing!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and help us grow

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.6.1!

IMPORTANT: This is a small release which contains several improvements, bug fixes and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  c2a9b82871d9    598MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

The University of Utah is a public research university in Salt Lake City, USA. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education and was established in 1850.

The University of Utah's School of Computing, founded as the Computer Science Department in 1965, has a long and distinguished record of high impact research. The university has provided large, automated testbeds since around the year 2000, funded by the National Science Foundation.

The Flux Research Group conducts research in operating systems, networking, security, and virtualization. The group consists of three faculty and over two dozen research staff, graduate students, and undergrads.

POWDER (the Platform for Open Wireless Data-driven Experimental Research) is flexible infrastructure enabling a wide range of software-defined experiments on the future of wireless networks. POWDER supports software-programmable experimentation on 5G and beyond, massive MIMO, ORAN, spectrum sharing and CBRS, RF monitoring, and anything else that can be supported on software-defined radios.

In the words of David M. Johnson, research staff:

The addition of Kiwi TCMS to our POWDER mobile wireless testbed helps to support the complex multi-system, end-to-end functional test and integration scenarios we see in the 5G/O-RAN/beyond mobile wireless space.

We use Kiwi TCMS as part of an on-demand environment that POWDER provides to users that can help them automate testing using a workflow approach, from CI-triggered orchestration from scratch in our cloud-like environment, through resource configuration and running test suites, to finally collecting results into private instances of Kiwi TCMS.

We use both the Stackstorm and Dagster workflow engines to execute our test and integration workflows. The stackstorm-kiwitcms library is a simple Stackstorm "integration pack" (Python source code in this case) that invokes and re-exports much of the core Kiwi TCMS XML-RPC API (with some minor sugar) into Stackstorm, so that each API function is exposed as a Stackstorm action (the fundamental unit of its workflows). This means that the workflows can orchestrate resources into test scenarios; configure the resources; create or instantiate Kiwi TCMS test runs/executions/metadata; execute tests; and push test results/status into Kiwi TCMS records, upload attachments, etc, for persistence.

We use a fork of Kiwi TCMS right now so that we could upload attachments to test runs via the API. That was a trivial change which made its way upstream as part of Kiwi TCMS version 12.1.

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and help us grow

OffSec is an American international company working in information security, penetration testing and digital forensics. Operating from around 2007, the company has created multiple open source projects, advanced security courses, the ExploitDB vulnerability database, and the popular Kali Linux. It has recently released the Kali Purple platform, a dedicated platform for cyber defence analysts and a platform for security services.

Introduction to Assurance Testing is a brand new training course covering the defensive testing techniques used to establish a level of assurance that your server is secure. It is the first course of OffSec’s OSDA cyber defence learning path. This course introduces the context for security testing and explains how security testing aligns to the business.

Chapter 3: Creating and Using Security Test Documentation explains the documentation used in security related testing and introduces Kiwi TCMS as the test management tool of choice!

The course is part of Offsec’s fundamentals package which is designed as baseline knowledge and skills for all security professionals and in particular for those who wish to progress to the OffSec Defence Analyst (OSDA) certification. The Assurance Testing course, and the Kiwi TCMS tool which it uses, gives developers and security testers alike a good understanding of the best practice approach to test case management and helps build their skills in carrying out testing in a disciplined way. Using Kiwi TCMS provides the opportunity to improve the processes and documentation around security testing, and around the wider functional testing as well.

Kiwi TCMS bridges the gap between security requirements and software development by enabling standardized test cases to be developed by the security team whilst software developers and dedicated QA teams can use these same test cases to ensure that security requirements are met. With preset test plans and test cases, execution of security tests can proceed in the same way as for any other non-functional testing, and any issues identified during testing can be fixed and tests can be executed again.

Learning how to use Kiwi TCMS as part of the Introduction to Assurance Testing course helps both security teams and QA teams work together in a common environment to improve the quality and security of their software. Using Kiwi TCMS enables security teams to provide clear instructions to QA teams as to how to use specialist security testing tools. For example, having clear test cases for running the PowerShell audit tool for the Active Directory Certificate Server, PSPKIAudit, means that the test team can take advantage of a powerful testing tool without needing the specialist knowledge that might otherwise be required to use and interpret the results of such a tool.

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and help us grow

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.5!

IMPORTANT: this is a small release which contains security related updates, several improvements and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  9a689f9866d9    597MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.4!

IMPORTANT: this is a small release which contains security related updates, few improvements and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  5f88a1a37a39    599MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.3!

IMPORTANT: this is a small release which contains security related updates, general improvements and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  1cbaba8640d9    594MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.2!

IMPORTANT: this release contains security related updates, general improvements, bug fixes, some API changes and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  89b8ca5e0f5f    593MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 12.1!

IMPORTANT: this is a minor release which contains security related updates, general improvements, bug fixes and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  590c0cd6f25f    521MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

We're happy to celebrate our 14th anniversary with Kiwi TCMS version 12.0!

IMPORTANT: this is a new major release which contains security related updates, general improvements, bug fixes and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  cbe275c11098    518MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 11.7 and Happy New Year!

IMPORTANT: this is a small release which contains security updates, general improvements, bug fixes and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  316d5d4865a1    572MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

Attention testers! On behalf of Testing and Automation devroom we'd like to announce that the final program for the devroom is ready!

We received over 30 submissions this year and the entire collection of topics was extremely good. During FOSDEM we are going to see topics around functional testing for the Linux kernel, growing testing infrastructure for Linux, testing of new networking protocols, observability-driven development, the testing history behind the GNOME desktop environment, property-based testing and mutation testing.

Important: devroom will take place 09:00 to 12:50, Sunday, February 5th 2023 at ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium.

If you are around don't forget to check-out our friends from the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment devroom on Saturday, February 4th 2023!

See you there and happy testing!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 11.6! This is our first release after the very positive reception we had at WebSummit 2022!

IMPORTANT: this is a small release which contains security updates, general improvements, bug fixes and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  9773335a58d1    612MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade

Attention testers! On behalf of Testing and Automation devroom we'd like to announce that call for participation is now open.

Important: devroom will take place 09:00 to 12:50, Sunday, February 5th 2023 at ULB Solbosch Campus, Brussels, Belgium! Presentations will be streamed online but all accepted speakers are required to deliver their talks in person! The devroom will not host pre-recorded videos in 2023!

Here are some ideas for topics that are a good fit for this devroom:

Testing in the real, open source world

• War stories/strategies for testing large scale or complex projects
• Demystify resource e.g. systems/device/cloud provisioning in a CI loop
• Tools that extend the ability to test low-level code, e.g. bootloaders, init systems, etc.
• Projects that are introducing new/interesting ways of testing "systems"
• Address the automated testing frameworks fragmentation
• Lessons learned from testing

Cool Tools (good candidates for lightning talks)

• How your open source tool made developing quality software better
• What tools do you use to setup your CI/CD
• Combining projects/plugins/tools to build amazing things "Not enough people in the open source community know how to use $X, but here's a tutorial on how to use $X to make your project better."

In the past the devroom has seen both newbies/students and experienced professionals and past speakers as part of the audience and talks covering from beginner/practical to advanced/abstract topics. If you have doubts then submit your proposal and leave a comment for the devroom managers and we'll get back to you.

Checkout https://fosdem-testingautomation.github.io/ for more information!

Happy Testing!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

Kiwi TCMS is happy to announce that we're taking part in WebSummit 2022, Nov 01-04 in Lisbon, Portugal. We're joining as a featured startup in the Enterprise Software Solutions category.

Kiwi TCMS will have an on-site presence on Wednesday, Nov 02 at Pavilion 4, Stand A709. Check-out the map for more details:

For engineers

At the exhibition stand you will have the opportunity to perform some real black-box testing, learn about Salience bias, Peltzman effect and Wason's experiments and take a photo with our lovely mascot. We've got new stickers too!

Alex and Zaklina will be there to answer all of your questions regarding open source, community, support, various integrations and the differences between Self-Support, SaaS and Enterprise subscriptions!

IMPORTANT: We've previously announced participation in Testing Portigal at the end of November. Unfortunately this had to be canceled due to personal reasons. If you are a test or QA engineer please swing by and Alex can tell you a bit about his presentation!

For partners

If you are another ISV providing engineering tools, a product outsourcing company or a devel/testing services venture we've got a partnership proposal for you!

We're interested in partners where we can integrate other products with Kiwi TCMS and provide a better offering; provide extra services (e.g. managed hosting) and/or provide more transparency to your own customers (e.g. allow them to see how their products are being tested).

Message us via the WebSummit mobile app and request a meeting or better yet, find our team on-site!

After hours

The Kiwi TCMS team will be joining the following after-hours events:

• Nov 01 - MEETUP - Local & International Entrepreneurs & Digital Nomads
• Nov 02 - Bites and bytes founder gathering: dev tools & open source
• Nov 03 - Web Summit 2022 Special! Lisbon Digital Nomads Meetup
• Nov 04 - Meeting with QGIS community which have been onboard with Kiwi TCMS for some time now. Ping Alexandre Neto if you would like to join
• Nov 04 - Crypto Friday @ The Block Lisboa
• Nov 05 - ☕️Web3 Brunch🥞

Catch-up with us for a beer and let's talk testing and open source!

If you like what we're doing and how Kiwi TCMS supports various communities please help us!

• Give ⭐ on GitHub;
• Give 👍 on GitLab;
• Donate via Open Collective as low as 1 EUR;
• Join our newsletter and follow all project news;
• Become a contributor and an awesome open source hacker;
• Become a customer and we'll share our profits with the community

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 11.5!

IMPORTANT: This is a small release which contains several improvements, bug fixes and new translations!

You can explore everything at https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org!

Supported upgrade paths:

5.3   (or older) -> 5.3.1
5.3.1 (or newer) -> 6.0.1
6.0.1            -> 6.1
6.1              -> 6.1.1
6.1.1            -> 6.2 (or newer)

---

Upstream container images (x86_64):

pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi   latest  66c51b64e0a6    608MB

IMPORTANT: version tagged and multi-arch container images are available only to subscribers!

cd path/containing/docker-compose/
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py upgrade