Kiwi TCMS & tcms-api version 4.0.0

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS version 4.0.0 and the corresponding tcms-api version 4.0.0! This is a very big release which introduces tons of backwards incompatible changes to the RPC layer as well as several bug-fixes and enhancements!

With this release Kiwi TCMS meets one of our milestones for 2018! All XML-RPC namespaces now match DB model names and the API client class names. Lots of similar and duplicate methods were removed and existing ones were simplified. We've also reduced code duplication and technical debth by 1 month according to stats by CodeClimate.

IMPORTANT: this is also the first release to officially publish the pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi container image!

WARNING: upgrading to Kiwi TCMS 4.0.0 means you will have to upgrade the tcms-api client as well. None of the 4.x releases is compatible with older releases due to the massive ammount of changes in the RPC layer.

Changes since Kiwi TCMS 3.50

Enhancements and bug fixes

• Upgrade to Django 2.0.2 which patches a security issue
• Pin JIRA client version to 1.0.10. Fixes Issue #195
• Generate api-docs for model classes
• Updated documentation for all RPC methods
• Use Grappelli jQuery initialization, fixes popup windows
• Unify RPC namespaces, API client class names and server-side model names. Fixes Issue #153

Settings

• Remove ADMIN_PREFIX setting

RPC methods refactoring

• Remove Build.check_build, use Build.filter
• Remove Build.get, use Build.filter
• Remove Build.get_caseruns, use TestCaseRun.filter

• Remove Build.get_runs, use TestRun.filter

• Rename Env.filter_groups, use Env.Group.filter

• Rename Env.filter_properties, use Env.Property.filter

• Rename Env.filter_values, use Env.Value.filter

• Remove Product.add_component, use Component.create

• Remove Product.add_version, use Version.create
• Remove Product.check_category, use Category.filter
• Remove Product.check_component, use Component.filter
• Remove Product.check_product, use Product.filter
• Remove Product.filter_categories, use Category.filter
• Remove Product.filter_components, use Component.filter
• Remove Product.filter_versions, use Version.filter
• Remove Product.get, use Product.filter
• Remove Product.get_builds, use Build.filter
• Remove Product.get_cases, use TestCase.filter
• Remove Product.get_categories, use Category.filter
• Remove Product.get_category, use Category.filter
• Remove Product.get_component, use Component.filter

• Remove Product.update_component, use Component.update

• Rename Tag.get_tags to Tag.filter

• Remove TestCase.add_comment

• Update signature for TestCase.add_component
• Update signature for TestCase.add_tag
• Remove TestCase.add_to_run, use TestRun.add_case
• Remove TestCase.attach_bug, use Bug.create
• Remove TestCase.calculate_average_estimated_time
• Remove TestCase.calculate_total_estimated_time
• Remove TestCase.check_case_status, use TestCaseStatus.filter
• Remove TestCase.check_priority, use Priority.filter
• Update signature for TestCase.create, no longer accepts plan, component and bug dict attributes. Instead use TestPlan.add_case, TestCase.add_component and Bug.create
• Remove TestCase.detach_bug, use Bug.remove
• Remove TestCase.filter_count
• Remove TestCase.get, use TestCase.filter
• Remove TestCase.get_bugs, use Bug.filter({'case': ?})
• Remove TestCase.get_bug_systems
• Remove TestCase.get_case_status, use TestCaseStatus.filter
• Update signature for TestCase.get_components
• Remove TestCase.get_plans, use TestPlan.filter({'case': ?})
• Remove TestCase.get_priority, use Priority.filter
• Remove TestCase.get_tags, use Tag.filter({'case': ?})
• Remove TestCase.get_text, use TestCase.filter
• Remove TestCase.link_plan, use TestPlan.add_case
• Rename TestCase.notification_add_cc to TestCase.add_notification_cc and update signature
• Rename TestCase.notification_get_cc_list to TestCase.get_notification_cc and update signature
• Rename TestCase.notification_remove_cc to TestCase.remove_notification_cc and update signature
• Update signature for TestCase.remove_component
• Update signature for TestCase.remove_tag
• Remove TestCase.store_text, use TestCase.update with setup, breakdown, action and effect attributes in the parameter dict

• Remove TestCase.unlink_plan, use TestPlan.remove_case

• Remove TestCasePlan.get

• Remove TestCasePlan.update

• Update TestCaseRun.add_comment to accept a single ID as first parameter

• Remove TestCaseRun.attach_bug, use Bug.create
• Rename TestCaseRun.attach_log to TestCaseRun.add_log
• Remove TestCaseRun.detach_bug, use Bug.remove
• Rename TestCaseRun.detach_log to TestCaseRun.remove_log
• Remove TestCaseRun.get, use TestCaseRun.filter
• Remove TestCaseRun.get_bugs, use Bug.filter({'case_run': ?})
• Remove TestCaseRun.get_case_run_status_by_name

• Update signature for TestCaseRun.update

• Remove TestPlan.add_component

• Update signature for TestPlan.add_tag
• Remove TestPlan.check_plan_type, use PlanType.filter
• Remove TestPlan.filter_count
• Remove TestPlan.get, use TestPlan.filter
• Remove TestPlan.get_all_cases_tags
• Remove TestPlan.get_components
• Remove TestPlan.get_env_groups, use Env.Group.filter({'testplan': ?})
• Remove TestPlan.get_plan_type, use PlanType.filter
• Remove TestPlan.get_product, use Product.filter({'plan': ?})
• Remove TestPlan.get_tags, use Tag.filter({'plan': ?})
• Remove TestPlan.get_test_cases, use TestCase.filter({'plan': ?})
• Remove TestPlan.get_test_runs, use TestRun.filter({'plan': ?})
• Remove TestPlan.get_text, use TestPlan.filter
• Rename TestPlan.link_env_value to TestPlan.add_env_value and update signature
• Remove TestPlan.remove_component
• Update signature for TestPlan.remove_tag
• Remove TestPlan.store_text, use TestPlan.update with a text attribute in the parameter values

• Rename TestPlan.unlink_env_value to TestPlan.remove_env_value and update signature

• Rename TestRun.add_cases to TestRun.add_case and update signature

• Update signature for TestRun.add_tag
• Update signature for TestRun.create, no longer accepts case dict attribute. Instead use TestRun.add_case
• Remove TestRun.filter_count
• Remove TestRun.get, use TestRun.filter
• Remove TestRun.get_bugs
• Remove TestRun.get_env_values, use Env.Value.filter({'testrun': ?})
• Remove TestRun.get_tags, use Tag.filter({'run': ?})
• Rename TestRun.get_test_cases to TestRun.get_cases
• Remove TestRun.get_test_case_runs, use TestCaseRun.filter({'run': ?})
• Remove TestRun.get_test_plan, use TestPlan.filter({'run': ?})[0]
• Rename TestRun.remove_cases to TestRun.remove_case and update signature
• Update signature for TestRun.remove_tag

• Update signature for TestRun.update

• Rename User.get to User.filter

• Rename User.join to User.join_group
• Update signature for User.update

Models and database migrations

• Remove model TestEnvironment
• Remove model TestEnvironmentCategory
• Remove model TestEnvironmentElement
• Remove model TestEnvironmentMap
• Remove model TestEnvironmentProperty
• Remove model TestPlanComponent
• Remove TestPlan.get_text_with_version()
• Remove TestRun.get_previous_or_next()

IMPORTANT: this release introduces new database migrations!

tcms-api changes since 1.5.1

• Make the code compatible with Kiwi TCMS XML-RPC v4.0.0
• Rename Status to TestCaseRunStatus
• Rename CaseRun to TestCaseRun
• Remove PlanStatus, use TestPlan.is_active
• Remove RunStatus, use TestRun.finished
• Remove TestPlan.components container
• Update signature for TestPlan. Now accept text kwarg in constructor instead of document.

How to upgrade

If you are using Kiwi TCMS as a Docker container then

cd Kiwi/
docker-compose down
docker pull pub.kiwitcms.eu/kiwitcms/kiwi
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py migrate

Happy testing!