Kiwi TCMS 5.0

object history tracking and lots of updates

Posted by Kiwi TCMS Team on Tue 24 July 2018 under releases

We're happy to announce Kiwi TCMS and tcms-api version 5.0! This release introduces object history tracking, removal of old functionality and unused code, lots of internal updates and bug fixes.

The new kiwitcms/kiwi:latest docker image has Image ID 468de0abe8a8. https://public.tenant.kiwitcms.org has also been updated!

Changes since Kiwi TCMS 4.2

Settings

  • Remove CACHE because not used
  • Remove PLAN_EMAIL_TEMPLATE, CASE_EMAIL_TEMPLATE and CASE_DELETE_EMAIL_TEMPLATE. Templates can still be overridden if desired

Enhancements

  • Upgrade to Django 2.0.7
  • Allow to delete TestPlan. Fixes Issue #273
  • Don't include username in dashboard URL
  • Copy latest TestPlan text when cloning
  • Always require users to be logged in. Anonymous users will not be allowed access by default. Read-only access to some views (e.g. get TestPlan or TestRun) can be enabled by disabling GlobalLoginRequiredMiddleware! Fixes Issue #230
  • Start tracking change history for TestPlan, TestCase, TestRun and TestCaseRun. Fixes Issue #294
  • History changes are recorded as unified diff which is a universally recognized format
  • Show the actual changes in email notifications. Fixes Issue #199

Bug fixes

  • Fix UnboundLocalError local variable 'message' referenced before assignment. Fixes Sentry KIWI-TCMS-1S
  • Make email address unique when adding users via admin panel. Fixes Issue #352 and Issue #68
  • Fix unsupported operand type(s) for +=: 'int' and 'datetime.timedelta' by initializing timedelta variable properly. Fixes Sentry KIWI-TCMS-1Y
  • Remove core.models.fields with MySQL time conversions. Fixes Issue #390
  • Fix bad JavaScript comparison. Fixes Coverity #289956
  • Remove expression with no effect. Fixes Coverity #289974
  • Rewrite request_host_link() to fix Coverity #289987
  • Fix Coverity #289923 - Typo in identifier
  • Don't send emails for changes performed by myself. Fixes Issue #216

Refactoring

  • Fix pylint issues in several modules (Anton Sankov & Ivaylo Ivanov)
  • Fix wrong Plan Type template variable in advanced search form
  • Do not use Model.objects.update() because it doesn't respect history
  • Use the standard ModelChoiceField instead of custom one
  • Use updateRunStatus() instead of deprecated updateObject()
  • Simplify JavaScript function getInfo() and use it multiple times
  • Simplify previewPlan() by removing unused parameters
  • Unify addChildPlan() and removeChildPlan()
  • Unify getInfoAndUpdateObject() with changeCaseRunAssignee()
  • Unify onTestCaseStatusChange() with changeTestCaseStatus()
  • Convert TestCaseEmailSettings.cc_list to string field
  • Merge report/caseruns_table.html with reports/caseruns.html
  • Rename model UserActivateKey to UserActivationKey. Fixes Issue #276
  • Remove cached_entities(). Fixes Issue #307
  • Remove TestPlanText.checksum field
  • Remove checksum fields for TestCaseText model
  • Remove unused and home-grown template tags
  • Remove unused fields auto_blinddown, description, sortkey from TestCaseRunStatus model. Fixes Issue #186
  • Remove Meta.db_name effectively renaming all tables. New names will use Django's default naming scheme
  • Remove RawSQL queries. We are now 100% ORM based. Fixes Issue #36
  • Remove duplicate MultipleEmailField definition
  • Remove TCMSLog view, TCMSLogManager, TCMSLogModel
  • Remove TestPlanText model, use TestPlan.text instead
  • Remove unused JavaScript files - lib/detetmine_type.js - lib/hole.js - lib/scriptaculous-controls.js.patch - lib/validations.js - static/js/index.js
  • Remove constructPlanParentPreviewDialog()
  • Remove changeCasePriority()
  • Remove changeCaseRunOrder()
  • Remove debug_output() from JavaScript files
  • Remove deprecated /ajax/update/ end-point
  • Remove taggleSortCaseRun()
  • Remove strip_parameters()
  • Remove _InfoObjects.users()
  • Remove get_value_by_type()
  • Remove testcases.views.get_log()
  • Remove mail_scene() methods and related templates

Removed functionality

  • TestRun completion status is no longer updated automatically. You can still update the status manually via the 'Set Finished' or 'Set Running' links! Fixes Issue #367
  • Remove bookmarks functionality. There are many great bookmark manager apps and if the user is keen on bookmarks they should use one of them. Closes Issue #67 and Issue #210
  • Don't track & display history of changes for EnvGroup model
  • Remove Disable/Enable buttons from TestPlan page. Enabling and disabling can still be done via the edit page
  • Remove changeParentPlan() and the ability to change TestPlan parents from the 'Tree View' tab. This can be done via the edit page
  • When viewing a TestPlan the user is no longer able to specify a sorkey for a particular TestCase. Instead they can use the Re-order cases button and move around the entire row of cases to adjust the sort order
  • When working with test case results, inside a TestRun you will not be allowed to change the order of execution. Order should be defined inside the TestPlan instead
  • Remove XmlRpcLog() model. Kiwi TCMS will no longer log RPC calls to the database. This leads to a small performance boost and can be overridden on individual basis if you need to do so.

Translations

  • More source strings marked as translatable
  • New translations for Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, German and Slovenian
  • Stop keeping compiled translations under git. Fixes Issue #387

tcms-api changes since 4.2

  • Requires Python 3.6 or newer because it fixes bugs related to Django's disabling of keep-alive connections. See https://bugs.python.org/issue26402
  • The rpc client is now accessed via TCMS().exec.<Server-Method>
  • Leave only XML-RPC transport classes! This removes the top-level interface behind the API client and the consuming side is left to work with Python dictionaries instead of objects.
  • Remove the interactive tcms script
  • Remove tcms_api.config module
  • Remove logging class
  • Remove script_examples/ directory. These were never tested and maintained

How to upgrade

If you are using Kiwi TCMS as a Docker container then:

cd Kiwi/
git pull
docker-compose down
docker pull kiwitcms/kiwi
docker pull centos/mariadb
docker-compose up -d
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py migrate
docker exec -it kiwi_web /Kiwi/manage.py populate_history --auto

Help us make Kiwi TCMS better

According to our 2018 roadmap the Kiwi TCMS team is investing a great deal of our time to make the code base more maintainable! For the past few releases we've been balancing code refactoring with bug-fixing and minor enhancements and we have lots of ideas down the line.

We want to hear your voice! Tell us how you use Kiwi TCMS inside your organization. We want to know what works for you and what doesn't so we can make it better. Feel free to comment below, file GitHub issues or send us an email.

Happy testing!