Brief history of Kiwi TCMS in France 🇫🇷:
Notable events
- November 2018 - initial French translation contributed by Christophe CHAUVET. It was the second foreign language which was actively translated at the time
- February 2019 - Kiwi TCMS starts executing its Postgres test suite using the French translation. This is still the case today
- April 2020 - Armadeus Systems - ARM and FPGA based embedded Linux systems - becomes our first customer from France
- March 2022 - /e/ Foundation (Murena) publishes a “Test session with Kiwi” section on their documentation website which is available at https://doc.e.foundation/testers#test-session-with-kiwi
- May 2024 - Kiwi TCMS takes part of the first Open Source Founders Summit in Paris and later becomes a member of the Open Source Founders Association
Individual code contributors
Christophe CHAUVET - Python Developer and PostgreSQL architect
Christophe is a Python Developer and PostgreSQL architect who is responsible for the initial translation of Kiwi TCMS into French. He has also worked on improving overall translatability of Kiwi TCMS, fixing multiple parts of the application by marking source strings as translatable. His earliest code contribution is from 22nd Jan 2019!
Nicolas AUVRAY - PhD in quantum physics, 0 A.D. team member
Nicolas is a high-school teacher of Physics and Chemistry, with a PhD in quantum physics and also a tem member of 0 A.D - a popular open-source game of ancient warfare. He has contributed documentation about running Kiwi TCMS behind a reverse proxy with HAProxy and was the original inspiration behind the now defunct Open-Source-Test-Management repository. His earliest code contribution is from 08th Mar 2019!
Nicolas GELOT - Python lover, automation addict and trail runner
Nicolas is a Python developer and (in his own words) an automation addict from Paris; a member of the /e/ Foundation team. He has contributed a bug-fix for the order of test cases when closing a TestPlan in Kiwi TCMS. His earliest code contribution is from 16th Dec 2021!
Antoine LORENCE - Freelance Python/Django developer, FOSS enthusiast
Antoine is a Python/Django developer from Angers and the author of django-modern-rpc - the library underlying the Kiwi TCMS API layer! He has worked on changes related to Kiwi TCMS compatibility with the latest version of django-modern-rpc . His earliest code contribution is from 23rd May 2022!
Corporate references
Our anonymous analytics report over 25k events/1 yr recorded by Plausible and 12k events/3 mo recorded by Scarf. Here are some of the more interesting ones:
- Parsec - https://kiwi.parsec.cloud - proof-of-concept with Kiwi TCMS
- CAP’TRONIC - captronic.fr - several training courses about Test Driven Development include Kiwi TCMS
- e*Message - kiwi-tcms.emessage.fr - most active French installation
- Allianz - kiwitcms.oav-allianz.fr - another Kiwi TCMS instance
- Hiiro - kiwi.paris-int.hiiro.app - uses Kiwi TCMS for testing 2026 Marathon de Paris support in their mobile application
- Airbus CyberSecurity - kiwi.dev.cyberrange.fr - latest Kiwi TCMS installation in France
If you would like to know more and meet Kiwi TCMS in person you can do so at Open Source Experience, 10 & 11 Dec 2025 in Paris!
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