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= Manage QA Test Cases

== Description

QATracker is a Trac 0.11 plugin used to manage QA Test Cases via the native Trac interface.

Key features:
 * Test Plans and Test Runs are managed by Milestones.
 * Test Cases are managed by Tickets.
 * Test Results are the Closed Tickets with some sort of resolution: Pass, Fail, Skip, etc.

In other words, QA folks get all the benefits of Trac (reporting, transparency, usage patterns, etc.) that a development team already enjoys.

See also: [http://www.teamst.org/ Test Link] (provides Trac integration), TestManagerForTracPlugin, TestCaseManagementPlugin, ManualTestingPlugin.

The QATrackerPlugin does the following:
 1. Creates a new Test Run and populates it with Test Cases from an existing Test Plan.
 2. Populates an existing Test Run with additional Test Cases from an existing Test Plan.

=== Terminology

For the purposes of the QATrackerPlugin, the following words are defined and mapped to the Trac interface.
 Test Plan::
   A collection of Test Cases, effectively speaking a template for a Test Run. Within Trac, this equates to a Milestone with unassigned Tickets.
 Test Run::
   An instance of a Test Plan. Within Trac, this equates to a Milestone with assigned Tickets.
 Test Case::
   Something to test. Within Trac, this equates to a ticket.
 Test Result::
   Something that was tested. Within Trac, this equates to closed ticket and/or their resolution.

== Bugs/Feature Requests

Existing bugs and feature requests for QaTrackerPlugin are 
[report:9?COMPONENT=QaTrackerPlugin here].

If you have any issues, create a 
[/newticket?component=QaTrackerPlugin new ticket].

[[TicketQuery(component=QaTrackerPlugin&group=type,format=progress)]]

== Download

Download the zipped source from [export:qatrackerplugin here].

== Source

You can check out QaTrackerPlugin from [/svn/qatrackerplugin here] using Subversion, or [source:qatrackerplugin browse the source] with Trac.

== Installation

General instructions on installing Trac plugins can be found on the [TracPlugins#InstallingaTracplugin TracPlugins] page.

== Recent Changes

[[ChangeLog(qatrackerplugin, 3)]]

== Author/Contributors

'''Author:''' [wiki:rweigel] [[BR]]
'''Maintainer:''' [[Maintainer]] [[BR]]
'''Contributors:'''