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Testcase Management Database and Front-end
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README 

        
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                    TestLink 1.9 - Read me

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Contents

1. Introduction

2. Release notes

3. System Requirements

4. Installation

5. Upgrade and Migration

6. TestLink Team 

7. Bug Reports and Feedback



1. Introduction

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TestLink is a web based test management and test execution system.

It enables quality assurance teams to create and manage their test 

cases as well as to organize them into test plans. These test plans 

allow team members to execute test cases and track test results 

dynamically.



TestLink is a GPL licensed open source project. All of the source code 

behind TestLink is freely available for download via SourceForge 

at http://www.sourceforge.net If you are interested in contributing 

to the TestLink effort feel free to contact us.

There is no hidden fee - 100% free for using!



2. Release notes

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This is release candidate of final and stable release and we recommend 

to update from older version.



New features within 1.8: 

    * Platforms - possibility to test with several configuration/environment

    * Requirements versions, type

    * Test case: Step-by-step structure

    * Inventory

    * Compatibility with PHP5.3 

    

See CHANGELOG file for detailed list.



3. System Requirements - server

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Server environment should consists from:

- web-server: Apache 1.2 , 2.x

- PHP 5.2, 5.3

- DBMS: MySQL 4.1 - 5.x , Postgres 8.x , MS-SQL 2000



Supported client web-browsers: 

- Firefox 3.x

- Internet Explorer 6.x, 7.x   



4. Installation

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The following details the basic steps for installation on any   

system. The instructions may seem unix-centric but should work  

fine on Windows systems.



Barring complications, it should take you about 10-20 minutes 

to install, configure, and be using TestLink.



Short summary:

 1. Transfer files

 2. Uncompress files

 3. Launch web based installer



1. First, transfer the file to your web-server using whatever 

method you like best (ftp, scp, etc).  You will need to telnet/ssh 

into the server machine for the next steps.



2. Next, untar/gunzip it to the directory that you want.

The usual command is (1 step):



	tar zxvf 



OR  (2 steps):



	gunzip 

	tar xvf 



Total Commander, Winzip, and other programs should also be able 

to handle decompression of the archive.



At this point you may want to rename the directory to something 

different to 'testlink'. You should allow write access for

logging, upload and template directories.



3. Launch web based installer

We will create the necessary database tables and a basic configuration

file. From your web server, access http://yoursite/testlink/ 

or similar URL and follow instructions.



Check Installation manual and TestLink forum if you meet a problem.



5. Upgrade and Migration

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When accessing Installer page you will found following options:



 - New Installation

 - Migration from 1.8 to 1.9



 Steps

 - Make a Backup of your current database.

 - Using  a NEW DIRECTORY (DO NOT OVERWRITE your old installation),  

   do only following steps from Install procedure:

                                           Transfer files

                                           Uncompress files

 - Copy your old config_db.inc.php and custom_config.inc.php to NEW DIRECTORY.

 - Launch TestLink

 - TestLink will check Database version, and if some upgrade/migration 

   is needed will launch automatically the installer.



 If you are updating a same major version (for example 1.7.0 to 1.7.1) 

 you need to use Upgrade Database.

 

 If you are using a different major version detailed in options,  

 you need to use the specific Migrations.

 

 If in some steps TestLink ask you for two databases, NEVER use 

 same name from both.

 

 If you do not find nothing useful, post in forum

   

 Always before login, after an upgrade/migration clear browser cookies.



6. TestLink Team 

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This list comprise people that has helped



--- Project core team ---

* Martin Havlat - Project lead, builds, infrastructure, developer

* Francisco Mancardi - Project lead, core developer, contributors code reviewer

* Andreas Morsing - core developer



--- Developers ---

* Erik Eloff

* Julian Krien

* Andreas Simon

* Amit Khullar



--- Automated Testing ---

* Masami Ichikawa

* Toshiyuki Kawanishi - Japanese localization, developer



--- Contributors and earlier developers ---



* Chad Rosen - (Originator - version 1.0.x)

* Kevin Levy - Developer

* Asiel Brumfield - Infrastructure, developer

* Jason B. Archibald - Developer



* Tools R Us - contributing team

* Oscar Castroviejo - trackplus interface

* Seweryn Plywaczyk - text area custom field

* [email protected] and Alexandre Da Costa - French localization

* Walter Giaquinto/Alessandro Lia	and  [email protected] - Italian localization

* Alessandro Lia - Javascript and CSS advice.

* Leonardo Molinari - Portuguese localization

* [email protected] - Spanish localization

* Jonas Fleer : search test case by custom field on test projects

* Lightbulb Technology Services Pvt. Ltd. - techpartners: import test cases from XLS file

  [email protected] and [email protected] 

* Kester Mielke  (execution tree colouring and counters by tc status)

* Peter Rooms - Bug coloring and labeling according status using same colors than Mantis.

* Eugenia Drosdezki - Move/copy multiple testcases

*                     Access to content of docs folder on combo box  

*                     Multiselect OR keywords filter

* Japanese Testing Engineer's Forum (TEF) in Japan

  Working Group of TestLink Japanese Translation Project

  http://sourceforge.jp/projects/testlinkjp/

 

  Atsushi Nagata,       AZMA Daisuke,         Hiromi Nishiyama,

  Kaname Mochizuki,     Kaoru Nakamura,       Kunio Murakami,

  Lumina Nishihara,     Marino Suda,          Masahide Katsumata,

  Masami Ichikawa,      Masataka Yoneta,      Sadahiko Hantani,

  Shinichi Sugiyama,    Shinsuke Matsuki,     Shizuka Ban,

  Takahiro Wada,        Toshinori Sawaguchi,  Toshiyuki Kawanishi,

  Yasuhiko Okada,       Yoichi Kunihiro,      Yoshihiro Yoshimura,

  Yukiko Kajino			Yasuharu Nishi



--- Code reuse ---  

  We try to follow as much as possibile the following principle:

       Do not reinvent the wheel.

  We use code, and documentation from other Open Source Systems 

  (see CODE_REUSE document for details).



7. Bug Reports and Feedback

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You may contact us at the TestLink forum at 

http://www.teamst.org/



If you found this software useful for your company please

post in forum on section "Companies using TestLink".



To submit a bug or a feature, please use our Mantis installation at 

http://www.testlink.org/mantis/.