Welcome to Testopia!
Testopia is a test case management extension for Bugzilla. It is designed to
be a generic tool for tracking test cases, allowing for testing
organizations to integrate bug reporting with their test case run results.
Though it is designed with software testing in mind, it can be used to track
testing on virtually anything in the engineering process.
The following installation instructions assume you are installing the latest
version of Testopia, currently version 2.4.
=== Requirements ===
* Bugzilla 3.6+
* Perl JSON 2.10
* GD-Graph3d 0.63
Testopia is an extension to Bugzilla. This means that if you have one of the
supported versions of Bugzilla installed, you are all set to install Testopia.
Installation instructions for Bugzilla can be found at http://bugzilla.org
'''IMPORTANT NOTES:'''
These instructions assume you have installed Bugzilla according to the Bugzilla
instructions (from tarball or cvs). Installations from Debian .deb or from some
RPM packages may place Bugzilla files in separate directories in which case,
these instructions may not work.
If you are upgrading from 2.2 and have made modifications to the Testopia code,
please be aware that you will need to merge your changes into the new
file locations.
Also be sure to reverse the patch on your existing installation
before unzipping the package.
Please make sure that your language of Bugzilla is the same as language of
Testopia to be installed on. If you are not sure, just set language of your
Bugzilla to English. You can change it any time later.
API USERS TAKE NOTE: Positional parameters are now deprecated as of 2.4. All
params should now be sent in a hash (struct, dict, hashmap or whatever your
language of choice calls key, value pairs). Though all attempts have been made
to provide continuing support for positional parameters, please be aware that
some API calls may fail until you make this change. Also, future versions may
remove this support completely.
=== Installation on Linux ===
''' From the tarball: '''
If you are installing Testopia from the release tarball, simply untar the
tarball in your bugzilla top level directory. On Linux this would look
something like this:
$> cp testopia-<version>.tar.gz /path/to/bugzilla
$> cd /path/to/bugzilla
$> tar xzvf testopia-<version>.tar.gz
Then, you need to run checksetup.pl:
$> ./checksetup.pl
If you are missing any dependencies, checksetup.pl will inform you.
See "Installing Dependencies".
''' From Git: '''
If you want to install the latest code from Git you will need to do the
following:
1. Check out the Git code in a temporary location
$> git clone https://git.mozilla.org/bugzilla/extensions/Testopia.git testopia
2. You will now make a tarball of the source. If you like to update your
Bugzilla from Git, be sure to delete the top level .git directory first to
not conflict with the Bugzilla .git directory.
$> cd testopia/
$> rm -rf .git
$> tar czvf /tmp/testopia.tar.gz .
Once you have your tarball, follow the tarball instructions above to untar
it into your Bugzilla directory. The last step is to install the Ext libraries:
$> cd path/to/bugzilla/extensions/Testopia/
$> wget http://extjs.com/deploy/ext-3.2.1.zip
$> unzip ext-3.2.1.zip
$> mv ext-3.2.1 extjs
Congratulations, you should be able to see the Testopia links at the bottom of
your bugzilla pages.
=== Installation on Windows ===
Windows installations are not officially supported. By this we mean don't ask
the developers for help as we have never tried to install on Windows and don't
have any desire to. However, there have been numerous users that have managed
to do so on their own. Here are some pointers:
*Change PERL "shebang" paths from native *nix, to a Windows Format.
If you have MySQL Server installed, the Replace utility does a great job at this:
C:\<apache path>\htdocs\bugzilla> for %i in (*.cgi) do ("<MySQL path>\bin\replace.exe" "#!/usr/bin/perl" "#!C:\perl\bin\perl" -- %i)
C:\<apache path>\htdocs\bugzilla> for %i in (*.pl) do ("<MySQL path>\bin\replace.exe" "#!/usr/bin/perl" "#!C:\perl\bin\perl" -- %i)
C:\<apache path>\htdocs\bugzilla\Bugzilla> for %i in (*.pm) do ("<MySQL path>\bin\replace.exe" "#!/usr/bin/perl" "#!C:\perl\bin\perl" -- %i)
From here the steps should be fairly identical to those above, meaning run checksetup.pl.
If you have problems please post questions to the support-webtools list.
Do not email the developers directly.
If you find additional pointers, please post them to the Wiki version of this
file at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Testopia:README
=== Installing Dependencies ===
Some of the most common dependencies you'll need to install can be easily
installed in both Windows and linux:
Install JSON:
perl -MCPAN -e shell
install M/MA/MAKAMAKA/JSON-2.10.tar.gz
Install GD-Graph3d:
perl-MCPAN -e shell
install W/WA/WADG/GD-Graph3d-0.63.tar.gz
In Windows, missing modules are easiest installed by running checksetup.pl and
paying attention to the printout:
<pre>C:\bugzilla\>checksetup.pl
* This is Bugzilla 3.6.2 on perl 5.8.9
* Running on WinXP/.Net Build 2600 (Service Pack 3)
Checking perl modules...
...
* NOTE: You must run any commands listed below as Administrator.
***********************************************************************
* Note For Windows Users *
***********************************************************************
* In order to install the modules listed below, you first have to run *
* the following command as an Administrator: *
* *
* ppm repo add theory58S http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms
* *
***********************************************************************
***********************************************************************
* REQUIRED MODULES *
***********************************************************************
* Bugzilla requires you to install some Perl modules which are either *
* missing from your system, or the version on your system is too old. *
* *
* The latest versions of each module can be installed by running the *
* commands below. *
***********************************************************************
COMMANDS:
ppm install TimeDate
...
</pre>
When running checksetup.pl, you will get an "Unable To Locate Component" error
related to "OCI.dll" if you do not have the Oracle perl module installed.
If you are not using Oracle you can supress this message by running the following command:
<pre>ppm remove --area perl DBD::Oracle
</pre>
Remember to "ppm install DBD-mysql" if you are using MySQL!<br>
=== Upgrading ===
In general, you will need to follow these steps:
# Reverse the old patch by running the patch command you used to install with -R
# Untar the new files
# Run checksetup.pl
=== Getting Help ===
First you should consult the documentation. You can reach it by clicking the
Help link on your installation or by visiting:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Testopia:Documentation
Questions can be asked on the mailing list:
support-webtools@lists.mozilla.org
or in the IRC channel at:
irc://irc.mozilla.org/testopia or irc://irc.mozilla.org/bugzilla
The latest news and info can be found at the project homepage:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/testopia
