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== Comparison ==
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== Key Section ==
 
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! Icon !! Explanation
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| style="background-color:lightgreen;"|{{result|pass}}
| Supported
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| style="background-color:tomato;"|{{result|fail}}
| Unsupported currently
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| style="background-color:yellow;"|{{result|unknown}}
| Unknown/Research needed
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| style="background-color:lightgreen;"|{{result|warn}}
| Partly supported
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| P1
| Must-Have missing Feature in Nitrate
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| P2
| Nice-To-Have missing Feature in Nitrate
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== Wiki vs Nitrate Feature Comparison==
 
{| class="wikitable collapsible"  border="1" width="90%"
|-  
|-  
! Feature !! fedoraproject.org/wiki !! nitrate
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"|Creating A Generic Page
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|-
| Wiki markup
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"  
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
|
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|-
| Rename the links
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Any page creation
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} Can only create test case/plan/run
|-
|-
| Review status
| P2
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} manually add review time
| Readable link names
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Set as CONFIRMED
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} human-readable link names
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} use ID for identification
|-
|-
| Draft status
|  
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} manually add draft category/note
| Data entry format
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Set as PROPOSED or NEED_UPDATE
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting mediawiki markup]
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}[http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ tinyMCE]
|-
|-
| Templates
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} such as result, case format, fedora version
| Moving a Page
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} Defined
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} by redirect links
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} by cloning or changing the summary(name) of case/plan/run
|-
|-
|
| Templates creation/use
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} such as [[Special:MostLinkedTemplates]]
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
|-
|
| Editing preview
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} 'save and continue editing'
|-
|
| Supports data entry using a form
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} wiki syntax
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
|-
| P2
| Discussion page
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Talk page
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} Can only add comments in test cases
|-
| P1
| History rollback(Undo changes)
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
|-
| P1
| History comparison
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
|-
|
| History logs
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Only offer change logs and text version history of plan and case
|-
|
| Subpage using
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:yellow;"| {{result|unknown}} by Tree View?
|-
|
| Bookmarks/watchlist
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} watch the page
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} bookmark the page
|-
|}
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
|-
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"|Creating A Test Case
|-
|
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"
|- 
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|
| Renaming a case
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} move to another page
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} change the summary
|-
|
| Test case format template
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} [[Template:QA/Test_Case]]
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Defined
|-
|
| Linking files/packages/images
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Upload somewhere and link to it
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Test cases/plans support attachments or link to wiki
|-
|
| Case draft status
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} manually add draft category/note
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Set as PROPOSED or NEED_UPDATE
|-
|
| Case review status
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} approved in ticket or somewhere else
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Set as CONFIRMED
|-
|
| Categorizing cases
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} manually add to category
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} add category or use tag or add to plan to group cases
|-
| P2
| Categories creation
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} user can create it with certain permission
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} cases categories can only be added by Admin
|-
| P1
| Description part in test case
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} write in 'Notes' part, where syntax editing is needed.
|-
|
| Tests that impact multiple packages
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} Categories could be used to organize this data, but get messy
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} allows linking tests to the packages they are designed to test
|-
|
| Test case re-use (write once, link anywhere)
| Test case re-use (write once, link anywhere)
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} using Category
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} search from Category and link to it
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} clone from other plans
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} test runs re-use cases from a plan, plans clone them from other plans
|-
| P2
| The time historical test case results be available
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} all history?
| style="background-color:yellow;"| {{result|unknown}} unknown
|-
| P2
| Re-use old versioned test case
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} by linking to its history
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} can view text history and version only
|-
|}
|}
 
 
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
|-
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Creating A Test Plan
|-
|
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"
|- 
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|
| Test Plan re-use/update
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} copy contents from previous
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} clone previous plans
|-
|
| Linking test cases
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} link to cases section on test result template page
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} clone from other plans/create new tests
|-
| P2
| Plan draft status
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} manually add draft category/note
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} Set as non-active?
|-
| P2
| Plan review status
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} manually add reviewer and review time
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} Set as active?
|-
|
| Categorizing plans
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} manually add to category
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} no category for plan but have Plan Type and Tag etc.
|-
|}
|}
 
 
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
|-
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Creating A Test Result Page(Test Run) Template
|-
|-
| Categories adding
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} manually add new category
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} by Admin
|
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|-
| Add cases to categories
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} manually add category
| Result Page(Test Run) Template
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Either add category or use tag or add to plan
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} doesn't support template creation. Test run(result page) can be cloned from previous run with modifications.
|-
|-
|
| Sortable table
| Sortable table
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} using sort
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} using sort
|-
|-
|
| Collapse table
| Collapse table
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} hard to manage as a whole  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} hard to manage as a whole  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
|-
|-
| Test case template
| P1
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Group cases (by media)
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}flexible wiki design
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} diff test runs;sorting;diff tags
|-
|-
| Rename a case
|}
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} move to another page
|}
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
 
 
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
|-
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Creating A Test Result Page(Test Run)
|-
|-
| Use template page
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Clone from previous run
|
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|-
| Redirect links
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Test result page(Test run) creation
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} set test run as running or finished
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} Create from plans
|-
|-
| Move test results
| P1
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} manually copy
| documents in test result page
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} manually add one by one?
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} flexible wiki markup design
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} write in 'Notes' field without any syntax
|-
|-
| History rollback
| P1
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Moving test results
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} only have change log for reference
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} manually copy
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} manually add one by one?
|-
|-
| Editting preview
| P2
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Directing to current test run
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} redirect links to current result page
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} set test run as running or finished
|-
|-
| changes comparison
|  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Categorizing runs/result pages
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} Only have change logs
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} manually add to category
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Can set 'product', 'version' and 'tag' etc
|-
|-
| Subpage using
|}
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
|}
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} by Tree View?
 
 
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
|-
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Posting Test Results
|-
|-
| Result summary/report
|
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
|
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|-
| Results for diff platforms
| P2
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Quick access to active test runs
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} ?? two test runs for both platforms?
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Open 'current' links
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} search the run's ID or search my runs(assigned to me in advance)
|-
| P1
| Result format
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} use [[Template:Result]]
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} Idle, Passed, Failed, Running, Paused, Blocked, Error
|-
|-
|
| Comment as references
| Comment as references
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
|-
| Result format
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} use result template
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} defined
|-
|-
|
| Bug posting
| Bug posting
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} use bug template
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} use [[Template:Bz]]
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
|-
|-
| P1
| Multiple contributions for each case
| Multiple contributions for each case
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} only display the last modified one
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} only display the last modified one and logs
|-
|-
|
| *Signatures using
| *Signatures using
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> -> [[User:Rhe|Rhe]] 09:59, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}  
|-
|-
| Search tests/plans
|}
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} by categories or name
|}
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
 
 
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
|-
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Searching Test Results/Cases/Plans
|-
|-
| Main/intro page
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"  
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} link to wiki?
|
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|-
|
| Searching cases/plans/runs
| width="30%" style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} only by searching from categories or name
| width="35%" style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} advanced search
|-
|
| Toolbox(what links to here)
| Toolbox(what links to here)
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} plans, cases, and runs related to each other
|-
|-
|}
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{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
|-
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Uploading Files
|-
|
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"
|- 
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
| P2
| Upload files/packages/images
| Upload files/packages/images
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} upload somewhere and link to it
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} test cases/plans support attachments, test runs don't
|-
|-
| P2
| Upload updates.img/repo to certain server
| Upload updates.img/repo to certain server
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} fedorapeople server
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} fedorapeople server
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} link to wiki?
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} link to wiki.
|-
|-
|}
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
|-
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Generating A Test Summary
|-
|
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"
|- 
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|
| Result summary/report generation
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} run curl command
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} automaticly
|-
|}
|}
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
|-
! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Administrating
|-
|
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"
|- 
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
| P1
| Authorities for pages  
| Authorities for pages  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Use namespaces  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Use namespaces  
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}}  
| style="background-color:yellow;"| {{result|unknown}} Can admin configure it?
|-
|-
| Feature enhancement
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Add plugin
| Supporting anonymous user read-only access
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
|-
|-
| P1
| Supporting anonymous user read-write access
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
|-
|
| Feature extension
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
|-
| P1
| Page protection
| Page protection
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} by Admin
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} by Admin
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}}  
| style="background-color:yellow;"| {{result|unknown}}  
|-
|-
| Case/plan deletion
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} by Admin
| Case/plan/run deletion
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Set as DISABLED?
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} by Admin
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} Set as DISABLED. Test run can be deleted.
|-
|-
| SOP guide page
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Licensing
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}link to wiki?
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
|-
| P1
| License the content
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:yellow;"| {{result|unknown}} should match wiki
|-
|
| Integration with [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ FAS]
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:yellow;"| {{result|unknown}}
|-
| P2
| Integration between update tools (bodhi/f-e-k) and our test infrastructure.
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} investigating
| style="background-color:yellow;"| {{result|unknown}}
|-
| P1
| Upstream project community
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} upstream wiki list
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} upstream nitrate list
|-
|}
|}
 
 
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
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! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Test Days
|-
|-
| Test day/result template page
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"  
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}}
|
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|-
| Test day schedule
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Test day main/intro page
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} link to wiki?
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} link to wiki
|-
|-
| Test notification
|
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} send out announcement manually
| Test day SOP guide page
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|fail}} assign through mail
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}}link to wiki
|-
|-
| Table format
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Test day/event result template page
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} Clone from previous test run
|-
|-
| Form format
|
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} wiki syntax
| Test day schedule
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} link to wiki
|-
|-
| Talk page
| P1
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Test day page(run) creation
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|warn}} User can add comments in test cases
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} test runs can only be created from plans
|-
|-
| Release Criteria page
| P1
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Test day page documented contents
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} link to wiki?
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} write all intro to 'Notes' field will be too crowded!
|-
|-
| License
| P2
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}}  
| Test day notification
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}}
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} send out announcement manually
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} can assign through mail, but mail content is little.
|-
|-
| Integration with [https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts/ FAS]
|}
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
|}
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
 
 
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"  border="1" width="90%"
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! colspan=4 style="background-color: darkgrey;"| Release Validation Test Event
|-
|-
| Supports anonymous user read-only access
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=100% style="border: solid 2px white"  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
|
! width="10%"|Priority !! width="20%"|Feature !! width="35%"|fedoraproject.org/wiki !! width="35%"|nitrate
|-
|-
| Supports anonymous user read-write access
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| Test event Main/intro page
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} link to wiki
|-
|-
| Data entry format
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting mediawiki markup]
| Test event SOP guide page
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}} [http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ tinyMCE]?
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}}link to wiki
|-
|-
| Test case re-use (write once, link anywhere)
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} using Category
| Test event Result template page
|style="background-color:white;"| {{result|unknown}} Using test plans
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} Clone from previous test run.
|-
|-
| Test case/plans tags
|
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}  
| Release Criteria page
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} link to wiki
|-
|-
| Bookmarks
| P1
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}  
| Test cases priority
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} manually add priority before each case link
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} from P1 to P5, need change to: Alpha, Beta, Final.
|-
|-
| Test case priority
| P1
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} manually add priority before each case link
| Each case with different platforms
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} from P1 to P5
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} two test runs for both platforms or clone each case for another platform
|-
|-
| Tests that impact multiple packages
|
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} Categories could be used to organize this data, but get messy
| Test result page(Test run) creation
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} allows linking tests to the packages they are designed to test
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}} created from plans
|-
|-
| Test case/plan attachments
| P1
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} uploaded somewhere and link to it
| Test result page documented contents
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} write intro to 'Notes' field without any syntax
|-
|-
| Road map for each run
| P2
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
| Test event notification
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}} send out announcement manually
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|warn}} can assign through mail, but the content is little.
|-
|-
| Group cases by media
|  
|style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}flexible design
| Progress bar for each run
|style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}  
| style="background-color:tomato;"| {{result|fail}}
| style="background-color:lightgreen;"| {{result|pass}}  
|}
|}
|}

Latest revision as of 06:25, 15 March 2011

This page is a draft only
It is still under construction and content may change. Do not rely on the information on this page.

This page objectively compares feature sets of Wiki and Nitrate systems in relation to the important workflows. Instead of displaying a long feature lists, it is divided into groups by use cases. To avoid overlaps, features compared in former use cases are not listed in later cases again.

Key Section

Icon Explanation
Pass pass
Supported
Fail fail
Unsupported currently
Unknown unknown
Unknown/Research needed
Warning warn
Partly supported
P1 Must-Have missing Feature in Nitrate
P2 Nice-To-Have missing Feature in Nitrate


Wiki vs Nitrate Feature Comparison

Creating A Generic Page
Priority Feature fedoraproject.org/wiki nitrate
Any page creation
Pass pass
Fail fail
Can only create test case/plan/run
P2 Readable link names
Pass pass
human-readable link names
Fail fail
use ID for identification
Data entry format
Pass pass
mediawiki markup
Pass pass
tinyMCE
Moving a Page
Pass pass
by redirect links
Pass pass
by cloning or changing the summary(name) of case/plan/run
Templates creation/use
Pass pass
such as Special:MostLinkedTemplates
Fail fail
Editing preview
Pass pass
Warning warn
'save and continue editing'
Supports data entry using a form
Fail fail
wiki syntax
Pass pass
P2 Discussion page
Pass pass
Talk page
Fail fail
Can only add comments in test cases
P1 History rollback(Undo changes)
Pass pass
Fail fail
P1 History comparison
Pass pass
Fail fail
History logs
Pass pass
Pass pass
Only offer change logs and text version history of plan and case
Subpage using
Pass pass
Unknown unknown
by Tree View?
Bookmarks/watchlist
Pass pass
watch the page
Pass pass
bookmark the page