Mandragora QA Test Manager

Mandragora QA Test Manager gives a small team a place inside wp-admin to plan and record manual testing.

Write your test cases once, group them into suites, then start a run whenever you need to test a release or an environment. Testers work through the run case by case and mark each one pass, fail, blocked or skipped. Failures get a comment thread and an issue that stays attached to the case, so the next person to test it sees what is still broken.

Everything is entered by people. Mandragora QA Test Manager does not run automated tests, execute code or take screenshots.

Features

• Case library – test cases with steps, expected result and priority, organised into suites.
• Runs – test any subset of cases against a named environment and version. Several runs can be open at once, and a finished run can be cloned for a retest.
• Results – one status per case per run, with who set it and when, so runs stay comparable over time.
• Assignment – add testers to a run and hand individual cases to people. Testers can also claim cases for themselves.
• Comments – rich-text comments on any result, with threaded replies up to three levels deep.
• Issues – raise an issue on a failing case, optionally linked to your bug tracker. It stays visible on that case in every later run until it is resolved.
• Email notifications – a person gets an email when someone else assigns them to a run or a case. Assigning yourself sends nothing, and notifications can be paused in Settings.
• Team management – site administrators grant QA roles to existing WordPress users from the Settings screen.

Roles

The plugin adds two roles and three capabilities. Access is always checked by capability, so you can grant these capabilities to other roles as well.

• QA Tester – sees everything, creates and works through runs, records results, comments, and raises and resolves issues.
• QA Admin – everything a tester can do, plus editing the case library and suites, abandoning runs and changing settings.
• Administrator – full QA access automatically.

A QA role is added alongside the user’s existing WordPress role. Removing someone from the QA team takes away only the QA role.

Privacy

Mandragora QA Test Manager does not contact any external service and does not track usage. All data stays in your WordPress database. Emails are sent through your site’s own wp_mail(), and only to users of your site. User avatars are shown through WordPress’s standard avatar function.

Source code

The admin screen is a Vue application. The plugin ships the compiled bundle in build/ together with its uncompiled source in src/, package.json and vite.config.js.

The full development repository is public at github.com/alordiel/mandragora-qa-test-manager.

To rebuild the bundle from source:

1. Install Node.js 20 or later.
2. Run npm install in the plugin directory.
3. Run npm run build. This writes build/mqatm-admin-page.js and build/mqatm-admin-page.css.

Third-party libraries

The compiled bundle includes these open-source libraries, all under GPL-compatible licenses:

• Vue – MIT
• Vue Router – MIT
• Pinia – MIT
• Quill and Parchment – BSD-3-Clause
• VueQuill – MIT
• quill-delta, lodash-es, eventemitter3 – MIT
• fast-diff – Apache-2.0