ZenTao

I am working for an instant messenger project for self hosted and internal solution. I was first introduced to this scrum tool by my team lead. ZenTao is affordable for small teams and it offers almost all function points a software project would need, including bug tracking, test case management, build and release, plans and roadmaps, etc. It offers in English and the support team is super responsive. It has minor bugs occasionally but it is released quite often, so it is not a big deal.

We have used Zentao to manage our project for over 3 years. ZenTao is an excellent open source project management software. The main management idea is based on the popular agile project management method-Agile/Scrum. The software mainly separates the concepts of product, development, and test. Product analyst, development team, and testers cooperate with each other,they interact through requirements, tasks, and bugs. Manager use gantt chart and kanban to manage project lifecycle and in the end delivery qualified products. In the mean time, Zentao provide CI/CD solution and git integration. These feature are helpful for manage product furture upgrade. Highly recommand!

We have switched from Jira to Zentao after using Jira for more than 5 years. Zentao helps us with the predefined workflows which easily fit on our internal procedures. We can use it to manage almost the whole development cycle by having user stories, task decomposition, testing and deployment. It is much configurable and extendable. You can create your own data structures for maintaining additional data records. Some cons now. It can't integrate directly with your existing Git environment and you have to keep in sync your git with the filesystem of the Zentao installation. Role management has to be more configurable and permissions have to be applied per project and not for the whole system in order to be applicable in several environments The overall experience is more than expected and is highly recommended!

Compared to OpenProject and Taiga, I prefer ZenTao since it's more affordable and implementing Scrum the best. Our team likes open-source and we prefer self-hosted so that we can keep data secure and immigrate with more flexibilities. I like the test part in ZenTao at most, it fits our team so much. We write cases once product backlog items have been created and run cases in a test request which are linked somehow with sprint and user stories. The traceability in ZenTao is very powerful and we deeply love it.

First of all, I have chose ZenTao because I didn’t need a project management tool, but Test Case Management tool (I’m a QA Lead in my team). Also, I need full featured and lifetime free version of Test Management tool because of my company’s politics. So ZenTao give me best set of features for my purposes for free, and it looks great and easy to set up and use. Other candidates was: Kiwi TCMS and Testlink. Compared to them, besides functionality, Zentao have the best support and documentation. After trying zentao opensource I have introduced it to the managers of our company, and they suggested to use paid version for project management too. Now we have unorganized variety of Redmine, Openproject, Google Docs, GitLab (every sub-team trying to use they own tool instead of one centralized tool)

We have been using ZenTao for almost 3 months for implementing Scrum to manage our App development team. We have the same roles so as in Scrum, PO, SM, and team. ZenTao is an application lifecycle management tool, so it's very complete for us to manage sprint tasks, test jobs and product backlog ( so called as story ). Thumb up:)