Redmine Test Management Software for QA Teams
Your team runs its projects in Redmine. Your QA team needs a place built for testing. Kualitee connects the two. Issues sync both ways, so a defect you log in one shows up in the other. Your test cases, executions and defects live in Kualitee. Redmine stays where your team tracks development and issues.
Connect Redmine With Dedicated Test Management
Redmine and Kualitee do two different jobs. Together they cover the whole path, from planning the work to testing it.
Redmine runs your projects. It's an open-source, self-hosted platform for:
- ✓ Project management and issue tracking
- ✓ Tasks, Gantt charts and time tracking
- ✓ Custom workflows, extended through plugins
Kualitee runs your testing. It's where you:
- ✓ Build and manage structured test cases
- ✓ Run test executions and record results
- ✓ Track defects through a full QA workflow
Here's the problem. Project issues and QA defects sit in two systems that don't talk. A defect gets logged in one place. The other never gets the update. The two teams drift apart.
Kualitee closes that gap. The Redmine integration syncs issues both ways. Log an issue from a failed test in Kualitee, assign it to a developer in Redmine, and the status and comments stay in step across both.
Bring Redmine and QA Workflows Together
Connecting the two takes the manual work out of keeping development and QA aligned. Here's what you get.
Keep Development and QA Connected
Your testing in Kualitee links to the issues your team already tracks in Redmine. Both sides see the same work.
Manage Test Cases in a Real QA Environment
Create, organize, execute and reuse structured test cases in Kualitee, without leaning on Redmine issue fields or extra plugins.
Connect Defects With Development Work
Failed tests and defects link to Redmine issues, so developers investigate and fix them in the workflow they already use.
See Where Testing Stands
Track test execution, defects, coverage and QA progress through dedicated reports and dashboards.
How the Redmine Integration Works With Kualitee
This is the part that matters most day to day. Here's how a defect moves once the two are connected.
- ✓ A tester runs a test case in Kualitee and finds a bug.
- ✓ They log it as a defect, with the steps and details.
- ✓ The defect syncs to Redmine as an issue, assigned to a developer.
- ✓ The developer fixes it and updates the issue in Redmine.
- ✓ The status and comments sync back to Kualitee, ready for QA to check.
- ✓ The tester retests. If it passes, the issue closes on both sides.
One bug, tracked from both sides, the whole way through. Nobody re-types it into a second tool. Nobody guesses which version is current.
Kualitee runs the QA workflow. Redmine keeps handling project and issue management. The integration is what ties them together.
Redmine Alone vs Redmine With Kualitee
Redmine is built to run projects and track issues. Running a QA process is a different job. Here's what the integration adds.
| Task | Redmine on its own | Redmine + Kualitee |
|---|---|---|
| Projects and issue tracking | Built for it, works well | Stays in Redmine, nothing changes |
| Structured test cases | Issue fields or plugins | Full test case repository with steps and results |
| Test execution tracking | Not built for it | Run tests and record pass or fail per cycle |
| Issue and defect sync | Lives only in Redmine | Syncs both ways, status and comments included |
| Defect management | Issue status only | Full defect lifecycle with severity, priority and ownership |
| Requirement traceability | Manual, if at all | Requirement to test to defect, linked |
| QA reporting | Dev-focused dashboards | Test and defect reports built for QA |
Redmine keeps running your projects. Kualitee adds the test management layer, and the sync means neither side has to update the other by hand.
Key Features of Redmine Test Management Software
These are the features that make the Redmine connection work.
Redmine Integration
Connect Kualitee with Redmine and keep issues synced both ways, including status and comments. You can link more than one Redmine project.
Test Case Management
Create, organize, assign, reuse and manage structured test cases in one QA environment.
Test Execution
Run test cases and track results across cycles, releases and builds.
Defect Management
Log defects and manage them through their lifecycle, with status, severity, priority, ownership and retesting.
Test Reporting
Track test execution, defects, coverage and QA progress through dedicated reports and dashboards.
Manage Redmine Test Cases With Dedicated QA Workflows
You can extend Redmine for test cases with community plugins. Redmine's plugin directory has a few that add test creation, execution and basic reporting. They work, but you're building your QA process out of plugins and custom config, and maintaining it yourself.
A dedicated platform saves you that. Redmine test case management in Kualitee gives your team a purpose-built environment, so you get:
- ✓ Test case organized into suites
- ✓ Test scenarios and test plans
- ✓ Clear steps and expected results
- ✓ Test execution and status tracking
- ✓ Regression testing between releases
- ✓ Requirement traceability from test to defect
- ✓ Test reporting for the whole project
Redmine can be extended for testing. Kualitee is built for it, and it connects back to the issues your team tracks in Redmine.
Manage Redmine Defects in Your QA Workflow
When a test fails, you need more than an issue marked open. You need a defect you can own, prioritize and retest.
Here's the flow. A test fails in Kualitee. You raise a defect. It syncs to Redmine as an issue, assigned to a developer. From there you get:
- ✓ Defects created straight from failed tests
- ✓ Two-way issue sync with status and comments
- ✓ Clear severity, priority and ownership
- ✓ Comments that stay in sync across both tools
- ✓ Retesting until the fix holds
- ✓ Defect traceability back to the test that found it
QA manages the defects in Kualitee, and developers keep working with issues in Redmine. Both sides see the same thing.
What's the Difference Between Redmine and Test Management Software?
Both deal with issues and tasks, so the line can blur. The difference is what each one is built for.
- ✓ Redmine is an open-source project management application. You use it for issue tracking, task management, Gantt charts, time tracking, custom workflows and self-hosting, with plugins to extend it.
- ✓ Test management software like Kualitee is built for QA. That means test cases, suites, plans, executions, cycles, requirements, defects, regression testing, traceability and reporting.
They aren't rivals. Redmine handles project and issue management. Kualitee handles QA and test management. The integration connects the two, so development and testing stay in step.
Connect Manual and Automated Testing With Redmine
Most QA teams run more than one kind of test. Some are manual. Some are automated. Kualitee brings both into one place and connects the defects back to Redmine.
You keep Redmine for project and issue tracking. In Kualitee, your team manages:
- ✓ Manual testing across cycles
- ✓ Automated testing results, through Kualitee's automation integrations
- ✓ Regression testing between releases
- ✓ Test results and coverage
- ✓ Defects raised from failed tests
- ✓ QA reporting for the whole project
Kualitee connects to automation and CI tools like Selenium, Playwright, Jenkins, GitHub and GitLab. Your automated results and your manual tests sit together in Kualitee, and the defects they turn up sync to Redmine for your developers.
Setting Up the Redmine Integration
Setup takes a few steps, and you'll need admin access to both tools. The full walkthrough is in the Kualitee User Guide.
Connect Redmine
In Kualitee, open your integration settings and set up the Redmine connection.
Configure Your QA Workflow
Set up the connection and map how QA defects and Redmine issues work together.
Test and Sync Defects
Run your tests in Kualitee and send failed tests or defects into the Redmine workflow.
Fix and Retest
Developers resolve issues in Redmine. QA verifies the fixes in Kualitee.
Frequently Asked Questions
Test management software is a tool built for QA. You use it to create test cases, run executions, track defects and report on testing. Redmine test management software connects that to Redmine, so your project work stays in Redmine while Kualitee handles the test cases, executions and defects, with issues synced between the two.
Redmine can be extended for testing with community plugins, and its own directory lists test case plugins. For structured test cases, execution tracking and a full defect lifecycle without maintaining plugins yourself, teams connect a dedicated tool like Kualitee.
Not as a built-in feature. Redmine is a project management and issue-tracking tool. You can add test case plugins, or connect Kualitee for a purpose-built test case management environment that syncs with your Redmine issues.
Yes. Kualitee has a two-way integration with Redmine. You can log an issue from a failed test in Kualitee and assign it to a developer in Redmine, and the status and comments stay in sync. You can also link more than one Redmine project.
Yes, and that's the point. Your team keeps tracking work in Redmine while QA manages test cases, executions and defects in Kualitee. The two stay connected.
No. Kualitee works alongside Redmine. Redmine stays your home for project and issue management, and Kualitee adds test management, defect tracking and reporting around it.
Start Managing Your Redmine Testing in Kualitee
Keep Redmine for your project and development work. Give your QA team real tools for test case management, test execution, defect tracking, automation and reporting. Connect the two, sync your issues both ways, and bring development and testing into one workflow.
Start a free trial and connect your Redmine instance with Kualitee. Or book a demo and we'll walk you through it.