Introduction

1. What is ZenTao for?

ZenTao is an open source project management software, developed by EasyCorp. Its main features are product management, project management, test management, document management, bug tracking, CI management and todo management. It is a professional Application Lifecycle Management(ALM) , covering the core process of software development.

ZenTao is practical and pragmatic. It has full features and beautiful interfaces and is easy to use. ZenTao is well structured and can be flexibly extended. It also has powerful search features, various forms of statistical reports and complete API.

2. Why is it called ZenTao?

Zen(禅) and Tao(道) are the two Chinese characters that have rich meanings in both religion and culture. ZenTao Project Management Software takes the cultural meaning of Zen and Tao, and is expected to convey our understanding and thinking of management. Inspired by The Tao of Programming and The Zen of Programming, it is named ZenTao.

3. The design philosophy of ZenTao ALM

ZenTao is based on Scrum, a popular Agile methodology which is very pragmatic and easy to operate. It fits the fast iterative development of software projects. However, Scrum only defines the core management framework but leaves details and processes not extended/developed. Based on Scrum and the observation of the development situations in China, ZenTao is release and integrates bug management, test case management, release management and document management, and it completely covers the entire lifecycle of software development.

In ZenTao, the concepts of product, project, and test are clearly defined. Product team, development team and QA team coordinate and check with each other while they function differently. The three teams interact with each other through stories, tasks, and bugs, and eventually deliver the product with quality.

4. Why choose ZenTao ALM

• ZenTao is a professional development project management software and cannot be replaced by any simple project management software.
• ZenTao has precise and pragmatic management philosophy, which will accelerate agile development.
• ZenTao has full features, so you don’t have to integrate several systems together, like mantisbt + trac + testlink.
• Open source code and flexible extension mechanism, and is convenient to deploy and re-develop.
• Underlying framework and frontend UI framework are developed independently; robust and stable with a beautiful interface and friendly interaction.
• Perfect community mechanism; you can get technical support and help in time.
• Zero input which means you have no risk for choosing ZenTao compared with other business software that could cost you ten thousands of dollars.

• Support various deployments, either private deployment or cloud services.

• Features

• Product management: including products, stories, plans, releases and roadmaps;
• Project management: including projects, tasks, teams, builds and burndown charts;
• Quality management: including bugs, test cases, test tasks and test results;
• Document management: including product document library, project document library and customized document library;
• Work management: including todo management and personal work management like my task, my bug, my story and my project;
• Company management: including departments, users, groups, and privileges;
• Report: various statistical reports;
• Search feature: powerful search function helps you find the information you need.
• Extension mechanism: extensible in almost any parts of ZenTao;
• API mechanism: convenient for integration with other systems.