Qiita (canonically pronounced cheetah) is an analysis environment for microbiome (and other "comparative -omics") datasets.
This package includes the qp-spades Qiita plugin.
In order to test the qp-spades package, a local installation of Qiita should be running in test mode on the address https://localhost:21174, with the default test database created in Qiita's test suite. Also, if Qiita is running with the default server SSL certificate, you need to export the variable QIITA_SERVER_CERT in your environment, so the Qiita Client can perform secure connections against the Qiita server:
$ export QIITA_SERVER_CERT=<QIITA_INSTALL_PATH>/qiita_core/support_files/ci_rootca.crt