If you use Jira to manage your tasks and projects, then you might be aware that you can also use Jira for test case management.
However, like most users who are trying to extend Jira’s use for test management, you may also wonder how and why. In today’s video we will discuss how you can install a Test Management App for Jira from the Atlassian Marketplace and speed up your Agile Testing Cycles.
As you well know, Jira is used by Agile teams globally to plan, track and report their Agile projects or sprints. Users create stories and defects, plan the development typically across sprints using Jira.
What happens when you install QTM4J or QMetry Test Management for Jira is that it syncs with your single Jira or multiple Jira projects. All the users of this project get synchronised with QTM4J.
With QTM4J you can create test cases and link these cases to a single user story or multiple stories. This provides teams with end-to-end visibility into the requirement traceability matrix.
Further, to make the testing more effective in the Agile context, QTM4J offers Test Cycles. A test cycle is simply a group of test cases that are to be tested together.
For example, one way that you would group a similar set of test cases in a cycle is to group them by feature or module.
A login feature may have 5 test cases grouped in Test Login Cycle. Similarly, a Registration cycle may contain all the test cases to be tested for the sign-up module.
Such grouping or test cycles can also be planned around the type of tests that you will perform. For instance, a Smoke Test Cycle could have all the test cases that are part of smoke testing. This arrangement or grouping enables reusability and effective capturing of test execution results.
Since team leaders, QA managers or project managers need to plan out the testing strategy across user stories, grouping test cycles in a Test Plan can speed up your testing efforts.
Last but not the least, leverage all your test data collected using the tool to provide real-time and actionable insights.
Trace everything from the user stories to test cases to test executions with the help of our 30+ reports.
In summary, you get full visibility, optimum test coverage and end to end test case management, right inside Jira.
Register for QTM4J free trial on Atlassian Marketplace to get a better idea about QTM4J. Our product specialist will reach out to you to help you with smooth installation and configuration.
To import test cases from Excel to Jira, you can use the Jira Importer tool or third-party plugins like Xray for Jira. These tools allow you to map the Excel columns to Jira fields and easily transfer the test cases into Jira for efficient test management.
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Jira is a project management tool that allows users to organize and track tasks. Nested epics in Jira are a way to further break down and organize larger projects into smaller, more manageable components. This relationship helps project managers effectively plan, track, and manage complex projects within the Jira platform.
Suppose you’re driving to an unknown destination. There can be many routes to reach your destination. But how do you choose the shorter one? Which route will have a drive-in restaurant where you can grab a quick bite? If there is a traffic jam ahead, who tells you about the alternative route? Thankfully, you have GPS in your car that can give you foresight so that you can make the right decision and of course, at the right time. Similarly, Jira acts as the “GPS” or the single platform to share information across your DevOps workflow. It gives you the complete visibility and traceability to collaborate with different teams, share information and data from your integrated toolchain. Jira’s visibility ensures everyone in the DevOps workflow always knows what’s in development and what’s supported. Continuous Quality in Jira Continuous quality is a critical aspect of the DevOps workflow. It helps DevOps teams to find and fix critical bugs in the initial stages of software development. This ensures that bugs are mitigated long before it goes into the deployment stage. To achieve continuous quality, you need to pick the right testing tools. But with so many tools available in the market, how do you choose the best tool? Selecting testing tools to achieve DevOps in Jira While choosing testing tools to achieve DevOps in Jira, you need to consider various factors. These include: Ease of use: You’re looking for a test management tool that is intuitive and simple to navigate with an easy user interface. Certainly, you do not want to move forth and back, but conduct all testing from one place. So, your first criteria for picking the tool should be ease of use. Test automation: Choose a solution that allows for test automation and automation within the test management process. For example, QTM4J is tool for DevOps teams that want to leverage test automation to test early and faster go-to market products. Collaboration: The main purpose of DevOps is to break the silos between various departments and testing tools should encourage this ideology. Development team works in Jira to manage projects, gather requirements, and track bugs. Testing tool in Jira should help testing teams collaborate in the project. For example, developers using Jira gets visibility into bugs raised by tester in test management app inside Jira. Scalable & Integration capabilities: In continuous integration, you keep testing the codes in a shared repository several times a day to detect problems early. This helps you to fix them at the earliest and roll out new features to your users faster. So, look for testing tools that integrates with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Bitbucket, etc. to help achieve continuous quality in the DevOps pipeline. Confluence Integration: In any organizational set up, Senior management or decision makers need to have access to data that are well presented in a single dashboard and are updated real time. That’s obvious because they do not have the time to go through individual test assets. To thrive in a competitive market, fast and accurate decisions play as a gamechanger. So, if you are looking for better reporting features within Jira, then choose a testing tool that allows Confluence integration. Quality Metrics: Only you know the metrics you want to track and those needed for your projects. So, ensure the tool you choose offers those metrics, or even better, gives you the provision of customizable options and analytics capabilities. You should also export the test plans and reports into different file formats for future references. Few reports that are extremely useful — End-to-end traceability report (RTM), Test Coverage report, Test Execution. Also, while selecting a testing tool in Jira ensure that the tool provides Dashboard widgets to display charts on Jira Dashboard. This widget is helpful to get a summary of testing activities from the Jira dashboard without going to the app in Jira.
Jira is one of the products by Atlassian. Other products include Confluence and Service Management are often used together by companies. Jira Cloud comes free for up to 10 users however has some limitations if permissions/roles is something you need for your team. This is when you need to upgrade to Jira Cloud Standard edition allowing for more control/permissions and features. You can customise your workspace with powerful native plugins from the Atlassian Marketplace for different solutions such as a Testing app example (Vansah , Zephyr, Xray..) If you need to integrate with Github you can add this plugin and see all your code commits, merges based on your Jira Issue.
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The goal of DevOps is to streamline and automate the entire software delivery lifecycle through better collaboration among development and operational teams. The aim of DevOps in most projects is to automate as many manual processes as possible in their software delivery process. At the same time, a test management tool enables the agile team to shift left, test frequently and early, and manage the entire test management workflow in Jira. For example, test management tools like QTM4J can help you make intelligent decisions with comprehensive reporting, integrate test automation and extend with open API, and help in test authoring. And when your test management tool can do all of these, it will automatically help you achieve DevOps.
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