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Hands-On Test Management with Jira

By : Afsana Atar
Book Image

Hands-On Test Management with Jira

By: Afsana Atar

Overview of this book

Hands-On Test Management with Jira begins by introducing you to the basic concepts of Jira and takes you through real-world software testing processes followed by various organizations. As you progress through the chapters, the book explores and compares the three most popular Jira plugins—Zephyr, Test Management, and synapseRT. With this book, you’ll gain a practical understanding of test management processes using Jira. You’ll learn how to create and manage projects, create Jira tickets to manage customer requirements, and track Jira tickets. You’ll also understand how to develop test plans, test cases, and test suites, and create defects and requirement traceability matrices, as well as generating reports in Jira. Toward the end, you’ll understand how Jira can help the SQA teams to use the DevOps pipeline for automating execution and managing test cases. You’ll get to grips with configuring Jira with Jenkins to execute automated test cases in Selenium. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a clear understanding of how to model and implement test management processes using Jira.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Execution strategy for structured testing with TMap


With the evolution of the software industry and their standards, the emphasis is for processes to be driven by business objectives, rather than processes being drivers of business objectives. This led to the creation of the following two ways of assessing the test process:

  • Prescriptive: In this approach, the model provides a framework along with the key performance indicators (KPIs) and questions to ask for each test unit. This helps you identify the root causes of inefficiencies. It also provides the order in which each of these inefficiencies should be tackled to improve the process.
  • Non-prescriptive: In this approach, the model provides a framework along with the KPIs and questions to ask for each test unit; it doesn’t dictate the order to attack these issues. Instead, the organization needs to evaluate the business value derived from solving each problem, and first tackle the problems that offer the highest returns.

An example of the prescriptive...