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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

Chapter 2. Getting Started with Jira

The success of a project is the result of the approach adopted by the development team as it goes through each stage of the development process. To achieve success, the development team needs to have a good project manager at the helm who brings good project management skills and experience to be able to deliver a product that satisfies the end user's requirements. The project management process is organized into the following phases:

  • Initiation
  • Planning
  • Execution
  • Monitoring and controlling
  • Closure

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What Jira is and how it can be used for project management
  • How to set up Jira for the initiation and planning of a project
  • An overview of the capabilities and features of three plugins—synapseRT, Zephyr, and Test Management