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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

Best practices for test management


The TMap provides guidance for implementing a structured testing approach in an organization. Here are a few important factors that'll help you create a strong foundation to establish the test-management practice:

  • Utilize a model for the testing activities based on the development process. In our case, we use the STLC model, which is a subset of the SDLC model for the testing activities. The TMap life cycle model can be used for the test management activities.
  • Ensure that appropriate testing tools and techniques, such as checklists, are adopted to identify, execute, track, and communicate progress and results. Communication is essential to identify and tackle obstacles quickly and in time.
  • Establish the required test environments with the infrastructure that meets both the software and hardware requirements to operationalize the product in the test. This also includes setting up a test database and test data. This will enable a smoother execution phase.
  • For...