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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)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to Software Quality Assurance
3
Section 2: Jira Environment - An Overview
6
Section 3: Test Management - Manage and Plan
9
Section 4: Test Management - Design and Execute
13
Section 5: Test Management - Monitor and Control
16
Section 6: Continuous Integration with Jira and Jenkins

Test Management Approach

Execution strategy in the test management approach plays a crucial role in determining the success or failure of the testing cycle. The strategy helps to identify optimized pathways to mitigate risks early. In this chapter, we will cover in detail the best approaches for selecting various project execution workflows based on the project's needs. We'll learn how to create ad hoc test runs and execute test cases in the test cycles as part of a test plan. Then, we'll understand the importance of each execution type, and its benefits and targeted purpose. Let's get started with the execution strategy for structured testing with Test Management Approach (TMap).

In this chapter, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Execution strategy for structured testing with TMap
  • Execution in test cycles for selected release
  • Best practices...