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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

Understanding the DevOps pipeline


DevOps is a software development paradigm that involves a cycle of continuous development, testing, integration, deployment, and monitoring. This model is the result of maturing software development practices, especially with the advent of the Agile methodologies, which require faster product and service releases while ensuring adequate quality measures. The following diagram shows the stages in the DevOps cycle:

As you can see in the preceding diagram, DevOps requires development, testing, and operations' functions to act in tandem. DevOps phases are basically an automated and streamlined implementation of the development phase in the Agile SDLC.

In the development phase, developers start writing code based on the requirements for the product. Also, testers start writing test cases or scripts for automated testing. This requires developers and testers to make several commits of their artifacts while maintaining several versions of their code and scripts before...