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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

Summary


In this chapter, we learned about Jira and plugins supported by Jira to meet your Agile projects' needs. Jira is a project management tool that provides various templates to create and manage your project artifacts. Scrum and Kanban are the two most widely used Agile project management methodologies. Jira supports both methodologies and provides tools to meet your test management needs. Using simple steps, you can create and manage your projects in Jira and restrict access to information using the different sets of permissions and roles. We explored the workflow to create projects in Scrum and Kanban. In the final section, we explored the installation and configuration of three test management plugins—synapseRT, Zephyr, and Test Management.

In the next chapter, we will cover in detail how each phase of test management can be performed using the Test Management plugins in Jira. We will also compare the features provided by each plugin.