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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

Creating test cases


After the test team understands the requirements of the project, the test plan is prepared and approved. Now, the test team can start the test design phase—this phase requires the test team to create the test scenarios and test cases. In cases where automation testing is involved, a testable version of the product becomes available, which leads to the creation of the test scripts as well.

The test case should briefly describe the purpose of the test, user actions, and the expected results as a result of those actions. The following are the details that are added while creating a test case:

Test Case Field

Description

TC-ID

A test case ID helps you identify test cases uniquely. Usually, it is added by the testing tools. However, testers can also add a unique ID to segregate test cases from one another in test suites.

Title

This includes the title of the test case, which describes the test's purpose.

Test Suite

Identifying test cases as a part of the selected test suite helps test...