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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

Adding test cases to the test cycle from a different project


It's ideal to reuse test cases from previous releases or different projects. We can add them under the current project and use them as part of the current cycle. Let's look at how we can add test cases from different projects to the test cycle.

synapseRT

We can add test cases from another project to test cycles. To do that, click on the Add Test Case button in the Test Case and search for the desired test cases. As you can see in the following screenshot, we add test cases from another project simply by searching for its ID:

Zephyr

We can add test cases in Zephyr from another project. Navigate to the test cycle and click on the Add Tests button; you will see the following screen. Now, search for any test cases from another project by their ticket numbers and add them to the project:

Test Management

While adding test cases to the current test cycle, Test Management gives you the option to select the necessary project. The current project...