Zephyr Enterprise: Perfect Test management Plugin for JIRA
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Fidelity planned on using JIRA for its Quality Assurance practices like logging Bugs, Quality Dashboard, managing releases etc.
Since JIRA itself is not a Test management tool, hence our problem statement was to either buy a separate Test cases management tool and manage releases and add test cases there or to look for a JIRA plugin for Test Case management.
Zephyr Enterprise addressed our need to create a test plan and traceability between Tests and Stories. It also eased our ability to execute test cases and monitor these test executions at a later date.
A library of test cases with a categorization like System Tests, E2E cases, and Integration cases and the ability to re-use them in each regression or sanity cycle.
Since JIRA itself is not a Test management tool, hence our problem statement was to either buy a separate Test cases management tool and manage releases and add test cases there or to look for a JIRA plugin for Test Case management.
Zephyr Enterprise addressed our need to create a test plan and traceability between Tests and Stories. It also eased our ability to execute test cases and monitor these test executions at a later date.
A library of test cases with a categorization like System Tests, E2E cases, and Integration cases and the ability to re-use them in each regression or sanity cycle.
Pros
- Creation of Folders, Sub Folder and Releases for various Teams/Projects
- Ability to create cycles and adding cases to these
- Ability to copy/clone entire test cycles for regression/sanity needs
- Linking of defects to Test Cases
Cons
- Better Test case Upload Utility
- Ability to quickly map test cases from excel to JIRA fields
Return on Investment
- Time saving and productivity enhancement for QA teams by preventing context and tool switching
- High observability to management via QA Dashboards
Alternatives Considered
Zephyr Scale and Zephyr Squad
Other Software Used
Atlassian Jira Align, Jira Software, Jira Work Management (Jira Core)
