How To Create Test Cycle In Jira

Overview

Xray is a complete Test Management tool for Jira. It is a full-featured app that does not require any other software in order to run.

Xray supports the entire testing life cycle: test planning, test design, test execution and test reporting. We do this by using special Jira issue types, so you can use all Jira benefits that you are used to.

Our aim is to help you improve the quality of your systems through effective and efficient testing. That's why from our first version, Xray already supports both manual and automated tests, including full support for Cucumber tests in the native language (i.e., English).

Feel free to contact us if you need to implement an effective test management tool, want to request a demo, or if you have any question. We're here to help you.

Discover why so many people and organizations choose Xray every single day.

Features

Create, organize, plan and execute your manual and automated tests (Cucumber supported natively; it also supports other test frameworks)
Manage all your tests, manual or automated, in the same way
Integrate seamlessly with Jira and Jira concepts

Track test progress in real-time
Create beautiful reports in docx, xlsx, pdf with Xporter
Generate advanced reporting with eazyBI
Enhance your Agile boards with requirement status and related executions

Makes use of Jira issues for test management, allowing you to customize screens, workflows, attributes
Ensure consistency by storing test definitions for past executions
Track changes in all your test artifacts

Easily integrate and extend using Xray's REST API
Integrate with your favorite Continuous Integration tool, including Bamboo and Jenkins
Import test definitions from Excel (CSV) for both manual and automated tests
Import existing automated tests, including Cucumber Scenarios/Scenario Outlines
Import automated tests and their results from automated test frameworks through TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, Robot and other runners

Extensive configuration options
Custom test and step statuses
Major languages supported (English, German, French, Spanish)

Widely used by many organizations, including Fortune 500 companies
Always up-to-date with constant releases
Ready to use: install and use it right away

Feature List

	Supported?
Specify
Create, view, edit, clone tests
Attachments on Test Steps
Link to Defects and Requirements
Imbued Generic Automated Tests
Native support for BDD (Gherkin/Cucumber)
Preconditions for test cases
Reuse preconditions between test cases
Multiple preconditions for test cases
Organize
Organize tests by project, version, component and label
Organize tests in Test Sets
Organize tests hierarchical, in folders, per project
Plan
Test plans
Organize tests hierarchical, in folders, per each Test Plan
Execute
Create, edit, clone and schedule test executions
Ad hoc style (execute unplanned tests)
Personalize and create Test Run and step statuses
Measure
Track with progress bars on Test Execution/Cycles and Test Plans
Track requirement coverage/status directly on issues, as an attribute
Advanced Reporting	(Traceability, Test Plans and Test Executions metrics, Overall and Historic Requirement Coverage)
Number of built-in reusable gadgets	6
Explore and evolve
Advanced query language	(extensive list of JQL functions)
REST API built-in
Characteristics
Consistency (Test changing non-retroactivity on past executions)
Using of Jira issues benefits	Test, Pre-Condition, Test set, Test Execution, Test Plan
Configuration
Extensive configuration, including behavior
Per-project configuration
Support for project separation between requirements and tests
Agile integration
Seamless integration with Jira's native Agile boards (see Test Plans and Test Executions associated with requirements)
CI Integrations (Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity, GitLab)
Importing results	Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, Robot Framework, RSpec, Selenium, Xamarin Test Cloud, Behave
Importing tests	Cucumber, Excel/CSV and tests from many different automated test frameworks
Exporting Tests to fully customized DOC/PDF/Excel with Xporter
Integration with other Jira related tools (e.g. Confluence)
Integration with other top-notch apps (Xporter, eazyBI, Structure)
UI-Supported languages	English, German, French, Spanish