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Streamline quality assurance with Jira

Test management

Catch bugs early: agile testing with Jira

Efficient test management detects errors before it's too late. And we all know, the saying "you learn from mistakes" is not always a good argument. Especially when developing software, testing is an important part of quality assurance. After all, a system must not only function, but also work efficiently and, above all, be secure. With Jira, the entire test management can be carried out in a very agile manner in just one tool.

Let's develop something together

We support you in testing during product development and beyond. Using proven tools, we create custom test management solutions in Jira tailored to your needs. Relying on best practices and frameworks like ISTQB and ITIL, we also offer test teams, training, and long-term quality assurance to foster agile teamwork and efficiency.
Oliver Heisig

Oliver Heisig

oliver.heisig@eficode.com

Email Oliver Heisig

+49 151 70372474

Core benefits of test management with Jira

Test management centralized oversight

Manage all test cases, bugs, and requirements in one tool, ensuring seamless integration with project management and development workflows.

Centralized oversight

Test management collaboration

Facilitate teamwork with real-time updates, issue tracking, and clear communication, keeping all stakeholders aligned.

Enhanced collaboration

Test management agility and scalability

Adapt quickly to project changes with Jira’s flexible and scalable structure, ideal for iterative development processes.

Agility & scalability

Test management quality assurance

Detect and resolve issues early with robust reporting, traceability, and test coverage analysis, ensuring higher-quality deliverables.

Improved quality assurance

Expert guidance from start to finish

Get ready to streamline your testing with expert consulting

Before implementing Jira, our test management consulting begins with a deep dive into your current processes. We take the time to understand your unique needs and requirements, offering expert advice on which software, add-ons, and workflows to choose for your testing needs. Once we've identified the optimal approach, we'll guide you through the setup and tool integration to ensure maximum efficiency and quality.

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Unlock the power of Jira an Xray

Not using Jira yet? We’ve got you covered! Our expert team will guide you through every step, from selecting the right tools to setting up Jira and Xray to meet your specific testing needs. Xray, a powerful test management tool within Jira, allows you to seamlessly manage, track, and report on tests, ensuring improved organisation and efficiency. Plus, we handle licence management to keep your solution cost-effective and scalable as your needs evolve.

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Custom-tit Jira and Xray setup with 24/7 support

We tailor Jira and Xray to fit your unique workflows, ensuring that the setup aligns perfectly with your specific testing needs. Our expert team adapts configurations to maximise efficiency and streamline your processes. But that is not all: we’re always available to support you with any issues, offering 24/7 assistance to keep your workflows running smoothly.

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Master Jira and Xray with expert-led training

The right tools and workflows are only effective when your team understands and uses them correctly. That’s why we offer specialized test management training for Jira and Xray. Our tailored training ensures your team can fully leverage these powerful tools, maximizing efficiency and improving testing processes across your organisation.

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How can we help you unlock the full potential of Jira and Xray to bring your test management to the next level?

Learn more about test management

Test management is a continuous process and includes all activities for the development of a software with high quality. It is primarily concerned with ensuring software quality through various software tests. Test management usually runs through several phases of software testing – mostly based on the test process according to ISTQB. ISTQB (International Software Testing Quality Board) is a general certification body for software testers, which has developed a standardized training for professional software testers over many years and has defined the following test phases in the testing process:

  • Test planning and test control
  • Test analysis and Test design
  • Test realization and Test execution
  • Test evaluation and reporting
  • Completion of the Test activities

Test Managers are responsible for the tasks in test management and ensure quality assurance in software development with the help of a test management tool. This helps to identify errors in the test case and verify that the system meets the specified requirements, including functionality, performance, and reliability. Tests can be performed manually or automated. They are divided into different types of tests: component tests, integration tests, functional tests, end-to-end tests, acceptance tests, performance tests and smoke tests.

Test management aims to establish a predictable and reliable testing process. This should help to efficiently develop and put into operation high-quality software. In addition to test planning, creating test cases based on collected requirements, test analysis, execution cycles, defect documentation and reporting, the test management process also includes measuring the testing process itself. This enables test managers to continuously improve their testing based on data. True to the credo: "Quality can't be measured, but it can be discussed and assessed".

Many advantages usually result from a structured test management with clear tasks, roles and responsibilities. These include:

  • Cost reduction over the entire software lifecycle
  • Continuous improvement of software quality
  • Direct integration of testing and reporting in Jira environment
  • User-friendly and intuitive interface
  • Coverage of all interfaces in one test management software
  • Common requirements and test case repository
  • Agile collaboration within the team or project
  • Location-independent tool (web-based)
  • Good planning of test phases through known test scopes

Xray seamlessly integrates into Jira and extends the software with all important tools needed in test management. In this way, the management of the test process comes together in one central place, remains extremely agile due to the direct Jira integration, and scores above all with cost-effectiveness and user-friendliness. With the integration of Xray in Jira, predefined issue types can be used to map the test entities. Both automated tests and manual testing are possible with Xray in Jira.

Xray independently distinguishes between test project, in which the tests are stored, and requirement project, which contains the requirements to be tested (e.g. stories, bugs, requirements, changes). The tool also supports the concept of a test repository. Here, the test cases are organized in folders. The app also follows standards such as ISTQB and guides Test Managers through the following test phases:

  • Specifying the project
    Efficient test management stands and falls with good organisation. In the pre-condition, conditions for tests can be specified and reused later. Manual tests, automatic cucumber tests and automatic tests with generic automation connection can be selected as tests by default.
  • Organizing the test cases
    The test set and test repository functions help to organise the test process. Here, test cases can be set up as well as tests be combined in order to use them in a well-structured way in further test planning. Depending on the project, entire test suites or small test sets can be created.
  • Planning the strategy
    Test planning can be used to define both test strategy and the processes to be validated. In doing so, the app allows flexible determination of whether tests will be executed manually or automatically, how resources will be used, and at what time the tests will be executed by which Test Manager.
  • Test execution
    Test execution focuses on the functionality of the tests in the target environment. After test execution, reporting records which tests have passed, failed, are being executed or are still waiting to be executed.