Set up Tricentis Test Management for Jira

Tricentis Test Management for Jira is available as an application for Jira Cloud environments. Once an administrator completes the initial setup for a given Jira project, users of that project can immediately work with test design, execution, and reporting.

You have to perform this once in every project that you want to work with Tricentis Test Management for Jira. There are different strategies to benefit from when setting up Tricentis Test Management for Jira for the first time:

  • You can create a project that is exclusive for Tricentis Test Management for Jira artifacts, such as test cases and requirements. This way, testers have all testing activities in a single, uncluttered Jira project.

  • Or, you can set up Tricentis Test Management for Jira for an existing project and deeply integrate testing artifacts with other issue types and processes.

Prerequisites

Only Jira administrators can set up Tricentis Test Management for Jira for the first time.

The application is only compatible with Jira Cloud environments.

If your IT department blocks unknown IP addresses, you must have them whitelist the following IP addresses for Tricentis Test Management for Jira to function properly: 52.223.28.149 and 35.71.184.155.

Install Tricentis Test Management for Jira

To install Tricentis Test Management for Jira in your environment, perform these steps:

  1. Go to Tricentis Test Management for Jira in the Atlassian Marketplace.

  2. Select Get it now to see all installation options.

  3. Choose Cloud as the environment type and follow the steps to install the application.

  4. Complete the installation based on your Jira environment type:

I have a company-managed environment

To complete the installation, open the Tricentis Test Management for Jira application from a Jira project. You can do so by clicking on Test Management under the Apps section.

Then, choose Initialize project. This automatically configures the application in that project and creates the necessary issue types.

I have a team-managed environment

Due to the nature of team-managed environments, you need to perform some additional steps to finish the setup process. To complete the installation, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Jira project in which you want to use Tricentis Test Management for Jira.

  2. Launch the Tricentis Test Management for Jira application by selecting Test Management under the Apps section.

  1. On the welcome screen, select Download Tricentis Test Management for Jira icons. You need these issue type icons for the next step, creating an issue type.

  2. Navigate to Project settings -> Features.

  3. In the Issue types section, select Add issue type.

  4. Select Create issue type:

    • Create an issue type named Test Case and use the respective icon which you downloaded in the previous step.

    • Create an issue type named Requirement and use the respective icon which you downloaded in the previous step.

    Note that the issue type names are case-sensitive.

  5. In the Development section, turn on Releases. This is required to categorize your test cycles.

  6. Return to the Tricentis Test Management for Jira. Then, select the Issue type icons match the desired outcome checkbox to confirm that both Test Case and Requirement issue types are named correctly.

    Now you can launch Tricentis Test Management for Jira.

 

What's next

Now that you've set up Tricentis Test Management for Jira for the first time, check out these topics: