About Tricentis Test Management for Jira

Tricentis Test Management for Jira is a collaboration-driven test management tool. It lets you create, execute, and analyze test activities all in one place: your Jira projects. This allows you to seamlessly integrate product testing into your release planning routine.

This topic contains everything you need to know about the core tasks in Tricentis Test Management for Jira.

Design your tests

Designing tests plays an important role in the development cycle. Only well-designed tests let you verify whether your application is ready for release or whether you still need some adjustments. By providing a set of easy-to-use tools, Tricentis Test Management for Jira makes it simpler for developers and testers to design their tests.

So the first step in your testing journey with Tricentis Test Management for Jira is to create test cases and requirements that mirror your testing activities.

In Tricentis Test Management for Jira, you design your tests with two specific issue types in Jira:

• Test cases, which define a particular low-level objective in your application. Test cases contain one or more test steps, which are the actions you need to take to test a feature or specification.

• Requirements, which define a particular high-level objective in your application. This can be, for instance, a major specification. To track the progress of your specifications, you link requirements to test cases. You may need several test cases to meet a given requirement.

For more information on how to design your tests, see chapter "Design tests".

Execute your tests

Once you have your test cases, you can prepare and trigger their execution. This tells you whether your application behaves as expected and is ready for release.

The second step in your testing journey is to assemble test cycles and execute your test runs. For each test case, you create an associated test run to document the test results. During the documentation process with Tricentis Test Management for Jira, you can attach relevant resources such as screen captures, comments, or files.

Working with a test run is a vital part of the product development cycle. It is important for testers to add as many details and resources as possible so that stakeholders, developers, and QA teams can easily assess and track the testing progress.

If you encounter a problem during execution, create defects (bugs) to make the rest of the team aware of the issue you discovered. This helps you track any unwanted behavior. All test runs contain specialized tabs where you can keep track of defects, attachments, and associated comments.

For more information on how to execute your first tests, see chapter "Execute tests".

Analyze test results

It's important that you understand the overall progress of your development cycle and can distribute feedback. So the third step in your testing journey is to assess your test results and provide the necessary feedback. Tricentis Test Management for Jira allows you to interpret and analyze your test results in many different ways.

For more information on how to understand your test results, see chapter "Analyze tests".

Screen recording

To improve the user experience and keep everything running smoothly, we use Datadog to screen record your activity inside Tricentis Test Management for Jira. We delete these recordings after 30 days.

What's next

Great, you're now familiar with the core tasks in Tricentis Test Management for Jira. We recommend you check out our frequently asked questions (FAQs).