‘JIRA’ is the most recommended agile tool across the world surpassing the industry giants like Trello and Azure DevOps. What makes Jira popular and the most recommended tool for project management?
Introduced in the year 2002, Jira was created to track bugs and issues. Today, it has evolved into a powerful work management system among agile software development teams for efficient collaboration and project management and can easily be integrated with test automation tools and performance testing tools. It integrates seamlessly with any platform, offers high flexibility and customization, and works on centralized approach for complete project transparency.
Jira integration in Tenjin Online is a deliberate choice to offer the best possible solution to the users. It is pre-integrated with Tenjin Online to remove the hassle of managing larger, complex projects and allow efficient creation, editing, tracking, and closing of any defect. Its centralized approach increases project transparency, streamlines the process, and improves efficiency. Let us understand Jira in detail and how it can improve your business.
What is Jira? How does it help in test management?
Jira is a Cloud-based tool available on subscription basis, designed to handle team collaboration and issue tracking among agile teams. Jira involves multi-flow interface that enables the user to check the project status, team dependency, task complexity, track deadlines, and collaborate with the team. Tracking tests allow teams to move faster, resolve issues efficiently, and release the application quickly.
Jira integrates easily with test automation tools to effectively manage tests by offering seamless team collaboration, issue tracking, customizable workflow, planning, organizing, and reporting tests. Here are some of the points stating how Jira can help in test management:
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- Centralized defect tracking and management
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- Organizing, tracking, and managing testing projects
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- Real-time progress tracking
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- Map task dependencies
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- Project monitoring
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- Streamline projects
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- Easy team collaboration
Jira is recommended for larger project management teams as it is highly compatible and can be configured easily with any project. It allows teams to create and design their own template with a customizable workflow. The workflow can be tracked and managed easily so that all the steps from the beginning till the end are transparent and tracked to improve the process.
The simple and easy defect tracking and management system by Jira allows team managers to track the project and streamline it. It allows teams to decide which task to be prioritized, which ones to close, identify who is handling a particular task, and issues alerts on the tasks for which the deadlines are nearing. With this, the project can be easily managed and closed, and details required at any point from any team member can be easily accessed by any team member. However, for confidential data, access can be restricted for a few users working on the project. Hence, Jira integration has made every day working life of testing teams comfortable.
Benefits of Jira integration
There are numerous benefits of integrating Jira software in your test automation system, some of the prominent ones are:
Provides anytime, anywhere access
Since Jira is Cloud-based, it allows teams to connect from anywhere and anytime. Easy accessibility is one of the main reasons for its growing popularity.
Seamless integration
Jira seamlessly integrates with any third-party software and configures easily with any project.
Perfect solutions for agile teams
With its customizable workflow and real-time tracking, it makes defect management across agile teams much easier.
Workflow Management
App testing is a complex process involving numerous stages and teams. It is not easy to manage this complex workflow across larger projects, however, Jira involves workflow management with a centralized approach and allows teams to track and manage projects easily.
Customizable
Jira is a customizable tool that allows organizations to customize it as per their requirement. Any type of company with any project size can easily integrate Jira and yield maximum benefits. Further, its high scalability allows teams to handle larger projects with ease.
Affordable
Jira is available at competitive pricing and available at lower-end costing compared to other tools offering similar features. Its affordability is another reason it is popularly being used by larger businesses.
Features of Jira
Jira software has various features that make it stand out in the market. As already mentioned, it is a highly flexible, compatible, scalable, and customizable tool. Let us now shed light on some of its key features.
Supports short- and long-term project goals
Jira allows teams to have a clear understanding of the project they are handling and helps them develop schedules and maintain projects supporting both short- and long-term goals.
Detailed Reporting
Every task managed by Jira will produce detailed reporting covering every minute involved in the software testing process. Detailed reports help the team analyze the task and conclude the process with the results from the report.
Map task dependencies
It is easy to map tasks to a particular resource in Jira. Mapping task dependencies lets managers track the progress for the tester and the task.
Time tracking
Jira allows teams to track the amount of time involved in completing the task. This helps in tracking individual process along with project progress and gives a fair idea to estimate task completion.
Conclusion
With the above-mentioned, Jira software is the most recommended tool for tracking and managing testing projects. It supports agile teams by allowing efficient defect management with its flexible, compatible, and customizable nature. It is estimated that over 180,000 users in 190 countries have purchased Jira software; the vast numbers speak for its credibility.
Pre-integrated with JIRA software, Tenjin Online provides a fantastic way to manage defects. Creating, editing, tracking, and removing defects can be done quickly and efficiently. It is a simple, self-explanatory, codeless, SaaS-based test automation tool for web, Android, and iOS applications.