NEW-Test management

It is very important to document testing on projects. It can help us especially to share test cases with our team and with the customer and monitor test results during projects. Therefore using test management tool on the project is very wise. The tool we are using is X-Ray - test management plug-in in Jira. The reason for this tool is that our test cases and test results are easily visible in our Jira projects, all test cases are linked to correct user stories and test results are visible for PM and for the customer.

In case Partner or Customer choose to use different test management tool, general recommendations from this page are still valid, but please keep in mind that details are described for X-Ray.

We started to use X-Ray in 04/2021, it was already used on many projects for many customers and since then it became mandatory tool for our projects. On some projects, the customer decided to use it even for UAT phase.

Main benefits of using X-Ray on the project:

• Test cases and test results are easily visible to our team and to the customer

• Tool can be used for our Feature Sprint testing and also by the customer for UAT testing

• Tool is standard part of configuration for every new Jira project, it just needs a simple configuration to be used

• Test documentation is correctly linked to correct user stories so it is clear what was tested because of which user story and with which result

• Easy knowledge sharing when replacement of QA Analyst is needed on the project

• Customer can use our test cases as the starting point for their UAT test cases

• Monitoring of testing progress helps a lot to PM to be sure about project status

• Test cases are easily visible as Test issue types, Comments are not used for test cases any more. It will help to have Comments section smaller

Note: Using X-Ray on new projects is mandatory for QA Analysts (unless there is a very special reason for using another tool), but it is just optional for customers to use it for UAT phase