Exploring test management plugins for Jira

The test management process helps to organize, track, and manage testing-related project needs. There are various phases that software development goes through, and testing has its own segregated set of phases. Each of these phases has a set of activities through which we can track the progress of a project, such as creating test plans and test cases, organizing them into test suites, creating test cycles, managing execution, creating and retesting defects, and so on. STLC and its integration with the SDLC was covered in Chapter 1, An Overview of Software Quality Assurance.

In the upcoming sections, we will learn in detail about the different test management phases, such as manage, plan, design, and execute, as well as how to monitor and control test cases with the help of Jira plugins.

In the following section, we will get an overview of each of the plugins supported by Jira. So, let’s get started.