Test Automation with Zephyr Squad

Zephyr for Jira (Squad / Scale) is a native application that resides in Jira and brings test management capabilities to any Jira project. It adds the following capabilities. For more information on the capabilities of Zephyr and how it can help agile teams, refer to this article. Zephyr’s Test Automation allows you to import test results from various test automation frameworks directly into its test execution cycles, which ensures complete visibility and traceability into the automated test process.

How does it help?

When automation exists, posting the results into Jira can be done in several ways. The simplest of ways is to automatically post results from the framework by calling the Jira APIs. But at times, this might not be feasible depending on the automation tool or framework you use, in these cases, Zephyr’s test automation is very handy. It does two things primarily –

If test case already exists, upload test results from automation into Jira
If test case doesn’t exist, create required tests and update results into Jira

Frameworks Supported

Zephyr Test Automation supports all modern frameworks which allow you to export results from it in different formats. Some of them are listed below. Even if your framework is not listed, you can simply write a custom reporter to generate results in default JUnit or TestNG XML report formats, they can very well be imported into Zephyr.

Cucumber
Eggplant
JUnit
PyTest (JUnit)
Robot (JUnit)
Selenium
SoapUI
TestNG
Tricentis Tosca
UFT

How to use Zephyr Test Automation?

It involves two tasks; Creating a task for automation and then executing the created task. While creating the task, the user can provide a unique name to identify the task, a brief description of the task, the type of automation framework, an option to upload the results file, and the location of the tests in Jira where it needs to be updated such as version, cycle, and folder ids.

Once the task is created, it can be edited, executed, or deleted at any time. When a new test result is available, the user can edit the automation task and upload the new test results before executing the task. When the task is executed, it will be scheduled to run and results will be uploaded into Jira. Based on the results, the status of the task will be updated as “SUCCESS” or “FAIL”

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