QA and Testing don’t just come into action during the last stage of the software development cycle; rather these processes are required throughout the production and deployment stages. With an ever-increasing need for testing and QA tools, testers seek to gather some support to weigh down the burden off their shoulders.
We often hear that when great things come together, greater things happen. Let’s move these words to test management tools and integrations.
No wonder, test management tools provide ultimate assistance in QA and defect management by saving time for both company and client. But, there are different integrations available that efficiently stimulate the testing process, making it simple and robust. Integrations play a significant role in maintaining, modifying, and simplifying the workflow of any test management activity.
After careful study, QA experts have come to the conclusion that the following tools can help in further enhancing the performance of their testing tools and strategies:
Jira
Jira has been around for a long time and has established itself as the most reliable tool used by the top-notch tech companies. It is a perfect testing tool for any complicated software development project. It facilitates your testing processes with test planning, bug-hunting, bug testing, documentation, project management, regression testing, case traceability, and tracking incremental results.
It helps an over-occupied Developer or Software QA Engineer to facilitate their consumers’ demands efficiently. Also, Jira dynamically detects any defect trends and their origins, allowing the QA team make necessary changes earlier in the process. A tester can get the most calculated tracking and management facilities within a surprisingly economical budget
Redmine
Redmine is an optimal open-source, powerful web-based project management, and bug tracking tool. It is not just a regular integration that helps in bug hunting; instead, it owns a number of intelligent features that are enough to give QA managers enough help that they require. With issue management and time tracking, Redmine has its own wiki to work out any of your complex projects. Moreover, the robust tool also boasts Gantt charts, a roadmap, and a calendar to help you get a quick feedback or an evaluation of your project.
Here’s the best part: you can mold Redmine easily according to your project plan. In case of a complicated project(s), you can develop a Parent Sprint/Version to manage all the multi-tasking. You can share these projects via a Parent Sprint without messing up the data sets.
Simply put, you can access the entire information connected to the different environment just by viewing a single tab.
Jenkins
Jenkins can help you manage all the important non-human work in the testing process. Basically, it is a Continuous Integration server capable of working as an open-source tool for automated processes. The code written in Java repository automatically runs the testing process every time someone changes the coding alignment.
BitBucket/ BitBucket Pipeline
BitBucket is another giant web portal that provides hosting services for source coding and testing projects, specifically connected with Mercurial or Git revision control systems. BitBucket offers project planning through a free account… a treat indeed for QA Managers seeking some immediate assistance, isn’t it?!
BitBucket Pipeline is another integration that helps in achieving Continuous Integration (CI) in an automated testing procedure. It enables the QA team to fix everything on the interface of the product before its shipment to the client or the end-users.
Trello
Trello is a simple, yet very versatile tool for project management. Its organizational features serve as an influential engine for the QA teams. To avoid any mayhem, Trello helps unify all of your project scheme on board in the form of cards, lists, or to-do lists.
When a large team works together, there are chances of indiscipline and chaos. But the collaborative tool helps in achieving the ultimate agility by listing everything from referencing to sprint backlogging and from bug reporting to finishing the testing cycle.
To accomplish the scrum workflow, QA teams usually design a very simple and organized flowchart, which consists of six columns: “Resources,” “Sprint Planning,” “Current Sprint,” “Blocked,” “QA,” and “Done.”
Pro tip: Card management permission should be restricted to the QA team lead only in order to avoid any chaos.
All the above-mentioned integrations and collaborations provide productivity with whatever sort of Project Development or Management. After using these integrations, the QA and Testing Engineers can confidently brag how uniquely they are approaching towards the new trends of quality and security of IT products.
It’s about time that testers choose integration in order to catch bugs effectively soon as they are detected.
Testing is about to get easier than ever!
