Enlist Jira for testing with these test management add-ons

IT organizations practicing Agile, DevOps and iterative development often rely on the Atlassian tool suite. While Atlassian tools span coding, collaboration and releases, there isn't a native test management component. Instead, QA teams can turn to test vendors' add-ons.

Atlassian users adopt Jira for project and issue management; Confluence for collaboration and documentation; and Bitbucket and Bamboo for code and release management. In Atlassian's products, defects make up just one issue type, and teams must track test cases and test execution notes with individual user stories. Reporting is especially difficult within the Atlassian tool suite, which means that testers might export data to Microsoft Excel or other external tools to effectively manage test planning and execution and provide actionable test status metrics to stakeholders.

While they understand the need for efficient and effective test management tools for QA, project and program managers, Scrum masters and other stakeholders want all documentation managed in a single source. To bridge the divide, use a test management tool that integrates with Jira. Many vendors provide add-on versions that enable teams to use Jira for testing.

Add-ons offer a familiar Jira interface or provide functionality for test management that takes place directly within Jira. These five tools integrate with Jira to enable both effective test management and comprehensive project management.

Author's note: Atlassian Marketplace features more than 40 test management tools that offer Jira add-ons and integration with the issue manager, including all five of the add-ons detailed below.