JIRA plugin for test management - Free if possible

[restertest (Ioan Solderea)]

Hello all,

I would require your help with a tool/addon recommendation.
There is a small project for which we use JIRA to track the Tasks, Stories and Bugs.
We want to also have our test case in JIRA and for that I think an Add on would be ideal.

The addon should allow

• Test case creation
• Test runs
• Test filtering/search
• Test Reporting

If you have any ideas I would really appreciate it.

Thank you

[mirza (Mirza Sisic)]

I don’t know if they are any free ones on the Atlassian marketplace, but I’ve used QA Touch in the past and it’s a lot cheaper than the big players, like Xray and Zephyr which have more features but cost a lot more.

[sebastian_solidwork (Sebastian Stautz)]

I note my testing in Jira/Confluence without any plugin. I find typical test management more a burden than a help.
Some details:

Jira Testing tool

Since a while now we use a combination of Confluence (overview, reports, manuals) and plain Jira (per case/topic one issue). Imo this open/passed/failed… ratio isn’t worth a thing. Just create tickets for testing on regular releases. You can do test (case) management with very simple, already existing things. Reports should not be about pure number, but about coverage by topics, risk and relevant details. That is something you have to write, not to count. For new features we use mostly Jira.…

[robertqa (Robert)]

Hello,
For simple Test management in Jira you can create Custom Issue type Test Case, Test Run and then link the test cases to each run, add labels.

To be able to see the pass fail status, you would need to add custom field or custom workflow.
This part gets a bit tiresome, since you need to start copying the Test cases, if you want to track Pass Fail status per Test Run. But its doable.

Since you will still be using Jira out of the box features, you can create reports using custom JQL queries, create overviews in Confluence, etc.

If you keep it simple, this can be managable, when its starting to go out of hands, it is time for proper Test management tool. I prefer Xray since it works pretty much the same way, but with a lot of additional features.

Good luck!

[clittlefair (Corry Littlefair)]

We do use XRAY, but it is very expensive. Licence based on number of Jira users as opposed to number who would use it for testing (This is bad).
As mentioned above, you can create your own item types and go from there, but will need to be creative in cataloguing and maintaining them.

If there is an ‘alternative’ - I would also like to know and willing to look at all options.

[naveenml (Naveen L)]

Test rail integrates easily with JIRA for test management.

[testrigor (Artem Golubev)]

I agree with @robertqa that you can just have a “Test Case” as a ticket type in Jira or just use stories and add more details to it.
Did you know that you can execute the test cases directly from Jira?
Here is the free plugin to try it out: testRigor Test Automation for Jira | Atlassian Marketplace
You can pair it with a free version of testRigor.com . Disclaimer: I’m a testRigor co-founder.