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Many IT companies nowadays adopt agile project management methodology to deliver custom software applications within a short amount of time. Agile project management methodologies emphasize on continuous planning, continuous testing, and continuous integration. In an agile environment, QA professionals need to perform a variety of testing repeatedly and consistently. Hence, they need specialized tools and frameworks to evaluate the software efficiently in an agile environment.
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How important is JIRA Tool for QA Software Testing Professionals?
Many IT companies nowadays adopt agile project management methodology to deliver custom software applications within a short amount of time. Agile project management methodologies emphasize on continuous planning, continuous testing, and continuous integration. In an agile environment, QA professionals need to perform a variety of testing repeatedly and consistently. Hence, they need specialized tools and frameworks to evaluate the software efficiently in an agile environment.
Most software testing tools come with features to simplify and speed up test case development and execution. Also, these tools are not developed by keeping in mind the varying requirements of agile software testing. Atlassian JIRA is designed specifically as an agile software testing. The commercial testing tool is used widely by QA professionals for tracking environmental and project level issues in addition to bugs and defects in agile environments.
As an agile software testing framework, JIRA is designed based on three key concepts — issue, project and workflow. An issue can be anything — softwa?e bug, task, help-desk ticket or enhancement ?e?uest — which is created and tracked with JIRA, whereas a project is a collection on issues. At the same time, workflow refers to the series of steps an issue goes through from the time of project planning to completion. JIRA further comes with a number of features to meet varying requirements of agile QA teams.