Feature Friday - Make Your Testing More Efficient With Xray Integration

Peanut butter and Jelly, salt and pepper, cookies and milk. Though all objects are often found in a kitchen or a pantry, the synergy is eminent. Often bought together and in this case with the intention of being consumed together this concept is seen across industries and products. This synergy is often more lucrative than the original products providing the most possible value. And this exact synergy can be found between testing solutions and test case management solutions and led to the development of Qyrus’ integration with Xray. Leading to the topic of this Weeks Feature Friday where Parth and Steve will further discuss the Qyrus Xray integration.

Tell us more about the Xray integration offered by Qyrus and its use cases.

Steve:
The Xray integration is an out of the box integration that provides a link between your Xray issues and your Qyrus test scripts. Upon execution of these test scripts, the results are then populated straight to Xray to view execution results and updates from a single platform.

Parth:
The beauty of it comes in the use cases. Integrating these platforms and building these connections requires no code, simply select the scripts associated with the given issue. This means regardless of the Xray setup, use case, or implementation, Qyrus integrates smoothly providing immediate value.  

What is the Xray integrations overall impact on the testing process? 

Parth:
The immediate impact of this feature can be seen within the reporting and test case management aspect of the testing cycle. As Xray is a test case management tool, and Qyrus is an automated testing solution utilizing the both in tandem is truly the powerful. And taking it one step further in relaying the reports back to Xray with the added option to open Qyrus at any point to further dissect the execution is the meat to this feature.

Steve:
Exactly, and the configurations do not have to be repeated at the project level, you can utilize existing organizational practices and configurations across the teams, services, and projects. Seamlessly bringing a whole ecosystem of test case management to an already powerful end to end automated testing solution this feature immediately impacts the testing, reporting, and test management processes.

How might this Xray integration help testers, developers, and business technologists? What value can this feature bring? 

Steve:
We often see testers dive to this feature as it really makes their day to day tasks more efficient. Testers often work with the X-ray issues first hand and are already part of the test case creation, maintenance, and management processes. Testers will quickly link and organize Xray issues with Qyrus executions centralizing reporting with automatic updates to Xray steps upon results.

Parth:
This also brings developers into the testing process. Prior to the integration developers would simply create Xray issues as arisen within the application across beta versions. Now developers can build out issues, and monitor them with reporting that is centralized and saved in one location.  

Steve:
This feature also enables business analysts to be further invested in the testing process. Utilizing their knowledge on end user requirements and day to day usage and impact of applications to assist in building out the Xray issues and formalizing specific testing requirements. And instead of waiting to hear from team members on test executions or further laboring collaboration on the team, all reports are centralized on Xray.

Does the same or similar functionality exist without Qyrus, and how do competitors address similar problems? 

Parth:
Qyrus is very unique in its Xray integration because it does integrate at a platform level. This means upon integration you can take any scripts across any projects within Qyrus, and simultaneously link them to any issues across Xray.

Steve:
Exactly and requiring no coding knowledge or requirement, built into a form filling manner while relaying reporting back to Xray is something entirely unique to Qyrus.  

Steve:
And without the integration Xray would have to be updated manually. Testing results would not be populated to Xray but would have to be centralized, stored, and shared as a manual effort also.  

How do you see the Xray integration impacting day-to-day operations across organizations? 

Parth:
It really simplifies the test case management process alongside increasing coverage. For every issue there is an associated automated test script, and for every execution an associated report. Furthermore, being able to configure once and make endless connection making sure every corner of your application is covered.  

Steve:
Exactly, and regardless of who is working on the Xray issues or developing test scripts, tester developer or business technologist, everyone with access is immediately on the same page. As updates occur everyone is updated and all data is consistent and centralized directly impacting daily workflow, making the process simple, yet more efficient.

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A very popular story is of the one ring that ruled them all and Qyrus does not aim to be as such. Ironically the very power of Qyrus comes with its ability to integrate out of the box with a range of other solutions including CI/CD pipelines, defect management, and test case management tools. These integrations, such as the recently developed Xray integration, provide a range of benefits across test building, executing, and reporting. Making the testing and quality assurance process more efficient, and ultimately enabling the deployment of higher quality products with a high-quality user experience.