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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, 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. This exact synergy can be found between testing solutions and test case management solutions and led to the development of Qyrus’ integration with Xray. This leads to the topic of this week’s 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 into 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 that regardless of the Xray setup, use case or implementation, Qyrus integrates smoothly, providing immediate value.

What is the Xray integration’s overall impact on the testing process? 

Parth:
The immediate impact of this feature can be seen in the reporting and test case management aspects of the testing cycle. As Xray is a test case management tool, and Qyrus is an automated testing solution, utilizing both in tandem is truly powerful. 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 of 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 into this feature, as it really makes their day-to-day tasks more efficient. Testers often work with the X-ray issues firsthand 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 arise 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 of end-user requirements and the day-to-day usage and impact of applications, they’ll assist in building out the Xray issues and formalizing specific testing requirements. Instead of waiting to hear from team members on test executions or further 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 that 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 by Xray but would have to be centralized, stored, and shared as a manual effort.

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, there is an associated report. Furthermore, being able to configure once and make endless connections makes sure every corner of your application is covered.

Steve:
Exactly, and regardless of who is working on the Xray issues or developing test scripts, a 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 the daily workflow, and making the process simple, yet more efficient.

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 from 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, execution, and reporting. Making the testing and quality assurance processes more efficient, and ultimately enabling the deployment of higher quality products with a high-quality user experience.

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