1. Automated Test Execution & Reporting (TER) Plugin using JIRA
Banani Ghosh, Software Engineer
Tanvi Dharmarha, Quality Engineering Manager
Adobe Systems
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2. Abstract

3. Automated Testing Life Cycle

4. Problem in Automated Testing
Major focus
Building the Framework
Develop scripts to automate workflows
Little or No Attention
Managing Automation Test runs for each build
Efficient Updation of execution Results
Result
loss of tracking testing activity
makes automation efforts somewhat redundant
Automated Frameworks created Across several projects across various companies
Unavailability of open source Test case Execution & Reporting Plugin in JIRA
Increases time of building Automation frameworks

5. JIRA Overview Tracking tool for: Issue & Tests task web-based tool
extensible platform
An extensible platform allowing customizable items to match the business purposes
developed by Atlassian for project management

6. Zephyr Overview On-demand Enterprise Test Management Platform
Easy management of the following :
Test resources
Manual Test Cases
Link to Automation Scripts
Defect Tracking

7. Zephyr for JIRA

8. Zephyr for JIRA

9. Core System Features Connects Fetches test details for
JIRA Host
Automation framework
Fetches test details for
- Project id
- Version id
Create Test Execution Cycles :
New OR Cloned
Add test sets to cycle
Mapping Done
Execution IDs ::: Test case keys
Parallel Execution
Updates test cases in JIRA

10. System Architecture

11. Testcase Generator Module

12. Testcase Updater Module

13. Results
All relevant information available at anytime in the execution History

14. Results Contd…

15. Results Contd… Daily Results available on JIRA Dashboard
This is NOT possible when Reports shared over mail

16. Time with 3rd Party tools Time with 3rd Party tools
Results Contd…
3rd Party Reporting tools vs TER Plugin
Integrate & get accustomed to use and debug
Time with 3rd Party tools
Time with TER Plugin
3 - 4 weeks
< 1 day
Development Time after Integration
Time with 3rd Party tools
Time with TER Plugin
~ days
< 3 days
Reduced Cost of Development

17. Learnings Communication between Jira and Zephyr Rest APIs
Internal Mapping of Projects, Versions and Issues in Jira
Architecture of Test case management fields in Jira
Building RESTful Web services using JAX-RS
Synchronization and Deadlock handling to ensure parallelism

18. Key TakeAways Automation is imperative but Reporting is Key
Seamless integration with minimal code and configuration
Pluggable and Extensible

19. References & Appendix
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20. Author Biography
Tanvi Dharmarha is working with Adobe Systems as Quality Engineering Manager and has over 10 years of experience in manual, automated and API testing. She owns the quality engineering for Adobe Crash Reporting System. Tanvi has several paper publications to her credit. She holds an engineering degree in Information Technology and is also a certified Stanford Advanced Project Manager.
Banani Ghosh is working with Adobe Systems as Senior Software Engineer having 2years of experience in manual, automated and API Testing. She has been working as a quality engineer for Adobe Crash Reporting System. She holds an engineering degree in Electronics and Electrical. Prior to Adobe she has worked with Aricent Technologies in Telecom domain being responsible in developing and maintaining several Security Gateway APIs and tools.

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Thank You!!!
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