Software testers can be found in every software development company. The IT outsourcing businesses can provide the help of such teams to any enterprise interested in working together.
As a software tester, you aim to deliver bug free products. To do so, many tools will be able to assist you in the process.
Is there a tool that can help you with project documentation?
It is. Its name is Confluence. Why let the data be all over the place? With this tool, you can get that information in the same place. Confluence is an online application that assists any team to check and organize all of the documentation. So essentially, Confluence allows you create a space. For you and your team.
To begin with, you need to create a private space. Your personal space is where you save information about you and about your projects. What should include this particular page? A homepage, in which others may see what it is you are working on, pages with drafts, mockups which could later be transferred to a project space and webpages to your work which monitor any personal goals you put in.
For your team, the designated page will include everything from project plans, timelines, technical documentation and so forth. This space needs to have a homepage which includes all of your group’s work, recent and past. Utilizing the Space Shortcuts, you may create links to the main pages your team must have access to.
Making a page in Confluence? It is quite simple. You simply need to hit the “Create” button in the navigation bar in the top of the display and choose a place for the page. Be make sure you pick the right space on your page. Confluence has also preconfigured template pages to make the experience even easier for all those new to this tool.
Do not overlook permissions. These are quite important. They let you to control the access into the spaces you made. The founders of Confluence advise us to allow to everybody in the company to view and add content into the page but not delete it, while your staff needs to be able to upload and delete info.
What about bug tracking and project management?
Consider using JIRA. This is a tool designed to assist software testing teams with bug and issue tracking and project management. It’s an elaborate tool, this being the reason why we’ll concentrate on describing some of its features.
To begin with, what exactly JIRA include? JIRA allows you to configure Workflows, Issue Types, Custom Fields, Screens, Field Configuration, Notification, and Permissions.
To work in JIRA, you have to import a project. As Soon as you do that, JIRA will begin monitoring bugs or problems existing from the beginning. This section has several attributes like Issue type, Workflow, Screens, Fields and Issue Attributes.
Issue Type – you can create and monitor different kinds of items and categorize them into sub-task, bugs, new feature, etc.
Components – or the sub-sections of a project. They add structure into the project by dividing them into teams, modules, characteristics, etc.
Screen – once you create an issue, the issue will be categorized into different areas called screens (Default Issue, Resolve Issue and Workflow)
Issue Attributes — encompasses Statuses and Resolutions used to indicate the development of a project and Priorities used to ascertain the significance of a problem.
How to create an issue in JIRA
You have to open JIRA Dashboard and log into the application. Click on “Project” and a window will open with choices like Simple Issue, Tracking, Project Management, Agile Kanban, etc. Clicking on “Simple Issue Tracking” will open another window in which you are able to explain every detail concerning the matter and assign it to a person in the group, then click “Submit”. Once created, a pop-up will appear with the verification.
If the problem is complicated, you can always make a Sub-Task which Has the use of dividing the main issue into many smaller tasks, which could later be delegated to various people from the team.
JIRA workflow allows you establish the status and how the issue is approached. This feature consists of 5 phases: Open issue, Resolved issue, In Progress issue, Re-Opened issue and Close issue.
Reports can be issued in JIRA. They monitor the progress of projects. The reports issued are Sprint Report, Epic Report, Version Report, Velocity Chart, Control Chart, Cumulative flow diagram, and also the Burndown Chart. It is also possible to configure the report.
Like I said,’ JIRA is a really elaborate tool but great for monitoring bugs and for project management. To discover what this application can really do, we suggest that you use it. Your team will thank you.
Software testing in AROBS
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Working close with the software development teams are our software testing team, manual testers and automations testers. They supply ready-to-use products based on their high-level expertise. They work tirelessly to provide the best products for our customers.
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