Integrate performance testing into Agile with Xray for faster releases, better user experience, and full Jira traceability.
Understand how Xray’s Requirement Coverage brings real-time visibility to your testing efforts. By connecting test executions to Jira requirements, teams can automate traceability, reduce release risks, and ensure compliance in fast-paced environments. Learn how to set it up, avoid common pitfalls, and integrate coverage insights directly into your CI/CD workflows.
Too often, software testing metrics are reduced to pass/fail numbers or bug counts. But if you're only looking at those, you're missing the bigger picture. This article explores how QA metrics can be used strategically — not just to track performance, but to connect your team’s work directly to business outcomes. Learn which metrics matter most (like defect leakage and requirements coverage), how to use them to make better decisions, and how tools like Xray can support your strategy.
When choosing a test management tool for Jira, which one is best? Learn more about Xray vs Zephyr for Jira testing.
Manual test management can only take you so far. As software development accelerates, teams need scalable, automated strategies to stay ahead. In this article, you'll explore the shift from manual to automated test management.
Simplify QA governance and strategy with Xray. Centralize tests in Jira, improve traceability, and align QA with business goals and compliance.
From managing large datasets to integrating with CI/CD pipelines, QA teams face several roadblocks that can compromise test results and efficiency. In this article, we explore five common challenges in data-driven testing and provide practical solutions to help your team overcome them and scale smarter.
Test parameterization enables testers to execute the same test case with multiple input datasets, reducing redundancy and improving test efficiency. Instead of hardcoding values, testers define variables that are dynamically replaced during execution. Learn how to implement it in your testing strategy.
Data-driven testing separates test logic from data, allowing multiple input variations to be tested efficiently. Meanwhile, keyword-driven testing simplifies automation by defining reusable actions, making it accessible to non-technical testers. In this blog post, we compare both methodologies and show you which one you should choose.
Test coverage is a key metric for assessing whether your test cases thoroughly validate an application’s functionality and requirements. Without a structured approach, teams risk missing critical scenarios and leaving defects undetected. Learn how Xray can help you eliminate manual tracking inefficiencies, improve visibility, and ensure every requirement is tested.
Managing test cases across multiple releases is a challenge for QA teams. Test Case Versioning changes the game by allowing teams to create, manage, and assign multiple test case versions. Learn how this feature helps QA teams streamline workflows and improve test execution reliability.
Automation metrics are more than just numbers - they offer valuable insights into test efficiency, defect detection, and overall software quality. In this guide, you'll find the key metrics that matter most for QA leads, from test coverage and execution time to flaky test rates and automation ROI.
Automation is key to efficient software testing, but managing tests at scale can be challenging. Xray simplifies this by integrating seamlessly with Selenium and Cucumber, offering centralized test management and advanced reporting to streamline testing and enhance traceability.
Software testing is evolving beyond defect identification to prioritize scalability, efficiency, user experience, and security. Explore the transformative trends empowering software testing in 2025.
Test design impacts quality, speed, and collaboration. With the Xray-YEST integration, you can transform your test requirements into smart test cases. Achieve 40% faster test design, streamlined manual and automated testing, and full visibility with centralized workflows in Jira.
Software quality has evolved over time. Initially, the focus was on finding and resolving defects prior to a product launch. As technology advanced, the emphasis shifted towards maintaining quality ac
While AI excels at automating repetitive tasks and analyzing data, humans contribute creativity, critical thinking, and the ability to navigate complex scenarios. This article delves into the strengths of both, exploring how they enhance software testing.
With AI, testers can identify potential problems earlier, streamline planning, and enhance test coverage, all while improving resource management. While the transition brings its own challenges, such as data quality and skill adaptation, AI's benefits are vast. Learn about it here.
This article highlights three skills: fast learning, critical thinking, and clear communication and links it to the Feynman Technique for accelerated learning. Fostering a culture of curiosity and collaboration is crucial for delivering top-notch quality in products.
To master exploratory testing, you'll need a strong foundation in crafting effective test scenarios, analyzing data, iterating quickly based on feedback, and identifying potential risks. Learn more with these 5 top exploratory testing books.
As new technologies (IoT, AR, VR) take the stage, quality engineering must evolve to keep pace. Explore how QE strategies can thrive in 2024 and beyond.
Xray wins Silver and Bronze Globee® Awards 2024 for Excellence in Customer and Team Customer Service, showcasing top-notch support and dedication.
Balancing manual and automated testing with Xray and Katalon boosts efficiency and coverage. Discover tips and strategies from Xray and Katalon.
Learn how to identify and organize essential requirements to find the best test management tool for your project.
Explore various exploratory testing techniques - SBTM, scenario-based, strategy-based, and freestyle - supported by Xray Exploratory App for optimal software quality.
Your test management tool needs to integrate natively with Jira to enhance team collaboration and ensure complete traceability.
Explore key features for Quality Engineering toolchains in 2024, focusing on DevOps, automation, and comprehensive testing strategies.
Are you keeping up with the latest software testing trends? Here you'll learn all about the top software testing trends in 2024.
Discover how Xray enhances compliance in part 2 of our series for a streamlined journey.
Boost your compliance journey with our suite of tools. Learn more in this part 1 of our blog about compliance and regulations.
Explore the integration of AI, including OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Large Language Models (LLMs) in software testing.
Hardware and software systems often involve numerous parameters that influence a system’s output(s). Those parameters can represent input, environment, or usage patterns and can have a finite or infin
Technology enhancements have triggered the evolution of web applications as the needs and demands of users have also evolved. These applications are adapting to the screen, changing the way they inter
This year, there are more commercial tools offering no-code and low-code test automation solutions, helping the testing community to worry less about the tech stack.
In today's evolving world, companies keep pushing for new goals and objectives, which are usually bolder and aim higher. As a QA Manager, there’s a constant need for you to keep evolving and ensure th
Software testability measures how simple it is to test both the system as a whole and each individual component. Testability might mean different things for different members of the software developme
“Since 2018, we scaled as a company and Xray is still a valuable tool for our organization. We are still productive, and we didn’t have to change the tool just because we scaled from 100 to 400 people
In the last 10 years, testing has taken a central position in the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Testing once lived on the periphery, as the last last-minute, end of project activity. Now test
2021 was a revolutionary year and the global workforce continued working in a hybrid fashion. For the QA industry, concepts like Robotic Process Automation and AI/ML became more and more advanced. New
Testing and Quality Assurance can be endless tasks. That’s why testing teams need metrics to measure and quantify their work and success. Testing metrics provide tangible ways to measure the progress
In part one of our series “How to improve quality as a team,” we talked about the effectiveness of adding shoulder checks to the agile development workflow and how that helps improve the overall quali
The software Quality Assurance role (QA) has traditionally been seen as a person who finds bugs and tries to break things. While these tasks still remain a big part of the QA’s role, the industry has
“A company with a highly developed culture of quality spends, on average, $350 million less annually fixing mistakes than a company with a poorly developed one.” Harvard Business Review
In today's competitive market, you can’t afford to risk poor product quality and software failures. Unfortunately, many companies still use outdated methods to manage their tests like Excel, Word, Goo
Effective Coverage Analysis provides powerful insights into the status of what your team is building, so you can make smart decisions based on real-time analysis.
If you’ve been a tester for some time, without a doubt you have run into scenarios where you had to write tests to verify the correctness of the implementation of business rules, algorithms or another
When you test application logic and functionality you often have to test the same logic with multiple input values, which can quickly escalate the number of test cases you have to create.
As complex applications change faster than ever, testers must create, prioritize and maintain tests with greater speed and velocity than ever before. In-sprint testing cannot rely on slow and manual t
2020 challenged all of us. Remote work forced many companies to rethink their QA processes and the tools and methods they use for software testing. Consumers and customers continued to expect high-qua
In 2019, software testing was a $40 billion dollar industry. By 2026, it’s predicted to grow to $60 billion. This signals a paradigm shift in the importance of software testing and quality assurance.
Take advantage of exploratory testing with the new Xray Exploratory App and ensure the highest quality for your systems.
How do you report on quality, what do you look for, and what are the most important metrics to measure? "Quality is "value to some person" (quoting Jerry Weinberg) and as such is highly subjective. Be
Unleash your full software testing potential with these best practices to write, specify and organize test cases. As a tester, organizations depend on you to maintain the highest possible quality for
Here are 6 ways to make sure Xray scales with your development and testing needs. Performance is influenced by many variables and is highly dependent on how you configure Jira, the deployment type you choose, and the way you use it.
Risk-Based Testing is an approach for QA and testing teams who want a focused testing strategy based on risk assessment and analysis. If you’re looking to optimize and improve your testing time and re
If your testing or QA team has been struggling with deciding where to allocate your time and effort, a Risk-Based Testing Strategy could be transformative. Simply put, Risk-Based Testing is a strategy
85% of bugs happen at the 1st stage of development. Discover 4 strategies that can help you prevent software failures after deployment.
Note: This is a guest post, written by David Berclaz, Apwide's Co-Founder.
Testing should start early in the project lifecycle. Ideally, you have a tool that allows teams to capture and organize issues, assign work and follow team activity. That way, you spend less time mana
With the rise of DevOps movement, there is an increased focus on delivering automated, continuous improvement.
Every software development project requires a well-developed test management process – and every test management process requires the right tools.
There are scenarios where testers go out to the field and execute their testing in places without or with restricted connectivity. They may not have access to the enterprise Jira server due to lack of
It seems like yesterday was January and today is already March. What happened to February? Time is flying by and business is changing at the same speed. These are exciting times for anyone in IT. Soft
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