Traditionally, manual test management and automated testing generate independent quality reporting data that has to be either manually integrated in spreadsheets or programmatically via scripts and reporting tools. This process takes valuable QA time away from actual testing and can also create inconsistency and inaccuracy when reporting on release readiness due to both the lag time in combining data from both sources and general human error. Combined, these two problems can lead to significant quality deficiency in production releases.
Organizations that use Xray and Jira to manage their software development lifecycle (SDLC) rely on the visibility and transparency across development and quality activities provided by Xray. Implementing automated testing delivers benefits to testing capacity, but to avoid disruptions to visibility and collaboration across manual and automated quality, companies need a solution that offers integration to advanced and comprehensive automated testing.
Katalon is a platform that accelerates end-to-end software development by powering the authoring, execution, and insights of test automation across any app or environment, and flexibly integrates across a team’s architecture and processes. The platform supports automated testing for web, mobile, API, and desktop applications and enables CI/CD pipeline test execution with on-premises or cloud-based test execution for faster testing and release readiness.
The Xray-Katalon integration provides unified test execution reporting, helps current Xray users with manual testing, and offers the ability to leverage Katalon for test automation.
With this integration, users are able to:
Xray’s Katalon integration addresses the challenges of integrating manual and automated testing processes by leveraging the combined strength of Xray’s test management and Katalon’s comprehensive test automation platform.
The Xray-Katalon integration connects Katalon’s TestOps module with Xray, connecting Jira tickets with the issue type identified as “Test Execution” and its related test cases, and linking these test cases with Katalon.
The use cases best addressed by the integration include:
Configuring Xray integration in Katalon TestOps is simple. After signing in to Katalon TestOps, you just need to include your Jira URL and enable the Xray integration into your Katalon project.
Note that there are two main entities that are linked from Katalon TestOps to Xray:
Once linked, users can trigger (either automatically or manually) the push of execution results for those entities to Xray. Linking between the TestOps entities and Xray entities is established in TestOps' database and UI, as well as Xray’s issue descriptions.
Additional information such as passed/failed status, fix version, evidence (screenshots), test case table, and test environments are also synced.
Don't waste any more time trying to manually integrate automated and manual test results via spreadsheets, scripts or reporting tools. The Xray-Katalon integration empowers your teams to quickly unify test results and increase collaboration with full visibility among detailed reports that can be built with Xray and Jira.
Use TestOps to automate your tests more efficiently and push the results back to Xray to leave no bugs behind. Increase user engagement and elevate overall customer satisfaction in each delivery with Xray and Katalon TestOps.
Want to see how the integration works?
On April 26th 2023, together with Katalon, we hosted the webinar Enhance Testing Visibility and Collaboration with Katalon and Xray.
It was about:
About TestOps and Katalon
TestOps is a set of cloud-based services developed by Katalon to help companies streamline software quality by continuous test execution and intelligent analytics.
Katalon is a modern, comprehensive quality management platform that enables quality assurance, DevOps and software teams of any size to deliver world-class customer experiences faster, easier, and more efficiently. Like their broad base of customers and their worldwide partner network, their team spans the globe. They have offices in Atlanta, Ho Chi Minh City, and New Delhi and support a remote workforce model in all other locations around the world. For more info about Katalon, please visit katalon.com.