Test Case Management

There is no reasonably priced Test Case Management tool on the market - there is a big oportunity here to provide an obvious add on to Jira.
Things like Mercury Test Director are enormously expesive when compared to Jira, and really, they dont do that much.

I work in a medium sized software firm - about 60 employees. We have a dedicated testing team, of about 6-10 people. They mostly do manual functional testing, with detailed test cases which are derived from Use Cases and other specs.

A couple of years ago we went down the path of writing our own test case management tool, because there was nothing reasonable in the market, either commercial or open source. We are now looking at redeveloping the tool, as it has maintainence problems. There is still nothing in the market.

Test case management has an obvious integration with defect/issue management, so any tool would need to integrate with Jira.
Much better still would be if it was within Jira. It is the same users, projects, and generally there is a One-To-Many between test case and defect.

There are three parts to this - creating test cases, executing them, and reporting on them.

Its pretty simple really - A project has many test cases, which may be linked to a Use Case (Issue type?) and maybe a version.
Each test case has mutiple steps, which have an index and a description, plus some other minor fields.
You need a nice effecient interface to create these steps.
Each test case can have many runs, or executions.
When running a test case, a tester is presented with another UI that efficiently allows them to work through the steps of the test case, and mark each step as completed, or not. Where a step cannot be completed a defect may be created, which is automatically linked to the the run.
The other crucial thing is a set of reports that allows a project manager or test manager to see how many and which tests are passing, how many runs have been done, etc.

As I said, we are currently looking at redeveloping our test case tool, but would much rather use an externally developed product - and an add on to Jira would be the ideal solution. We could possibly help with the detailed requirements of such an addition to Jira. Please let me know if there is any interest.

Jon Nermut
Project Manager
Dytech Solutions
Hobart
03 6235 2222