No Zephyr icon showing on JIRA story cards
Recently enabled Zephyr within our Jira account, but not seeing the icon on story cards to indicate that a test case has been created and linked. Anyone know why this is or whether it is a setting that needs updated?
This is expected behavior for the newer editions of Zephyr. Our legacy tool, Zephyr Squad, utilized Jira work items as the test case objects, which is why you would see those indicators directly on the board cards.
With the newer Zephyr versions, test cases are managed within Zephyr itself rather than as Jira issue types, so you won’t see those icons on the board cards in Jira.
However, Zephyr test cases can still be linked back to Jira work items using the traceability feature. You can view tharaceability directly on the Jira work item in the Zephyr section, where linked test cases, plans, cycles, and their latest execution statuses ardisplayed.
You can also create or manage traceability links in multiple places:
- Directly from the Jira work item in the Zephyr section (create a new test case or link an existing one).
- From the Traceability tab within Zephyr on test cases, test plans, or test cycles.
These links are bidirectional, meaning that when you link a test case to a Jira issue, the relationship appears on both the Jira work item and in the Zephyr traceability view.
Additionally, Zephyr provides several ways to get visibility into testing coverage:
- Traceability reports (forward and backward traceability).
- Coverage and execution reporting.
- Dashboard gadgets that can be configured on demand to show testing progress, coverage, and execution status.
These reporting options help provide full visibility into how requirements map to test cases and the overall status of testing across your project.
For reference, here’s the SmartBear documentation that walks through linking test cases from Jira:
https://support.smartbear.com/zephyr/docs/en/test-cases/manage-test-cases-from-a-jira-issue.html
