Zephyr for Jira: Test execution report in dashboard based on folders
Hi, We want to display status of test execution per test folder rather than per test cycle. It does not seem to be possible using out of the box gadgets from Zephyr for Jira? For some strange reason only possible to see the bar-chart based on test cycle. Has anyone found a workaround for this? Of ofcourse we could make a bunch of test cycles instead of folders, but that is really not a workaround we want to use if at all possible. We can also export to excel, but this requires manual effort and will not provide realtime status to our stakeholders. Hope someone found a solution of it's on it's way from Zephyr. This should really be part of standard reporting. Thanks
Test Steps are not loading intermittently
Has anyone else experienced this issue? I and some other team members are seeing this issue. Sometimes test steps don't load and we need to refresh the test case 3-4 times. This is happening with new and existing test cases. Not seeing any Zephyr API issues that I can report.Your Journey to Atlassian Jira Cloud with Zephyr Squad
Greetings community, Surely by now, most of you are aware of Atlassian’s shift in strategy to become a cloud-first company. This has some important implications to anyone who uses their Server based products, including apps. TL;DR: Follow these steps to migrate your Zephyr Squad app data using JCMA: Follow Atlassian's guide to setup theJCMA Followour Cloud migration guide to complete the migration Key dates per Atlassian’s FAQ page: February 2, 2021 – Atlassian customers can no longer purchase or request a quote for new Server licenses. February 2, 2022 – you will no longer be able to upgrade or downgrade user tiers for your Server products or apps (with some exceptions) February 2, 2023 – Existing customers can no longer purchase Server apps on the Marketplace February 2, 2024 – Atlassian stops support for Server products and apps What does this mean for Zephyr Squad customers? From my calls with some of you, and what I keep hearing from our support team, is that many of you are already actively exploring your options. While some are choosing to stick with on-prem by moving to Data Center, many of you are making plans to migrate everything to Cloud, including apps. Here at SmartBear, we are committed to facilitating a smooth transition to Cloud for all our customers. This includes brining feature parity between Server and Cloud products, supporting automated migration tools like JCMA, and be compliant with a number of Atlassian Cloud security and reliability programs on the Marketplace. What is the recommended migration path to Cloud? Atlassian’s Jira Cloud Migration Assistant (JCMA) is your primary path to Cloud. It is an application that helps you move projects, users, and groups from Jira Core or Jira Software on Server to Cloud.The automated app migration functionality in JCMA is now in an open beta, which means that all users can migrate their app data over to Cloud. Are there any feature differences between Jira Server and Cloud versions of Zephyr Squad? If you want to move to the Cloud version of Zephyr Squad, it’s worth considering feature differences from Server. We’ve created a handy Server/DC vs Cloud comparison matrix where you can review these differences in detail. Are there any limitations regarding what data I can migrate using JCMA tool? Yes. Because of feature differences between the Server and Cloud versions of the Zephyr Squad, some data will not be migrated. Please refer to the ‘Known issues and limitations’ section of the Cloud Migration Guide. Are there any alternatives to using JCMA? Yes.Zephyr Migration Tool by SmartBear is another solution for migrating Zephyr Squad data from Jira Server to Jira Cloud. This approach is recommended if JCMA isn't working for you, and your Jira instance is middle-sized with a few projects, as this migration utility can migrate Zephyr Squad data only for one project at a time. What if I need any help with the migration? If you require technical assistance, please check out the Cloud Migration FAQ or raise a ticket with our support team. Tell us a bit about your Cloud migration journey I’ll conclude this post with a question to you, our awesome community. What is your plan of action around migrations? Please spend a moment to fill our this short survey to let us know!Can we please talk about Zephyr execution latency?
I feel like this gets talked about every so often but nothing ever changes - there are posts from users going back literal years about this issue and it is by far the biggest, if not the primary, thing that drives me crazy about Zephyr (Squad, these days) and also the main reason I daydream about switching TMPs on a very regular basis. When manually executing test cases, the fact that every single interaction prompts a DB update is maddening. Change the value of a Status drop-down? Reload the page. Add a comment (or part of a comment but leave focus)? Reload the page. Click the wrong thing? Ha ha, sucker, reload the page. Each of these reloads (at least for our cloud version) take anywhere from 3 to a whopping 25[EDITED: in taking a video to show my manager it actually took over 45 seconds for each action] seconds (and sometimes more, on a particularly bad day), so if I'm working on a test case with, say, twenty steps in it and adding notes as I go, that's minutes of wasted time sitting here waiting for the dang page to update. Multiply that by X number of test cases in a cycle and I swear to Pete, I want to throttle someone. You can't even mitigate some of that torture by marking all test steps as PASS as there's no functionality to do that, at least in the cloud version. It's ridiculous. It's unacceptable. If you could give me one thing for Xmas, Smartbear, it would be to actually acknowledge this humongous issue and maybe, just maybe, put it in your roadmap to address in the next, I dunno, decade? If it wasn't clear I can't stand it any more. Love, Jen
Exporting JIRA and Zephyr Field to get a complete view of test cases executions
When exporting from Zephyr into an Excel spreadsheet the only filed available are the Zephyr fields. Other JIRA filed associates with a test case like comments, description, attachment, etc. ... are not included. We need to do multiple exports from JIRA and Zephyr to get all the information we need, merge documents to get all we need in the report. Questions: is there a way to export the JIRA Field and the Zephyr Field together? Is there an add-on or apps that we can install, integrate and use that would solve the issue? Thanks for your help.
Zephyr plugin unaccessible, barely able to work with the executions, creation, editing test cases
Starting from yesterday (8 Aug) there is almost impossible to work with the Zephyr plugin in the Jira Cloud. Yesterday I was able to open executions and test cases, but only after waiting minutes to load a page. The situation is even worse today, the test cycles, executions, and test cases even do not load. Just an endless spinner after trying to open the executions. And I see that I am not the only one who has such a problem according to the questions in this community. Tried on different browsers and my co-workers have the same problem, please fix this ASAP
Latency with Zephyr Squad Cloud
On a regular basis we are experiencing latency issues with Zephyr Squad and it takes several minutes to load e.g. a Test Cycle. Is there anything that can be done for this performance issue? Especially today (30.3.2023) the system has been extremely slow. We currently have1.3.20-AC version installed.
