The pros and cons of Jira as a testing tool
As a testing tool, Jira lacks any native testing functionality. To manage testing within the Jira platform, testers must customize Jira’s test case issue types or user stories to track test progress. And while these steps allow Jira to fill certain requirements, there are still significant gaps in capabilities in a Jira test management solution.
- Lack of specific functionality. Jira simply doesn’t have the native functionality that most test management tools provide.
- Inefficient processes. Jira requires users to click through more screens and walk through more steps when entering test cases and results. Most significantly, Jira doesn’t allow executions to run more than once or tests to be easily reused, which creates a lot of duplicated effort.
- Unable to scale. Jira has serious performance issues when the number of test cases stored on the system reaches into the tens or hundreds of thousands.
- Issues with coverage. Jira does not offer traceability reporting between issues and test case coverage. Jira also is unable to create a test case coverage report that covers manual execution, automatic execution, and session-based execution.
- No automatic test initiation. Testers cannot automatically launch tests within Jira.