A test case management tool helps testers in managing, executing, and reporting test cases and their errors to fix bugs. Test case management tools are used to improve testers’ efficiency and productivity. Having a tool in place saves time from managing test cases and finding the links that requirements have with detected bugs.
Enterprise-level software development companies prefer Jira to improve teams’ efficiency and productivity.
Moving your ALM (Application Life Cycle Management) to Jira will take you one step ahead in the software development process. Jira is an excellent tool for a small number of the test case. For large organizations with plans to start automated testing will not find Jira helpful in the long run. Jira can bring some significant performance and scalability to your testing process.
What are the major drawbacks of using Jira for larger projects?
Sometimes the software application under development can crash due to the lack of in-built storage in the Jira applications. Jira apps use the Jira database to create an instance to manage and call data. As data accumulates, the app starts consuming more space, which degrades the app performance, crashes, and stalls, which further impacts Jira productivity. It also prevents testers from accessing and reusing test cases, loses tracks and visibility of the testing process.
The scalability issue can be handled by extending the use of the data center to accommodate the growing set of test management data. Jira tool works with small numbers of the test case, but when you have exponentially growing data, such tools fails.
Test case management tools like Jira can be the reason for various errors detected in the AUT. The following test has been conducted on Jira, and the results will help you in understanding the issues:
The test case management tool can be easily used for executing a few manual test cases works fine. But, executing more than thousands of test cases will bring it to stall.
It will crash multiple times when loading results for more than a hundred thousand executions. This means such tools are useful to use for small to medium scale software. Not ready to be used for large size software.
Loading too much data in Jira also affects automation results which increase the software latency. Software latency is the delay caused due to dependency on the other system or component to perform the task.
The increased latency affects the productivity of non-testers, developers, and end-users.
Conclusion
Test case management tool, which is scalable and can execute hundreds of test cases without even a single glitch, should be preferred. Test case tool directly affects software quality and efficiency of the project team. Project managers should consider all aspects of using a test management tool.
