Automated Steps Library and enhanced edition for Cucumber Tests/Pre-Conditions
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Automation requires a lot of maintenance effort. There's the need of doing refactoring at many different levels, including at the specification level. This is even more true if you're adopting BDD and Cucumber. As your projects grow, the number of Cucumber Scenarios/Backgrounds will also increase, as will also the amount of Cucumber steps used by them.
Since (Cucumber) steps can, and shall, be used across different test specifications, you may need to do some refactoring on your existing steps in order to avoid duplicates and as means to foster reusability.
Thus, the Automated Steps Library provides one central place to see and manage all the Cucumber steps used in the context of some given project, allowing you to classify/label steps and refactor them (update, merge). You can even quickly identify the entities using those steps.
Steps are added automatically to the Automated Steps Library upon the creation/edition of Tests or Pre-Conditions. As soon as they're in the library, they can be used afterwards for easing the creation/updating of Cucumber Tests/Pre-Conditions, using autocomplete and filtering steps based on labels.
You can now be much more proeficient using the the enhanced editor for Cucumber based Tests/Pre-Condiitons, right inside Jira.
Integration with Apwide Golive (previously "Apwide Test Environment Manager")
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Xray provides powerful capabilities for analysis of test results and coverage on a per environment basis, allowing users to easily understand how tests and requirements are on specific target environments.
However, Xray is somehow limited on the management capabilites of Test Environments; they are created similar to labels and they're available to all your Jira projects. You may require more advanced management capabilities for your Test Environments, such as the ability of defining and manage them on a per-project basis. Fortunately, there is Apwide Golive (previously known as "Apwide Test Environment Manager") which complements Xray built-in features, allowing you to fully manage Test Environments, their availability amongst other.
