With the increase of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery practices, automated tests gain an increased slice of the overall testing specification. This is no surprise, since automated tests provide great benefits over manual testing, by making the test process faster, systematic (thus avoiding errors), while reducing the effort associated to the execution and validation.

Automated tests are implemented as code, either compiled or not. Usually, automated tests are executed during the Continuous Integration process, triggered by code changes or on a timely basis.

Xray for JIRA is the ideal tool for managing automated Tests. Many testing frameworks are supported, natively (e.g. Cucumber) or indirectly through the processing of execution reports.