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SmartBear Zephyr is the Jira-native test management and automation platform that empowers your team to deliver better software, faster. Organizing your testing into Test Cycles is the best way to align your QA efforts with specific sprints, releases, and versions, ensuring your team stays focused and on schedule. This short demo video guides you through the process of setting up and populating your Test Cycles. You’ll learn how to define execution windows, link cycles to specific release versions, and pull in test cases from across different Jira projects to create a unified testing effort.

SmartBear Zephyr is the Jira-native test management and automation platform that empowers your team to deliver better software, faster. Its reporting and dashboard capabilities provide real-time visibility into your quality metrics, so you always know the status of your release. This short demo video shows you how to navigate the Zephyr Reports tab and build customized Jira Dashboards. Whether it’s via high-level execution summaries or deep-dive traceability reports, you can track coverage and identify testing bottlenecks instantly.

SmartBear Zephyr is the Jira-native test management and automation platform that empowers your team to deliver better software, faster. Its no-code automation capability allows you to instantly transform manual test steps into automated executions without writing a single line of code.

SmartBear Zephyr is the Jira-native test management and automation platform that empowers your team to deliver better software,faster. Its Record and Play capability is a fast and easy way to build, run, and review automated tests. This short video demonstrates the full flow from recording to execution, all without writing a single line of code. You'll see how testers can review the recorded steps and verify that each interaction was accurately captured, for both traceability and visibility into the automated workflow.

SmartBear Zephyr is the Jira-native test management and automation platform that empowers your team to deliver better software, faster. Efficient execution is the heartbeat of quality assurance, and Zephyr provides flexible ways to distribute work and log results directly within your Jira workflow.

SmartBear Zephyr is the Jira-native test management and automation platform that empowers your team to deliver better software, faster. Effective test management starts with well-structured test cases, and Zephyr makes it easy to organize, detail, and scale your testing efforts within Jira.

In this From the Bear Cave session, Dan Faulkner and Vineeta Puranik break down how MCP Server enables connected workflows, what autonomy looks like in practice, and why trust and transparency are critical as teams adopt agentic automation.

In this From the Bear Cave session, Dan Faulkner, CEO of SmartBear, and Vineeta Puranik, CTO/CPO of SmartBear, discuss why agentic automation is becoming essential in software development and delivery, how MCP Server enables connected autonomy across the SDLC, and what this transformation means for business outcomes and the future of human + AI collaboration.

Discover how Zephyr transforms test management in Jira with this comprehensive walkthrough covering test automation, CI/CD integration, and scaling QA workflows. Struggling with fragmented testing tools, manual processes, and limited visibility into your QA pipeline? This complete Zephyr tutorial shows developers and QA teams how to build a unified, high-performance test management system directly in Jira – without compromising speed or collaboration.

AI has changed how software is written, but testing and quality haven’t kept up at the same pace. In the first episode of our "From the Bear Cave" discussion series, SmartBear CEO Dan Faulkner and VP of Product, AI, Bridges Smith talk through the Levels of Autonomy in software development, why non-code-based testing must become more autonomous, and what it will take to close the gap between AI coding and ensuring trustworthy software.