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By Mariana Santos
The first-ever Sembi Software Quality Pulse Report is based on nearly 4,000 responses from QA engineers, developers, security professionals, and engineering leaders worldwide. The findings paint a picture of an industry in motion—and a QA function that increasingly relies on tighter integration, thoughtful AI adoption, and better-connected workflows to keep up. Here's a look at some of the data that matters most for agile QA teams working inside Jira-native environments. TL;DR.
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By Mariana Santos
Over the past few years, Easysecrets has established itself as a trusted partner within the Atlassian ecosystem. Beyond consistently delivering efficient solutions through strong development capabilities, the company has also built a reputation for offering a diverse and innovative portfolio tailored to evolving customer needs. When discussing Atlassian, it is impossible not to mention Jira.
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By Mariana Santos
DevOps has transformed how quickly software can be delivered, but speed alone does not guarantee resilience. As organizations scale, their systems become increasingly interconnected, with more services, more dependencies, and more edge cases that must be considered in every release. What once felt manageable with a handful of regression tests can quickly become opaque when dozens of teams are contributing to the same ecosystem1.
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By Mariana Santos
In modern software development, speed is no longer the biggest challenge. Most organizations have adopted agile practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks that enable rapid delivery. What slows teams down today is uncertainty. Stakeholders constantly face critical questions: When answers rely on scattered reports, manual interpretation, or partial visibility, decision-making becomes reactive, leaders will hesitate.
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By Mariana Santos
Test automation is widely recognized as essential to modern delivery; it enables faster feedback, supports CI/CD practices, and increases release confidence. Yet in many organizations, automation growth lags behind development velocity. The reason is rarely a lack of intent. It’s the effort required to convert validated manual tests into automation scripts.
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By Vish Reddy
As organizations embed Quality Assurance into their SDLC with Jira and Xray, the resulting test data becomes a strategic enterprise asset, vital for product quality, test case traceability, and regulatory compliance. Protecting this asset is paramount, and as its scale and importance grow, organizations require specialized data management capabilities that go beyond standard application features to ensure complete resilience and governance.
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By Mariana Santos
Test automation is essential for modern software delivery. It supports faster feedback loops, strengthens release confidence, and enables continuous integration at scale. Yet despite its importance, many teams struggle to expand automation at the pace they need. The biggest obstacle is not validating functionality. It is converting structured manual tests into actionable automation scripts. Manual tests already represent validated logic.
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By Mariana Santos
Software development has never been faster, yet it has never felt more fragmented. QA, development, and product teams often chase the same goals from different directions. Deadlines tighten, requirements shift, and communication gaps lead to rework or misaligned expectations. While DevOps practices have bridged some of those gaps, true collaboration remains a challenge.
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By Mariana Santos
Speed is the heartbeat of DevOps. Teams are delivering faster, integrating continuously, and deploying multiple times a day. But with that velocity comes a question every engineering leader faces: how do you ensure confidence in every release? When change happens this fast, it’s easy to lose track of what’s been tested, what’s passed, and what’s at risk. Without the right visibility, small gaps in testing can turn into production issues that impact users and erode trust.
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By Mariana Santos
Delivering high-quality software is not only about testing thoroughly. It is about connecting people, tools, and workflows so that quality becomes a shared goal. Developers, QA engineers, and product teams each play a role, but when their efforts are disconnected, quality suffers. When testing is isolated from development or requirements management, visibility disappears. Bugs slip through. Releases slow down. Product decisions become harder to validate.
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By Xray
A quick overview of Xray Test Management - cutting-edge test management app for Jira. Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus.
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By Xray
Altice Labs transformed its testing strategy by adopting Xray as a centralized test management platform in Jira. With complex Optical Line Terminal (OLT) environments and over 15,000 automated tests, they needed better traceability, faster feedback, and scalable execution.
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By Xray
A quick overview of Xray Test Management - cutting-edge test management app for Jira. Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus.
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By Xray
The yearly wrap-up of Xray 2025. Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus. Webinar highlights: Start developing better software with Xray - Test Management.
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By Xray
A quick overview of Xray Test Management - cutting-edge test management app for Jira. Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus.
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By Xray
A quick overview of Xray Test Management - cutting-edge test management app for Jira. Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus.
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By Xray
A quick overview of Xray Test Management - cutting-edge test management app for Jira. Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus.
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By Xray
Catch up on the Summer'25 Product Release Webinar to explore the newest Xray features, AI-powered capabilities with Sembi IQ, upcoming App Editions, and insights from our live Q&A. Xray is the leading Quality Assurance and Test Management app for Jira. More than 4.5 million testers, developers and QA managers trust Xray to manage 100+ million test cases each month. Xray is a mission-critical tool at over 5,000 companies in 70 countries, including 137 of the Global 500 like BMW, Samsung and Airbus.
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By Xray
Test-Driven Development (TDD): is it worth it? In this episode of QA Therapy, we sit down with Thierry de Pauw, an expert in software development and continuous delivery, to explore the impact of Test-Driven Development (TDD). What is TDD, and why should teams adopt it? How does TDD influence software quality and maintainability? Common myths and misconceptions about TDD Practical tips for implementing TDD effectively.
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By Xray
Test-Driven Development (TDD) isn’t just about writing tests first—it’s about building quality into your code from the start. By adopting TDD as a team, you can catch issues early, improve collaboration, and create more reliable software. But is it always the right choice?
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By Xray
As teams adopt Agile for managing software development, tools like Jira Software provide the foundation by promoting collaboration, transparency, commitment and flexibility. When it comes to testing, agile values testing as an integrated part of the SDLC, and testers are encouraged to work alongside developers. So what does Agile Testing in Jira look like and how can we increase agility in our teams?
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By Xray
With over 100+ types of product risks, it's impossible that all of your scripted/pre-planned tests will cover all potential threats to your software. Adding exploratory testing to your testing strategy ensures your software is thoroughly tested and meets the highest standards of quality. Through exploratory testing, you design and execute tests as you go. This iteration covers a wider scope of functionality and ensures your system works properly.
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By Xray
We all know that the process of testing can be, for a software tester, an everyday challenge. Rather than just an activity, software testing must be considered as one of the most important practices inside the Software Development Life Cycle. In this eBook, we will focus on performing test management and quality assurance in Jira Software. We will share awesome Jira apps used by Fortune 500 companies like Porsche, Audi, Vodafone, Lufthansa, Nike, Audi, Samsung and many others.
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Xray is the #1 Manual & Automated Test Management App for Quality Assurance in Jira. Xray supports both manual and automated tests, including BDD using Cucumber besides JUnit, NUnit, Robot and others.
Xray is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software:
- Unify Testing and Development: No more excuses for untested code. Xray integrates directly with the leading SDLC software: Jira. With your development and test teams working in the same tool, you never ship untested or broken code again.
- Automate & Organize complex tests: Native integrations with test automation frameworks like Cucumber, Selenium and JUnit improve your team’s efficiency. Xray’s test plan and advanced test folder structure make it easy to orchestrate and execute even the most complex test suite.
- Make DevOps more than a buzzword: Empower your agile transformation with Xray’s extensible test management platform. Our REST API and out-of-the-box integrations make it easy to build your CI/CD pipeline. And Xray’s powerful reports and dashboard gadgets give you complete visibility into your test coverage and readiness to deploy.
Discover the future of testing with Jira today!