Item: Zephyr Enterprise
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Fidelity planned on using Jira for its Quality Assurance practices like logging Bugs, Quality Dashboard, managing releases etc.
Since Jira itself is not a Test management tool, hence our problem statement was to either buy a separate Test cases management tool and manage releases and add test cases there or to look for a Jira plugin for Test Case management.

Zephyr Enterprise addressed our need to create a test plan and traceability between Tests and Stories. It also eased our ability to execute test cases and monitor these test executions at a later date.

A library of test cases with a categorization like System Tests, E2E cases, and Integration cases and the ability to re-use them in each regression or sanity cycle.

Pros and Cons

Creation of Folders, Sub Folder and Releases for various Teams/Projects
Ability to create cycles and adding cases to these
Ability to copy/clone entire test cycles for regression/sanity needs
Linking of defects to Test Cases

Better Test case Upload Utility
Ability to quickly map test cases from excel to Jira fields

Return on Investment

Time saving and productivity enhancement for QA teams by preventing context and tool switching
High observability to management via QA Dashboards

Alternatives Considered

Zephyr Scale and Zephyr Squad

Key Insights

Do you think Zephyr Enterprise delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Zephyr Enterprise's feature set?

Yes

Did Zephyr Enterprise live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Zephyr Enterprise go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Zephyr Enterprise again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Atlassian Jira Align, Jira Software, Jira Work Management (Jira Core)

Likelihood to Recommend

Well suited for companies having several applications which need rigorous continuous testing cycles due to periodic upgrades to products/features.
Ideally suited for use cases where there is a need to run sanity and regression suites very frequently.
It is very helpful to have a traceability matrix across Stories/tasks and easy to link all the test cases to be covered to stories.
Variety of reports for Quality Dashboard.

Zephyr Enterprise: Perfect Test management Plugin for JIRA

Overall Satisfaction with Zephyr Enterprise