Jira was initially designed to facilitate asynchronous teamwork, and while that still holds to some extent, the landscape has evolved. Many are now reliant on Jira as a central hub for their operations. Consequently, when planning a vacation, it's essential to communicate your absence through Outlook or Slack and in Jira. This is where the Out Of Office app becomes invaluable. 

Agile teams face the challenge of accommodating evolving requirements while constantly delivering new features. This raises a crucial question: should tasks be automated or performed manually? While automated tests offer speed, they require an initial setup and ongoing maintenance. This article explores the comparison between test automation and manual tests, offering a guide to assist you in determining the optimal testing approach for your project's test cases.

By adopting Agile principles such as collaboration, iterative development, and continuous feedback, you can effectively respond to changing requirements and market dynamics. However, these transitions take time and effort. Shifting from sequential, linear development to Agile can be daunting without the proper mindset and tools, including test management tools. This article delves into the testing challenges associated with digital transformations and guides on selecting the appropriate tools to navigate this transition successfully.

Change management acts as a crucial catalyst, bridging the gap between innovative ideas and their realization within an organization. By leveraging the capabilities of Jira and implementing the best practices outlined in this article, companies can effectively manage change, facilitating team improvement and growth and fostering an environment conducive to continuous development and evolution. 

Many teams rely on automated functional tests to scale their efforts, but these tests often overlook an essential aspect: the visual appearance of the user interface (UI). Successful QA teams utilize automated visual testing tools (like SmartBear's VisualTest) to address this issue. These tools offer a faster and more reliable way to ensure a high-quality user experience.

This app enables users to create personalized reports for their dashboards without the need for any coding. This review examines it more closely to determine how Old Street Solutions, the maker of this app, achieves this feat.

Behavior-driven development (BDD) is gaining significant recognition for its distinctive capability to achieve agile objectives through improved collaboration. BDD revolves around establishing a common understanding of software behavior, but it necessitates a shift in mindset and tools, especially for quality assurance teams. This article explores the concept of BDD, the reasons behind its adoption by enterprises, and its implications for QA testing teams. 

If you are in need of a test management solution to effectively organize your tests, streamline automation, and generate insightful reports, or if your current test management solution is not meeting your requirements, an ebook can assist you in evaluating and selecting the right solution. 

This article explains the differences and similarities between DevOps and Agile methodologies. DevOps is a set of practices that focuses on collaboration between development and operations teams, with an emphasis on automation and continuous integration and delivery. 

After a merger, companies need to transfer all data and users from s Jira deployment to their own. However, merging Jira accounts is a complex process, and companies need to consider various factors like the version and configuration of each Jira instance, hosting environment, and data loss. Atlassian offers account merger capabilities, and this article covers the options available for merging Jira deployments.