Practical resources for planning tests, reviewing release evidence and moving your test library into Nexus. Use them with your team's own delivery process.
Start testing in Jira
Choose a Jira testing workflow
Compare the work your team needs to do: manage reusable cases, execute manual tests, connect automation and review coverage before a release. The Jira testing software and test management guide explains the complete Nexus workflow with product examples.
For complex business rules, use the model-based testing guide. For requirement coverage and linked defects, use the Jira requirements traceability guide.
Set up Nexus
For Jira administrators: install the app, configure a pilot project and check that its work types and workflows are ready.
Run your first testing cycle
For testers and QA leads: turn a requirement into a test case, organise the work, record a result and review the evidence. Includes a worked example and a completion checklist.
Prepare for a release
Release-readiness checklist
Review scope, coverage, results, open defects and the target environment before making a release decision. Record what is known, what is missing and who accepts any remaining risk.
Move your test library
Test migration checklist
Inventory your source data, trial a representative sample and reconcile the result before switching your team over. Includes checks for steps, requirement links and historical evidence.
Connect automated results
Tests run in your own environment; Nexus brings their results into Jira. Use the integration instructions for your tooling, then the API reference for custom connections.
Start a connected GitHub Actions, GitLab.com, Azure DevOps or Bitbucket pipeline from a cycle with Run in CI. For your own reporting, enable a project key's separate Read test data permission and retrieve paged JSON without changing records.
- Integration options
- CI configuration and pipeline examples
- Automation tool setup guide
- Connect Playwright test results to Jira
- Report GitHub Actions tests in Jira
- Connect GitLab pipelines to Jira testing
- API reference
- Read API OpenAPI JSON
Keep test design and searches useful
Use rich formatting for code, lists and links in steps, preconditions and free-text
cases. Find requirements with no tests using
issue in requirementsWithoutTests("ABC"); use executedBy, runsWithStatus
and testsInSet for execution and set filters. See the product guide.
Need a feature walkthrough? Read the product guide. For a quick answer, visit the FAQ or contact support.