Jira/storybugs versus Zephyr for jira-testmanagement

Question

Dear experts,

we use Jira for an agile project with a lot of involved parties/suppliers. Created Userstories (issues). We want to report "bugs" as Storybug (issuetype) in JIra and manage bugfixing in that way. Now we want to register testcases etc. and I noticed the existance of Zephyr for jira-testmanagement. Can we use Zephyr to create/register testcases and link them to storybugs in case there is a bug with that userstory? Any experience? Or can we do it more efficient in a separate way, we thought about excel for all testcases but that is not very efficient.

You advices will be much appriciated,

Thanks so much,

Miranda

Miranda Rothkrans · Answer

Thanks Brian and Peter for you advice.

We will check/test both addons, find out what the difference is and decide from there.

Kind regards,

Miranda

Brian Walker_vloc84 · Answer

Hi Miranda,

My vote goes to QMetry Test Management for Jira and I am using it personally from the past couple of years where you can easily create the test cases, link it with stories, execute them and raise defect/bug and get complete traceability.

Here is the Marketplace Link:

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1215144/qmetry-test-management-for-jira?hosting=cloud&tab=overview

- Brian

Pete Singleton · Answer

Yes, Stories and Bugs are just standard issue types in Jira.  The test management addons just introduce the "Test" issue type, and allow you to manage test cycles and test executions.