Using Jira cloud
Following Advanced search reference - JQL fields cloud documentation.
This clause:
and issueLinkType = "is tested by"
returns 3 results, as expected.
and issueLinkType != "is tested by"
returns 0 results, whereas about 8 are expected.
I think you've run into the thing where humans are not as logical as computers and assume "not there" is the same as "is not". We are not good a negative logic.
Let's say you've got 11 issues, 3 have links of type "is tested by", 6 have links of another type, and the last 2 have no links.
When you say "issueLinkType != "is tested by", a human will get the logic wrong, and answer 8.
But that's logically wrong, because there's actually only 6 that have links that are not of that type. The other 2 don't have links, so they can't have links that are not of that type. Neither do they have links that are of that type.
My guess is your about-8 issues don't have any links. So they don't have any links that are not "is tested by"
Try to extends your JQL query in the way:
(issueLinkType != "is tested by" OR issueLinkType is EMPTY)
I ran into this problem myself wondering why and where the rest disappears, "is EMPTY" comes to the rescue for some of fields.
Roman
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