Using automation to add tests to a given test set

Question

Dear community,

does anybody have an idea how I can automate to add tests to a xray testset? The automation rule should start scheduled (e.g. every 1 day) and then add existing tests to be found via a JQL query to a given fixed testset.

Thank your for your support and ideas.

Stefan Salzl · Answer

Hi @M_K_

some things I would like to add here:

1. the action of adding tests to test sets is not a native jira action. Therefore APIs are provided by the vendors to do those things

2. The solution I proposed is mainly processed by an automation rule in the internal Automation for Jira. Nevertheless this automation would have a component (calle "send webrequest" action) that fires an api call (as there is no other action in the jira automation rule that could do this natively).

Best
Stefan

M_K_ · Answer

Dear Stefan,

thank you for your proposed solution and sorry for my late reply, but I wasn't available for some days.

Unfortunately the approach doesn't totally fit to my problem. I'm hoping to find a solution that doesn't go via APIs. I rather simply want to use a Jira integrated automation rule that runs e.g. once a night and adds all newly added tests (based on affected systems and components) to a given fixed test set. Only if there is no way at all to solve it Jira-internally I would try to solve this via an external API solution. In my case most likely a Python script.

Stefan Salzl · Answer

@M_K_

Could you give it a shot?

Best
Stefan