Discussions
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Agentic Test Execution for Xray: Questions to Ask Before You Start
It's Thursday of release week. Your Xray Test Execution issue has 80 manual tests; you have two testers available, and experience says it takes two full days, including review. The release is planned for Monday. You've been here before, and so has every QA team working in Jira: caught between manual execution that doesn't…
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AI in Agile: beyond the hype, what's actually changing for your team?
The numbers are striking. Depending on which 2025 survey you read, between 84% and 91% of developers are now using AI tools in their workflows. Sprint planning overhead down 30–60%. Test case generation in seconds. Rovo reaching 3.5 million monthly users. But honestly, the statistics are the easy part. What I find far more…
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The Business Case for Agentic Test Execution in Xray
A practical ROI model for QA leaders evaluating agentic test execution on top of Jira Cloud and Xray. TL;DR * Agentic test execution targets a specific QA cost pool: automatically running existing manual test cases or Gherkin scenarios with agentic AI. No scripting, no locators. * This article gives you: (1) a five-bucket…
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Three Pillars of Trustworthy Agentic Test Execution
“An AI test execution agent? How can I trust it when I know AI is not reliable?” This is often the first question QA teams ask when they discover agentic AI test execution. And it is the right question. In previous articles, I looked at how agentic test execution works and integrates with Xray through Lynqa, and how it…
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Agentic Test Execution in Xray
How does the agentic execution of manual tests and Gherkin-style scenarios speed up test cycles in Xray? On the surface, "automatic execution of manual tests" sounds like an oxymoron. The industry has always operated on a binary: manual means a human tester; automatic means a script, a framework, and an automation…
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Two Approaches for AI Test Automation in Jira, and Why You Probably Need Both
We keep talking about “AI for test automation” as if it were one thing. It’s not. Two fundamentally different approaches are available and ready for production: Agentic Test Execution and AI-assisted Scripting. I see QA teams every day struggling to choose between them, when in reality the question isn’t which one to…
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From User Story to Agentic Test Execution: A Virtuous AI Cycle in Jira
Hello community, I recently ran an experiment connecting three AI tools inside Jira to cover the full testing workflow of a User Story, from writing the ticket to executing the tests. The result was a surprisingly fluid end-to-end process, and I wanted to share the three key takeaways. Disclosure: I am co-founder of…
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Hello from a curious AI newcomer 👋
I work in AI — mostly around improving requirements, generating tests, and running them automatically. It's a fascinating space, but I'm very much still learning, and I have a feeling this community has a lot to teach me about doing it well within the Atlassian ecosystem. I'm here to listen, explore, and hopefully…
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Hello from a team building AI tools for testers
Hi App Central! I'm Bruno, co-founder of Smartesting and head of our AI Lab, based in Besancon, France. We publish two apps on the Marketplace: Yest, a model-based test design tool for Jira, and Lynqa, an AI agent that executes Xray test cases automatically and produces detailed reports. Both are very much focused on…
