Does Atlassian offer any kind of test scripts or guidance on how to perform functional (not performance) tests against JIRA?

[Luis Zamora]

When I as administrator install JIRA, I subsequently have to rely on knowledgeable users to verify that the upgrade is successful. Do you have scripts we can run or guidance on how to test JIRA's functionality following an in-place upgrade?

I've seen the docs talking about verifying database integrity and checking connections to mail servers and such. That is not what I'm talking about.

It would be ideal if there were a script that would create issues and transition them through their workflows, for example, to verify that project workflows and issue type mappings are intact.

Surely, someone has asked for or developed such tests?

Thank you for your time and consideration!

-Luis

[Luis Zamora · Accepted solution]

The answer is, No. You can write your own tests with tools like GINT or Selenium.

[Bob Swift OSS (Bob Swift Atlassian Apps)]

GINT - Groovy Integration Test Framework can be used to write a JIRA test script. However, I don't have a good JIRA example at the moment.

[Luis Zamora]

Atlassian responded to my support ticket as follows:

Yes, customers have asked about this in the past. But as it turns out, as of today we don't have a set of scripts to test upgrades like that.

What we recommend is setting up a staging instance and test things manually.

I am not sure if that could help, but there is a book that mentions some upgrade tests on it's summary: Practical JIRA Administration (http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/databases-and-reporting-tools/9781449309701).