Easily Migrate from Zephyr for Jira to QMetry Test Management for Jira

Tags: testing, jira, qa, agile
Published: 2020-03-06 11:27:53

2018 was an interesting year for the software test management market with a vast number of acquisitions. This has of course led to some speculation about the future of these tools. Of the recently acquired test management tool, is Zephyr Including their solutions like Zephyr for Jira, Hiptest and Zephyr Enterprise.

Existing users of Zephyr for Jira might be curious as to the future support and tool enhancement plans, considering that SmartBear’s relatively new to tools in the Atlassian marketplace. Also, the comparatively high pricing for Zephyr for Jira, may compel many existing users to look for feature rich and cost effective options such as QMetry Test Management for Jira.

Whatever be the driver for your decision to migrate, QMetry offers excellent migration support and utility to seamlessly transfer your test assets and data from one tool to another. We already have a proven HP ALM to QMetry Test Management utility.

Migration between test management tools can be a tricky process if you don’t have the right tools and processes. Organizations are somewhat hesitant to kick off migration tasks because it can be time and labor intensive with efficiency loss, if not carried out correctly.

But today we talk about our Migration2QMetry utility for easy migration from Zephyr to QMetry Test Management for Jira. This is a desktop-based utility that enables you to easily migrate from Zephyr Tests and Cycles to QTM issue types.

You require Java 1.8 as a system prerequisite to carry this out. There are a few other requirements:

Source JIRA instance must have a valid license for Zephyr for JIRA and ZAPI.

The user for the source JIRA must have browse permissions for JIRA Issues, Zephyr Tests and Zephyr Executions.

Custom fields and their values from the source project should match with the custom fields and their value in new JIRA instance destination project.

Internet connectivity required on the system where utility is running.

The process:


Using the Migration2Qmetry utility, you can export the source Zephyr data in a standard format excel file for each project. Please remember that to run the utility, you require a license key. You will get a license key by requesting the QMetry support team. Using the license key, you need to use the ‘Browse License’ option in the utility and start using the tool.

For Cloud Jira instance, you need to follow these steps to get the Access key and Secret key from ZAPI:

Open the Jira environment where Zephyr and ZAPI are installed.
Navigate to Settings → Add-ons → ZAPI → ZAPI key administration.
If keys are already generated then the keys will be listed,
Or you can click on Create System Key to generate it.
Note: In case of Server JIRA, Migration2Qmetry utility fetches Access key and Secret key from ZAPI internally.

Limitations:

If your export activity was interrupted for some reason, then you have to re-export the data.
Attachments for issue types other than Tests will not be exported
The Import-Export Utility supports the following functionality

Imports test cases with test steps
Test cycles with execution results
Story links with test cases.
Attachments of test cases
Defects links with test execution.
Custom fields
Entity mapping

Zephyr Entity	QTM4J Entity
Test
Test Case
Test Step
Test Step
Test Cycle
Test Run
Execution Status
Execution Status (As in Configuration page)
Using our dedicated migration utility, you can speed up the transition phase between tools .