QASymphony today announced the release of a comprehensive connector for JIRA Download Version 5 and higher to qTest, their enterprise test management solution.

Atlanta, GA (USA), August 15, 2013 — QASymphony ( http://www.qasymphony.com ), a leading developer of Quality Management solutions for software developers and QA testers, today announced the release of a comprehensive connector for JIRA Download Version 5 and higher to qTest, their enterprise test management solution. qTest provides a collaborative work environment for teams to manage requirements, design test cases, plan test execution, track defects, and generate status and quality-metrics reports. The qTest connector for JIRA combines the powerful test management features of qTest with JIRA to create a complete QA management solution.

Developed by Atlassian, a San Francisco-based provider of enterprise collaboration software for product development teams, JIRA is an industry-leading project and issue management software used by more than 19,000 companies.

“JIRA is the most widely adopted tool by software developers to manage issues and tickets,” says Vu Lam, CEO, QASymphony. “Recognizing the versatile nature of JIRA, QASymphony improved its qTest integration to accommodate JIRA’s various applications. Our goal with this integration was to provide testers with the ability to manage the entire life cycle of a ticket from within qTest and JIRA.”

The qTest connector to JIRA provides a seamless bridge that enables testers to tap into the full power of qTest’s test management capabilities. Users benefit from deep levels of integration at both the requirements and defect levels and a detailed, real-time exchange of information between the two systems.

Requirements Integration:
* Import JIRA requirements tickets into qTest using smart filters
* JIRA requirements can co-exist with qTest requirements
* Changes to JIRA requirements tickets are reflected real-time in qTest
* Ability to track requirements tickets against test cases and test execution
* Test coverage reports for your JIRA requirements tickets
* Detailed traceability matrix report of requirements and test case associations

Defects Integration:
* 1-to-1 mapping between JIRA projects and qTest projects
* Direct use of JIRA credentials ensures the proper application of JIRA submission permissions
* View JIRA defects inside of qTest either as a specific ID or as part of a JIRA filter

Accessible via any web browser, the qTest online solution is competitively priced at $20 per user per month.
Earlier this month, QASymphony announced the public beta release of qTrace 3.0, its popular screen capture tool for testers and software developers with more than 12,000 downloads. Version 3 offers full support of exploratory and session based testing. A free download of qTrace3.0 Beta is available for use thru August 2013.

About QASymphony:
QASymphony is a leading provider of testing solutions that fit the needs of testing organizations at any level of maturity. Whether you are making the initial move from manual processes and need basic management help or you have processes and tools in place and are looking to enhance productivity, our test management and agile testing solutions can help you test more effectively. With offices in Atlanta, GA, Dublin, CA and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, QASymphony is a software company built to revolutionize how software is tested, adopted, and supported. Empowering the QA testing teams for companies such as Silverpop, BetterCloud, Visikard and Compuware, QASymphony is a software-loving team, united by a common belief that software can be better and better tested.
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More than 12,000 downloads of popular screen capture and documentation tool to date releases full support of exploratory and session based testing.

Atlanta, GA (USA), July 05, 2013 — QASymphony ( http://www.qasymphony.com ), a leading developer of Quality Management solutions for software developers and QA testers, today announced the public beta release of version 3.0 of its popular qTrace screen capture tool for testers and software developers.

As QA departments continue to mature their testing methodologies, the need for agile testing continues to grow. This latest Beta release of qTrace includes full support for exploratory and session-based testing.

qTraceis a downloadable tool that tracks mouse clicks and page progression while enabling in-line annotation, note taking and submission to popular bug tracking systems. With its intelligent screen capture capabilities and step-by-step screen narration documentation, qTrace has been well received by the testing community with more than 12,000 downloads.

“We listened to the testersand met with the experts to build a solution that would truly work for agile testingand provide that ability to conduct rapid, yet effective, software testing in conjunction with traditional testing,” said Vu Lam, CEO, QASymphony.

Highlights of the qTrace 3.0 beta include:

* Session Charter – The ability to define the purpose of your test session
* Session Time – The ability to define the duration of a session and see the remaining time
* Session Time Usages – The ability to configure and define the types of time used during a session (i.e. setup time, testing, reporting, etc.)
* Comment Types – The ability to configure and define the comment types (i.e., bug, note, question, suggestion, etc.)
* Improved Workflow – The ability to perform continuous testing and submit all observations/defects at the end of a test session.

“qTrace 3.0 provides a bridge from traditional to agile. With its full support of exploratory testing, the new version provides the opportunity to augment your traditional, or waterfall testing, with more informal session-based testing,” said Lam. “In the rapid release environment of agile development, this need to address the full spectrum of testing is even stronger.”

A free download ( http://qasymphony.com/?download=qTraceV3 ) of qTrace 3.0 Beta is available for use thru August 2013.

About QASymphony:
QASymphony is a leading provider of testing solutions that fit the needs of testing organizations at any level of maturity. Whether you are making the initial move from manual processes and need basic management help or you have processes and tools in place and are looking to enhance productivity, our test management and agile testing solutions can help you test more effectively. With offices in Atlanta, GA, Dublin, CA and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, QASymphony is a software company built to revolutionize how software is tested, adopted, and supported. Empowering the QA testing teams for companies such as Silverpop, BetterCloud, Visikard and Compuware, QASymphony is a software-loving team, united by a common belief that software can be better and better tested.

Website: http://www.qasymphony.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/qasymphony
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/qasymphony

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QA teams can use qTest to organize the testing process with the goal of creating reliable market-ready applications.

Dublin, CA (USA), February 27, 2013 — After an extensive beta program at the hands of 500 companies from 23 countries, QASymphony ( http://www.qasymphony.com ), a leading developer of Quality Management solutions for software developers, ALM and DevOps teams, today announced general availability of qTest, a cloud-based enterprise test management solution ideally suited for small and growing QAtesting teams eager for an easy and affordable path towards formalizing their quality control procedures.

Accessible via any web browser, the online solution is competitively priced at $20 per user per month. qTest provides a highly flexible and collaborative work environment for teams to manage requirements, design test cases, plan test execution, track defects, and generate status and quality-metrics reports.

Says Ursula Wlodarczyk, a QA tester for Typecast, a designer of website typography based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, “I needed a platform that gave me the freedom to easily update my test plans and keep them structured, organized, and in good working order. Ideally, I was looking for a cloud solution so that I could access my work from anywhere on any browser at any time. qTest responds well to quick inputs. It’s easy to imagine that the tool was developed by testers.”

A SaaS (software-as-a-service) solution, qTestis comparable to enterprise-class test managers such as HP Quality Center,but unlike these large enterprise systems, the platform’s $20 per user per month subscription model makes it an extremely low-cost, low-risk proposition to pilot and adopt. qTest was also designed from the ground up by testers who built simplicity of use into the product.

Heavily tested by some 500 beta sites, qTest arrives fully featured with pre-built integration with popular development lifecycle tools and defect tracking systems. Some of the qTest features and modules include:

* Test Planning * Requirement management
* Test case management * Test cycle management
* Defect tracking * Dashboards and Reports
* Built in workflows and collaboration

qTest integrates with defect tracking and ALM providers such as VersionOne, Fogbugz, Jira, and Bugzilla defect trackers as alternatives to the application’s built-in defect tracking tool. qTest also integrates seamlessly with the qTrace screen shot capture and defect capture tool, which can submit bug reports directly into qTest to increase the testing team’s productivity.

About QASymphony:
With offices in Dublin, Calif. and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, QASymphony is a software company built to revolutionize how software is tested, adopted, and supported. Customers using our products include Compuware, Hotwire.com, NetApp, Silverpop, and The U.S. Social Security Administration. We are a self-funded, software-loving team, united by a common belief that software could be better, and better tested. For more information and to see the many organizations using our products, visit (qasymphony.com).

Website: http://www.qasymphony.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/qasymphony
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/qasymphony

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