Zephyr 2.0 offers tighter integration with JIRA defect tracking
October 30, 2008 —
A new test management software company has blown in from the West (Coast). California-based startup Zephyr has launched its eponymous Zephyr 2.0 for software test managers, and it hopes to raise its company profile at the same time.
Samir Shah, Zephyr's founder and CEO, said the company formed in the spring of 2007, and the first version of the Zephyr system became available this past spring. With this 2.0 release, Shah said, a tighter integration with the JIRA defect-tracking system exists. JIRA is under the auspices of Atlassian, with which Zephyr has formed a strategic partnership.
Zephyr acts as "a single pane of glass for test management needs," Shah said, and lets users work with their preferred defect tracker, such as Bugzilla, JIRA or any command-line-driven system. There also is native defect tracking built in to Zephyr.
But managers, Shah noted, want to work with every aspect of testing, from test case creation and assignment, to managing people, documentation and collaboration. Zephyr's client-server software enables that, he said. "Anything that changes on the back end automatically pushes out a message to all active clients," he said. "This gives real-time access to every person logged in to the Zephyr server."
With this release, Zephyr also becomes available as a service, with customers getting 24x7 monitoring, automated backup and upgrades, and universal browser-based access, Shah said. The cost for either the SaaS or on-premise software is US$65 per user per month.
Version 2.0 also introduces ZBots, agents that run on target machines to kick off automated scripts from the Zephyr server. The service also provides detailed metrics of all tests.
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