How to Connect Zephyr For Jira Programmatically (ZAPI)

Jira by default is a 'Defect Management Tool'. However, available add-on for Jira make it much more capable than just defect Management tool. Couple of such add-ons like 'Zephyr For Jira' & 'ZAPI' (API to access data from 'Zephyr For Jira' programmatically) make Jira capable for 'Test Management'. Both of these add-ons have different version for Server & Cloud accordingly. Let us look at, how do we work with ZAPI server version.

Use Case: Whenever the automation is run, it has to update the status of execution in test cycle.

Pre-requisite: Manual Tests are created in Jira with Issue Type - Test & Test cycle is created with tests added into it (Adding tests into test cycle creates execution ids for each test case in test cycle).

High Level Steps:

1. Login to Jira using proper credentials.
2. Provide the Cycle Id OR ProjectId,Version & Cycle Id of the Test cycle to ZAPI api.
3. Update the Test case status in test cycle based on the execution id of each test case.

Example to Update Status of Test case execution Using ZAPI API:

This example shows how to consume ZAPI REST APIs from Java using REST Assured libraries.

Connect Jira from Java using Jira REST API

Jira is one of the popular bug tracking tool developed by Atlassian. It also provides project management features inline with Agile methodology. Jira is basically written in Java & can integrate with source control programs like Perforce, Git, Clearcase, Subversion, TFS etc.
It also provides robust set of APIs which enables its integration with any system.

An interesting fact about its name 'JIRA': It is not an acronym, but a truncation of 'Gojira', the japanese name for 'Godzilla'.  :)

Example to Create Issue & Search Issue:

This example shows how to consume Jira REST APIs from Java using REST Assured libraries.

Step 1: Create a Project with dependent REST assured libraries.

NOTE: For the set up / usage of REST assured libraries can be found in another post.
https://advancedtestautomation.blogspot.in/2016/08/test-rest-web-services-using-rest.html

Integration of Selenium + Sikuli

Sikuli is a tool using Visual Recognition capability which automates anything seen on the screen of your computer running Windows, Mac, few Linux/Unix OS systems. It uses Image recognition powered by OpenCV to identify the GUI components.

The version of Sikuli is named as 'SikuliX'. It also comes with basic text recognition (OCR) feature to search text within images.Besides locating images on screen, it can handle mouse & keyboard events to interact with GUI elements. 

Seamless Integration of Selenium + AutoIT

AutoIT is a freeware available to automate Windows GUI by simulating the combinations of mouse movements & key strokes. AutoIT has its own basic syntax, editor & control identification mechanism. However, to achieve the code level integration one can use 'AutoItX', packaged with AutoIT. This supports access to AutoIT functions using COM objects.