QAComplete is one of the popular tools from Smartbear. This is a software test management tool, it provides the expertise to plan and manage all test cases, requirements, and defects related to a release or user stories in a single place.

Test management for JIRA is an inherent application that is in JIRA and carries quality test managing capabilities to any JIRA project. When Test Management is used with JIRA, the test can be created and viewed in any JIRA project. It can be executed immediately as part of a testing cycle.

Migration Proposition

Migration of QAComplete data to Jira Test Management will leverage users to use the rich functionality of JIRA with all types of artifacts. Through migration to Jira Test Management; an organization can seamlessly manage product development with quality in a single tool. The engineers using Jira Test Management will have clear visibility into the exact test case status and real-time access to any bug tagged to the Story along with the traceability. The migration achieved through Kovair QuickSync ensures that all historical and current data to the target system with full traceability.

Migration Benefits

• With Jira Test Management, organizations can empower the agile teams with various reports, traceability.
• Organize large test case libraries by using folders and test suites. Traceability between story, test cases, and bugs.
• Create test cycles to track test executions and Reuse test cases across projects.
• Take advantage of end-to-end traceability and quality for stories and features.
• Build for speed and constantly improved to meet the needs of Enterprise Jira users, you can organize test cases into libraries to re-use and re-purpose them across project releases and sprints.

Benefits of Using QuickSync

Kovair QuickSync offers cost-effective, easy-to-configure & use, and intuitive platform for mapping tools and migrating/merging/ syncing tool data. Now enjoy less downtime, less adoption time, and bulk data migration facility without errors or loss of any data. The on-screen monitoring of data flow, real-time reporting of metrics, and synchronization history gives you total control on the data migration process and results in 100% migration with zero failure.

• Codeless configuration for mapping the Rally projects, entities and fields to the Jira counterparts.
• Data coverage – Can migrate portfolio items, defects, user stories, and tasks.
• Easy monitoring capabilities having an objective and subjective statistical view of the state of migration with reports and logs.
• No additional platform cost.
• Supports the Retry mechanism for any unsuccessful migration.
• Simple licensing based on the successful transactions across all configurations and all projects by any number of users.
• Support attachment, links, comment and Change History migration.
• Migration of bulk data along with comments.
• Side-by-side comparison of post-migration data.
• Data sanity check option for migrated items.

QuickSync Prerequisites

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 runtime
• Minimum screen resolution for QuickSync: 1366 x 768
• Minimum primary memory (RAM): 8 GB
• Tool Installation Space in HDD (Native): 500 MB
• Both Micro Focus Jira and Azure DevOps must be accessible from the machine where QuickSync will be installed
• For QAComplete; users from the Administrator group are required for migration
• For Jira Test Management; user from Project Administrator group is required for migration

Sync and Migration Support Details

The following are the artifacts and the Associated attributes that are exposed from the Source and Target for rich data migration.

Migration Experiences

Kovair’s experience from various migration projects has been stated below:

• Rapid migration of data with maximum data availability to the business and no application downtime.
• No impact to applications on either side.
• Data integrity retained – business-oriented data transformation can be performed at a mouse click.

Phases Migration

Following are the high-level phases:

Rally software unites Agile project management with tracking of requirements, tests, and defects so everyone has a real-time picture of your project’s features, qualities, priorities, roadblocks, and risks. It is primarily a cloud-based solution.

JIRA is a tool developed by Atlassian. It is used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. The basic use of this tool is to track issues and bugs related to your software.

Migration Proposition

Organizational users often need to sync and migrate data from Rally to Jira, as well as maintain the migrated data in both the tools for various business reasons. The sync or migration process, if done manually, may lead to data inconsistency and data loss due to human error. Monitoring sync status, maintaining data history and keeping the individual artifacts in sync in both the tools also pose major challenges. Kovair QuickSync provides users with a point-to-point migration solution for connecting Rally and Jira.

Migration Benefits

• Easier collaboration – Various life cycle information is no longer scattered across various systems. The project management team, development team, and the testing team all have the same information at the same time at Jira.
• More than 1,000 plug-and-play add-ons from the Atlassian Marketplace cover Jira software to fit any use case or development process.
• Jira Software has advanced search abilities driven by Jira Query Language which provides the teams with detailed views about their work.
• Organizations can take the benefits of Jira which holds the actual agile philosophy by providing an extremely customizable platform so the process can be implemented.
• Full scope migration from Rally projects to Jira projects in days.
• Migration of all Rally artifacts (defect, user story, feature, initiative, and theme) to Jira and their interrelationship links.

Benefits of Using QuickSync

Kovair QuickSync offers cost-effective, easy-to-configure & use, and intuitive platform for mapping tools and migrating/merging/ syncing tool data. Now enjoy less downtime, less adoption time, and bulk data migration facility without errors or loss of any data. The on-screen monitoring of data flow, real-time reporting of metrics, and synchronization history gives you total control on the data migration process and results in 100% migration with zero failure.

• Codeless configuration for mapping the Rally projects, entities and fields to the Jira counterparts.
• Data coverage – Can migrate portfolio items, defects, user stories, and tasks.
• Easy monitoring capabilities having an objective and subjective statistical view of the state of migration with reports and logs.
• No additional platform cost.
• Supports the Retry mechanism for any unsuccessful migration.
• Simple licensing based on the successful transactions across all configurations and all projects by any number of users.
• Support attachment, links, comment and Change History migration.
• Migration of bulk data along with comments.
• Side-by-side comparison of post-migration data.
• Data sanity check option for migrated items.

QuickSync Prerequisites

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 runtime
• Minimum screen resolution for QuickSync: 1366 x 768
• Minimum primary memory (RAM): 8 GB
• Tool Installation Space in HDD (Native): 500 MB
• Both Rally and Jira must be accessible from the machine where QuickSync will be installed
• For Jira user must be in developer group as well as in from Project Administrator group
• For Rally the user must be in the workspace admin group

Sync and Migration Support Details

The following are the artifacts and the Associated attributes that are exposed from the Source and Target for rich data migration.

Migration Experiences

Kovair’s experience from various migration projects has been stated below:

• Rapid migration of data with maximum data availability to the business and no application downtime.
• No impact to applications on either side.
• Data integrity retained – business-oriented data transformation can be performed at a mouse click.

Phases Migration

Following are the high-level phases:

Rational Quality Manager is a test application on the IBM Jazz platform. It is a web-based tool that offers comprehensive test planning, test construction, and test artifact management features throughout the development lifecycle.

Zephyr for JIRA is an inherent application that is in JIRA and carries quality test management abilities to any JIRA project. After Zephyr is used with JIRA, the test thus created can be viewed in any JIRA project, and executed immediately or as part of a testing cycle that may be linked to other issues.

Migration Proposition

Migration of IBM RQM test data to JIRA Zephyr will help the organization to use tests and work item data in Jira with help of Zephyr plugin. Through migration from RQM to JIRA Zephyr, an organization can seamlessly manage product development in a single tool. The engineers using Jira Zephyr will have clear visibility into the exact test status and real-time access to any bug tagged to the requirements along with traceability. The migration achieved through Kovair QuickSync ensures that all historical and current data are moved to the target system with full context.

Some Benefits of JIRA Zephyr

• JIRA Zephyr allows users to test right inside the JIRA. Testing is integrated into the project cycles and it enables an organization to track software quality and make empowered go/no-go decisions.
• Zephyr provides an easy-to-use dashboard that provides testing metrics on the testing activities throughout every project. Track rich test plan data as you execute tests to make discovered defects actionable.
• Take advantage of end-to-end traceability and quality for your stories and features.
• Create, view, and modify test steps and attachments for individual tests. Build test execution cycles, execute the tests, and link defects to specific tests.

Benefits of Using QuickSync

QuickSync offers cost-effective, easy-to-configure & use, and intuitive platform for mapping tools and migrating/merging/ syncing tool data. Now enjoy less downtime, less adoption time, and bulk data migration facility without errors or loss of any data. The on-screen monitoring of data flow, real-time reporting of metrics, and synchronization history gives you total control on the data migration process and results in 100% migration with zero failure.

• Codeless configuration for mapping the RQM projects, entities and fields to Jira Zephyr counterparts.
• Agent-based Migration to reduce overall migration time.
• Data Coverage – Can migrate test case, test result, test suits.
• Easy monitoring capabilities having an objective and subjective statistical view of the state of migration with reports and logs.
• No additional platform cost.
• Supports the Retry mechanism for any unsuccessful migration.
• Simple licensing based on the successful transactions across all configurations and all projects by any number of users.
• Support for attachment, links, comment and Change History migration.
• Migration of bulk data along with comments.
• Side-by-side comparison of post-migration data.
• Data sanity check option for migrated items.

QuickSync Prerequisites

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 runtime
• Minimum screen resolution for QuickSync: 1366 x 768
• Minimum primary memory (RAM): 8 GB
• Tool Installation Space in HDD (Native): 500 MB
• Both RQM and Jira Zephyr must be accessible from the machine where QuickSync will be installed
• For Jira Zephyr; users from Project Administrator and development group are required for migration
• For RQM user; from Project Administrator group is required for migration

Sync and Migration Support Details

The following are the artifacts and the Associated attributes that are exposed from the Source and Target for rich data migration.

Migration Experiences

Kovair’s experience from various migration projects has been stated below:

• Rapid migration of data with maximum data availability to the business and no application downtime.
• No impact to applications on either side.
• Data integrity retained – business-oriented data transformation can be performed at a mouse click.

Phases Migration

Following are the high-level phases:

Microsoft Team Foundation Server is a Microsoft product that provides ALM work items, requirements management, testing, and release management capabilities.

Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management is a set of software tools developed and marketed by Micro Focus for application development and testing. It comprises of tools for requirements management, test planning, and functional testing, performance testing, developer management, and defect management.

Migration Proposition

Organizational users often need to sync and migrate data from Micro Focus ALM to TFS or vice-versa, as well as maintain the migrated data in both the tools for various business reasons. The sync or migration process, if done manually, may lead to data inconsistency and data loss due to human error. Monitoring sync status, maintaining data history and keeping the individual artifacts in sync in both the tools also pose major challenges. Kovair QuickSync provides users with a point-to-point migration solution for connecting Micro Focus ALM and TFS.

Migration Benefits

• Easier collaboration – Various life cycle information is no longer scattered across various systems. The service desk, development team, and the testing team all have the same information at the same time.
• Better management of quality data – The test cases, defects, requirements, runs, and code uses the same single tool, and everything could be interlinked for better visibility, thus maintaining a central source of application information.
• Full scope migration from Micro Focus Quality Center projects to TFS in days.
• Migration of all Micro Focus Quality Center elements (requirements, bugs, test cases, comments, attachments and links between items) to TFS and their interrelationships links.

Benefits of Using QuickSync

Kovair QuickSync offers cost-effective, easy-to-configure & use, and intuitive platform for mapping tools and migrating/merging/ syncing tool data. Now enjoy less downtime, less adoption time, and bulk data migration facility without errors or loss of any data. The on-screen monitoring of data flow, real-time reporting of metrics, and synchronization history gives you total control on the data migration process and results in 100% migration with zero failure.

• Codeless configuration for mapping the Micro Focus ALM/QC projects, entities and fields to the TFS counterparts.
• Data Coverage – Can migrate requirements, defects, test, steps, run & run steps.
• Easy monitoring capabilities having an objective and subjective statistical view of the state of migration with reports and logs.
• No additional platform cost.
• Supports the retry mechanism for any unsuccessful migration.
• Simple licensing based on the successful transactions across all configurations and all projects by any number of users.
• Support for attachment, links, comment and change History migration.
• Migration of bulk data along with comments.
• Side-by-side comparison of post-migration data.
• Data sanity check option for migrated items.

QuickSync Prerequisites

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 runtime
• Minimum screen resolution for QuickSync: 1366 x 768
• Minimum primary memory (RAM): 8 GB
• Tool Installation Space in HDD (Native): 500 MB
• Both Micro Focus ALM/QC and TFS must be accessible from the machine where QuickSync will be installed
• For Micro Focus ALM/QC Client Add-on should be installed with proper required access right
• For TFS; user from Project Administrator group is required from migration

Sync and Migration Support Details

The following are the artifacts and the Associated attributes that are exposed from the Source and Target for rich data migration.

Migration Experiences

Kovair’s experience from various migration projects has been stated below:

• Rapid migration of data with maximum data availability to the business and no application downtime.
• No impact to applications on either side.
• Data integrity retained – business-oriented data transformation can be performed at a mouse click.

Phases Migration

Following are the high-level phases:

Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management is a set of software tools developed and marketed by Micro Focus for application development and testing. It includes tools for requirements management, test planning, functional testing, performance testing, developer management, and defect management.

JIRA is a tool developed by Atlassian. It is used for bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management. The basic use of this tool is to track issues and bugs related to your software.

Migration Proposition

Users in organizations often need to sync and migrate data from Micro Focus ALM to Jira or vice-versa, as well as maintain the migrated data in both the tools for various business reasons. The migration process, if done manually, may lead to data inconsistency and data loss due to human error. Monitoring sync status, maintaining data history and keeping the individual artifacts in sync in both the tools also pose major challenges. Kovair QuickSync provides users with a point-to-point migration solution for connecting Micro Focus ALM to Jira.

Migration Benefits

• Easier collaboration – Various life cycle information is no longer scattered across various systems. The project management team, development team, and the testing team all have the same information at the same time at Jira.
• Over 1,000 plug-and-play add-ons from the Atlassian Marketplace extend Jira Software to fit any use case or development process.
• Jira Software comes with cutting-edge search abilities powered by Jira Query Language which offers teams thorough views into their work.
• Organizations can take the benefits of Jira which holds the actual agile philosophy by giving a modest platform that is extremely customizable so that the process can be implemented.
• Full scope Migration from Micro Focus ALM projects to Jira projects in days.
• Migration of all Micro Focus ALM artifacts (Requirement, Defect and Test) to Jira and their interrelationships links.

Benefits of Using QuickSync

Kovair QuickSync offers cost-effective, easy-to-configure & use, and intuitive platform for mapping tools and migrating/merging/ syncing tool data. Now enjoy less downtime, less adoption time, and bulk data migration facility without errors or loss of any data. The on-screen monitoring of data flow, real-time reporting of metrics, and synchronization history gives you total control on the data migration process and results in 100% migration with zero failure.

• Codeless configuration for mapping the Rally projects, entities and fields to the Jira counterparts.
• Agent-based migration to reduce overall migration time.
• Data Coverage – Can migrate defect, requirement, test steps.
• Easy monitoring capabilities having an objective and subjective statistical view of the state of migration with reports and logs.
• No additional platform cost.
• Supports the Retry mechanism for any unsuccessful migration.
• Simple licensing based on the successful transactions across all configurations and all projects by any number of users.
• Support attachment, links, comment and Change History migration.
• Migration of bulk data along with comments.
• Side-by-side comparison of post-migration data.
• Data sanity check option for migrated items.

QuickSync Prerequisites

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 runtime
• Minimum screen resolution for QuickSync: 1366 x 768
• Minimum primary memory (RAM): 8 GB
• Tool Installation Space in HDD (Native): 500 MB
• Both Micro Focus ALM/QC and Jira must be accessible from the machine where QuickSync will be installed
• For Micro Focus ALM/QC Client Add-on should be installed with proper required access right
• For Jira; user from Project Administrator group is required for migration

Sync and Migration Support Details

The following are the artifacts and the associated attributes are exposed from the Source and Target for rich data migration.

Migration Experiences

Kovair’s experience from various migration projects has been stated below:

• Rapid migration of data with maximum data availability to the business and no application downtime.
• No impact to applications on either side.
• Data integrity retained – business-oriented data transformation can be performed at a mouse click.

Phases Migration

Following are the high-level phases:

Team Foundation Server is a solution that does code sharing, software shipping, and work tracking. With its unified suite of tools, you can enjoy the collaborative software development and the cross-functional work on any given project size.

Jira is basically an issue and project tracking software; it is used by numerous agile teams. It is a favorite software development tool that enables every team member to plan, track, and release software. It encourages complete visibility; hence, teams can prioritize and discuss their activities in complete context.

Migration Proposition

The migration of TFS to Jira opens major access to use the simplicity and complete visibility of the JIRA tool. Through migration from TFS to JIRA, an organization can seamlessly take leverage of plan and forecast roadmap and make informed decisions. The engineers using Jira will have clear visibility using various reports like burn-down/up charts, sprint reports, velocity charts, and more, letting them see their team’s performance in real-time. The migration achieved through Kovair QuickSync ensures that all historical and current data are moved to the target system with full context.

Some Benefits of Jira

• Jira has customizable workflows that can fit any initiative or project. Users can start with a template or create a custom one.
• It has Kanban boards that provide teams with visibility into tasks and workflow, output and cycle times.
• The portfolio for Jira is a module that offers agile portfolio management in software.
• It allows users to strategies and forecast the roadmaps, helps to make up-to-date decisions, and keeps all the stakeholders updated.
• It promotes complete visibility, so teams can prioritize and discuss their work in full context.
• Software development turns out to be much simpler and easier along with other Atlassian tools like Confluence for knowledge management, Bitbucket for development workflow, Bamboo for continuous integration, Tempo Timesheets, Zephyr, and others.

Benefits of Using QuickSync

Kovair QuickSync offers cost-effective, easy-to-configure & use, and intuitive platform for mapping tools and migrating/merging/ syncing tool data. Now enjoy less downtime, less adoption time, and bulk data migration facility without errors or loss of any data. The on-screen monitoring of data flow, real-time reporting of metrics, and synchronization history gives you total control on the data migration process and results in 100% migration with zero failure.

• Codeless configuration for mapping the Rally projects, entities and fields to the Jira counterparts.
• Data coverage – Can migrate portfolio items, defects, user stories, and tasks.
• Easy monitoring capabilities having an objective and subjective statistical view of the state of migration with reports and logs.
• No additional platform cost.
• Supports the Retry mechanism for any unsuccessful migration.
• Simple licensing based on the successful transactions across all configurations and all projects by any number of users.
• Support attachment, links, comment and Change History migration.
• Migration of bulk data along with comments.
• Side-by-side comparison of post-migration data.
• Data sanity check option for migrated items.

QuickSync Prerequisites

• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6 runtime
• Minimum screen resolution for QuickSync: 1366 x 768
• Minimum primary memory (RAM): 8 GB
• Tool Installation Space in HDD (Native): 500 MB
• Both TFS and JIRA must be accessible from the machine where QuickSync will be installed
• For Jira; user from Project Administrator and development group are required for migration
• For TFS; user from Project Administrator group is required for migration

Sync and Migration Support Details

Migration Experiences

• Rapid migration of data with maximum data availability to the business and no application downtime.
• No impact to applications on either side.
• Data integrity retained – business-oriented data transformation can be performed at a mouse click.

Phases Migration

Azure DevOps Server is a Microsoft product that provides reporting, requirements management, project management, automated builds, lab management, testing, and release management capabilities.

Zephyr for JIRA is an inherent application that is in JIRA and brings quality test management abilities to any JIRA project. When Zephyr is applied with JIRA, the test can be created, viewed in any JIRA project, and performed immediately or as part of a testing cycle that may be connected to other issues.

Migration Proposition

Migration of Jira Zephyr test data and test related artifacts to Azure DevOps as a work item provides a more centralized approach with a clear intention for agile. Through migration to Azure DevOps with JIRA Zephyr, an organization can seamlessly manage product development in a single tool. The engineers using Azure DevOps will have clear visibility into the exact test status and real-time access to any defects tagged to the requirements along with traceability. The migration achieved through Kovair QuickSync ensures that all historical and current data are moved to the target system with full context. Migration also takes cares of Attachments, comments and data inter relationships.

Benefits of Using QuickSync

Kovair QuickSync offers cost-effective, easy-to-configure & use, and intuitive platform for mapping tools and migrating/merging/ syncing tool data. Now enjoy less downtime, less adoption time, and bulk data migration facility without errors or loss of any data. The on-screen monitoring of data flow, real-time reporting of metrics, and synchronization history give total control on the data migration process which results in 100% migration with zero failure.

• Codeless configuration for mapping the Micro Focus ALM/QC projects, entities, and fields to the Azure DevOps counterparts.
• Easy monitoring capabilities, having the objective and subjective statistical view of the state of migration with reports and logs.
• No additional platform cost.
• Supports the Retry mechanism for any unsuccessful migration.
• Simple licensing based on the successful transactions across all configurations and all projects by any number of users.
• Supports migration of bulk data along with comments.
• Side-by-side comparison of post-migration data.
• Data sanity check option for migrated items.

Migration Support Details

Migration Use Cases

With Kovair QuickSync, one can easily sync all the artifacts like Bugs, Test cases, associated test steps, test cycles and its test executions from Jira Zephyr to Azure DevOps and vice versa. One can easily migrate Epics, Features, Requirement, Tasks and Bugs from Azure DevOps to Jira Zephyr without any data loss. We can migrate artifacts along with its comments, attachments, and relations also.

Let us consider a business scenario where an organization wants to migrate from Jira Zephyr to Azure DevOps including artifacts like Issues, along with its Source Control Management links, Test cases along with its test steps, test cycles and executions. Migration of a JIRA issue which is related to any Git commit will bring necessary link information and after getting added or updated in Azure DevOps Services, will be linked to the same commit of the imported ADO Git repository preserving commit ID, commit date time.