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AI Test Automation in Xray: Two Ways, Two Benefits, One Lifecycle
“AI for test automation” covers several very different things. In the Jira/Xray ecosystem specifically, two approaches are…

Lynqa for Xray Is Officially Out of Beta: Go for Agentic AI Test Execution
Lynqa for Xray is an AI agent for manual test execution. It retrieves manual or Gherkin tests…

Manual Testing Isn’t dead: Why human testers matter more than ever in the age of AI
Introduction For more than fifteen years, a prediction has regularly surfaced in the software industry : manual…

Beyond Manual vs Automation: A New Test Execution Paradigm
The Functional Testing Landscape: Manual vs. Automated Testing For years, functional testing has existed in a sort…

How to standardize test execution proof in Jira Xray
Why execution proof is a key issue When we talk about test execution, we often think of…

How to execute manual tests with Xray (Jira)
Introduction Manual testing remains a key activity in most software projects, even in highly automated environments. There…

The Future of Test Management
Testing in the V-Model: only for mountaineers I like the V-model. Not necessarily the procedure, but the…

Discover Lynqa, the AI agent that executes your manual tests automatically
A new approach to manual testing At Smartesting, we strongly believe that QA teams deserve more than…




