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Agentic AI Test Execution inside Jira with Xray and Lynqa
AI is transforming every stage of software testing, from requirement analysis to how teams design test cases,…

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…




