View & Create Cycles from Jira Panel

AIO Tests offers integration points with Jira via the AIO Tests Jira Panel so that you can view traceability information of a Jira issue without leaving Jira. This article covers key features of the Jira Panel.

Enabling Jira Panel

AIO Tests Jira panel is enabled by default for all the issues of the project once the AIO Tests app is enabled for the project.

AIO Tests panel shows three tabs - Cases, Cycles and Impacted Executions along with a refresh button (highlighted). By default, the tab which has data is highlighted. If more than one tab has data, then the panel will land on Cases tab.

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Creating New Cycles

The AIO Tests Jira panel offers an option to ‘Quick Create’ cycle from a Jira issue itself. The user has to enter minimum information (a pop-up will come automatically asking for more details if there are mandatory fields on cycles) and the cycle gets created in AIO Tests and also gets linked to the Jira issue automatically.

When no cycles are linked to the Jira issue, below screen is displayed. The screen on the right gets displayed by clicking the ‘Create Cycle’ link.

Users need to enter the Title (the only mandatory field) to create a cycle. They have the option to set the start and end date of the cycle and additional details by clicking the expand icon (highlighted). The Owner is set by default as the user creating the cycle. Once a cycle has been created, a new line appears for quickly adding another cycle as shown in the second image on the right. If there are Published cases attached to the Jira issue, they get automatically added to the newly created cycle.

If cycles are already linked to the Jira issue, then the ‘Create New Cycle’ link doesn’t appear. Users can create and link new cycles using the top '+' icon (second image on the left).

Creating Cross-Project Linking

The project icon is displayed on the left of the Title box while creating new cycles. By default the current Jira project icon is loaded allowing users to create cycles in the current project. Users have the option to change the project by clicking the project icon. A list of Jira projects to which the user has access is shown and user can select another project.

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Linking Existing Cycles

Existing AIO Cycles can be linked to a Jira issue directly from AIO Tests Jira panel by clicking the link button highlighted below.

A search box opens up to allow searching for cycles by cycle key or cycle title. Users can also click on the project icon to change the project and link cycles of other projects. In this case, only cases belonging to the newly selected project that are linked to the Jira issue will get added to the cycle. On clicking any of the results from the search results drop-down, the cycle gets linked to the Jira issue with a success message.

If cycles are already linked to a Jira issue, users can use the highlighted link button to link additional cycles.

Unlinking Cycles

Cycles linked for traceability to a Jira issue can also be unlinked from the AIO Tests Jira panel. Select the cycle to be unlinked and click on the Unlink icon (highlighted below). A confirmation message appears on clicking the unlink icon and upon confirmation from the user, the cycle is unlinked from the Jira issue.

Multiple cycles can be unlinked together by checking the boxes on the left of the cycle key and clicking the Unlink icon.

For details on linking and unlinking Cases to a Jira issue, please click here.