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ZenTao once again stands out from the crowd as the most common test management tool in the industry. This is the eighth year in a row that ZenTao has been the winner of "Common Test Management Tools"!

Before we dig down on to consider migration from Jira to ZenTao, let’s start with the basics, for business positions, who might be new to this. We’ll briefly introduce you to Jira, it’s the most popular alternative — ZenTao, and then touch base on the most common reasons, why businesses decided to move from Jira to ZenTao.

People are determined to implement DevOps in their environment and expect more significant benefits from it. DevOps can indeed make the journey of software development fast, but in this article, we will show the other side of DevOps, that is, DevOps is regarded as a philosophy. The fact is that relying on tools alone can't help achieve goals. There needs to be a change in mentality. DevOps is not entirely for faster software development and delivery. It promotes a collaborative environment in which software can be more efficient, fewer bugs, faster, and, more importantly, user-centered.

Automation testing has increasingly become the "trend" for testers because of its cost-saving advantages, improving efficiency, and reducing manual intervention. Practitioners increasingly clearly understand that realizing the automation framework is one of the critical factors to the success of software automation projects. This article will takeyou into the field of the automated testing framework, how the mechanical testing framework will give you a competitive advantage in the automated testing framework.

DevOps approach involves collaboration among customers, product management, developers, QA, and other roles to better products, services, and systems.

CI / CD are the two cornerstones of any DevOps operation. It is a way to develop software that aims to produce fast and powerful software and sustainably release updates at any time. When code is changed routinely, the development cycle becomes more frequent, meaningful, and faster. We can ensure that only known good code can become part of the software product through this process. Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment constitute the 3C of DevOps. This article will be elaborated on the following aspects: Traditional Integration, Continuous Integration and Process, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, and 3C advantages.

In most cases, software application development has become time-consuming due to its standardization and complexity. To deliver high-quality applications in a short period of time, software developers are following a broad set of practices called the DevOps lifecycle.

In this article, we’ll explore the traditional project management and the agile project management approaches, their advantages, and the differences between them.

Learn ways to improve software development workflows in your organization. See how a management tool like Zentao can help your team perform better.

It is the general trend of the software industry to realize test automation as much as possible. In software testing, automation can significantly improve productivity, but only in some cases. In this article, we will introduce a method of test automation to identify its feasibility according to the context of the project. It's beneficial for testers to understand what automation is and when they can automate it. Testers should pay more attention to optimizing their work, whether working with other colleagues, developers, or trying automation tools themselves. We will introduce some important concepts when there is no experience in automation and evaluate their importance and advantages over manual testing.

Doing Agile is more about practice and execution , including implementing stand-up meetings, user stories, iterations, etc. Being Agile, on the other hand, is more about the mindset, including understanding the organizational culture, how to impart a self-managing behavior, , what to value,and how to behave.

A Gantt Chart is a scheduling tool used in project management to show what has to be done and when. It visualizes task relationships and converts it into a diagram.