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Test Management Tools Plugins for Jira

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A test management plugin for Jira will add to Jira the testing capabilities that project management tool does not provide natively. The core features of the test management Jira plugins should be to create test plans and test cases, organize them into test cycles, execute them, maintain traceability with Jira issues and provide test execution reports. share share share share 

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