The Main Navigation Bar

The main navigation bar of JIRA is located at the top of every view. It contains items such as Dashboards, Projects, Issues and a few more.

Test for JIRA extends the main navigation bar with a Tests item.
The Tests item provides access to every view and feature of Test for JIRA except for the administration settings. These are located on the Add-ons page in the JIRA Administration section.

The test definition is project specific in T4J as well as test plans, executions and the test coverage.
Therefore the Tests item is used to select a test project to work on and navigate to one of its main views.

The menu that belongs to the Tests item contains the following items:

Current Project

Contains the project that was last worked on.
Clicking on the project opens the Definition View of this project. 

Recent Projects

Contains all projects recently worked on.
Clicking on one of the project opens the Definition View of this project. 

View All Projects

Clicking on this item brings you to the Projects page.
This page displays all existing JIRA projects including basic information about the projects.
The page also allows searching for a specific project.
Clicking on one of the projects opens the Definition View of this project. 

Configuration Editor

This opens the configuration editor.
Note that you have to be logged in as JIRA Administrator to see this item.
The configuration editor allows you to create and edit project specific configurations.
Configurations can be attached to test plans of the same project to add custom meta data. 

Main Views

The T4J user interface consists of 4 main view in accordance to the steps of the T4J workflow.

The main views can be accessed as soon as a test project is selected from the Tests item in the main navigation bar.
By default the Definition View is displayed after a project gets selected.
You can switch between the views by clicking one of the Definition, Plan, Execution, Coverage buttons located in the top right corner of every main view. 

Definition View

The Definition View displays all tests used in a test project structured in a folder hierarchy.
From here you can create and define tests representing single test cases.
This includes managing test steps and test parameters.
Tests can be further organized with the folder structure of the definition tree.
The tests contained in the definition tree serve as base for later creation of test plans on the same project. 

Plan View

The Plan View displays all test plans for a selected test project.
This view provides access to creating and editing test plans.
Clicking on one of the test plans will open the plan tree of this test plan.
From here you can manage and organize all the tests contained in the selected test plan. 

Execution View

The Execution View displays all test plans and corresponding executions for a selected test project.
From here you can create new executions, continue interrupted executions and displays statistics for previous executions.

Coverage View

The Coverage View displays linked tests / issues in a table view according to a user defined configuration.
This view can be used to ensure that every issue displayed is covered by at least one test.
The view can be configured to display more than one level of coverage.
For tests of the highest coverage level the latests execution results are displayed.
For each test/issue displayed you can create and link a new test/issue directly from the Coverage View.
This allows you to determine uncovered issues and directly cover them without leaving the plugin view.