Nexus Is Now on the Atlassian Marketplace: Test Management Built Inside Jira

Nexus, the test management app from Resync Labs, is now available on the Atlassian Marketplace for Jira Cloud. It is one edition with everything included, and it is free for Jira sites with up to 10 users. Larger sites pay by Jira user tier, billed monthly or annually through Atlassian, and there is a free trial.

If you have been looking for a Jira test management app that keeps tests, runs, defects and release decisions in Jira itself, this is the short version of what you get and where it fits.

Why we built it

Jira tracks work well. It has no test case, no test cycle and no test run. Teams cover the gap with spreadsheets, a second tool, or tickets that stand in for tests, and the result is a release decision made from a pass rate nobody can tie to a build, an environment or a dataset.

Nexus is built around a different question. Not how many tests passed, but whether the evidence is current and whether you can show what the sign-off rested on. We wrote about the thinking behind it in Nexus: The Next Level of Test Management for Jira.

What you get at launch

Test management on native Jira issues. Test Cases, Test Sets and Test Executions are Jira issues, with your existing workflows, permissions, links and JQL. Cases live in folders, run in cycles, and a failed step can raise a Bug linked to the run, the test case and the requirement.

Automation and CI results in the same record. Connect Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, pytest and JUnit results, or upload supported reports from your pipeline. Your tests run in your own infrastructure. Nexus records what they found alongside your manual results.

AI test design with a review gate. Nexus analyses a requirement for ambiguity and gaps, then drafts tests you can edit, accept or dismiss. Only accepted drafts become Jira Test Cases. AI runs on your organisation’s own AI account, and until an administrator connects one, Nexus uses no AI at all.

Release readiness that knows when evidence is stale. Nexus tracks environments and deployments, flags results that predate the latest deployment, and brings coverage, current results and open defects together before a person records the sign-off. The decision stays human.

Model-based testing, test data and reporting. Turn state machines and decision tables into test cases without AI. Version, classify and reserve datasets, and trace every execution to the inputs it used. Coverage, a Quality Score, dashboard gadgets and scheduled digests cover the reporting side.

A browser recorder. Nexus Recorder is a Chrome extension that turns a walk through your application into readable test steps with screenshots, and saves them to Jira as a test case.

A way in from your current tool. Bring tests across with CSV import presets or the migration connectors, and export to CSV, JSON or Cucumber .feature files whenever you like.

Where your data lives

Core test records stay in Jira as issues. Supporting data such as runs, datasets, environments and audit entries sits on Atlassian Forge storage, and there is no Resync-hosted application backend. AI, CI dispatch and migration connections are optional, run only when an administrator configures them, and their boundaries are documented on the trust and security page rather than hidden behind a blanket claim.

How to start

Install Nexus from the Marketplace listing, open Nexus Setup from the Apps menu, and let it create the issue types, workflows and guard rules for your project. Then prove it on one real release: link a few requirements to tests, run a cycle, and look at the coverage and readiness views before you sign off. Keep your current execution tools while you do.

The product guide, workflow guides and release notes are at nexus.resync.nz, and there is a summary on the Resync Labs Nexus page. If you want help running a pilot or tightening your test process around it, talk to us.

Nexus is a Resync Labs product. Brendon Lang is a director at Resync, an independent quality engineering consultancy working across New Zealand’s public and private sector.