PractiTest Updates
April 2026 Updates
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PractiTest Query Language (PTQL) – Beta
PTQL is a new query language that lets you filter and retrieve PractiTest data using a flexible, human-readable syntax via the API. PTQL enables more precise queries across tests, requirements, issues, and their relationships, helping you access exactly the data you need.
This capability is currently in beta and is available only to Corporate accounts. Contact our support team to join the beta and start using PTQL.
Read more about PTQL in our documentation.
Expanded Testing Actions with New MCP Capabilities
We’ve added new MCP tools that extend what AI assistants can do inside PractiTest, enabling deeper interaction with your testing data:
- Retrieve test data – Get full details for a specific test, including steps, description, and fields
- Sync Jira items – Pull specific Jira tickets into PractiTest as Requirements or Issues
See the full list of tools in the MCP help page.
More Control and Visibility with Global Fields
Global Fields continue to expand, giving you greater flexibility and insight across your projects:
- Use any field type as a Global Field – Standardize all field types across projects
- View linked projects per field – See all projects using a specific Global Field directly from the settings
Coming Up
PractiTest Live Training
Join our Customer Success team for a live training session and ask everything you want to know.
Europe: Wednesday, May 20, 14:00 CEST
North America: Wednesday, May 20, 2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PDT
Asia-Pacific: Wednesday, May 13, 2:00 PM AEST
From Test Management to QA Intelligence – A Webinar with Joel Montvelisky
Most QA teams have more data than ever, but less clarity on what it actually means. In this session, Joel will explore why pass or fail reporting falls short and what it takes to understand real readiness, coverage, and risk when your QA data is connected. The webinar includes a live demo showing how this works in practice.
Date: Wednesday, May 13
Time: 10:00 AM EDT | 16:00 CET
PractiTest and Beyond
The Problem With Chasing Fully Autonomous QA Agents
Fully autonomous AI in testing sounds promising, but the reality is that today’s tools still lack the context and reliability to operate independently. This article explains why the real value today comes from AI as a collaborator, not a replacement, and how connecting AI to real testing context using MCP changes the game.
Regression Testing at Scale: How Large QA Teams Stay Fast
Regression testing is critical, but running everything every cycle doesn’t scale. This article explores how large QA teams stay fast by prioritizing coverage based on risk, combining automation with smart execution strategies, and maintaining lean, effective test suites.
March 2026 Updates
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More Control and Clarity in Jira Integration Setup
We’ve redesigned the Jira integration settings to give you clearer control over what gets synced into PractiTest and how it’s mapped. You can now select the Jira projects to connect and define how work item types are mapped to Requirements or Issues in PractiTest. This makes the integration more direct and aligned with your workflow.
Automatically Sync Jira Sprints into PractiTest Milestones
Sync Jira sprints directly into PractiTest Milestones, keeping development and testing fully aligned. Active and future sprints are automatically created as milestones, along with their associated items, and any changes in sprint scope are reflected in real time without duplication. For more information, refer to Jira Cloud or Jira Server documentation.
Centralized View of Issues Within Test Sets
The Linked Issues tab in Test Sets gives you a complete view of all issues associated with that set. Easily track defects created during test runs without switching between modules, improving visibility and making it easier to review testing outcomes in context. Read more in the Test Sets & Runs help page.
Enforce Global Fields Across All Projects (Available for Corporate Accounts)
Account Owners can enforce Global Fields across all projects, ensuring a consistent structure and data model at scale. Enforced fields are automatically applied to every project and cannot be removed at the project level, helping standardize data integrity across the entire account. Read more about it in the Global Fields help page.
Coming Up
PractiTest Live Training
Join our Customer Success team for a live session on MCP and AI-powered testing workflows. Learn how to connect AI tools to PractiTest, turn AI outputs into real testing actions, and manage everything with full visibility and traceability.
Europe: Wednesday, April 15, 14:00 CEST
North America: Wednesday, April 22 2:00 PM EDT / 11:00 AM PDT
Asia-Pacific: Wednesday, April 15, 2:00 PM AEST
PractiTest and Beyond
Quality Leadership Academy: Build the Skills QA Leaders Actually Need
As testing evolves into a decision-making discipline, QA leaders need more than execution skills. The Quality Leadership Academy is designed to bridge that gap, with practitioner-led sessions focused on risk-based prioritization, meaningful KPIs, scalable automation, business communication, and responsible AI adoption.
Watch On-Demand: Securing LLMs – A LinkedIn Live with Maryia Tuleika
Missed our recent LinkedIn Live? You can now watch Securing LLMs on demand. In this session, Maryia Tuleika breaks down how OWASP security principles apply to LLM-powered applications and shows how common risks like prompt injection, data leakage, and weak safeguards actually appear in real systems.
February 2026 Updates
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Standardize Fields Across Projects with Global Fields
Define fields at the account level instead of creating them separately per project. Global Fields help standardize structure across projects while eliminating duplicated custom fields and reducing maintenance effort. You can also use our internal Migration Tool to convert existing project-level fields. Learn more about Global Fields in the documentation.
New Landing Page for Faster Access and Better Focus
We’ve redesigned the PractiTest landing page to give you quicker access to what matters most as soon as you log in. The new layout provides direct access to your projects, “Assigned to Me” items, and your recent activity, along with easy access to key resources such as product updates and live training sessions.
Coming Up
PractiTest Live Training
Join our Customer Success team for a live training session and ask everything you want to know.
Europe: Wednesday, March 4, 14:00 CET
North America: Wednesday, March 25, 3:00 PM EDT / 12:00 PM PDT
Asia-Pacific: Wednesday, March 11, 4:00 PM AEDT
Securing LLMs: Learning from OWASP Guides – A Guest Webinar with Maryia Tuleika
AI systems can feel like black boxes, but real vulnerabilities surface when you test them properly. Join Maryia Tuleika in this practical session to learn how OWASP principles apply to LLM-powered applications and how traditional testing skills can uncover risks like prompt injection, data leakage, and weak safeguards.
PractiTest and Beyond
Watch On-Demand: Orchestrate AI for Testing
Missed our recent webinar on MCP? You can now watch Orchestrate AI for Testing on demand. In this session, Joel Montvelisky walks through PractiTest’s MCP approach and shows how AI tools can operate with real testing context and turns AI from isolated prompts into a connected testing assistant.
5 Must-Have Skills for QA Testers in 2026
Based on insights from the 13th State of Testing™ Report, this article explores how AI is reshaping QA and redefining what skills matter most. It outlines the top five must-have skills for 2026, including critical thinking, automation principles, and communication, as testers evolve from executors to quality decision-makers.
January 2026 Updates
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Connect Your AI tool to Real Testing Context with MCP (Available for Corporate Accounts)
PractiTest supports Model Context Protocol to connect AI tools like Claude directly to your projects. This allows AI outputs to become real testing actions, such as generating tests, linking them to requirements, and adding them to test sets for execution, all with full project context. Learn more in the MCP documentation.
Confidently Validate Past Releases Using Test Versioning (Available for Corporate Accounts)
Test Versioning preserves the exact version of a test as it existed at the time of a release. By saving labeled snapshots at the end of a sprint or release, you can later rerun the right tests for older versions or patches, even after tests have changed. This ensures fixes are validated against the correct product version. Read more in our help page.
Prioritize Tests that Matter Most with Value Score (Available for Corporate Accounts)
Test Value Score gives clearer insight into which tests deliver the most value. By ranking tests based on real execution behavior and coverage, you can spend your limited testing time on what actually reduces risk and improve or retire lower-value tests. Learn more in our help page.
Link Multiple Test Sets to a Requirement for Broader Coverage
You can now link up to 10 Test Sets to a single Requirement. This extends requirement coverage beyond a single test set, allowing the requirement’s status to reflect execution progress across multiple test sets and their associated instances. Read more about it in the Requirements documentation.
Coming Up
PractiTest Live Training
Join our Customer Success team for a live training session and ask everything you want to know.
Europe: Wednesday, February 11, 16:00 CET
North America: Wednesday, February 25, 2:00 PM EST / 11:00 AM PST
Asia-Pacific: Wednesday, February 18, 1:00 PM AWST / 4:00 PM AEDT
Orchestrate AI for Testing – A Webinar with Joel Montvelisky
Join us for a practical session on orchestrating AI across the testing lifecycle. We’ll present PractiTest’s MCP approach and show how AI-assisted analysis, test design, execution, and insights can be connected using real testing context.
Date: Tuesday, February 17
Time: 11:00 AM EST | 17:00 CET
PractiTest and Beyond
State of Testing™ 2026 Report Is Live
The full State of Testing™ 2026 Report is now live, revealing the key trends shaping QA this year. Discover the “AI Paradox” and why 65% of the industry feels growing pressure around AI adoption, along with what the data says about where testing is headed.
The Hidden Cost of “Run Everything” Testing (And What to Do Instead)
When release time is limited, running every test can create false confidence. This article explains why not all tests are equal and how QA teams can move from gut-based decisions to evidence-driven prioritization, focusing on the tests that actually reduce risk and matter most for each release.
December 2025 Updates
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In 2025, we focused on helping QA teams improve clarity, consistency, and control across the QA process. Here are some of the key capabilities we released this year:
- SmartFox AI for Faster, Higher-Quality Test Creation: Generate and refine test steps, improve text clarity, and prevent duplicate tests with SmartFox AI and Similar Tests detection, helping teams write better tests in less time.
- More Powerful Dashboards and Drill-Down Insights: Slice data with multilevel filters, drill from dashboards into instance-level details, and allow stakeholders to apply tab-level filters to external dashboards.
- Smarter Traceability Across Requirements and Test Sets: Link complete test sets to a requirement and keep its status aligned with real execution progress, including newly added instances.
- Generate Tests with Steps from Jira and Azure DevOps User Stories: Automatically create tests with structured steps directly from linked user stories in Jira or Azure DevOps, keeping requirements and tests fully aligned.
- Custom Test Workflows with Built-In Approval Control: Customize your test workflow to define project-specific test statuses, control transitions, and enforce edit or execution locks to support structured review and approval processes. This feature is available only for Corporate accounts.
- Collaborative Editing for Safer Teamwork at Scale: Work simultaneously on requirements, tests, issues, and test sets while avoiding overwrites and conflicts, ensuring teams always work on the latest data.
Coming Up
PractiTest Live Training
Join our customer success team for a live training session and ask everything you want to know.
Date: Wednesday, January 14th
Time: 12:00 AM CET
State of Testing 2026 – Roundtable
Join Joel Montvelisky, Lalit Bhamare, Andrew Knight, and Siva Kopparapu for a live roundtable unpacking top insights from the State of Testing™ 2026 report. They will explore what’s really happening with AI adoption, how shifts in tooling and development cycles are reshaping QA, and what the data reveals about future skills, roles, and career paths in testing.
Date: Tuesday, January 27th
Time: 11:00 AM EST | 17:00 CET
PractiTest and Beyond
From Tester to Leader: The Unwritten Rules of Career Growth in QA
In this guest article, QA expert Gagan Sharma shares practical insights on growing from a software tester into a QA leader. The piece focuses on three core pillars of career growth, the role of strong communication, and how adopting a leadership mindset can shape long term success in QA.
Explore the article
16 Best Unit Testing Tools for 2026
This blog reviews the top unit testing tools for 2026 and explains why their real impact comes from integrating results into a centralized test management platform like PractiTest. Learn how the right tools and integrations improve visibility, traceability, and release decision making across teams.
November 2025 Updates
Here are some updates from the past month
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Improve Test Step Clarity with SmartFox AI Text Enhance
Refine test steps and descriptions with one click. SmartFox AI helps you quickly refine, shorten, or expand your text. Review the suggestions and decide whether to apply them, giving you cleaner, higher quality tests with less effort. If you need further refinement, you can also guide the AI by adding your own instructions.
Use SmartFox AI Step Generator on Existing Steps
When you open a test that includes steps, clicking on the Step Generator will allow you to replace your current steps or add new ones after them. This gives you a fast way to refine outdated steps or extend test coverage without starting from scratch. Read more in our documentation.
Adding Values through API to Fields
You now have full control over how list fields behave during API updates and imports. A new project setting, Add “values on import/API”, lets you decide whether new list values should be created automatically during imports or API updates. Enable it to allow new values, or disable it to block unrecognized values and keep your data clean. Check out our API documentation.
Mention Users in Descriptions and Steps
Mention teammates directly inside Descriptions and individual Step fields. This makes it easier to assign follow ups, highlight responsibility, and keep everyone aligned within the test itself.
New Account Settings Design
Account Settings has been redesigned and now opens in a separate tab with a cleaner, standalone layout, giving you a more focused way to manage your account.
Coming Up
PractiTest Live Training
Join our customer success team for a live training session and ask everything you want to know.
Date: Wednesday, December 10th
Time: 2:00 PM EST | 11:00 AM PST
PractiTest and Beyond
QA Leader of the Year 2025: Winner Announcement
After weeks of nominations, expert review, and community voting, we’ll reveal the leader who made the strongest impact on their team and the testing community this year in a special LinkedIn Live event. Join us to celebrate the finalists, hear insights from this year’s judges, and recognize the outstanding contributions of QA professionals across the industry.
Date: Wednesday, December 10th
Time: 11:00 AM EST | 17:00 CET