QA team uses HP Quality Center, Dev team wants to use JIRA -- will this work?

Question

Our QA team uses HP Quality Center for defect tracking, test plans, etc.

The dev team really detests Quality Center and wants to use JIRA for internal task tracking. Can these two systems work seamlessly together?

I have worked on projects where 2 teams used separate issue-tracking systems and keeping them in sync was a major headache.

Anyone have real-world experience integrating Quality Center and JIRA?

Solution 1

You will need a 'bridge' between Quality Center and JIRA. JIRA has APIs to allow you to build and/or customize these interfaces. I have worked with Orasi, which has a bridge (no idea on the cost).

http://www.orasi.com/products/Pages/Orasi.aspx

http://www.beteoblog.com/2009/01/21/integrating-jira-and-the-hp-quality-center/

Solution 2

QC has many, many, many features that are not in Jira. It would make this post horribly wrong even to list them. I've been working with QC for over 2 years, and although I'm not big fan of it, I must admit, that all those QC features allows it to support almost every QA activity (if tool and testing process are fully and properly implemented in organization).

As for the question, frankadelic you are right, maintaining QC defects and Jira Bugs in sync can be a pain. I would suggest:
a) look at orasi plugin for Jira (link)
b) look at Go2Group plugin for Jira (link)
c) write your own plugin for Jira

Unfortunately in my company none of those 3 solutions were implemented yet, so I can;' say much about them.