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We are currently working on multiple pharmaceutical software development projects and already gave up managing our highly regulated environment with waterfall methodology, thanks to Dean Leffingwell for his work on Agile Software Development with Verification and Validation in High Assurance and Regulated Environments  back in 2011. It is still a constant struggle, however, to keep track of the changing requirements and acceptance tests while maintaining compliance with the regulations and guidelines from cycle to cycle. My internal presentation is based on  Dean Leffingwell's work. In this post I describe the approach we are using to get the most out of JIRA and especially the acceptance test automation capabilities of Thucydides. Thucydides  is a tool which brings together the frameworks you are probably using anyway in development, eg.: Maven : build automation and dependency management JUnit : unit and integration testing JBehave : BDD/acceptance testing...