SpiraTest

Avantages

The way we can manage many project at a single place.
The overall tracking of testing tasks.
The defect management and tracking the defect from the time of raising to fixed, re tested and closure.

Inconvénients

The Automation capability could have been much more better.
The UI can also be improved a little

Avantages

SpiraTest is a little-known Quality Management suite, but it packs a lot under the hood. It is readily customizable, has an easily navigable UI, and its main modules are Planning )Requirements, Planning Board, Releases, Documents), Testing (Test Cases, Test Sets, Test Runs, Automation Hosts, and Configurations), Developing (Source Code, Commits, and Pull Requests) and Tracking (Incidents, Risks, Tasks, and Resources). The reports and graphs are intuitive and can be exported to a variety of formats for sharing and dissemination.

Inconvénients

The one glaring feature lacking in this software package is the limited of third-party integration it supports. Currently SpiraTest doesn't have a plug-in for Remedy Integration, although there is one for SalesForce.

Avantages

- Defects will open new ticket in Jira ( with new ID ) email notification will be set to Spira Test ID
- Integration with documents from MS Office available in HTML, XML, Word and Excel formats.
- Integrated with third party software: Available Jira Integration
- Available to Import test cases from excel with provided SpiraTestImporterTemplate.xls
- Highlights changes to requirements and test cases in History
- Changes can trigger e-mail alerts or notification of users set up.
- Updates are available for download in the website.
- Monitor Environment and Resource Usage: Available in Application event logs from server to administrator
- Can add attachments to requirements and test cases, but need to click on it to open it and the description is an alt tag to the name of file.
- DB Backup options available to db administrator.
- Tool support resources: Comprehensive on-line help, email, and examples supplied in demo trial.

Inconvénients

- Would like the User interface to be a little more friendly and easy to use.
- Spira Test implementation needs to configure too many sensitive user information in the configuration file, would like to see another version that does not need this
- Was not clear if the history of execution status is saved after many executions just saw some saved.
- Email sent from Incidents created from Spira test makes tracking difficult, the subject of project. is not in the title of email, only the id, that is the next ID available for all projects.
- Server performance issues, Spira Test requires too many resources.
- Record and play not available in this Software version.
- Need to update installation files (*.config) for each user that is using the tool. User setup and access process is too long.

Avantages

Excellent product!!! So easy to organize and manage your team. Creating requirements is quite simple . We can create software requirements and insert child features in an instant. Managing the priorities for your teams testing is a breeze with color coded priorities. Observing and handling your teams test steps is made easier to handle with the color coded labeling.

Inconvénients

The only thing that I can say is that it is expensive costing over $9k per year!! Also, you have to lie $40 a month for each concurrent user.

Avantages

I like the fact that a cloud-hosted version of the software is available.

Inconvénients

It can be a bit too rigid in the way it expects testing to be performed, which can be a barrier to getting things done. If you don't use the software the way they expect, it can be difficult to work around it.

Avantages

Creating and and reusing test case is very simple. It helps teams communicate regarding test cases while performing QA duties. Integration are great and also you can undo deleting.

Inconvénients

UI can be imporved. The customization is not that great. Tracking modules can be improved, all these can be improved to make this good tool a great tool.

Avantages

Spira Team is flexible and ease to use in destop or web system, in dot net technologies and IIS 7.5
We hope my companies will buy these producs
The customers support is very good.
The cost is very low alongside other products and very good benefits

Inconvénients

Have not found any yet

Avantages

Excel Add-In allows authoring and exporting test cases/steps in Excel.
Provides a great deal of metrics.
We're using it for requirements and the requirements to components to test case structure is highly flexible.

Inconvénients

Test Case Execution doesn't show pictures in full for the expected result, but works awesomely for the actual result.

Avantages

Great usability. It has a lot of features, easy to configure and customize. We need to migrate our projects from HP QC/ALM to SpiraTest and it has a great tool to migrate everything (releases, traceability, requirements, test cases, executions, ...). We've tested in some projects and works great.

Inconvénients

It needs only more BI or reporting customization, but I think is enough now for most projects. Some other integrations will be great, like some tools for exploratory or acceptance testing (Microfocus Sprinter, ...).

Avantages

Flexible, easy to use system
Offers integration with other products
Provides a lot of functionality, some of which we will use at once and some we can introduce gradually

Inconvénients

Have not found any yet

Avantages

Ease of use and it's setup

Inconvénients

Excel functionality to export test cases needs an improvement as we cannot export only a limited set of test cases.

Avantages

The Ui and Test Case structure is amazing, it has got folder structure so that users can setup the modules per folder per release. It has wonderful export and import feature where user can easily import the test cases from excel sheets

Inconvénients

It has very poor response time when user copies and paste the test cases. Sometimes there are no updates on screen initially and after two mins user see multiple copies of tests

Avantages

Has all the features we need to manage our SQA dept. Excellent integration to bug tracking tools. Great integration with automation testing for our needs - web, api as well as shell scripts.

Excellent product, superb customer support. Very easy to setup and use. Great documentation.

Excellent support - we are still evaluating this tool (along with bunch of other tools) and these guys respond to every question (even small) with very detailed explanation and very promptly. Customer service rating is 10 STAR not just 5 star.

Inconvénients

None. Yes - none that are holding us back.

In this budget range their reporting features are more than what we could expect (very good), though few additional improvements may be made. Note, we have not tried to customize them yet.

Avantages

Great at test management. Especially useful to use is the automation client and integration with unit testing. We use NUnit (also support MsUnit) for our unit testing and having the results reflected straight back into SpiraTest is amazingly useful. We also have TestComplete on a testing machine and can schedule Tests within Spira Test to run on the machine under Test Complete. Makes regression testing much easier. Also integrates with a wide range of bug trackers.

Inconvénients

Installation/ Uninstall of 3.2 was problematic these problems seem to be fixed in the latest installers and the upgrade from 3.2 to 4 was simple. Great customer support with a commitment to getting things working.

Avantages

Easy tu use and to implement. Even with relative small knowledge of testing organisation. Our testeam is very enthousiastic of the results. We are testing a major upgrade and we are using this project to test Spiratest. We have a clear overview now of the the testresults. Because of the furtures of the software we also learn to improve our testorganisation.

Inconvénients

Difficult to install on a pc as a common user. However. For system administrators the installation software makes it easy for people with their skills.

Avantages

SpiraTest is a lightweight and affordable but full featured testing tool. We use it extensively to manage requirements and test conditions with a full integration with our JIRA issue tracking implementation.

I must compliment Inflectra/SpiraTest on their incredible support services. They respond quickly to issues on the few times I have needed to use them and have provided answers extemely quickly and with minimal fuss.

Inconvénients

Only works on Microsoft SQL and Windows at the moment.

Avantages

Unkown - Never installed

Inconvénients

There were way too many software requirements to install this software: .Net, MS Visual Studio, and IIS. The QA machines here are not development environments, and certainly not web servers. There should be no need to require all of those to install testing software.

Avantages

I really appreciate the Dashboard, as it provides a one stop shop.

Inconvénients

Performance is a bit slow and not sure, because of IE6.

Avantages

SpiraTest provides many solutions to integrate with other tools (e.g. Jira) so it's easy to integrate with our current workflow.

Inconvénients

There is no way to customize the "Execute" under tools. For the Automated test sets, I hope to pop up the message to notify users the schedule of the automated testing for those test sets.

Avantages

The support team has been excellent. I really appreciate their prompt, courteous responses!

Very affordable.

Inconvénients

My only compaint is the lack of integration with Axosoft Ontime. Although it is my understanding that is coming very soon.

Avantages

- Flexible implementation capabilities (top-down or bottom-up)
- Easy migration from our old bug tracking system
- Excellent ocverage of all needs (from requirements to incidents)
- Excellent documentation and easy installation

Inconvénients

- displays not always readable (too many formatting options)