SpiraTest - Avis

Spira Test meets halfway with Agile methodology and brings it to life with a user experience unparalleled in the current industry, excelsior!

Users not using it as designed, other than that.

Almost perfect, keep doing what Inflectra's doing.

Great tool to help organize software testing needs like project requirements, building a test plan, writing the tests, planning the test activities and capturing the results also like bug tracking in the automation testing as well manual testing. Easy to use and everything can be tracked in one application..that's awesome.one tool for all like document collaboration,Test Case Management,Project Management,Requirements Management and etc and mainly affordable cost compare to other similar software

The UI, is not very friendly with a complex form to work on it
frequently user experience application hang problems

1) Cloud based software and hence we dont have to worry about maintaining it.
2) Can create Test plan and defect in same tool and can link the defect to the test plan ID which is useful feature.

1) UI, Look and feel is so old and need drastic change.
2) Session time out value is too low and need to login very frequently.
3) The defect number is not based on the product/project and its based on complete subscription. for ex: Defect number 1 might be for one product and defect number 2 might be assigned to different product. the next numbering should be per product/project.
4) attaching images are not user friendly.

Easy to use and personalize dashboards

Addon (Excel / Word) not in synch with the version which cause a lot of rework. Upload/Download from Excel is only available at version 4.0 but doesn't work with the version 5.0 for Test Cases/Test Sets, etc...

Have been using Spiratest for the last 3 years for defect tracking and test execution. It was already in use when i joined the company and i found it easy to use and feature rich. We use e seperate project for each or our customers & we can give them access to their own project to track defects during UAT.

Reports and workflows restricted to individual projects which gets really frustrating unless all work is done in a single project. No Enterprise reporting included so far, but i am told this is coming soon.

Cost wise it is affordable

Already listed in my feedback

Ease of use and it's setup

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

quite easy to create testcases
management of releases is a good feature
interfaces between ldap and jira work well
clear structure (by folders) of testcases
clear notion of testing progress
good export features (ecxel, word, html)
support is very fast, competent and friendly

As a beginner it often happens that you leave a page without saving your work (for e.g. by clicking a link in the navigation). A hint, that you explicitly have to changes before you leave would be very helpfull.

When deleting an item, there is a confirmation dialog. It would be helpfull if this dialog would also contain the name of the item to be deleted.

It would be nice if attachements (e.g. screenshots) could be synchronized between jira and spiratest.

If you comment on an issue that has already been synchronized to jira, this comment is not submitted to jira (it only works from jira to spiratest)

Error messages within the windows event viewer are not easy to understand.

Integrates well with Jira.
Easy to configure for your needs.
Nice reporting tools.
Good support team.

Reports can be really slow sometimes.
Reports take a lot of customizing before you get any useful results.
The UI is not very user friendly.

Took a few days to get used to but decent interface and meets most our needs thus far, submitted questions to Support on details and got great rapid response. Thank you !

Can't link a Requirement# to a Test Step within a Test Case.(Support forwarded request to development). Adding screen shots to a Test Step doesn't look like it can be done - we have lots of screen shots per our existing test steps, would like to get them in somehow, not just listed at the bottom of the Test Case. Q: Is there a way to display multiple Test Cases at once down the screen ? Often, there is a need to reference other Test Cases content more easily than clicking back and forth to another Test Case, so another Test Case can be completed or edited. It would be nice to be able to see multiple Test Cases displayed on the screen somehow, in parallel, or cascaded format, like Windows does - for ease in scoping a bigger picture say for consolidating similar Test Cases already written, etc. Thanks.

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

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

- Agree with other reviews that Adam is incredibly helpful, and he responded brilliantly to our enquiries
- Great tool for the price. It does everything we need it to.
- Good integration with other tools provided by add-ons and the web service.
- Very fair approach to license upgrades, as user base grows. (SpiraTest started off in one QA team and is now being used by three teams within the company.)

- As a TD/QC user for 10 years I do miss some features, and the UI isn't as 'polished'. But at this price I really can't complain.

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.

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.

- Have a complete test management solution for the time needed
- Working synchronisation with JIRA
- Easy-to-install desktop utility for synchronisation
- low setup and operating costs.

- The synchronisation runs only with a desktop utility
- You cannot selectively synchronise JIRA-issues, e.g. certain issue types or issues from a defined start date.
- Usability. The user interface needs improvement.

allows multiple ways to setup tests to match different workflows.

provides a very good reporting overview to help clarify what is going on with testing.

integration with bug tracking systems could be easier to get working and provide a better feature set, but this is not the end of the world as for what we want it works fine.

nothing about it interests me and i do not want your trial.

forced signup. no way to cancel trial. no way to opt-out of emails, which is illegal in the U.S.

Unkown - Never installed

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.

-Ease of use, easy to understand
-Manages whole STLC together
-Can be linked with requirements
-Managing of test suites is very easy
-Test run within tool

-Less possibilities of customization
-Support for upgrades can be improved

Wide range of functionality, comparable with industry leaders in this field (e.g. HP QC)
Simple and reliable installation and configuration
Good value for money
Excellent support
Many integration capabilities with other tools

There are few UI issues here and there
Reports are OK, but could still be improved

Fantastic tool - I hate complicated tools, there's no cleverness in that. A tool needs to be sensible and practical, SpiraTest definitely is. Can be used for different development methods. Its quite cool.

There will always be a few but cant think of any right now.

Very flexible in customisation, Easy requirement and test creation and execution, possibility to different level of test status set up.
I realy love the scope of addins that make testers life easier

No component testing approach but comparing to HP QC this looks like and only one disadvantage

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.

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

A very simple approach for linking Requirements -> Test Cases -> Incidents
Import/Export to Excel for advanced analysis
Customizable fields

Only one: It lacks of a field for Incident categorization.

Easy to use
Trace ability of requirements to test
Test case run and reporting
Bug reporting and management

Limited features for defect management
Too many formatting possibilities for text inputs