OpenText ALM Octane vs. TestRail

For big applications and projects where different teams work in a different location, it is very helpful for them to keep all the processes in one place and makes it easy to keep track of all team member's processes.

Incentivized

Well suited - where you have a set of cases defined say for regression and then you can mark them as Pass/Fail/Skipped, etc. If you wish to present the impact of certain set of new features, bug fixes,etc, you can use this tool Not well suited- where the user is naive and don’t have much understanding of test reporting tools as this tool is slightly difficult to learn at a glance

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• Bug-logging and keeping track of the bug status.
• Integration with DevOps to do continuous testing.
• Keeping coordination between development and testing teams.

Incentivized

• Beautiful and productive UI.
• Nice filtering system allowing me to find what I need quickly.

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• The integration to Synchronizer is very difficult to implement.
• The integration to Jira was very hard to get working.

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• UI has a lot scope of improvement
• Uploading of test screenshots and managing them can be more effective
• User experience can be improved
• Tracking of tests can be more simplified

Incentivized

As I am a tester, for me I found this tool to be new in terms of everything like the management of tests, plans, releases, reporting,etc. It is overall a good tool for test reporting and can be used for reference in the future. I liked several features of on the go placement of screenshots. Also I feel like the UI , the font, the color combination can be improved

Incentivized

Customer support is very good takes minimal time to resolve the issue and always takes feedback seriously to improve the application.

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Micro Focus ALM Octane use at DaVita goes back beyond my starting with them three years ago. They have used it as part of DevOps as well as for performance measurement of software releases in combo with HP Performance Center (a great combination). Jira is well suited to managing bug reports and development processes with Agile and Scrum, but ALM Octane goes above and beyond that.

Incentivized

TestRail definitely saves times. I work in a company that consists of several development teams, all of which have different processes. Some of the teams leverage test cases, some do not. I've noticed that the turn around time it takes for me to pick up a ticket, QA it, and then pass/fail/send feedback is much faster when there is a test case created as I'm not reading through ticket description/comments to figure out what needs to be QA'd.

Incentivized

• Our Performance Measurement team uses ALM all the time for test performance measurement in conjunction with HP Performance Center. We could not have such a robust performance capability without ALM.
• Not being on the management side of it (I am a technical resource for support), I do not have solid information on ROI.

Incentivized

• We are able to easily pull reports any time management would like to see them
• Jira integration makes it easy to attach to stories/defects and save time
• A quick overview at the system's health as a whole is easy to see from TestRail

Incentivized