SpiraTest Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services Reviews & Insights

Score8 out of 10

11 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

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Business Problems Solved

SpiraTest has proven to be valuable for a range of use cases across various industries. One notable example is its application in the entertainment/hospitality industry, where it has been successfully used for a large and complex project. By making work on requirements agile and enabling scalability for the QA team, SpiraTest has significantly contributed to the success of this project.

JetRuby's quality analysts, project managers, and product owners have also found great value in using SpiraTest for their specific needs. Whether it's solving various problems or streamlining the development process, SpiraTest has proven to be a convenient tool for these roles. Its user-friendly interface has made it easy for the entire organization to adopt, allowing for seamless collaboration between teams.

In addition, SpiraTest's capabilities within the quality assurance department have been highly beneficial. It allows users to run tests on websites and ensure that all features are functioning properly. The ability to assign test cases to specific users has been particularly valuable in testing with actual end users and managing their expectations effectively.

Furthermore, organizations have found that SpiraTest's competitive pricing enables them to allocate enough licenses to accommodate their user base. This allows teams to fully utilize its features without any limitations.

SpiraTest is often used alongside Excel sheets, offering a more efficient way of sorting requirements, tests, and progress. This integration significantly improves productivity by simplifying workflow management.

One feature that stands out among users is SpiraTest's cloning capability, which allows for linking similar test cases. This feature has received high praise as it saves time and effort by eliminating the need to create repetitive test cases from scratch.

Overall, SpiraTest has successfully addressed various user needs and provided solutions across different industries. Its simplicity, flexibility, and powerful features make it a valuable tool for improving project management, collaboration, and overall efficiency.

SpiraTest Reviews

3 Reviews

Professional, Scientific, and Technical ServicesInformation Technology & Services3

SpiraTest - Can be better!

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

December 18, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SpiraTest across the test teams for all the testing needs. SpiraTest makes it very easy to sort requirements, tests, and progress. We use SpiraTest along with Excel sheets but SpiraTest makes work so much easier. The best thing about SpiraTest is cloning, which can be used to link similar test cases.

Pros

It is easy to manage requirements.
Users and roles are easily managed.
Cloning is really helpful to stack all the similar test cases.

Cons

Dashboard can be made a little easier to read.
Reporting is also not that great.
Includes a little learning curve.

Likelihood to Recommend

SpiraTest is helpful for the test teams to manage the test cases. It can integrated to JIRA and the integration works great. The dashboard and metrics are little out of the place and there is a lot of improvement to be made in that area. Cloning can be a boon to many QA teams.

Verified User

Employee in Corporate (Information Technology and Services company, 5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

SpiraTest is the best solution for test management

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 8, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We chose SpiraTest over a year ago after studying different test management software. Today it is used by JetRuby's quality analysts, project managers as well as product owners. This tool helped us to solve various problems, making work on requirements agile, the QA team scalable and storage of test documentation and metrics during the product development more convenient.

Pros

Working on requirements as a team.
Distribution of testing sets among QA team members.

Cons

One lacks convenient ways of reports customization.
The SpiraTest to JIRA integration leaves much to be desired. We use a cloud version of SpiraTest and Linux machine hosted JIRA version. To configure the integration we need a server on Windows.

Likelihood to Recommend

Pavel Skvortsov

QA Engineer in Quality Assurance at JetRuby Agency (Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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SpiraTest - fail

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 15, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SpiraTest is being used currently for a large, complex project with an ambitious time frame in the entertainment/hospitality industry.

Pros

A clean view of test case steps, expected results and the ability to record a result for each step quickly on one page per test set. This really helps testers work through executing manual test cases.
Hierarchical structure of releases and builds, requirements, and test cases.
Can quickly build test sets and/or test runs per build/release.
Simple identification of each test case, requirement, test run, build, release, etc.

Cons

While there are some nice, live reports, test results per build/release is an obvious omission. The canned reports that can be configured are mostly text based. Some graphs included in those would be a nice addition.
Recording a Fail for a test step does not facilitate recording a defect. Defects must be manually reported separately. It would be nice if some standard fields were offered when a failure was recorded (e.g. summary, actual result, expected result, description) were recorded with system-known data such as the test steps (steps to reproduce), release, tester's name, etc. and turned into a defect to be recorded in Spira, or sent to an integrated 3rd party defect tracker (Jira, Mantis, TFS, etc.).
While the import (from Excel) tools are nice and work efficiently (2 way sync of data, hierarchy easy to implement, tests can be linked to requirements before import/export), there are some default fields I would like to have seen included in there so I could import the 1500+ test cases with less post import/export data manipulation required in Spira across the imported data

Likelihood to Recommend

Great for recording results for manual testing. Spira have made some changes in their most recent version (v5) that allow testers not only to see each step of a test case on one page, but all steps in a test set (containing multiple test cases) and to be able to save results for those steps with one click per step or per test (Pass all steps only). This facilitates efficiency during manual test execution.

Dave Furlani

Senior Consultant - Test Manager / Project Manager in Quality Assurance at RXP Services Limited (Information Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees)

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