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TestRail

Score7.1 out of 10

26 Reviews and Ratings

What is TestRail?

TestRail by Gurock, an IDERA company, is presented as a complete web-based test case management solution to manage, track, and organize your software testing efforts.

Categories & Use Cases

Top Performing Features

  • Test execution reporting

    Comprehensive reporting on which tests have been run and pass/fail

    Category average: 8.1

  • Centralized test management

    Ability to manages both manual and automated tests from a centralized location

    Category average: 8.6

  • Map tests to user stories

    Provide visibility into user story test coverage

    Category average: 8

Areas for Improvement

  • Manage test hosts and schedules

    Ease of setup of automated tests and test schedules

    Category average: 7.6

  • Defect management

    Ability to automatically log defects and link them to failed tests, and report defect resolution progress

    Category average: 8

Manage, review, demonstrate test results with TestRail

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I am in testing profile, while working at [...], for managing our tests- creation, writing steps, expected and actual result, screenshots, etc. The tool used was TestRail. It is basically used for managing tests for our releases. It has reports of the tests so that it can be presented to our stakeholders

Pros

  • Managing test plans and test cases
  • Generation of test results
  • Modularised way of storing tests

Cons

  • 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

Return on Investment

  • Increased stakeholder engagement
  • Improved way of defining and display of tests results
  • Sometimes managing test plans are difficult
  • Access hierarchy can be more simplified for users

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Jira Software and BrowserStack

TestRail - What it does good is great, but can leave you wanting more.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use TestRail as a Test Case Management system. We are able to store test run results from our UI and Backend tests as well as run reports easily to gather data to present to the wider organization. We also keep our manual test cases within TestRail. We have multiple test tools that we are able to integrate with TestRail and then integrate TestRail with Jira.

Pros

  • Manual Test Cases
  • Organization
  • Easy Reporting

Cons

  • Outstanding user bugs
  • UI is clunky
  • Things are not where you think they would be

Return on Investment

  • 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

Other Software Used

ReadyAPI, Jira Software, Jenkins

TestRail - Railing of Test Case Management

Pros

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

Cons

  • Integration with Jira seems [a] little faulty.
  • Increase the API call limit for different editions.
  • Better way to trigger automation suites from TestRail.

Return on Investment

  • Improved test management process and collaboration inside team.
  • Increased transparency of QA work.
  • Team became more satisfied.

Alternatives Considered

PractiTest and Tricentis qTest (formerly QASymphony)

Other Software Used

LambdaTest, BrowserStack, GitHub