Adaptavist Test Management for Jira vs OpenText Silk Central comparison
Adaptavist and OpenText are both solutions in the Test Management Tools category. Adaptavist is ranked #9 with an average rating of 6.5, while OpenText is
ranked #21. Adaptavist holds a 3.3% mindshare in TMT, compared to
OpenText’s 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of Adaptavist users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 80% of OpenText users who would recommend it.
OpenText Silk Central and Adaptavist Test Management for Jira are two competing test management tools. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira stands out due to its integration capabilities and overall user satisfaction.
Features: OpenText Silk Central is praised for its comprehensive test management capabilities, customizable testing workflows, and robust reporting functions. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is valued for its seamless integration with Jira, ease of use, and collaborative functions.
Room for Improvement: OpenText Silk Central needs an updated interface, better integration with other tools, and streamlined usability. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira can improve its reporting capabilities, enhance automation features, and expand user documentation.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Deployment of OpenText Silk Central is complex with a steeper learning curve. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is noted for its straightforward implementation. Users report more satisfactory experiences with Adaptavist’s support team compared to OpenText’s.
Pricing and ROI: OpenText Silk Central is considered expensive but delivers good ROI through its detailed test management features. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira offers competitive pricing and achieves high ROI due to its integration with Jira and efficient test process management.
Users want better integration, faster test creation, improved customization, AI enhancements, third-party tool connectivity, and accurate tagging in Adaptavist Test Management.
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Users suggest improvements for OpenText Silk Central in reporting, integration, setup, test environment support, performance, and navigation.
Users find Adaptavist Test Management for Jira scalable, though some see room for improvement in handling diverse test cases and integrations.
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OpenText Silk Central is praised for scalability, flexibility, robust performance, supporting diverse projects, extensive collaboration, and seamless system integration.
Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is affordable, integrates well with Jira, and offers robust and scalable features for various business sizes.
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<p>OpenText Silk Central provides enterprise pricing options, balancing initial costs with comprehensive features, support, and significant return on investment.</p>
Adaptavist Test Management for Jira offers integration, reuse, comprehensive test repository, automation, risk management, reporting, real-time tracking, and a proactive dashboard.
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OpenText Silk Central excels in test management, tool integration, reporting, ease of use, customization, automation, and effective large-scale test case management.
As of November 2024, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is 3.3%, down
from 3.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Silk Central is 1.6%, down
from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
I would like to see some improvements in Adaptive Test Management for Jira. First, having a recommendation engine or feature that guides handling risks more intuitively rather than relying on manual processes would be helpful. Second, enhancing the connectivity with third-party tools like Teams or Slack would be valuable. One challenge with integrating Adaptavist Test Management for Jira into workflows is ensuring it accurately tags and incorporates all relevant stories and epics. Sometimes, it’s unclear if the tool considers all dependencies and backlog items, which can affect how risks are assessed. However, it sometimes seems to miss this high-level perspective, which can be a limitation based on how the product is designed. This has been a concern for those who use it regularly, although I don’t manage these aspects personally.
We are primarily interested in improving the flexibility to customize parts of the tool. At this point, we feel that the customization is bad. For example, we would like to be able to automatize internal projects. We would like like to see the visibility improved, and want to perform certain tests faster. We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end. This is very important to us. In terms of usability and the interface, a few small improvements can lead to a lot of benefits. The interface is good but can be improved. The section on managing requirements for testing has to be improved. This is an old feature that has not been updated at the same rate as the rest of the tool.
The tool's pricing is a bit expensive, considering the kind of risk analysis and visibility we want, given that it's built on top of the Jira platform and other Atlassian products. It's priced slig...
I would like to see some improvements in Adaptive Test Management for Jira. First, having a recommendation engine or feature that guides handling risks more intuitively rather than relying on manua...
Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is the full, featured, enterprise ready test management solution directly in Jira. It offers full traceability across issues, requirements, test cases, and execution. The tool allows for flexibility and customisation for test plans and runs. It offers a free and flexible REST API, includes the ability to automate bulk tests, and enables seamless integration with most continuous integration tools. The in-depth reporting capability gives users the ability to analyse and share test data results between development and business teams. It’s the single source of truth to track, manage and optimise your whole test lifecycle right inside Jira software.
Drive reusability across Jira with cross-project hierarchical repositories for all test assets
Improve collaboration with flexible workflows between traditional and Agile development teams
Enhance coverage with end-to-end traceability across all test artifacts
Eliminate duplication to increase efficiency with versioning, test data parameters and shared step features
Improve visibility and functionality with 70 cross-project reports and gadgets
Reduce management time and effort, with rich APIs for integration with test automation and DevOps tools
Allows teams to seamlessly collaborate and manage multiple versions of test cases in parallel while providing an audit history of changes
Features:
Easy drag and drop organisation, planning and execution
Hierarchical folders to manage and reuse assets across Jira projects, releases and sprints
Test case libraries including versioning, shared steps and test data parameters
Test plans and runs to manage and track test execution cycles
Full traceability of test cases, requirements, test execution results and defects
70 cross-project reports, gadgets and Confluence Macros to track the coverage of your tests with advanced cross project reporting
Global and project level settings for customisation and standardisation
Custom fields for test cases, test steps, test plans and test runs
Migration function to import test cases from files or legacy test management tools
REST APIs for integration with test automation and DevOp tools
Use Cases:
Integrate CI tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Travis CI or other development applications like Github, Bitbucket, Datadog via the REST API for end-to-end integration across test case management, execution, and reporting
Automate testing at scale, whilst maintaining traceability inside Jira. Scaled to 10,000+ tests across multiple configurations, publishing results in Jira in under 30 minutes
Increase efficiency by significantly reducing time spent on test case specification and management
Benefit from reusability across Jira projects and single points of maintenance when reusing and organizing test cases
Improved visibility of software testing process and quality with 70 out-of-the-box reports, including real-time dashboards
Clear end-to-end traceability of requirements, tests, and defects ensuring that the delivered software meets requirements.
Silk Central is an open test management solution which unifies all test assets into one easy-to-use planning, tracking, reporting and execution hub. Silk Central enables you to gain control, collaboration and traceability across all areas of your software testing, whether your methodology is Agile, Traditional or hybrid. Silk Central provides integration of requirements, manual and automated tests, defect tools and your test execution, giving full traceability of the quality of your software testing regardless of role.
Sample Customers
IBM, John Lewis, Trip Advisor, Netgear, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Sapient
AmBank Group, Krung Thai Computer Services, Deakin University
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