Adaptavist Test Management for Jira vs SmartBear TestComplete comparison

The compared Adaptavist and SmartBear solutions aren't in the same category. Adaptavist is ranked #13 in TMT , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 2.3% mindshare in the category. SmartBear is ranked #6 in TAt , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 6.1% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of Adaptavist users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 87% of SmartBear users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Adaptavist Test Management for Jira and SmartBear TestComplete based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Test Management Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Adaptavist Test Management for Jira vs. SmartBear TestComplete Report (Updated: July 2020).

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Adaptavist Test Management for Jira vs. SmartBear TestComplete

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptavist Test Management ...

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (13th)

SmartBear TestComplete

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (8th), Regression Testing Tools (5th), Test Automation Tools (6th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is designed for Test Management Tools and holds a mindshare of 2.3%, down 2.5% compared to last year.
SmartBear TestComplete, on the other hand, focuses on Test Automation Tools, holds 6.1% mindshare, up 6.0% since last year.

Test Management Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Adaptavist Test Management for Jira	2.3%
OpenText Application Quality Management	8.2%
Tricentis qTest	7.8%
Other	81.7%

Test Management Tools

Test Automation Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
SmartBear TestComplete	6.1%
Tricentis Tosca	13.4%
OpenText Functional Testing	6.5%
Other	74.0%

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Featured Reviews

Ramakanta Sahu

Director of Product at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Has dashboard and reporting features that help us identify and address red flags

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.

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Prakhar Goel

Sr Test Lead at Emerson

Used for integration automation, user-based automation, and web automation

The solution's most valuable features are the drag-and-drop feature, keyword-driven approach, and reusability of the scripts. The solution has introduced a new feature that helps us identify objects we cannot normally identify. It gives you a fair idea of objects, resolving the object recognition issue. The solution can be used to perform different tests on different machines.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"You can group test cases together and track the execution of them."

"We don't use technical support. We have an office in Austria that provides us with solutions. Also, this solution is pretty simple and user-friendly. We don't really need help with it."

"The program is very stable and scalable."

"It is a scalable solution."

"Our software development process primarily uses Adaptive Test Management for Jira to monitor real-time risks across all stories and sprint planning. Additionally, we use it to create action plans for high-priority risks."

"TestComplete has strong reporting capabilities. The reports they generate are really good."

"The most valuable features are the desktop and mobile modules."

"Recording and playback of tests were easier with SmartBear TestComplete...It is a scalable solution."

"I like the cross browser compatibility. It saves a lot of time re-writing scripts to accommodate different browsers."

"It allows us to test both desktop and web applications."

"The solution is mainly stable."

"The solution is great as a record and playback tool. It also has valuable regression testing."

"It is very easy to maintain tests with this tool. It covers all necessary items in the test plan. The most painful item in testing is maintenance. When changes occur, the tests should be maintained."

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Cons

"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."

"They should work on integrating the solution with AI."

"I don't like that you need to use a lot of tabs. One test case takes 15-20 minutes and on Zephyr is take about 5-10 minutes."

"Lacking visual gadgets that go on a dashboard, pie charts, bar charts and histograms."

"The learning curve of the solution's user interface is a little high for new users."

"Headless testing would be a big improvement."

"We were testing handheld barcode scanners running WindowsCE with many menus of warehouse functions, and our biggest problem was the timing between input and responses."

"At times, identifying or locating an element can be somewhat challenging. However, in a recent test update, they introduced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capability. This introduction has reduced the challenges to some extent, as we can now utilize OCR if the normal method doesn't work. Nevertheless, there is still significant potential for improvement in TestComplete's ability to identify various object elements. I don't have any specific concerns to mention. I have observed significant improvements in TestComplete over the past few years, especially in its support for highly dynamic object elements used in products like Salesforce Dynamics 365. In earlier versions, there were numerous challenges, but the current version is far superior to its predecessors."

"The recording function, when using Python, could be improved, as it does not work well in recording testing."

"In SmartBear TestComplete the integration with Jenkins could be easier. Additionally, some of the controls could have better customization options. For example, if a grid is used and it contains multiple controls within it, it can be a checkbox, radio button, or any kind of control, the way the Object Spy is operating currently there is a lot of room for improvement."

"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."

"There could be API interfaces with this tool."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is rather expensive for those that have many users."

"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 slightly higher than similar products, maybe five to ten percent more."

"The licensing costs are in the range of $1,000 to $3,000."

"The solution's licensing cost has increased because it has moved to some new SLM-based licenses."

"Our ROI is about $10,000 a year."

"It comes with a high cost."

"The price is less, compared to other products, such as QTP."

"The solution is around $1500. Some are perpetual licenses, and some get a yearly report card."

"My advice so far, is that while it’s not quite as powerful and easy to use as UFT, its price tag more than makes up for it."

"The pricing is a little above average — it could be lower."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

31%

Computer Software Company

21%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Performing Arts

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	20
Large Enterprise	32

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adaptavist Test Management for Jira?

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...

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What needs improvement with Adaptavist Test Management for Jira?

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What advice do you have for others considering Adaptavist Test Management for Jira?

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.

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What do you like most about SmartBear TestComplete?

TestComplete has strong reporting capabilities. The reports they generate are really good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SmartBear TestComplete?

I am not involved in pricing or licensing; our management team handles these aspects.

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What needs improvement with SmartBear TestComplete?

While using SmartBear TestComplete, we are fine with the current capabilities, however, it would be beneficial to improve some performance aspects, especially the image comparison feature. Occasion...

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Comparisons

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Compared 22% of the time

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Compared 18% of the time

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Compared 15% of the time

Tricentis qTest vs Adaptavist Test Management for Jira

Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 23% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Compared 5% of the time

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Overview

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.

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Benefits:

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.

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What is SmartBear TestComplete?

TestComplete is a reliable, sturdy automated testing platform created by SmartBear Software. SmartBear Software is a worldwide technological leader known for developing quality enterprise-class development and testing solutions.

TestComplete simplifies the process of creating tests for numerous applications, including, but not limited to; Desktop, Android, IOS, Web browsers, and Windows. Application tests can be manual, scripted, and even recorded by using keyword-driven or data-driven functionality. There are even additional options for error reporting and automated playback. The object repository is extremely accurate and is fully customizable. TestComplete can easily be used by experienced developers and even by manual novice testers to develop quality automated UI tests quickly.

TestComplete offers three different testing scenarios:

Desktop: Users can easily and quickly automate UI tests using today’s most popular desktop applications, such as; Windows, Java, Python,.Net, VBScript, and more.
Web: Users can effortlessly create renewable tests for all of today’s popular web applications, including JavaScript frameworks on 2000+ trusted browser and platform integrations.
Mobile: Users can safely build and automate serviceable UI tests on actual or virtual android or IOS devices, locally or in the cloud. Users can create code or codeless tests. TestComplete seamlessly integrates with many of today’s popular frameworks.

Key Features

Easily create automated UI tests: TestComplete offers scriptless Record and Replay or simple keyword-driven tests to quickly develop any type of UI test users may require. Tests can be recorded once, then replayed when needed across various applications on mobile, web, or desktop environments. TestComplete integrates with many different languages, such as Java, Python, C+, and more.
Keyword driven tests: Users can easily divide testing steps, actions, objects, and data with an integrated keyword-driven test structure. This makes it easy for every user to participate in the test automation process; there is no programming experience needed. Everything is made simple with easy-to-use point-and-click options.
Data driven tests: Easily distinguish data from test commands to keep administrative efforts simple. Users can improve overall coverage by running various automated mobile, desktop, or web UI tests.
Record and Replay: Users can reuse created automated tests across every environment as often as desired. This helps to expand overall test coverage and represents a huge cost and time savings.

Reviews from Real Users

Sandhiya T S., Sr Solutions Engineer at Lexington Soft, relates, “The record and replay aspects of the solution are quite useful for people. With them, you don't have to write any scripts. Basically, you can record your actions and play them back later. The initial setup is also very easy.”

Sai S R., Staff Test Architect at a tech services company, says, "The most valuable features of the SmartBear TestComplete are self-healing, they reduce the maintenance required. The different languages SmartBear TestComplete supports are good because some of our libraries are written in Python, JavaScript, and C#. It's very easy to put them all under one project and use them."

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Sample Customers

IBM, John Lewis, Trip Advisor, Netgear, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Sapient

Cisco, J.P. Morgan, Boeing, McAfee, EMC, Intuit, and Thomson Reuters.

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