Inflectra SpiraTest Reviews

1. Indent/outdent functionality, because it makes it easier to relocate the test cases under any folder (all-in-one) at the same time.
2. Copy/paste of multiples test cases at the same time wherever you want. It helps me to save time.
3. Copy/clone a test case based on an existent one. It helps me to save time.
4. Export test cases from a project to another one. It helps me to save time.
5. Sign-in only from only one browser, which is good security stuff.

It makes projects more organized and more likely to receive the proper reports.

In general, the look and feel and performance issues:

1. When a test case is edited, the fields to edit content are smaller. Would be nice to have options to expand them in the same view instead of opening each field in a new window. That is very incovenient.
2. When multiple test steps are edited, some edition field(s) get locked and all changes are not saved anymore, which causes loss of time when the test case has many steps.
3. Lack of quick response causes loss of time when test case details are edited and during test case execution.
4. Sometimes the test cases screen disappears and automatically goes back to the "Test Set" page, which causes loss of time.
5. Make the test cases editable during the cases execution in order to save time.
6. Only works fine in Firefox but not in other browsers.
7. The look and feel is old style, please make it more friendly and prettier.

For two years.

Yes, I did, very often with its performance.

Yes, I did, very often with its performance during test cases updating and execution at the same time.

To be honest, I didn't ask for help from them yet.

Yes, I did. Zephyr for JIRA and TestLink, but I must use SpiraTest. The organization that I work for has used this tool for many years.

It was a bit hard.

Folders, test cases, and test sets creation from the "Insert" menu located at the top left corner are very hard to understand, at least the first few days.

Pricing and licenses of Inflectra are lower than others, but the business companies look for more than lower prices.

I would advise checking performance and usability first.

I didn't have the chance. I think the company that I work for did it.

I would advise checking performance and usability first.

I have used it for two years. I have experienced a lot with the lack of quick response, and the look and feel should be improved.

The most important area in SpiraTest is the customizable reports; being able to create test reports that make sense to shareholders, testers, and developers. The ability to lay out detailed test reports made life simpler, as a test manager.

Thanks to SpiraTest, we were able to not only set up detailed and consistent tests, but the scheduling and assigning of tests to test team members gave us a leg up in staying on top of our current projects and gave us the guidelines for test planning.

Customizing test reports seems to be something one must have (or gain) expertise in.

I used SpiraTest for almost two years.

No stability issues.

At the time I worked with SpiraTest, there was no integration with Gemini (bug tracking and ticketing).

Anywhere Inflectra lacks, the tech support more than picks up the slack. All of my requests were handled in a timely and efficient manner. Technical support is very rarely associated with customer happiness, but I was very impressed with Inflectra’s technical support team.

SpiraTest was the only solution we used at my company. I did, however, have to provide a proof of concept where I tried various solutions. While there were many options, I found that for what SpiraTest could do and the price, it didn’t seem to be that hard of a decision. Most solutions that did what SpiraTest could do, cost significantly more, while solutions that were of comparable price or lower, didn’t have nearly the robustness offered by SpiraTest.

As someone with a fair tech background, I found the initial setup very easy. The installation guide hit it right on the head.

Understand what your team needs prior to purchasing. The Inflectra sales team was very helpful in finding out what fit our organization.

I evaluated Zephyr, QTP, and a few others I can’t recall at the moment.

Do it!! You won’t be sorry. This is a great product for creating test cases and test suites, with great traceability and reporting.

• Test Cases
• Test Incidents
• Reporting
• Fast to spin-up a new project and configure to new requirements

It's provided us with a multi-project test management tool.

V4 is available with improvements to the UI.

I've used it for three years.

No – able to bring on new projects rapidly.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Have used HP Quality Center – but this was clunky – too many clicks

There is a learning curve with understanding how to program SpiraTest, but once mastered it's easy.

We did it in-house.

Cost is very minimal – 20 concurrent users for the products lifetime.

It's a good product with an exceptionally low cost.

The features of this product most valuable to me were the test case management and the visual status, by which it was displayed.

Senior management cares about where we are. They don’t have time to look at a lot of data. SpiraTest provided good visibility at a high level looking at where things were.

Two areas that can stand improvement: integration with third party products and making it more intuitive.

The deciding factor to not use SpiraTest anymore was because it was cumbersome to integrate with TFS. Once it was put into place, we found out at the time, it did not support file attachments. That was huge for us because our developers relied heavily on having visual examples of bugs we found.

The other area which could stand improvement is flexibility in reports where one can actually create custom reports rather than work with canned reports.

At my prior job, we used this for 5 years.

SpiraTest was incredibly stable. Usually when there were problems, they were internal to our organization, not Inflectra.

I would rate technical support at Inflectra as an eight and a half out of 10. They are very responsive in a timely fashion.

No, this was the first test solution used at that organization.

The setup was done prior to me coming to the organization, but it was my understanding that it was not cumbersome at all.

The pricing was excellent. I would recommend the enterprise solution.

No other options were evaluated.

Before implementing the product, consult with all the stakeholders who may be using this solution in terms of what is not only important to you, but to them as well. If you plan on using SpiraTest as a bug tracking tool for QA, ensure that it meets your requirements in regards to integration of the tools within your organization. This may rely on what goes on in QA.

Frankly, I cannot find anything at the back of my mind that I can term valuable. It's a solution we have and use. It is as valuable as having any structured test management tool.

SpiraTest was adopted as a low cost solution in lieu of HP's Quality Center 9.2 or its upgrades. In early 2012, we were frustrated with the product, unable to achieve our objectives, slow response, etc., but over time and further upgrades these have improved.

The product needs to have finesse if it has to be adopted wholeheartedly by the entire testing community. Some improvements that remain at the back of my mind are -

1. Excel plug-in should support user incorporated native excel formatting
2. Asynchronous JIRA to SpiraTest synchronization
3. UI could use a lot of work.

• The folder structure representation takes up lots of screen space
• Should allow wildcard searches for test cases
• Should allow wildcard searches for test case names in a test set
• Universal searches to cover test cases, requirements and release summaries
• When trying to add a test cases to requirements or vice-versa, there should be a better way other than searching from the entire hierarchy or at least provide a large enough screen to make to easy for user to search.

HP's Quality Center made way for SpiraTest as a low cost solution.

The installation was carried out by the client.

It isn't as easy to adopt. Will need some getting used to.

We use the on-prem deployment model of this solution. My primary use case of this solution is as a repository and for executing the cases against different software builds that we have. 

The ability to reuse test cases already used across projects is the most valuable feature of this solution. We don't need to create new ones. 

It should develop integration with JIRA. We have some complexities which caused us not to decide to integrate it with our JIRA, like synchronous data. 

I would like to see a more flexible configuration of the reports in the next release of this solution.

The stability is good. 

Scalability is good. We can add more and more people. We use it to integrate with Selenium to have automated results. 

We have around fifteen active users. They are mostly testers. 

We had some support tickets opened that were quickly resolved. Their support is good. We don't have any problems with it. 

We were previously using TestLink. We switched because it wasn't so user-friendly and we wanted to move to a more modern and user-friendly platform. 

The initial setup was straightforward. The administrator didn't have many questions.

We did the implementation in-house.

You don't need complex integrations with other tools. Compared to its competitors, most of the features are the same but the price is better. 

I would rate it an eight out of ten. 

Defect tracking.

It has created paper trail, and an audit history with detailed information on where the defect is currently from, what environment it is in, and whether it is being worked on, and if so, who by.

Some of the reporting can be limited. The test cases and test sets portion has its limitations and can be cumbersome when changes are needed to test scenarios. Also, the search for test cases can be time consuming and creating test sets from the cases can be hard if there are many Test Cases loaded. It would be nice to have a better search functionality within the Testing area.

I've used it for about three and a half years.

Some of the deployments have caused issues with browsers. Also, the loading of screenshots used to work without having to save it to ones desktop. This will now give an error.

6/10 – they do get back to you sometimes with helpful information.

It was pretty straightforward. The documentation does need to be updated as it seemed it was old screenshots it was displaying at the time.

This was implemented in–house.

From what I understand, this is one of the cheapest versions that offered what we needed at the time, but I believe we will be moving onto another product that will interact with our other tools.

This is good for defect tracking. I was not that impressed with the test case creation, but it did give good metrics of number of completion, not completed, on hold or defects.

I like the way how we can manage our test cases to test sets.

A great benefit is that the information about what/when/who was done is anytime visible from every test case/set/run menu.

It improved our TC management and helped us with the auditing.

• Manual test case writing
• Test management and protocol of the results

I have used it for three months.

We have not encountered any deployment issues.

We have not encountered any stability issues.

We have not encountered any scalability issues.

Customer service is very good.

Technical support is very good.

SpiraTest had more opportunities for our company and has good pricing.

No initial setup was needed; we used Inflectra's cloud hosting option.

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