Best 25 Test Management Tools (Feb 2021 Update)

1) Testpad

Our top pick is a tool quite unlike the traditional options below. Testpad is a lightweight test planner that's the perfect upgrade from DIY spreadsheets, aiming to give you just enough process but without the drag of cumbersome test case management.

Key features:

• Simple enough to use by anyone – no training needed
• Guest testers – bring in extra help when you need it; clients, managers, marketing…
• Reports that make obvious: what was tested, how much to go, "are we ready to release?"
• Natural test plans based on hierarchical checklists
• Create flexible tests you can improve on the fly, during testing
• Adapts to how you want to test: TCM, BDD, or any flavor of Exploratory

2) TestRail

TestRail provides comprehensive test case management to help you organize testing efforts and get real-time insights into testing activity. Powerful reports and metrics enable QA teams to increase productivity and deliver fast feedback.

Features:

• Easily track the status of individual tests.
• Measure progress with informative dashboards and activity reports
• Compare results across multiple test runs, configurations, and milestones
• Track team workload to adjust assignments and resources
• Highly customizable, with cloud-based or on-premise installation options
• Integrate with defect tracking and collaboration solutions such as Atlassian Jira, FogBugz, Bugzilla, Axosoft, GitHub, and TFS; and with leading test automation tools including Ranorex Studio.

3) Xray

Xray is the #1 Manual & Automated Test Management App for QA. It’s a full-featured tool that lives inside and seamlessly integrates with Jira. Its aim is to help companies improve the quality of their products through effective and efficient testing.

Features:

• Traceability between requirements, tests, defects, executions
• Define reusable preconditions and associate to tests
• Organize tests in folders and test sets
• Test plans for tracking progress
• Test environments
• BDD - Write Cucumber scenarios in Jira
• Integrates with test automation frameworks (Selenium, JUnit, Nunit, Robot, …)
• Built-in REST API
• CI integrations (Bamboo, Jenkins)
• Built-in reports

4) PractiTest

PractiTest is an end-to-end test management tool. A common meeting ground for all QA stakeholders, it enables full visibility into the testing process and a deeper broader understanding of testing results.

Features:

• A vast array of third-party integrations with common bug trackers, automation tools, and robust API for the rest.
• Fully customizable & flexible for the ever-changing needs of QA teams: customize fields, views, permissions, issue workflows and more
• Reuse tests and correlate results across different releases and products.
• Unique hierarchical filter trees - organize everything and find anything quickly.
• Never work twice - with anti-bug duplicates, permutations, step parameters and call to test
• Visualize data with advanced dashboards and reports
• Fast professional and methodological support

5) TestMonitor

TestMonitor is an end-to-end test management tool for every organization. A simple, intuitive approach to testing. Whether you’re implementing enterprise software, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), need QA, building a quality app or just need a helping hand in your test project, TestMonitor has you covered.

Features

• Requirement and risk-based testing.
• Advanced test case design capable of supporting thousands of cases.
• Robust planning tools with multi-tester runs and milestone cloning.
• Comprehensive result tracking.
• Integrated issue management.
• Smart reporting with many filter and visualization options.
• Revolutionary simple UI.
• Third-party integrations featuring Jira, DevOps, and Slack. REST API included.
• Professional support with quick response time.

6) Kualitee

Whether you currently manage testing in Excel or use a software lifecycle management tool, Kualitee takes the hassle out of your software testing and makes team collaboration effortless. Assign tasks to the team and always stay on top of live progress through our simple, yet powerful dashboard and reports.

Integrate with your favourite tools, customize roles, reports, filters and more. Price is affordable and flexible to suit large and small teams alike.

Features:

• Intuitive and friendly interface
• Requirements Planning
• Test Case Management & Issue Tracking
• Custom Bug Reports
• Interactive Dashboard
• Individual and Group Progress Tracking
• Third Party Integrations

9) QADeputy

QADeputy has everything you’d expect in a mature Test Management Solution, plus more. Free tier makes it easy to start with little investment.

• Intuitive dashboard keeps tabs on testing progress.
• Organize tests with Projects, Test Suites, Features, and Test Cases.
• Test Case import wizard for seamless migration from existing solution or Excel spreadsheets.
• Comprehensive requirements reporting and management.
• Full Test Case edits and execution history to run historical reporting.
• Test Runs designed for efficiency and speed.
• Integrations with Ghost Inspector, Reflect.run, Postman, Jira, Runscope, and Slack.
• Customize statuses, reusable Test Case steps, test configurations, and more.
• REST API and Webhooks.

10) TestBench

TestBench is the only tool in the market combining state-of-the-art test management with efficient smart test design capabilities. Easy to use for everyone, from team to enterprise-level! The unique Exploratory Testing Extension enables immersing into collaborative test sessions. All notes taken by the testers, including screenshots and videos, are collected and visible for the whole team in real-time.

• Test Suites structure test cases into subsets, e.g., to define retests.
• Test Sessions collect and present test execution results.
• AI-based translation of user content, chat, and UI-sharing boost collaboration.
• Complete REST-API to integrate test automation and DevOps or 3rd-party systems.
• Included proven best practice examples.
• Built-in Jira-Sync.

11) Deviniti

Requirements and Test Management for Jira brings the whole software project inside Atlassian suite. The app enables to plan Requirements, write Test Cases and add them to Test Plans, track Test Executions, and report Defects inside Jira instance.

Features and benefits:

• Built-in requirements management
• Solid support for Agile processes and Jira native functionalities
• Tree-structured view with folders and subfolders for each module
• Transparent relations between all app's elements
• Streamlined process from collecting Requirements to creating Defects
• User-friendly reports for optimal progress tracking: Traceability Matrix, Requirement Coverage, Test Execution and Test Case Execution (User Dashboard available)
• Effortless, plug-and-play configuration
• Hassle-free migration of Test Cases from external tools

13) HP-ALM-Quality Center

HP QC has been the most used test management software; it has all the features necessary in many ways. It is one of the high-end tools that provides robust tracking and reporting. ALM can also connect with an e-mail system and send e-mail for any changes to desired team members.

HP-ALM Quality Center

15. TestLink

It is an open source and web-based test management tool. The tool includes planning, reporting, test specification, planning, reporting and requirement tracking. To track progress of the project, reports and charts are available while additional features include assigning keywords, specifying requirements and events log.

Important features of TestLink includes

• Charts Support
• Metrics Support
• Test creation and execution
• User-friendly UI
• Defect Recording

TestLink

16. XQual

It is designed to avoid common errors faced while testing like bugs, slippage and regression due to inefficiencies in managing the tests. It provides integrated management with data stored in MySQL, and it allows scheduling and running fully automated or manual test campaigns. It can be integrated with all the continuous integration platforms.

XQual

17. TestLodge

Test lodge provides basic four aspects Test Plans, Requirements, Test Suites & Cases, and Test Runs. It has everything it requires to manage test cases while test plans can be generated quickly with ease. Testlodge can be integrated with your existing issue tracking tools to allow ticket and defect reports to be automatically created when a test case fails.

TestLodge

18. Borland Silk Central

Silk Central allows you to unify all test assets into one easy-to-use planning, tracking, reporting and execution hub. With silk central it is easy to recreate issues they have found.

Main features of Borland Silk Central

• Insight into test execution with TestBook
• Create a subscription and generate reports according to your schedule
• It allows testers to share comments and raise questions by posting comments as they test, directly to TestBook

Borland Silk Central

19. Testuff

Testuff is without limits- unlimited tests, testers, projects, and defects can be reported and managed. It is hightly secure and got full backed up environment. In testtuff, tests can be organized by projects, branches, and hierarchical suites. It also allows import and export data from Excel sheet.

Main features of Testtuff

• Integration with any number of bug trackers
• Communicate with team using Twitter integration
• Attach a video to defect reports
• Assign test to specific testers
• Shared steps
• Test Cycle planning using multiple labs

Testuff

20. Gemini

With Gemini, testers can relate their work with development team and customer incidents. Complex problems can be broken down into manageable items with no project limits. It is possible to assign items to multiple team members and also deliver any number of reports to any users or groups automatically. You can subscribe anyone to Gemini to receive notification related to product.

Gemini Main features

• Apps Framework
• Import and Export facility
• Test run records

Gemini

21. BugZilla Testopia

Testopia is a test management extension of Bugzilla; it is designed for tracking test cases. You can also track the progression of weekly or release based testing done by various QA teams. Testopia allows you to create your own test cases, testing reports, and conduct test runs. It can help the QA members in speeding up the QA process, as it has a history of related defects for all its test cases.

Main Features of Testopia

• Test cases and results can be exported to CSV file
• Numerous bug fixes
• Uses the latest Extjs 3.0 library
• Set priorities on individual case runs
• Support XML export and import of test plans and children
• Relate to Bugzilla elements
• Make the connection between bugs and test cases

Bugzilla Testopia

22. Fitnesse

Fitnesse is a test framework that allows testers, developers and customers to collaborate to create test cases on wiki. This tool is a testing as well as the documentation tool and enables testers, customers, and programmers to create test cases in a platform independent way. Fitnesse works well with almost all programming languages and environment.

Fitnesse

23. RTH-Turbo

RTH-Turbo is an extension of RTH testing management tool. It allows requirement management, defect tracking, test case management, create test plan and analyze the test result. This tool is originally based on TestDirector form HP/Mercury.

Main Features of RTH-Turbo

• Test Case / Test Suite Writing
• Requirement management facility
• Requirement to release the association
• Support to integrate this tool with any test automation tool like Load Runner or Win Runner

RTH-turbo

24. Stryka

Stryka is an enterprise grade Test Management Tool available on desktop, mobile, and smart watches. Key features of Stryka are

• No installation required. It’s a SaSS tool.
• Adapts to any testing methodology. Supports Agile Testing and Continuous Delivery environments
• Robust Metric, Reporting, and Leaderboards
• Requirements Management, Defect Management & Manual/ Automated Test Execution all in one.
• Easy collaboration amongst all stakeholders
• Easy integration with popular testing tools like Selenium, Jira, Rally et.

Stryka is used by eBay, PepsiCo, Verizon, Vodafone and other fortune 500 companies.

Learn more about Stryka