Question 1

What is the purpose of a test management solution?

Accepted Answer

The aim of Test management tools is to manage and monitor the testing process from test case creation and organization, to running tests and analyzing test results and trends. A good test management solution will assist team members in creating and organizing test cases, managing testing requirements, scheduling tests, informing testers what to test next, executing tests efficiently, and finally tracking and monitoring testing results, progress and trends. Ultimately an effective test case management software solution assists an organization in creating and delivering high-quality and defect-free products.

Question 2

What should I consider while choosing a test management tool?

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Some key factors in choosing a test case management solution are: Cloud or self-hosted. Cloud based solutions offer a hosted environment without IT, servers, and onsite management requirements. Issue and Requirements integrations. Look for a solution that integrates with your issue tracker and requirements trackers. Jira and GitHub Issues are today's most popular issue and requirements trackers. Test Automation, Unit Testing, and CI/CD integrations. Test management tools offer the ability to execute manual testing steps within the Test Management UX. But most dev teams today are also executing automated tests and unit tests. Look for a solution that offers a rich set of integrations for a wide variety of test automation and unit testing tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Cucumber, PyUnit, and others. Integration with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and CircleCI are also an option to look for to automate uploading testing results from your DevOps pipeline into your Test Management workflow. Ease of Use. Testing tools have a reputation for being complex and cumbersome. Look for a test management solution that offers an easy to use and follow UI and user experience for your testers. Reporting and Analytics. Rich and flexible reporting can help you to visualize and understand where you're at in your project's quality lifecycle. But also look for analytics that can help identify the quality and effectiveness of your test cases and testing efforts to ensure you're building and executing the most effective tests for your efforts. Customization. A good Test Management platform should be able to get the job done "out of the box". But many organizations have custom testing workflows, terminologies, and rulesets. So also consider the level of customization a Test Management system provides so that you can adapt the solution to your process, and not the other way around.

Question 3

What are the key benefits of implementing a test management tool?

Accepted Answer

Simplify test case creation and organization.
Enable testers to know what to test and when.
Gain visibility into your testing process and quality status.
Synchronize your manual, automated, and unit testing efforts.
Make it easier for testers to execute test cases and track progress.
Keep your testing status in sync with defects/issues in Jira and GitHub.

Question 4

How is TestQuality different from other Test Management tools?

Accepted Answer

TestQuality has all the test management capabilities you need for creating, maintaining, organizing, and running tests, but TestQuality is different from other test management tools in that it is purpose built for GitHub and Jira workflows and designed to be integrated with virtually all test automation and unit testing tools. Put simply, TestQuality is the first test management system designed to integrate into your DevOps workflow and tools. TestQuality also includes features to create and organize test cases in a global test repository - with preconditions, steps, attachments, and more. All this, in a collaborative testing environment seamlessly integrated with your DevOps workflow with powerful live analytics to help you to identify the quality of your testing effort, test coverage, high value tests, unreliable tests, and release readiness.

Question 5

Does TestQuality work with other testing tools?

Accepted Answer

Yes, in fact working with the tools you already use is TestQuality's wheelhouse. TestQuality is designed around a live integration core. This live two-way core allows TQ to communicate directly with GitHub and Jira in real-time linking issues and requirements with the key tools in your DevOps workflows. TestQuality's integration engine also allows you to connect to pull in automated test results from popular CI/CD, Test Automation, and Unit Testing systems. TestQuality's import capabilities also allow you to import requirements, tests, and issues from Google Drive or Excel with ease, or script TestQuality REST API to import test sets from other testing tools.

Question 6

Can TestQuality support my team's unique approach for managing test cases?

Accepted Answer

Yes, TestQuality is all about customization. TestQuality can be customized to support your specific testing terminologies, workflows, and rulesets. You can add custom fields and customize everything from test status, purpose, case types and cycles, priorities.