SpiraTeam Reviews

Pros: Easy to use Versatile Tracks multiple project points

Cons: Cannot easily move artifacts from one project to another.

The Software made Automation easier. Integration easy, total revolutionary product. Very powerful tool if used as designed.

Users. Misunderstanding the designed use compared to their personal opinion.

I have been using this product for almost 10years for my quality team. I really like the product; it is very easy to use, very easy to track team's performance , easy to do requirement traceability ,easy to assign tasks for the team. Overall a great product.

I am satisfied with the features I am using.

The application can modify to adapt the workflow to your needs (based on a complex workflow). The document management is very good. You can change a part of UI (colors, logos, etc.). You can do a personal dashboard with your heat points. This could help you to focus your most important points.

In my personal opinion, the application needs a guidance or a screen that can show the flow process to make more easy the entry of the project elements.

Thanks for the feedback. We are adding a new user onboarding wizard into SpiraTeam to guide a new user through the project management process that is enabled in SpiraTeam. We're not sure which version Daniel used, but v5.0 has a completely overhauled user interface which our users are loving.

SpiraTeam is clear and intuitive to use. The cockpits are a good starting point for daily work.

The structure of the requirements is not transferred from DevOps and after grouping the original types are lost.

We are looking to add a way to keep the requirement types from ADO once the requirements are nested and grouped in the SpiraTeam hierarchy.

Easier and more user-friendly to use than HP ALM/QC, whilst offering a similar level of comprehensive features, for a lot less outlay than HP's ALM/QC, IBM, CompuWare etc. SpiraTeam is flexible enough to be used differently for each project. For example, SpiraTeam can be used as a document repository for one project, just a test script and test execution tool for another, and as a full blown project...

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Upgrading from 5.4 to 6.0 fails. In the past upgrading other vendor tools has been a deal breaker when it failed. A tool should be able to upgrade itself without throwing any SQL errors or similar. Administrators and DBA's should not need to run any specific scripts or commands, the tool should do this automatically and without error. We are unable to take advantage of new features offered in 6.0 and beyond. Integration of any test tool with a business is not easy because the tool forces you to work its way rather than the tool supporting existing processes. I needed to write a VB script to translate/transpose my test scripts into the correct format for importing into SpiraTeam, as a consequence of the tool forcing the tester to work how the tool works.

I like that we can see the work move across the Planning (Kanban) Board so it gives great visibility to the entire team of the work that is being done. It is great for agile approach to software development. It provides great integration from Requirement to Development to Testing to Completed.

The toughest part of using this new tool was to determine at what level to put the requirements into the system. As we were transitioning to agile at the same time we determined to put features into the tool as requirements and write user stories for each feature. It worked well. My team experienced some clunkiness, but I believe it was the way we had the tool configured as opposed to the tool itself. We changed the permissions on a couple of roles (BA, Developer) and it worked much better. We also changed some of the default workflows to make it work better.

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We appreciate the feedback. Reporting is one of those areas where we have added significant new capabilities but users always want to slice and dice things in different ways. The custom reporting added in v4.1 has helped by allowing users to create their own reports and we shall be adding more custom graphs in future version. For enhancements we have 5000+ customers so sadly we do have to make decisions about priority, which is one challenge with a tool that is designed to be used by large numbers of customers that have their own processes...

-Hosted solution, no infrastructure to worry about, Inflectra handles the backups, upgrades, servers, etc -Customizable workflows -Easy to learn UI -Plug-in for integration with our Automated Testing tool -Plug-in for Visual Studio

-At times it can be a little slow when loading new pages, not huge lag but enough to be annoying -The out of the box reports aren't the best and creating custom reports is challenging

Customisable workflows, SpiraTeam uses colour in the interface well to highlight high priority items. SpiraTeam supports multiple plugins and we have integrated with Jenkins. Good support with same day response normal.

Occasionally buggy after new releases. Agile task management tools need refining.

I like the concept of how test cases are arranged, within folders.

I don't like how the concept of the folders was implemented. Often times, when copying and pasting test cases, it gets placed in the wrong location. Have to spend extra time getting test cases and folders placed in the right location.

Hi Tom Thanks so much for the very fair and detailed review, we appreciate the time you spent writing it. I would like to mention that in SpiraTeam v5.0 we completely overhauled the test case and test set folders in line with the issues you identified, so please try out the newest version and let us know if you have any suggestions or feedback.

Where you are in the B2B market and have tech clients who remain Waterfall in their planning, yet you are more enlightened, this is a suitable tool. It does allow you to plan your dev trains according to iterations and project onto a scrum board. At the same time it allows you to map these cards to a set of requirements. In addition, you can plan your test cases and track defects all in the one platform. Sure, you could go down the Atlassian route, Inflectra appears to be better value for money, especially when adding modules.

Insufficient integrations available with market defacto standard testing tools. The training model is on a consulting model - not great for start ups and scale ups. Need more training videos dealing with the set up in situations of increasing complexity! Was advised that Inflectra is responsive to customer feedback feature requests. Have not experienced this yet, despite regular feedback. Because most teams spend so much time in the Planning Board, more investment is required to improve usability of this page. Its good, just not great yet. It would be great to restrict visibility of external users to specific pages or to specific cards, instead we have to create separate projects for these groups, which is not always ideal when inserting external groups into internal team work.

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Hi Sudha Thanks for the positive feedback. I think you have some questions as well as the review. For questions 1-5 I would submit a help desk ticket to us (if you have not already). In answer to the questions for anyone reading: 1) Spira works with all versions of Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera as well as IE8 or later. 2) If you delete a test case, simply go to Administration > Project...

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All the functionality needed for our Software Quality Testing goals at a great price.

Reporting could be easier to manage and sorting columns by "not" would be valuable - ex. Status = "not" Accepted for Requirements.

Great variety of plugins

Limitations for some integrations, Jenkins will be a good example for that.

Thanks Boris, we have the page rendering speed, firmly in our sights for the next version.

- world class customer service - product is still improved and enhanced - cost/feature ratio is ok - helps us to improve software development process - we are using the Excel importer often also to create new testcases. This is really fast. - direct access to the MSSQL databaes allows custom report generation

- Jira integration is not really working - Jira integration is only done with cryptic configuration files and not using the web-admin interface. - doesn't work well with Firefox browsers - doesn't work under Linux - test case creation using the web-gui is kind of time consuming - reporting could be more configurable directly in Spiratest

Nice features,integration with most of the automation tools,ease of navigation,easy to understand UI,tracking of tasks,version control,access as per roles,easy tracking of all artifacts and easy to understand the mappings with them.

Reporting can be much better.Sometimes some formats throw error while reporting,mostly detailed incident reports fail while attaching images other than jpeg formats.

Functionality, Price and Support. What more do you need in a Test Management Tool? And it has integration with other tools and test automation. SpiraTeam was trialled over three major projects and was enthusiastically accepted by both the IT group and the Business Areas doing UAT with absolutely minimal training. SpiraTeam provides a high level of functionality at an extremely affordable price point....

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Oracle support (but it is on the way). Greater email support ( such as broadcast notification to all SpiraTeam users)- but that is on the way too.

Easy and Quick Implementation Ease of use througout Pricing Good overall functionality across the board for all SDLC Artifacts, not just Defect Tracking Integration to third party software Great Customer Support Importing of artifacts is easy

Limited flexibility of controlling location of the fields on each screen Reports are a bit cumbersome Making Global Changes that would impact multiple projects in progress Linking Artifacts across projects for cross functionality

SpiraTeam is an incredible value. Its feature set rivals competitors that are literally 10 times the cost. It has provided all the test case management that we need & the sales/support team has been immediately responsive to every question we've had.

The only challenge we've had with SpiraTeam is the "team" part. It isn't quite as graceful as we'd like for using a team of testers to execute tests. They came up with a solution so it's not a show stopper but I hope it improves with the next release.

1) great value for the money 2) flexibility 3) can help track all aspects of a project

I am still on version 4, so it may be that some of these are handled by v5 1) not tied in well enough with build systems 2) no test scheduling support supplied for linux systems 3) no simple way to tell which automated hosts are currently being used for automated testing. Should be some GUI screen that provides a single look at whats being scheduled and to what host.

Feature set for the price compared to competing products. Flexible licensing. Very good support from the company.

Very occasionally can be slow, for no apparent reason. Validation against AD can be difficult to setup.

Ease of use, no client installations, supports the main browser flora, a multitude of plugins for integration with other systems. Configuration flexibility. Plenty of features to grow in to. Fantastic support team and a vendor that listens to the user base addapting and improving the application at every new release. Very reasonable licensing and support fees.

I can only think of one drawback that is MS platform dependancy for the server installation and db.

Thanks David

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