Test management refers to management all the testing activities such as managing test cases, test plans, test strategy, test results, test reports, etc. which testers do as a part of their day to day job. Testing data generated is so huge that often it is very difficult to manage them on documents or on shared sites. Therefore, test management tools are used in order to automate these activities that provide an easily searchable and maintainable placeholder for test activates done by testers. Test management tools are capable to handle the following day to day test activities.

1. Creation and maintenance of project release, project cycle, and project component information.
2. Creation and maintenance of the test artifacts which are specific to each project release or cycle for which we have maintained software requirements, test cases, etc.
3. Creation of traceability matrix and coverage of the test assets.
4. Support for Test execution which includes test suite, test execution status capture report, etc.
5. Collection of Metrics, and generation of report graph for analysis.
6. Defecting tracking management and defect management lifecycle

 

Top 15 Best Test Management Tools:

 

 

There are many test management tools which are available in the market and really making the choice of selection of one tool out of many tools is very difficult. There are many factors that can help in making the selection of the best test management tools such as ease of use, powerful search option, customization of the tool, license cost, tool performance, etc. Given below are the top 15 best testing management tools along with their summary of key features which are mostly preferred by many software organization for many good reasons.

 

#1) PractiTest

PractiTest is a well-known test management tool. It is popular for an end to end tests management. It provides complete visibility into the testing process and conveys a broader understanding of testing results into test reports. It has the following elegant features

 

 

• The tool has an immense array of third-party integrations which includes common bugs or defects tracking test automation tools, and a robust API (Application Programming Interface).
• It enables to reuse test cases and easily correlate results between different releases and products.
• The tool is completely customizable and provides flexibility toward views, issue workflow, field’s customization, permissions, and many more.
• It provides fast processing and different software testing methodological support.
• It has a unique hierarchical filter tree which can manage test data very effectively and deliver the search results very quickly.
• It avoids test case duplication with its powerful anti-bug duplicates, step parameters permutations, etc.
• It has a very advanced dashboard and shows elegant reports to visualize data.

 

#2) TestRail

TestRail tool can be easily integrated with Gemini which is a ticket management tool. It is one of the well-known test cases management tools. It offers an external link for the test case creation and execution. It is delivered with an HTTP based API (Application program Interface) in order to integrate it with the automated test results. It helps us to manage our exploratory tests, functional tests, and automated tests with ease. It has a powerful User Interface (UI) scripts which could help us to customize various aspects of the application as well as UI. It has the following key features.

 

 

• It has modern test tracking results.
• It offers reporting and metrics support.
• It can be easily integrated with other defect tracking tools.
• It offers flexible tool customizations.

 

#3) Test Link

Test Link is an open source test management tool which is web-based. The tool includes reporting, planning, test specification, and requirement tracking. With this tool, we can easily track the progress of the project, reports, and charts which are available while additional features include specifying requirements, assigning keywords, and events log. It has the following key features.

• It offers charts support.
• It offers reporting and metrics support.
• It has a user-friendly user interface.
• It offers tests creation and execution.
• It enables defect recording.

 

#4) qTest

The qTest test Management tools is one of the best and widely used test management tool which is often recommended for use by Agile testers. It is a simple tool which is very easy to use and learn. It offers a very accessible test management solution which helps the testers for centralization, organization and speeding up of test management. It aims at making the QA process very simple than other test management tools. The tool is known to have around 12,000 users, and 500 customers across 25+ countries. It includes the following key features.

 

 

• It manages full traceability between defects and associated requirements.
• It has a very easy interface for defects tracking. It allows to create custom queries to locate defects and through which results can be exported into Microsoft Excel easily.
• It has a test case repository which is very easy to import, manage, create, and organize test cases.
• It has advanced querying capabilities which work Real-time and in a very interactive manner.
• It is very easy to use for execution of test cases, management of test cycles, creation and execution of test runs with the tool.
• It is a Best-in-class tool which allows real-time JIRA integration at both the defects and the requirements levels.

 

#5) Zephyr

Zephyr is one of the bestselling test cases management tools that provide an end-to-end solution for agile teams of different sizes. It offers great visibility, flexibility, and insights for the software that you need to test. It has the following graceful features.

 

 

• It has a 1-click Integration with Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo, Jenkins, and many more.
• It offers Server, Cloud, and Data Center Deployment Options.
• It offers DevOps dashboards with Advanced Analytics.
• The tool does not require an Annual Commitment to use.

 

#6) Test Collab

Test Collab is one of the most trusted test management tools by many enterprises. It has the following features.

 

 

• It offers a very easy interface to manage the test cases.
• It enables automatic creation of testing parameters for creation of multiple test executions.
• It has an inbuilt time tracking mechanism.
• It is easy to integrate with various defect tracking tool such as Redmine, Jira, Mantis, etc.
• It can be easily integrated with any test automation tool
• It offers an automatic screenshot capturing mechanism. It can capture the test result screenshot and link it with the test case which is currently in progress.

 

#7) HP-ALM-Quality Center

HP Quality Center test case management tool is a popular test cases management software and it is widely used as it has all the required features. It provides robust defect tracking and reporting. It can easily connect to ALM with an e-mail system in order to send e-mail for any changes to chosen team members.

 

#8) XQual

 

This test management tool is built in order to mitigate the common errors which are faced during the day to day software testing such as defects, slippage and regression tests due to inadequacies in managing the tests. It extends support for integrated management with data stored in the database (i.e. MySQL), and it permits scheduling as well as the execution of complete automation or manual test operations. It also offers integration support for various continuous integration platforms such as JIRA,

 

#9) TestLodge

Test lodge is a test management tool that provides basic four aspects of testing. These four aspects are Requirements, Test Plans, Test Suites & Cases, and Test Runs. It can efficiently manage test cases and test plans can be generated very quickly. TestLodge tool can be integrated easily with existing issue tracking tools and allows to ticket and defect reports creation very easily at the time of test case failure.

 

#10) TestCaseLab

TestCaseLab test management tool is one of the highest rated tools because it includes the incredible design with frank user flow. It has the cheapest plan of $28 per month. It has the following key features.

 

 

• It supports a wide variety of test case properties.
• It supports the creation of Test plans and Requirements.
• It can execute test cases and assign test cases to users.
• It offers an advanced search mechanism.
• It can be easily integrated with Redmine, Jira, Pivotal Tracker, Asana, YouTrack, etc.
• It offers easy to export or import of test cases.
• It has basic reporting and insights.
• It offers an activity stream and a history
• It supports real-time synchronization.

 

#11) Borland Silk Central

Borland Silk Central is a test management tool which allows us to unify all test assets into one simple to use test tracking, test planning, test execution, and test reporting hub. It offers us an easy mechanism for issues recreation. It has the following key features.

 

 

• It has TestBook through which it offers insight into test execution.
• It offers testers to share comments and raise queries. Testers can collaborate by simply posting their views and comments as they test, straight to the TestBook.
• It provides creation to subscribe and generate reports according to the tester’s schedule.

 

# Download Link: Borland Silk Central

 

#12) Gemini

Gemini as a test management tool allows testers to relate their day to day testing work with the development team and associate them with customer incidents. It can help the testing team to break down complex problems into a number of manageable items in order to understand the problem in the better way. It enables us to assign testing items to the multiple team members and can generate the test result reports to any users or groups spontaneously. It has a mechanism to allow the notification subscription to anyone in the team. It has the following elegant features.

 

 

• The tool has apps framework.
• The tool has import and export facilities.
• The tool can record the test executions.

 

# Download Link: Gemini

 

#13) Tarantula

Tarantula is a well-known open source test management tool which is used for managing software testing for the agile software projects. It offers an easy integration with Bugzilla, JIRA, and Doors. It has the following key features.

 

 

• It offers tag and subtag for efficient testing in agile projects.
• It offers a real-time dashboard for reporting and viewing reports.
• It offers case version history.
• It offers traceability and requirements to defects.

# Download Link: Tarantula

 

#14) Aqua

It is an application lifecycle management solution used for software quality assurance as well as IT project management. It enables faster development processes and accelerates the project. It has the following key features.

 

 

• It can synchronize with JIRA.
• It offers support for regression testing.
• It offers visualized traceability.
• It can control test automation.
• It supports test plans and test strategy.
• It manages both manual and automation of test cases.

 

# Download Link: Aqua

 

#15) IBM Rational Quality Manager

 

 

IBM Rational Quality Manager is a test management tool which can do automation in order to accelerate project schedules and report on metrics for informed project release decisions. The tool is used for maintaining a simple online library, tracking online test management, customer releases, tracking engineering releases, etc. The tool is platform independent and manages QA project very effectively.

# Download Link: Quality Manager

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Conclusion

In this article, we discussed 15 best test management tools which are widely used in the software industry for maintaining day to day test activities and tasks. We are sure this list is handier to you for searching the tool that fits your needs.

That is all for today! We will continue with the other testing tools in further session. Which test management tools you are using or used in your day to day testing in your project? As usual, let us know your thoughts/queries in comments below.