SpiraTest Pros and Cons: Top Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users appreciate the ease of use in SpiraTest, finding it simple and well-designed for team collaboration. (2 mentions)

Users appreciate the simple user interface of SpiraTest, finding it intuitive and effective for team collaboration. (2 mentions)

Users appreciate the simple user interface of SpiraTest, which enhances team collaboration and overall usability. (2 mentions)

Users praise the excellent customer support of SpiraTest, enhancing their overall experience with the product. (1 mentions)

Users value the simple user interface of SpiraTest, which enhances team collaboration and efficiency. (1 mentions)

Top Pros or Advantages of SpiraTest

1. Ease of Use

Users appreciate the ease of use in SpiraTest, finding it simple and well-designed for team collaboration.

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Eitan G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"All the features that you need for QA in one place"

What do you like about SpiraTest?

Simple user interface, good support team.

Raman d K.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Maximizing Productivity"

What do you like about SpiraTest?

It is a good tool to help the teams, it's simple user interface. It's a well thought out and executed feature.

2. Simple

Users appreciate the simple user interface of SpiraTest, finding it intuitive and effective for team collaboration.

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Eitan G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"All the features that you need for QA in one place"

What do you like about SpiraTest?

Simple user interface, good support team.

Raman d K.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Maximizing Productivity"

What do you like about SpiraTest?

It is a good tool to help the teams, it's simple user interface. It's a well thought out and executed feature.

3. User Interface

Users appreciate the simple user interface of SpiraTest, which enhances team collaboration and overall usability.

See 2 mentions

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Eitan G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"All the features that you need for QA in one place"

What do you like about SpiraTest?

Simple user interface, good support team.

Raman d K.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Maximizing Productivity"

What do you like about SpiraTest?

It is a good tool to help the teams, it's simple user interface. It's a well thought out and executed feature.

4. Customer Support

Users praise the excellent customer support of SpiraTest, enhancing their overall experience with the product.

See 1 mentions

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Eitan G.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"All the features that you need for QA in one place"

What do you like about SpiraTest?

Simple user interface, good support team.

5. Features

Users value the simple user interface of SpiraTest, which enhances team collaboration and efficiency.

See 1 mentions

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Raman d K.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4.5/5

"Maximizing Productivity"

What do you like about SpiraTest?

It is a good tool to help the teams, it's simple user interface. It's a well thought out and executed feature.

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Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/22/2020

"Spira Tickets"

4/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

It keeps track of all your troubleshooting tickets. It allows you to see recently submitted tickets on the left side of the screen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

There's not anything in particular that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/9/2020

"Chandra Sena having over 12 years of experience working as principal software engineer"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

Easy to use, can create requirement from test cases, map screenshots for easy reference to viewer. Can maintain different folder structures to different tests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

Nothing specifically from me, UI can be made little bit of ease to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Insurance

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/26/2020

"Spira Test a Decent Test Management Suite"

4/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

Defects, Report Dashboard, Repository for Test cases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

Limited to show only 500 items in a single page Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

10/22/2020

"Spira test case creation easy"

3.5/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

It was easy to use, you can do your tests in excel and then upload them easily. Tracking test case execution was good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

It would have been good to have better reporting capabilities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/12/2020

"Overall, I liked to use SpiraTest."

4/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

Easy to manage folders inside of SpiraTest, separate test suites. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

Adding screenshots etc was not a good experience because it was hard to find those pictures in the test results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/25/2020

"It's a great tool for creating test cases and managing test runs"

4/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

Easily track and follow the status of individual tests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

There's not anything in particular that I dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Hardware

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/15/2019

"Perfect tool for specific needs"

2.5/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

The tool at first sight looks really good. It offers a lot of key features to create a test structure. The UI is great and we are able to customize the product almost as we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

The Jira integration has some shortcomings; every SpiraTest project has to duplicate Jira information. The test cases, suite, and run are pretty hard to follow. We can't really have a good follow-up on the test runs because after a run, the test cases have results and the run disappears. And the versioning is really missing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SpiraTest:

I suggest using SpiraTest for companies that do not need versioning and also suggest using the SpiraPlan suite to have a complete view of all the possibilities it offers. We were all Jira-based when we used it and couldn't switch the whole team to it, so maybe that's why it didn't go as expected, but I suggest doing the trial and the Spira team live demo before buying it. They are really responsive and can find solutions to your problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SpiraTest solving and how is that benefiting you?

By using SpiraTest, we had a great tool to store our test cases, know if the last run failed or succeeded, and we can get some reports for the managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Food Production

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

5/26/2019

"Excellent features at a modest price"

5/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

I've been looking for a reasonably priced test management solution for our small team over the course of many months. We mostly need to perform manual tests of key system controls during our SaaS providers' upgrades throughout the year. While I'm learning the product, it's clear it will grow with us over time. In addition, *every single time* I've thought "Gee, I bet SpiraTest doesn't do [fill in blank]," I'm proven wrong.

Some examples:

- Creating requirement from a test case

- Creating test case form a requirement

- Adding custom fields at just about any level ... adding multi-select custom fields...

- Pasting screenshots as attachments

- Customizing views (showing/hiding fields and moving them around)

- Moving *everything* around easily (test steps, cases, requirements...)

- Rich text formatting

- Customizing reports

Not only have I not experienced any pain points, but it's almost fun to use such a well-designed product that lets me get to work and get my job done efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

Nothing that I've found yet. Honestly, I keep looking for pain points and I haven't found them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SpiraTest solving and how is that benefiting you?

We need to document testing of key controls multiple times per year. Since they're *mostly* the same each time, it's fantastic to be able to fully put together the requirements and linked test cases for each duplication. Before, we were doing it in Excel which simply isn't the right tool. SpiraTest makes it so easy to spin up a new "Product" or "Release" with our pre-existing tests. The testers (business users) appreciate the simple interface and ease of attaching screenshots. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Program Development

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/3/2018

"Very flexible and dependable Requirements Management and Tester tool"

5/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

The Inflectra Help Desk is super responsive and the software has the features and integrations I need. Our developers use TFS for software development and version control and our testers use SpiraTest for all our testing needs. We enter the Requirements into TFS and they synchronize over to SpiraTest. The testers find the bugs and the Incidents (Bugs) show up in TFS. When the developers fix the bugs they come back to the testers for retesting -- all integrated and automatically between TFS and SpiraTest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

Have to use a workaround to keep traceability by putting the TFS Requirement number in the title of the Requirement, that way when the test case is created and a bug is found, we can carry that number back over to TFS to identify and place the bug in the right row with its requirement and tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering SpiraTest:

Try it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SpiraTest solving and how is that benefiting you?

We saw deficiencies in the current MTM test package and looked for a solution that would integrate with TFS very well. SpiraTest is our solution for this integration. We also chose the CMMI TFS template and SpiraTest could also work with that with some custom fields. The fact that SpiraTest could be so customized made it the perfect choice for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Santhana R.

Team Lead

Medical Devices

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/30/2018

"SpiraTest UI Can be better and simple"

4.5/5

What do you like best about SpiraTest?

I like the SpiraTest as a test management tool simple and does what it suppose to do Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SpiraTest?

At times the UI is lifeless and not user-friendly. Often my teammates struggle with filters, they never realize that some search filter is affecting their search. It is slow even with a very good network, sometimes creating test case feels cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.