HP ALM vs. Xray

Deciding upon a Test Management tool is no easy task. There are many points to consider when searching in such a variety of test management solutions. Every tool out there will promise to be the best, which in fact is wrong. All the test management tools out there are great, but you need to choose the one that will be “best for you” and your QA process and demands.

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In order for your process and tool capabilities to align you need to first asses what your demands are. Testing coverage, integrations, customization, reporting and more.
The following comparison between Xray for Jira and HP ALM takes the main features that should be evaluated before decided on one of the two, or with other tools as well. These tools are very different in their essence, one is comprehnsive but heavy, and the other is light and is in fact a plugin that sits inside Atllasian's Jira

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HP ALM

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Requirement and User Stories Management

	Support for hierarchical requirements		via Jira

Test case management

	Add attachments to each test step
	Clone Tests between projects
	Batch operations (cloning, editing, deletion)
	Reusable test repositories
	Exploratory Testing module (session based testing)

Test Sets and Execution Management

	Audit history of runs and results
	Edit tests during runs
	Report issues/bugs from tests and auto-populate tests to reproduce
	Assignment of Cycles and Tests to testers
	Parameterization of Test Cases and Sets
	Batch operations (cloning, editing, deletion)
	Reuse tests from repository for any test set run
	Test Set Permutations	N/A

Issue management

	Independent issue management module		via Jira
	Ability to detect and prevent duplicate issues
	Ability to report issues directly from emails
	Batch editing

Integrations

	Integration with 3rd party Bug Tracking systems
	Integration with Test Automation Tools
	Integration with Source Control systems
	Zapier
	API
	Slack integration
	Webhooks

Customization

	Hierarchical filters to organize information (e.g. Test Tree, Bug categories, Requirement types)
	Custom Workflow
	Custom fields and filters
	Permissions & personalized mail notifications

Reporting

	Customizable Dashboards graphs, reports and metrics
	Scheduled reports

Additional Features

Import & Export all data
Search (ability to add criteria)
External dashboard and embedding graphs
Cloud or Installed	Installed	Both
Task Board

Security and Certifications

	Soc 2
	ISO 27001

Service and Support

	Service and Support

Compare HP ALM to PractiTest

Compare Xray to PractiTest

“We evaluated several different test management platforms and chose PractiTest as our company standard. We are now consolidating our various test management systems into PractiTest.”

– Arthur Meloy, VP Site Reliability Engineering at NCR

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