Product
In 2025, we focused on helping QA teams improve clarity, consistency, and control across the QA process. Here are some of the key capabilities we released this year:
- SmartFox AI for Faster, Higher-Quality Test Creation: Generate and refine test steps, improve text clarity, and prevent duplicate tests with SmartFox AI and Similar Tests detection, helping teams write better tests in less time.
- More Powerful Dashboards and Drill-Down Insights: Slice data with multilevel filters, drill from dashboards into instance-level details, and allow stakeholders to apply tab-level filters to external dashboards.
- Smarter Traceability Across Requirements and Test Sets: Link complete test sets to a requirement and keep its status aligned with real execution progress, including newly added instances.
- Generate Tests with Steps from Jira and Azure DevOps User Stories: Automatically create tests with structured steps directly from linked user stories in Jira or Azure DevOps, keeping requirements and tests fully aligned.
- Custom Test Workflows with Built-In Approval Control: Customize your test workflow to define project-specific test statuses, control transitions, and enforce edit or execution locks to support structured review and approval processes. This feature is available only for Corporate accounts.
- Collaborative Editing for Safer Teamwork at Scale: Work simultaneously on requirements, tests, issues, and test sets while avoiding overwrites and conflicts, ensuring teams always work on the latest data.
Coming Up
PractiTest Live Training
Join our customer success team for a live training session and ask everything you want to know.
Date: Wednesday, January 14th
Time: 12:00 AM CET
State of Testing 2026 – Roundtable
Join Joel Montvelisky, Lalit Bhamare, Andrew Knight, and Siva Kopparapu for a live roundtable unpacking top insights from the State of Testing™ 2026 report. They will explore what’s really happening with AI adoption, how shifts in tooling and development cycles are reshaping QA, and what the data reveals about future skills, roles, and career paths in testing.
Date: Tuesday, January 27th
Time: 11:00 AM EST | 17:00 CET
PractiTest and Beyond
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In this guest article, QA expert Gagan Sharma shares practical insights on growing from a software tester into a QA leader. The piece focuses on three core pillars of career growth, the role of strong communication, and how adopting a leadership mindset can shape long term success in QA.
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This blog reviews the top unit testing tools for 2026 and explains why their real impact comes from integrating results into a centralized test management platform like PractiTest. Learn how the right tools and integrations improve visibility, traceability, and release decision making across teams.