HP ALM Vs. Zephyr

If you have arrived here, you are trying to decide upon a Test Management tool. No doubt you have done some preliminary research, and are now trying to decide between Zephyr or HP ALM. This is a great opportunity to use our checklist as a guide to help you in your decision process.

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Zephyr and HP ALM Center are both viable Test management solutions. However, below you’ll see the comparison of their feature similarities and differences you should take notice of when considering which one of the two will best fit your current QA methodology.

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Requirement and User Stories Management

	Support for hierarchical requirements

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	N/A

Issue management

	Independent issue management module
	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

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Avijit Amitabh, Alstorm Test Delivery Manager

“We evaluated 9 tools, but PractiTest stood apart based on ease of use and integration features. The reporting features provide live transparency for management, and the pricing is also quite competitive.”

– Avijit Amitabh, Test Delivery Manager, Alstom

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