Why use a dedicated test management tool instead of Excel?
While Excel is a versatile tool widely used for various purposes, it may not be the most efficient or effective choice for test management. The best alternative is a dedicated test management tool like Testiny, which offers purpose-built features, streamlined workflows, collaboration capabilities, and integrations that Excel lacks.
Dedicated features make your testing life easier.
- Centralized storage & improved test organization.
- Dedicated test management tools allow you to store all test-related entities in a centralized repository with clear organization. Testiny stores all test cases, test plans, and test runs, including a history for each entity to document changes. Testiny also enables you to structure your tests hierarchically by organizing them into folders. This helps to maintain a well-organized and logical test hierarchy, making it easier to navigate and manage tests compared to a flat Excel sheet.
- Easy collaboration.
- Collaboration works better in Testiny compared to Excel due to real-time updates of changes, the centralized repository, dashboards, and many collaboration features such as assigning and tracking tasks, comments to communicate, and versioning to see changes over time. In Testiny, testers, developers, and other stakeholders can easily discuss test-related issues, provide feedback, or share information, promoting effective teamwork.
Out-of-the-box reports and test execution.
- Detailed metrics & reporting.
- Dedicated test management tools allow you to store all test-related entities in a centralized repository with clear organization. Testiny stores all test cases, test plans, and test runs, including a history for each entity to document changes. Testiny also enables you to structure your tests hierarchically by organizing them into folders. This helps to maintain a well-organized and logical test hierarchy, making it easier to navigate and manage tests compared to a flat Excel sheet.
- Efficient test execution.
- Testiny provides dedicated features for test execution that allow testers to set and record test results, track progress, and capture detailed execution logs. The tool also offers features for assigning test cases to specific testers, enabling efficient workload distribution, and also facilitates retesting and regression testing by maintaining a history of executed test cases and their results. These features increase the efficiency of test execution, reduce manual effort, and provide better visibility into the testing process compared to the manual and time-consuming process of managing test execution in Excel.
Effective defect & requirements management with seamless integrations.
Excel or other spreadsheets lack integration capabilities, making it impossible to manage defects and requirements within Excel. Testiny supports integration with other tools commonly used in the software development and testing ecosystem, such as bug-tracking systems, test automation frameworks, continuous integration tools, and requirement management tools. This allows you to link test cases to requirements, user stories, issues, or other related artifacts with ease.
Best alternative to test management in Excel
Testiny vs. Excel
Using a dedicated test management tool like Testiny instead of Excel for test management offers several advantages, because
Testiny is specifically designed for test management. Excel, or spreadsheets in general, lack built-in features like version
control, test case organization, and test execution tracking. In addition to that, spreadsheets also cannot generate
comprehensive test reports out-of-the-box, are very difficult to scale as your projects grow in size and complexity, and do
not offer seamless integration with other issue tracking or requirements management tools.
Testiny is designed to address these specific test management needs, allowing you to manage your testing efforts in a structured,
organized, and effective manner. And while Excel can manage tests in small-scale or informal scenarios, a dedicated test management
tool like Testiny is the most efficient and scalable solution. Features in Testiny such as test case management, test execution
tracking, defect & requirements management, test planning, and reporting make it the best alternative to Excel for test management.
Why Testiny?
Organizations choose Testiny to introduce a modern test management tool into their process to reduce time and effort spent on testing. Testiny provides powerful and flexible test management, for both manual and automated tests.
Migrating from Excel?
Looking for a way to easily migrate from spreadsheets or Excel to a test management tool?
Importing your test cases into Testiny is easy! Use our guided importer inside the app, our CLI tool, or our REST API to import
all of your existing test cases and start testing right away.
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