Zephyr Scale vs. TestRail

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Zephyr Scale
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
TM4j is a test management application for Jira, developed by Jira solutions specialist Adaptavist, acquired and now supported by SmartBear since March 2020.N/A
TestRail
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
TestRail by Gurock, an IDERA company, is presented as a complete web-based test case management solution to manage, track, and organize your software testing efforts.
$35
per month billed annually per user
Pricing
Zephyr ScaleTestRail
Editions & Modules
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Professional Cloud
$35
per month billed annually per user
Professional Cloud
$38
per month per user
Enterprise Cloud
$71
per month billed annually per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Zephyr ScaleTestRail
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsFree up to 10 users, $4.55/user/month after that. It gets cheaper as you scale.
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Community Pulse
Zephyr ScaleTestRail
Features
Zephyr ScaleTestRail
Test Management
Comparison of Test Management features of Product A and Product B
Zephyr Scale
7.8
Ratings
3% below category average
TestRail
7.5
Ratings
7% below category average
Centralized test management8.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Map tests to user stories8.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Test execution reporting8.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Defect management7.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Manage test hosts and schedules00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
User Ratings
Zephyr ScaleTestRail
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.5
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Zephyr ScaleTestRail
Likelihood to Recommend
Jira and Confluence are widely implemented in organizations of various industries so incorporating Zephyr Scale is a very seamless method of adding scalable testing management. Testing visibility and end to end traceability is possible and integrates in Jira. Developers and engineers are able to take advantage of the built-in reports and statistics and even automate testing. The value is greatly reduced for organizations that do not already implement Jira and Confluence as the native integrated compatibility is much of the value
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Well suited - where you have a set of cases defined say for regression and then you can mark them as Pass/Fail/Skipped, etc. If you wish to present the impact of certain set of new features, bug fixes,etc, you can use this tool Not well suited- where the user is naive and don’t have much understanding of test reporting tools as this tool is slightly difficult to learn at a glance
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Pros
  • Scalable and compatible with Jira & Confluence
  • Improves testing visibility, data analysis, collaboration with reports & gadgets
  • Easy to retrospectively trace testing with change history
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  • Beautiful and productive UI.
  • Nice filtering system allowing me to find what I need quickly.
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Cons
  • Not as valuable if not already using Jira or Confluence
  • Can be overlooked if the user does not set automation
  • Needs better first time tutorials
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  • UI has a lot scope of improvement
  • Uploading of test screenshots and managing them can be more effective
  • User experience can be improved
  • Tracking of tests can be more simplified
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Usability
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As I am a tester, for me I found this tool to be new in terms of everything like the management of tests, plans, releases, reporting,etc. It is overall a good tool for test reporting and can be used for reference in the future. I liked several features of on the go placement of screenshots. Also I feel like the UI , the font, the color combination can be improved
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Alternatives Considered
Zephyr scale is easier to work with and more seamlessly used because it is natively integrated with Jira and Confluence. TestRail cannot provide the same scalable experience and is rather dated and limited in capability. Developers rather use tools that are compatible with each other, and Zephyr scale offers that
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TestRail definitely saves times. I work in a company that consists of several development teams, all of which have different processes. Some of the teams leverage test cases, some do not. I've noticed that the turn around time it takes for me to pick up a ticket, QA it, and then pass/fail/send feedback is much faster when there is a test case created as I'm not reading through ticket description/comments to figure out what needs to be QA'd.
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Return on Investment
  • Dozens of added testing capability via integrated gadgets
  • Reduced testing and tracking time
  • Faster and clearer testing operations awareness
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  • We are able to easily pull reports any time management would like to see them
  • Jira integration makes it easy to attach to stories/defects and save time
  • A quick overview at the system's health as a whole is easy to see from TestRail
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