SpiraTeam Erfahrungen

Great Tool For The Entire Project Life Cycle

Kommentare: We have been using SpiraTeam within our organization for quite a few years. SpiraTeam is very easy to use, and is a great way to help track, maintain and troubleshoot an entire project, from the planning stages, to implementation, to enhancement requests and software bug and defect resolution. I would recommend SpiraTeam to any organization looking for a straightforward, easy to use tool.

Vorteile:

Pros: Easy to use Versatile Tracks multiple project points

Nachteile:

Cons: Cannot easily move artifacts from one project to another.

#1 Product for Testing, Requirements Traceability and Defect Tracking

Kommentare: Our team brought SpiraTeam on-prem 7 years ago from a SaaS product. We are able to save files that may contain server or employee sensitive information. Product is used globally from business users to full development teams. No complaints with the exception of offering a broader offering of reports. Fantastic customer service - the [sensitive content hidden] himself has joined discussions to ensure we are pleased with the product and is open to any recommendations.

Vorteile:

It's very easy to use while also providing 100% Requirement Traceability and can easily be utilized as a product backlog. Teams benefit from being able to track issues not associated with specific tests. Artifacts can be linked to each other with one-click. Resource assignments easily displayed. Customizable drop-down fields and customizable workflows.

Nachteile:

The need to have XML experience to customize the default reports. Vendor provided upload file works very well but could use some updating.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Jira

Gründe für den Wechsel zu SpiraTeam: The price of Jira was much higher, the functionality was confusing and required a much more rigid workflow.

A complete vision of the projects

Kommentare: I was used SpiraTeam in some projects. Our work with the application was right, but our experience with it, is like a fixed application with a strongest modulation of the project process. The UI, is not very friendly with a complex form to work on it.
Is true, that you can add any document, requirement, task or other in each moment, but you cannot change the flow of the project. In action it is maddening because you has not clarity of the steps to do with the different parts of the project.
But, if you have a big project with many people that need to interact (for example, you need to follow the status of the tasks and the test cases by developer) it is your project application.

Vorteile:

The application can modify to adapt the workflow to your needs (based on a complex workflow). The document management is very good. You can change a part of UI (colors, logos, etc.). You can do a personal dashboard with your heat points. This could help you to focus your most important points.

Nachteile:

In my personal opinion, the application needs a guidance or a screen that can show the flow process to make more easy the entry of the project elements.

Spira test manager review

Kommentare: Great help for test management, bug management, reporting.

Vorteile:

ISTQB theory is implemented in Spira. Easy to use in different categories. A lot of opportunities for project management.

Nachteile:

There are no big problems but I have to mention better connection with Jira, full range of services to be implemented in both directions.

Capitec Bank Feedback

Kommentare: Most excellent, brings our Business and testing together in understanding the req.

Vorteile:

The Software made Automation easier. Integration easy, total revolutionary product. Very powerful tool if used as designed.

Nachteile:

Users. Misunderstanding the designed use compared to their personal opinion.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: TestRail

Gründe für den Wechsel zu SpiraTeam: Brings all the elements of Testing together. One time shoe shine.

A system with virtues and aspects to improve

Kommentare: The most necessary changes that Inflectra SpiraTeam can develop in new improvements are the following: the grids can be very restrictive and do not offer the possibilities of quickly ordering the launches, in the requirements module it is where they must make more changes to increase the speed and for last I would like to see in a new version a better way to create custom reports.

Vorteile:

Inflectra SpiraTeam is a product that works satisfactorily with multiple browsers such as Chome, Opera and Firefox without presenting compatibility problems, it is very easy to manage and maintain and another positive aspect is the robust integration with AxoSoft OnTime. My recommendation is to work day by day with Inflectra SpiraTeam and request technical assistance if necessary. Also, I recommend asking Inflectra to add more features in a new release. SpiraTeam has a lot to improve, but it is on the right track.

Nachteile:

There are many improvements that the Inflectra SpiraTeam team can implement in a new update, for example, the grids, custom reports and the requirements module. SpiraTeam should implement and add more custom reporting options, improve testing functionality, and increase the speed of the requirement module.

SpiraTeam Review

Kommentare: Overall, the product is a great value. There are definitely things that can be improved though.
* Make reporting easier to use and more flexible. One of our number 1 complaints from Managers that use the system including myself is that we can't easily get data out of the system.
* Make it easier to create custom reports.
* The testing functionality is still cumbersome. We have seen our testing times increase fairly significantly since we started using the product. While some of that was expected, the tool is slow and not very efficient in some cases. For example instead of allowing multiple modules to be added at one time, the testers have to search for each one separately.
* The requirements module is slow.
* Performance of the product overall could be improved.
* Grids are restrictive. I have gotten lots of feedback with people wanting the ability to do things like double sort the grids or multiselecting certain fields like release.
* The customer service is fantastic but the reason I didn't give it an outstanding score is because I wish we had more say with enhancements. I wish we could pay you for an enhancement that was really important to us or for you to create a report for us.

SpiraTeam gives visibility to the work getting done!

Kommentare: My company purchase this and said "here, figure out how to use this for your project". It took be a couple of hours to put all the pieces together. It is rather intuitive and user friendly. I was able to guide the team into how we intend to use the tool to develop our software product. It was easy to get the team engaged in using SpiraTeam.

Vorteile:

I like that we can see the work move across the Planning (Kanban) Board so it gives great visibility to the entire team of the work that is being done. It is great for agile approach to software development. It provides great integration from Requirement to Development to Testing to Completed.

Nachteile:

The toughest part of using this new tool was to determine at what level to put the requirements into the system. As we were transitioning to agile at the same time we determined to put features into the tool as requirements and write user stories for each feature. It worked well. My team experienced some clunkiness, but I believe it was the way we had the tool configured as opposed to the tool itself. We changed the permissions on a couple of roles (BA, Developer) and it worked much better. We also changed some of the default workflows to make it work better.

Great affordable Project Lifecycle Management tool!

Kommentare: My team and I have been using SpiraTeam for over a year now. We continue to be impressed by how customizable the product is. The ability to create custom workflows for Requirements and Incidents really allows us to make this product conform to our companies methodology. We aren't forced to follow a rigid methodology (Pure waterfall or Scrum). We can configure the application to follow our specific needs.

Vorteile:

-Hosted solution, no infrastructure to worry about, Inflectra handles the backups, upgrades, servers, etc -Customizable workflows -Easy to learn UI -Plug-in for integration with our Automated Testing tool -Plug-in for Visual Studio

Nachteile:

-At times it can be a little slow when loading new pages, not huge lag but enough to be annoying -The out of the box reports aren't the best and creating custom reports is challenging

Manage the full project lifecycle, testing is just a part

Kommentare: We have been using SpiraTeam for well over 4 years now and have over 600 registered users with over 100 using the system at any one time. SpiraTeam allows us to manage multiple development projects detailing requirements, writing and executing test cases and mapping the two together. SpiraTeam provides a great defect tracking tool and is used internally and by clients alike.

Vorteile:

Customisable workflows, SpiraTeam uses colour in the interface well to highlight high priority items. SpiraTeam supports multiple plugins and we have integrated with Jenkins. Good support with same day response normal.

Nachteile:

Occasionally buggy after new releases. Agile task management tools need refining.

Excellent package, it helped improve our internal processes

Kommentare: We migrated from OnTime to SpiraTeam and couldn't be happier. For us, the power of SpiraTeam is the way it ties everything together. It also clear visibility of things like: This release includes these features and addresses these defects, and these test cases were executed. it is clear what is being included in each release, and it improves communication between our project managers and the developers. We have three testers, and they use the testing features of SpiraTeam both in concert with an automated tool (TestComplete) and for manual testing. We recently hired a junior tester to do manual testing, guided by the test scripts created in SpiraTeam by our lead tester.
Our developers have been asking for a Kanban board, which is not currently available. It is coming, accounting to Inflectra's support. Speaking of support, we've been happy with the results the few times we have needed to call. These days it is relatively unusual to call a company and have your call answered by a real live person, a person who has a detailed understanding of the product, and who has a full command of the English language.
We are hosting the application ourselves. Setup was easy, and the performance is excellent. We looked at a lot of products in this space, from open source to very expensive. SpiraTeam was the best choice for us, and we've never regretted the purchase.

Facilitates the daily work

Kommentare: SpiraTeam is used to manage the test cases of five different development languages and more than fifteen different base products. The overview of all products is elementary and is very well solved in SpiraTeam.
The selection of connectable test software is very good.

Vorteile:

SpiraTeam is clear and intuitive to use. The cockpits are a good starting point for daily work.

Nachteile:

The structure of the requirements is not transferred from DevOps and after grouping the original types are lost.

excelent but colicated tool for managing development

Kommentare: overview about load and work

Vorteile:

solution complexity is good for managers and overview, graphs is good and transparent to users, notification is understandable

Nachteile:

not so much user friendly mainly for simple users, navigation is not simple, default dashboard is complicated and too much data contains

Great Lifecycle Management Tool

Kommentare: SpiraTeam is a flexible lifecycle management tool. In addition to using it for software development, we've found the incident tracker to be highly customizable for hardware defect resolution tracking. This is an extremely cost-effective tool for creating standardized workflows and improving the documentation trail of your products.

Vorteile:

Incident tracker flexibility is phenomenal.

Nachteile:

Inability to search the contents of uploaded documents that contain text from the search bar to get back to your artifacts.

A true ALC management tool

Vorteile:

I like that SpiraTeam is a one-stop shop for all Application Life Cycle needs. Also, it is a great tool for software or products.

Nachteile:

The layers of details could be optional.

In Betracht gezogene Alternativen: Jira

Review for government contractor agile team

Kommentare: Would highly recommend. We reviewed several tracking tools for agile development, and this was definitely one of the top contenders. Nice work!

Vorteile:

Excellent tool. Really liked the ability to trace a requirement all the way through the process, linking it to test cases.

Nachteile:

The one negative for us was the lack of a sortable backlog for scrum. I was not able to find a way to rank items in a list to create the order for the backlog. Are there any plans for this in an upcoming release?

Excellent product

Kommentare: Overall SpiraTeam is an excellent product, very easy to use and testers love the set up. I have been setting it up onsite for a major client and showing their test team how to use the product. As well as the set up, I am also hooking it up to Rapise to get automated testing in place for a continuous deployment solution. There have been one or two issues, however, the Inflectra support team are very, very quick to help and resolve any problems, and they also readily implement change suggestions if you come up with something that would be useful. Note: Make sure you take a full back up before updating to newer versions if running on a local server.

I would reccomend this product to anyone who needs to manage a project with test cases.

Kommentare: I would reccomend this product to anyone who needs to manage a project with test cases and requirements.

Vorteile:

The product does an outstanding job on collecting the information needed to manage projects both large and small. The application has a good road map for future enhancements and helps me manage my projects without the normal amount of effort.

Nachteile:

The screens could use some user inferface enhancements to make it easier to navigate. The filters, although useful, can confuse you as to what you are seeing. Many time I think I'm missing data to only find that the system ha me in a filter.

Top Marks

Kommentare: I've looked at several applications in this segment and this comes out tops so far no doubt about it. If you've never had an ALM before or even a test management tool then you just can't lose. I'm expecting an ROI in man hours the first year of ownership not to mention the lift it will give to our working process along with job satisfaction for all our users.

Vorteile:

Total value for money, a customer service second to none, this is a vendor with the customer in focus. The application is very intuitive and meets all our current needs with plenty of room for growing.

Nachteile:

None so far

Excellent Value for Money, replacement for QC

Kommentare: It can still improve with additional features such as mutiple copy paste, more stable build for IE 8 users. But an excellent buy for this price. Reliable and well priced tool.

Vorteile:

We have used this tool for organisation of 50 users and it has worked perfectly. It has got all the features which a Test and Defect management tools should have.

Nachteile:

Its not very stable on new IE 8. Need to have some more basic feature to improve usability and speed of writing, designing Test Scripts.

SpiraTeam is great. You get much more than you pay for. I would definitely recommend this software

Kommentare: SpiraTeam is great. You get much more than you pay for. I would definitely recommend this software to others.

Vorteile:

You're customer service is wonderful. Everytime I have presented a question I receive a very quick email back from Adam. Other than our own customer service I have never received such good service from a software vendor.

Nachteile:

With the new 2.2 upgrade I have lost the ability to tab when creating a new test script. This is causing me to take twice as long to enter my steps.

Vendor Selection / Scoring

Kommentare: Like what I saw today but would like to trial it out to get some hands on experience.

Vorteile:

Today was the first time we had a overview of the tool. Based on the initial meeting, it seems to be a tool that covers most of our requirements and seems fairly easy to use.

Nachteile:

Need to know more about the integration with Microsoft Project Server and the upcoming release on requirements and test in March of 2012.

SpiraTeam

Kommentare: Recommended highly.

Vorteile:

The thing we like most about SpiraTeam is its flexibility. We are able to configure it to our processes and integrate it with MS TFS. The customer support is outstanding.

Nachteile:

There are a few things we wish it had, but they are very open to enhancement suggestions and most of the things we suggest are already planned for an upcoming release.

We are mostly using this package as documentation for our testing processes.

Kommentare: We are mostly using this package as documentation for our testing processes.
We can keep track by release as to what has been tested. Very satisfied with product.

Vorteile:

Support for the product has been fantastic! Whe have gone thu 2 upgrades and had questions. The support personnel ( Adam ) was extremely helpful and we were able to complete the upgrades.

Nachteile:

None at present.

Sage Spain Spira Team Review

Kommentare: We need the TFS Sync with the requirents synchronization.
The rest of the features are OK, and works quite well.
The Customer Service is excellent.