ACCELQ vs. Zephyr Scale

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ACCELQ
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
ACCELQ is an agile quality management platform that helps users achieve continuous delivery for web, mobile, manual testing, and APIs. It can be used to write and manage manual test cases for the functionality that may be too fluid for automation.N/A
Zephyr Scale
Score 9.2 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.
$4.55
per month per user
Pricing
ACCELQZephyr Scale
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ACCELQZephyr Scale
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
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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Features
ACCELQZephyr Scale
Automation Testing
Comparison of Automation Testing features of Product A and Product B
ACCELQ
8.9
1 Ratings
5% above category average
Zephyr Scale
-
Ratings
Record and Automate9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Multi-Browser Testing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Testing8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Test Scheduling10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Test Management8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
CI/CD Tool Integration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Version Control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Parallel Testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Object Recognition10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data-Driven Testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing Collaboration7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Real Device Testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing Reports & Analytics9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Test Management
Comparison of Test Management features of Product A and Product B
ACCELQ
-
Ratings
Zephyr Scale
7.8
1 Ratings
4% below category average
Centralized test management00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Map tests to user stories00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Test execution reporting00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Defect management00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
ACCELQZephyr Scale
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(2 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ACCELQZephyr Scale
Likelihood to Recommend
ACCELQ
Low code test automation, Ready to pickup platform without having much prior knowledge on automation, AI agent interactions are nearly close to real life scenarios, best API automation scale it has got, QGPT logic builder has really changed the talk with DBs in AI way, Logic insights feature is really impressive to identify possible risk while just started developing web apps.
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SmartBear
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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Pros
ACCELQ
  • Scriptless and hence coding is easy.
  • Maintenance of the scripts are easy.
  • Learning curve is small.
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SmartBear
  • 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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Cons
ACCELQ
  • Visual regression features
  • Test generation from UI and UX platforms like Figma
  • Manual test tools can be more integrated with AutoPilot
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SmartBear
  • 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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Usability
ACCELQ
Features like low code, API automation, auto pilot and free account creations, case studies are better suited for my business into IOT space, some of the enterprise automation features are truly game changer in productivity for my team. Database migration was supported seamlessly while opted for ACCELQ solutions.
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SmartBear
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Alternatives Considered
ACCELQ
When we implemented ACCELQ, we conducted POCs with many similar solutions. Among the tools we pursued at that time, accelQ stood out against Tricentis Tosca and QMetry automation studio. However, subject 7 did better. However, they were still in the nascent stages of building the tool, and hence we did not pick it.
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SmartBear
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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Return on Investment
ACCELQ
  • Overall adoption of an automation tool went up.
  • Migration of existing selenium scripts to ACCELQ was relatively easy and less effort.
  • Lack of overall admin console and hence managing the agents across different execution is difficult.
  • Integration between accelQ and any test management tool can be difficult and buggy in most cases, even though it can be coded.
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SmartBear
  • Dozens of added testing capability via integrated gadgets
  • Reduced testing and tracking time
  • Faster and clearer testing operations awareness
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