Helix ALM vs. Perfecto by Perforce

Helix ALM is very well suited for maintaining traceability between user needs, requirements and tests for medical device design controls. It allows users to customize the reports to create a traceability matrix or any other reports that are needed. It is also a good program for tracking issues and bugs and for storing/linking verification and validation test protocols and reports.

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Same test case scripts can be executed on different mobiles irrespective of operating systems and language it supports. This covers a wide range of devices (Android, iOS, Blackberry etc) on which automated testing can be performed in very less time. The test scripts are written written using keyword-based Script Once Technology. The creation of scripts are easy. It saves time and effort. Repetitive testing on each iteration would be now be less tedious. This would also allow QA to focus on quality. It would expand test case coverage in the application and finally release reliable/robust application. In all, improving the app quality.

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• Traceability for design controls.
• Managing workflow of bugs/issues.
• Maintaining risk management information.

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• Impressive UI
• Strong support system
• Wide variety of devices

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• Better integration with electronic document control systems like Arena PLM.
• Easier setup in the back end (customization is available but the interface is not intuitive).

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• It has a lot of room for improvements in terms of reporting and integration with other reporting and defect tools.
• It should have the capability of capturing charts data.
• It should be able to do some scenarios that only manual testers can do. Like - use of camera and touch ID features.

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The support from Perforce has been extensive and allowed us to customize the setup of Helix ALM specific to our needs. They also hosted training sessions for our users and administrators and provided us with troubleshooting help during initial setup.

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The other tools that we evaluated did not have all of the capabilities and customization that Helix ALM had to offer and therefore we decided to select Helix ALM.

Incentivized

Perfecto has a wide array of mobile devices we can chose from. Automation is easier using OCR technology. The test script generated detailed report of the executed test script at the end with vast variety of information such as actual results, screen captures in digital format, continuous video recording of the entire script and graphs showing statistics about the execution

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• Improved management of requirements, risks and bugs to make sure they don't get lost in emails or long documents.

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• Since the devices are over cloud, it saves a lot of investment on mobile testing.
• Can be used by testers across the globe.

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