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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Pivotal Tracker

    Score5 out of 10
    N/APivotal Tracker is a project management program primarily for software developers. It is built from the ground up to facilitate the agile development cycle, and is optimized for structuring projects in sprints, or “stories.” The solution is now owned and supported by VMware, and is part of the Pivotal / Tanzu product line up.N/A

    CucumberStudio

    Score4.9 out of 10
    N/ACucumberStudio, now a SmartBear product since the 2019 acquisition, is a continuous testing platform replacing the former HipTest, supporting agile development with manual and automated code testing, reusable steps, feature history with living documentation, among other features.N/A
    Pricing
    Pivotal TrackerCucumberStudio
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    Pivotal TrackerCucumberStudio
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Pivotal TrackerCucumberStudio
    Considered Both Products
    VMware by Broadcom
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    SmartBear
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    78%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    89%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Pivotal TrackerCucumberStudio
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Pivotal Tracker and CucumberStudio, from SmartBear
    Feature
    Pivotal Tracker
    6.0
    1 Ratings
    22% below category average
    CucumberStudio, from SmartBear
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    Ratings
    Task Management3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search5.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of Pivotal Tracker and CucumberStudio, from SmartBear
    Feature
    Pivotal Tracker
    8.0
    1 Ratings
    4% above category average
    CucumberStudio, from SmartBear
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    DevOps Tool Integrations8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score7.5 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score7.5 out of 10
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    Score7.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Pivotal TrackerCucumberStudio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (32 ratings)
    9.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Support Rating
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Pivotal TrackerCucumberStudio
    Likelihood to Recommend
    VMware by Broadcom
    The UI of the Pivotal tracker is really beautiful and amazing, which looks trivial, but we have it open all the time, so it's nice for us. In Pivotal tracker for me its very Easy to create tasks or stories anytime without facing any problems. Pivotal tracker provides us a ton of features to track the tasks and manage a team and the projects. Pivotal tracker allows for a entire team to be on the same page of the tool in regards to where is the project right now, right status of every task, what is being worked on and by whom.
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    SmartBear
    HipTest is good and helpful to create and run functional regressions but it is more complicated to use this tool to create and run API testing scenarios (it does not mean it can not be done). This tool is definitively not appropriate for running performance testing scenarios.
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    Pros
    VMware by Broadcom
    • It's great for tracking milestones and reporting team velocity per sprint.
    • Maintaining a prioritized backlog that is sharable with different members of your team is relatively simple.
    • There's a free version of the product for up to 3 collaborators working on 2 projects and the starting price for larger packages is relatively low.
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    SmartBear
    • Good integration with Jira
    • Includes integration with different tools for different porpuses
    • You can build your own framework to automate scenarios and make it work with Hiptest
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    Cons
    VMware by Broadcom
    • In-story task management is still a weak point. The ability to @mention users in tasks and mark tasks as 'in-progress' would go a long way.
    • Epics do not span projects. This becomes troublesome when scaling Pivotal Tracker's agile methodology to multiple teams.
    • Splitting stories is often confusing for team members as there is no concept of a 'parent' story with child stories that have split off of it. There are only two levels: Epic & Story.
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    SmartBear
    • UX is not too obvious and easy (like generating a data table in a scenario or including a scenario in a test run) but you can get used to it relatively easy by playing around with the options, also the documentation is helpful.
    • To get extra functionalities you have to pay for them separately.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    VMware by Broadcom
    I love the simplicity, non-configurability, and price/performance of this tool. Hands down my favorite project management tool for agile.
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    SmartBear
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    Usability
    VMware by Broadcom
    It was generally easy to use once you got the hang of it. The searching and tagging of tickets was fine, commenting worked well, and release planning was good. However, it wasn't the most intuitive tool in the beginning. The UI is pretty outdated and could have used upgrades over time.
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    SmartBear
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    Support Rating
    VMware by Broadcom
    We've never had to request support in the 5 years I have been using it. A solid solution! Everything I have had questions about is on the website. New features are in their newsletter with more details on their website. Often I am using the new features within a few minutes of reading the article.
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    SmartBear
    The tool includes a basic but complete documentation that can be very helpful to get started using the tool. The UX sometimes does not feel very easy to understand but after some use you can get familiar without reading the documentation. The webinars are not very useful for using the tool, I have seen a couple of them and they are actually focused on promoting their HipTest product to new users instead of being useful and educational for current users.
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    Alternatives Considered
    VMware by Broadcom
    We have had employees in the past look at Drupal, and other open source project management tools to assist in our needs. Unfortunately each solution took too much time to implement, design and configure that we could not stop the work we were doing for clients to complete a full set up of a project tracker. Thankfully Pivotal is a predefined solution with no configuration needed. Simply input your projects, design your Stories with Tasks and begin your tracking.
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    SmartBear
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    Return on Investment
    VMware by Broadcom
    • Time is money with development and a lot of things can fall through the cracks. Having a good system for making sure you're building the most relevant product for customers is really important so it was well worth it for us.
    • The process we used worked for us and it helped us streamline our development which reduced a lot of things falling through the cracks and headaches. I'm sure there are other products that can do the same job just as effectively but Pivotal Tracker worked well for us.
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    SmartBear
    • It helps to have organization in our scenarios.
    • It helps to get regressions done faster than doing it manually
    • It helps to graphically see the progress and results of executions.
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    Screenshot of CucumberStudio empowers the whole team to read and refine executable specifications without needing technical tools. Business and technology teams can collaborate on acceptance criteria and bridge their gap.