Planview AgilePlace vs. CucumberStudio, from SmartBear

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Planview AgilePlace
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
AgilePlace is a project management solution built around flexibility, data-driven analytics, and workflow automation. The software was acquired by Planview in December 2017 to expand that company's capabilities.
$19
per user, per month
CucumberStudio
Score 4.9 out of 10
N/A
CucumberStudio, 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
Planview AgilePlaceCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Editions & Modules
Teams
$19
per user, per month
Scaled Teams
$29
per user, per month
Custom
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per user, per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Planview AgilePlaceCucumberStudio
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsAll editions include unlimited boards.—
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Community Pulse
Planview AgilePlaceCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Top Pros

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Features
Planview AgilePlaceCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Planview AgilePlace
7.0
21 Ratings
2% below category average
CucumberStudio, from SmartBear
-
Ratings
Task Management7.921 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management7.319 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts6.712 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling6.517 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology7.917 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology6.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management6.57 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration7.315 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access6.812 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking6.44 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management6.68 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools8.07 Ratings00 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
Planview AgilePlace
7.3
5 Ratings
4% below category average
CucumberStudio, from SmartBear
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Ratings
DevOps Tool Integrations7.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers7.35 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Planview AgilePlaceCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
7.9
(27 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
8.3
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.7
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
7.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.3
(2 ratings)
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Vendor pre-sale
9.3
(2 ratings)
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User Testimonials
Planview AgilePlaceCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
Planview
This tool enables the visual management needed in many offshore teams to easily and quickly see the pending work, work in progress and completed work.For teams that work with a waterfall methodology and do not have AGILE internalized, I believe there are other solutions from Planview or other providers.
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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
Planview
  • Ability to color code cards based on type, giving better visibility to the variety of tasks a team handles
  • Ability to set deadline dates and have those dates easily visible
  • Flexibility in design the kanban board. It is easy to add a lane or make a change on the fly. Work doesn't have to stop and a long process created to make simple layout changes.
  • Movement of cards is easy as well as the ability to connect cards to show dependencies.
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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
Planview
  • Planview LeanKit currently can't or should not be used as a central spot for data and collaboration. Particularly attachments are not well-handled.
  • The portable side of Planview LeanKit is really lacking.
  • We would appreciate some options to group or stack cards.
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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
Planview
Perfect tool to manage requirement backlog
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SmartBear
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Usability
Planview
LeanKit isn't the best designed Kanban system I've seen, but overall it's pretty usable. The boards I've used are pretty complex, so it can be difficult to find things. I found that searching and filtering for specific cards was somewhat of a challenge. Dragging a card from one lane to another is kind of a fun way to get things done though.
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SmartBear
No answers on this topic
Reliability and Availability
Planview
Very minimal outages
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SmartBear
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Performance
Planview
Never experienced major slowness
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SmartBear
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Support Rating
Planview
It solves all our needs at this time.
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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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Implementation Rating
Planview
Very easy.
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SmartBear
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Alternatives Considered
Planview
I think that LeanKit is very similar to Asana's Kanban feature and Trello, but is much less sleek looking than Asana. Asana's clean and sleek UI makes me enjoy project management much more than LeanKit. It might sound silly that the UI makes so much of a difference to me, but it really does. Trello is also sleeker than LeanKit, but I still prefer Asana because it has more customization options and a better interface. We are actually going to look into switching to ClickUp because we wanted something with a better UI. ClickUp seems to have a great UI with a lot of customization options.
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SmartBear
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Scalability
Planview
Good use cases for small/large teams
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SmartBear
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Return on Investment
Planview
  • Our team meetings are more direct and quick to get through thanks to the better visibility of the workload
  • Easily being able to move cards between team lanes gives instant visibility to where the responsibility for the next step is needed.
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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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ScreenShots

Planview AgilePlace Screenshots

Screenshot of Real-Time Analytics: Utilize board health metrics involving bottlenecks, WIP, and throughput to guide the optimization of workflows, improve velocity, and better prioritize efforts for more predictable delivery. Lean and Agile metrics can be used to assess team performance and promote continuous improvement.Screenshot of PI Planning: Offers enterprise Kanban boards to visualize the work of teams regardless of the methodologies they apply or workflows they follow, and insights into progress and create opportunities for better alignment.Screenshot of Dependency Visualization and Management: Surfaces risks to plans resulting from cross-team dependency conflicts, blockers, and capacity constraints, and helps drive proactive measures to enable teams to deliver on time.Screenshot of Team Planning and Coordination: Boards can be used to breakdown work, build and manage plans, and execute against strategy to deliver more value to customers, faster.

CucumberStudio Screenshots

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.