Item: Azure Test Plans
Rating: 9
Author: Abhishek Nandi

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Azure Test Plans supports linking bugs and requirements to test cases and test suites. In addition, the following web portal and test-related tools support traceability: View items linked to a test case: View the test plans, test suites, and requirements. They have been lately adding features to the services on a regular basis. Every two weeks, they add functionality to Azure DevOps Services to match it with what Azure DevOps Server or on-prem would offer.

Pros and Cons

Azure Test Plans provides rich and powerful tools everyone in the team can use to drive quality and collaboration throughout the development process.
Browser-based test management solution provides all the capabilities required for planned manual testing, user acceptance testing, exploratory testing, and gathering feedback from stakeholders.

The UI, the user experience, is challenging for newcomers.
Project management could be improved.

Return on Investment

Typically the sprints themselves and managing the tasks have essentially eliminated our need for reporting.
The most valuable features of Microsoft Azure DevOps are high-level protection. Protection is very important to the customers to prevent eavesdropping.

Alternatives Considered

GitLab

We're doing a full continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), continuous testing (CT), security, delivery, and monitoring. They have been lately adding features to the services on a regular basis. Every two weeks, they add functionality to Azure DevOps Services to match it with what Azure DevOps Server or on-prem would offer. So, we continue to get more robust functionality. My favorite right now is that they are starting to open up the API availability within Azure DevOps Services.

Key Insights

Do you think Azure Test Plans delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Azure Test Plans's feature set?

Yes

Did Azure Test Plans live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Azure Test Plans go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Azure Test Plans again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Jira Software, GitLab, GitHub

Likelihood to Recommend

Typically the sprints themselves and managing the tasks have essentially eliminated our need for reporting. I like the fact that there is built-in Power BI. Both are Microsoft tools. So you can incorporate dashboard capabilities. The extensibility of the work item forms and customizations, as well as the backend API to query the data, et cetera, and manipulate the data programmatically, are all very valuable aspects of the product.

One stop Solution - Integrates well with other tools, and enables us to perform different functions within one tool.

Overall Satisfaction with Azure Test Plans