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I am working on a process improvement effort, and I need to get our QA operations up to the industry standards.

I am exploring the various systems available in the marketplace which help to store information associated with software development. We currently are using Wrike for defect tracking, but Wrike is task-oriented.

The ideal system I am looking for has these characteristics:

  • Allows storing requirements
  • Allows storing test cases and allows grouping them into suites and sets
  • Allows storing test results on per-build basis; a failed test case should be associated with a defect
  • Allows storing defect/issue information
  • Allows storing build information
  • Has code repository (git is preferred)
  • Has a Wiki or a similar system where knowledge can be stored
  • Has integrations with other systems and/or has a good API so we can integrate it ourselves

I have already reviewed the following systems:

  • qTest by QA Symphony
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Jira/Confluence by Atlassian
  • Redmine
  • Taiga
  • TestLink
  • Gitea
  • Trac
  • RallyDev by CA Agile

They are all interesting systems; some are more suitable than others for our needs. Cost is certainly a factor; an open source system would be of interest, but I am considering commercial systems as well.

I am looking for additional systems to evaluate. Any suggestions?

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  • Tip: This endeavor should be someway shared with the team - Constant sync meetings, POC/experimentation, divide research tasks, etc. The ones who make a product are not the tools, but the people; if the tools don't fit the specific people in the team, they will be, at better, underused.
    – João Farias
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 11:07
  • For me, additional important criteria for consideration would be the language tool was written in - in case you need to do some customization. This will also narrow your search considerably. I really like Trac, because it has convenient integration between bug tracker, wiki (for documentation, requirements, test cases etc) and code repository/viewer. And is written in Python, easiest to customize.
    – Peter M. - stands for Monica
    Commented Apr 13, 2017 at 14:18
  • In my search for a perfect system, I found some research done by XStudio team: http://www.xqual.com/qa/tools.html This page lists various tools and shows which aspects of SDLC management it supports.
    – onTy
    Commented Apr 15, 2017 at 9:10
  • Gitlab does the whole job properly now !
    – Nicolas B.
    Commented May 1, 2018 at 6:35

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I've tried many of those tools in several different companies. I consider my ideal choices to be:

  • Jira
  • Github
  • CircleCI

I've found Jira to be more flexible and as a better UI IMO than Trello, VSTS and Pivotal Tracker that I have used. Jira also integrates well with Confluence from the same company. Github and gitflow is the lightest weight code review system I have seen and Github is the most commonly used code storage site.
CircleCI is the most modern Continuous Integration system I have used and I prefer it greatly to Jenkins (probably market leader) and VSTS (Microsoft offering).

A key part to me is that three system integrate well with each other.

For example:

When you look at a ticket you can easily click through the code, build and tests for that. Similarly you can start at the code and with a ticket number navigate 'up' to see its story and feature.

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