Adaptavist Test Management for Jira vs OpenText Silk Central comparison

Adaptavist and OpenText are both solutions in the Test Management Tools category. Adaptavist is ranked #11 with an average rating of 7.0, while OpenText is ranked #13 with an average rating of 7.0. Adaptavist holds a 2.5% mindshare in TMT, compared to OpenText’s 2.4% mindshare. Additionally, 83% of Adaptavist users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 81% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

OpenText Silk Central and Adaptavist Test Management for Jira are two competing test management tools. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira stands out due to its integration capabilities and overall user satisfaction.

Features: OpenText Silk Central is praised for its comprehensive test management capabilities, customizable testing workflows, and robust reporting functions. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is valued for its seamless integration with Jira, ease of use, and collaborative functions.

Room for Improvement: OpenText Silk Central needs an updated interface, better integration with other tools, and streamlined usability. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira can improve its reporting capabilities, enhance automation features, and expand user documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Deployment of OpenText Silk Central is complex with a steeper learning curve. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is noted for its straightforward implementation. Users report more satisfactory experiences with Adaptavist’s support team compared to OpenText’s.

Pricing and ROI: OpenText Silk Central is considered expensive but delivers good ROI through its detailed test management features. Adaptavist Test Management for Jira offers competitive pricing and achieves high ROI due to its integration with Jira and efficient test process management.

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Categories and Ranking

Adaptavist Test Management ...

Ranking in Test Management Tools

11th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

OpenText Silk Central

Ranking in Test Management Tools

13th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

2.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Design Automation (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is 2.5%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of OpenText Silk Central is 2.4%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Test Management Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Adaptavist Test Management for Jira	2.5%
OpenText Silk Central	2.4%
Other	95.1%

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Ramakanta Sahu

Director of Product at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Has dashboard and reporting features that help us identify and address red flags

I would like to see some improvements in Adaptive Test Management for Jira. First, having a recommendation engine or feature that guides handling risks more intuitively rather than relying on manual processes would be helpful. Second, enhancing the connectivity with third-party tools like Teams or Slack would be valuable. One challenge with integrating Adaptavist Test Management for Jira into workflows is ensuring it accurately tags and incorporates all relevant stories and epics. Sometimes, it’s unclear if the tool considers all dependencies and backlog items, which can affect how risks are assessed. However, it sometimes seems to miss this high-level perspective, which can be a limitation based on how the product is designed. This has been a concern for those who use it regularly, although I don’t manage these aspects personally.

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ChrisWilliams1

Senior Test Analyst at Kainga Ora

Reporting efficacy and collaboration improve despite outdated features

I do this for my own benefit, and it has nothing to do with any company views. I work as a permanent employee for a government department. OpenText Silk Central is coming to the end of its support, so we will have to move to something else, but I do not know what the other solution will be. Automation is quite immature at our place. It has only really started, so there is no integration with OpenText Silk Central. I would give it a rating of 7 out of 10; it could be 7.5. It just lacks certain features that would make it a higher grade if it had more modern features.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We don't use technical support. We have an office in Austria that provides us with solutions. Also, this solution is pretty simple and user-friendly. We don't really need help with it."

"You can group test cases together and track the execution of them."

"It is a scalable solution."

"Our software development process primarily uses Adaptive Test Management for Jira to monitor real-time risks across all stories and sprint planning. Additionally, we use it to create action plans for high-priority risks."

"The program is very stable and scalable."

"The reporting is probably the most valuable feature."

"The stability of this solution is very good. In our experience it is approximately ninety-nine percent."

Cons

"I would like to see some improvements in Adaptive Test Management for Jira. First, having a recommendation engine or feature that guides handling risks more intuitively rather than relying on manual processes would be helpful. Second, enhancing the connectivity with third-party tools like Teams or Slack would be valuable."

"Lacking visual gadgets that go on a dashboard, pie charts, bar charts and histograms."

"They should work on integrating the solution with AI."

"I don't like that you need to use a lot of tabs. One test case takes 15-20 minutes and on Zephyr is take about 5-10 minutes."

"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."

"It can be a bit slow sometimes, and it has not got some of the modern features many of the other competitors have."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The licensing is rather expensive for those that have many users."

"The tool's pricing is a bit expensive, considering the kind of risk analysis and visibility we want, given that it's built on top of the Jira platform and other Atlassian products. It's priced slightly higher than similar products, maybe five to ten percent more."

"The cost of this tool, in terms of licensing, is not large."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

34%

Computer Software Company

22%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Performing Arts

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Adaptavist Test Management for Jira?

The tool's pricing is a bit expensive, considering the kind of risk analysis and visibility we want, given that it's built on top of the Jira platform and other Atlassian products. It's priced slig...

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What needs improvement with Adaptavist Test Management for Jira?

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What advice do you have for others considering Adaptavist Test Management for Jira?

I rate the overall product a seven out of ten.

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What needs improvement with OpenText Silk Central?

It can be a bit slow sometimes, and it has not got some of the modern features many of the other competitors have. I am talking about features such as traceability matrix; it is designed more for W...

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What is your primary use case for OpenText Silk Central?

I could leave my opinion on some ALM that I have been working with lately. Recently, I have been working with Silk, Azure DevOps, but in the past, I have worked with ALM, QC, and all that kind of s...

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What advice do you have for others considering OpenText Silk Central?

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Compared 20% of the time

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Compared 17% of the time

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Compared 12% of the time

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Also Known As

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Micro Focus Silk Central, Borland Silk Central, Silk Central

Overview

Adaptavist Test Management for Jira is the full, featured, enterprise ready test management solution directly in Jira. It offers full traceability across issues, requirements, test cases, and execution. The tool allows for flexibility and customisation for test plans and runs. It offers a free and flexible REST API, includes the ability to automate bulk tests, and enables seamless integration with most continuous integration tools. The in-depth reporting capability gives users the ability to analyse and share test data results between development and business teams. It’s the single source of truth to track, manage and optimise your whole test lifecycle right inside Jira software.

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Benefits:

Drive reusability across Jira with cross-project hierarchical repositories for all test assets
Improve collaboration with flexible workflows between traditional and Agile development teams
Enhance coverage with end-to-end traceability across all test artifacts
Eliminate duplication to increase efficiency with versioning, test data parameters and shared step features
Improve visibility and functionality with 70 cross-project reports and gadgets
Reduce management time and effort, with rich APIs for integration with test automation and DevOps tools
Allows teams to seamlessly collaborate and manage multiple versions of test cases in parallel while providing an audit history of changes

Features:

Easy drag and drop organisation, planning and execution
Hierarchical folders to manage and reuse assets across Jira projects, releases and sprints
Test case libraries including versioning, shared steps and test data parameters
Test plans and runs to manage and track test execution cycles
Full traceability of test cases, requirements, test execution results and defects
70 cross-project reports, gadgets and Confluence Macros to track the coverage of your tests with advanced cross project reporting
Global and project level settings for customisation and standardisation
Custom fields for test cases, test steps, test plans and test runs
Migration function to import test cases from files or legacy test management tools
REST APIs for integration with test automation and DevOp tools

Use Cases:

Integrate CI tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Travis CI or other development applications like Github, Bitbucket, Datadog via the REST API for end-to-end integration across test case management, execution, and reporting
Automate testing at scale, whilst maintaining traceability inside Jira. Scaled to 10,000+ tests across multiple configurations, publishing results in Jira in under 30 minutes
Increase efficiency by significantly reducing time spent on test case specification and management
Benefit from reusability across Jira projects and single points of maintenance when reusing and organizing test cases
Improved visibility of software testing process and quality with 70 out-of-the-box reports, including real-time dashboards
Clear end-to-end traceability of requirements, tests, and defects ensuring that the delivered software meets requirements.

Adaptavist

Silk Central is an open test management solution which unifies all test assets into one easy-to-use planning, tracking, reporting and execution hub. Silk Central enables you to gain control, collaboration and traceability across all areas of your software testing, whether your methodology is Agile, Traditional or hybrid. Silk Central provides integration of requirements, manual and automated tests, defect tools and your test execution, giving full traceability of the quality of your software testing regardless of role.

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Sample Customers

IBM, John Lewis, Trip Advisor, Netgear, Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Sapient

AmBank Group, Krung Thai Computer Services, Deakin University

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