We performed a comparison between Jira, OpenText ALM Octane, and Rally Software based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"The most valuable feature of Jira is the project package for development."
"Offers great multiple reporting charts."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"Reporting: It gives a nice report of my backlog and what my team has currently spent its efforts on."
"The dynamic communication and the ability to customize it the way we want are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the ease of replication of tickets."
"The solution works well and does what it needs to do."
"Our company follows the Agile methodology for software development, and this product is one of the best tools for companies that do so."
"I like the fact that you can use it on top of Jira."
"It's more streamlined because we have it all under one umbrella. And once the business requirements and rules have been created, we can do test cases and apply them to the business rules."
"The integration points are very good. Octane gives us a window not only into our manual testing, but also our automation testing and our performance testing. We can see all results from all three streams of testing in one place."
"A valuable feature is the pipeline, so that we can now connect to Jenkins and then have all the results from testing, from external, in the tool, so that we can see the whole approach from there. Also, We can work with labels so we have better filtering solutions than in ALM. And it's much smarter and leaner to use than ALM."
"We like Micro Focus ALM Octane because its performance is okay, and its stability is okay, so we use it a lot. The platform is easy to use."
"The key feature is the usability. It is fast to learn and easy to use. It's very intuitive to work with. Most of the important functions are available via a few clicks, compared to other tools where I have to open a sub-menu and then a sub-menu and another sub-menu, and then press a button."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ability to manage test scenarios, test results, and test automation, which are its primary functionalities."
"The user experience is a lot better than any tool that I have used before. Overall, it is great. It has a smooth interface, which is very user-friendly. It makes it easier to work together and have more transparency and customization, which is very good."
"My teams uses it for their daily agile management. They describe their user stories and track the progress of their projects."
"We use the roadmap features, and we're getting better at using dates to use the roadmap so that we can see if we're on target for work."
"We can work better and at a higher quality, than we were able to before."
"Agile Central allows us to log one hundred percent of the work we do and it allows for no hidden work, so teams can't go under the radar with what they're working on."
"It has allowed the quality assurance team to keep all information in sync with the application requirements and user stories for our general development."
"The effect of these kind of tools drives the way you organize things. It helps you shape the way you flow."
"The most valuable features are in-line editing, easy custom view setup, intuitive and helpful visuals (e.g., contextual formatting) and the collaboration features."
"The configurable Portfolio Management and parent-child relationships."
"The reporting needs to be improved."
"I don't know whether there is a Jira problem or a test risk problem, however, sometimes, we face issues on fetching the reports."
"A lot of the user interface could be updated."
"There is always a bit of a performance problem. It's a bit slow to load the whole data."
"I wish the whole workflow process was easier to set up. You put the requirements in and then you send it to the developer. They get a notification. Then they go into Jira."
"The reports in Jira can be improved, especially for test reports. I find it difficult to customize and integrate for different testing purposes."
"The challenge which I frequently see from Jira is the label. When you search for a label sometimes, it suddenly disappears. If there's a mismatch due to all-caps or lower case, you won't be able to find it. It won't even come up as a recommendation or suggestion. That's something that can be really frustrating, as people create labels in their own specific ways and then no one else can find anything."
"What I don't like is that perhaps there are not so many different apps that can add value over the management side of the product."
"The reporting is lacking from a requirements matrix and a traceability perspective."
"I would like to see the mobile testing improved so that we can simply select a mobile device, then specify what parameters we want, and the testing will be run based on that."
"There's a trend in our requests to have the ability to export data, en masse, out of Octane. There are capabilities within Octane to export data, but there are specifics around test suites and requirements and relations, as well as certain attributes, that we would like to be able to export easily out of Octane and into a database or Excel."
"We have some requests to beef up the manual testing abilities and the ability to report on testing progress. All the basics are there, but there's an issue of maintainability. For example... once you plan a test and it creates a run, more particularly a suite run, you can't edit the suite run afterward... That that is not realistic with how people work. Mistakes are made and people are humans and we change our minds about things. So the tool needs to allow for a bit more flexibility in that testing area, as well as some better widgets to report on progress."
"We’d like to see Platform One/Iron Bank compliant containers."
"Development of extensions or connections to GitHub actions could be better. Better integration with Azure DevOps would also help."
"Updating items, sorting, bulk updates—these things could have a bit more flexibility, but it's still possible to do them."
"We've only had a few stability issues. Generally, we have issues following any deployment they do, so if they do a deployment on a Sunday, then we may have a couple of issues on a Monday or Tuesday."
"We did submit an enhancement request. I think a lot of teams that do very large scale products have the same issue. They just do not realize it would help them."
"We would like more meaningful, customizable dashboards."
"CA Agile Central does not have a workflow tool included."
"There are few customisation options. For instance, the workflow for story cards cannot be changed out of the box from the standard (Defined, In-Progress, Completed and Accepted)."
"I would like for workspace admins to be able to hide projects in the Project Picker and not lose any historical data; make them invisible to certain users, visible to certain users, depending on permission sets. That would be lovely."
"I think there needs to be some simplification. The team-level side can be challenging and complicated."
"I'd like to be able to color code timeboxes, so I have an easy visual way to track the success of sprints."
"In Rally Software, the connection with GitLab and GitHub needs improvement."
