Every week many teams switch from the various available JIRA add-ons to TestRail, our fully-featured modern test management tool in combination with our own native JIRA test management add-on integration. And every week we get useful feedback from customers on why they made the switch. As we get questions about this topic almost every day, we wanted to collect this useful customer feedback and publish this article as a reference for existing and future TestRail customers, teams currently evaluating TestRail, and testers trying to convince their managers to make the switch as well.

Many teams migrate to our test management tool TestRail every week from all kinds of tools. The number #1 reason teams switch to TestRail is the significant increase in productivity teams get by adopting TestRail, as well as the resulting time, resource and cost savings. In this article we are going to highlight some of TestRail’s unique productivity features that will help your team save many many hours every week compared to other test management tools.

In this posting we are going to review how teams use session-based test management techniques with our test management tool TestRail. With more and more teams switching to agile development practices, adopting continuous integration and deployment techniques, and with ever and fast changing requirements, the role of testers and the expectation of testing teams evolve as well. Teams often don’t have the luxury anymore to carefully plan test strategies and tests for all new features in advance. Combined with traditional testing techniques, exploratory testing and session-based test management are great ways to make the best use of your time.

In our new TestRail Highlight blog series we will take an in-depth look at select features of our test management software TestRail. As software projects evolve, every testing team needs to think about how they will handle changing requirements and test cases for their projects and releases over time. Today we will take a look at TestRail’s unique features that help help teams archive test runs, track the history of test case changes and easily manage baselines for different project release branches.