- The company continues to grow and the staff continues to g row. Most of them need access to daily testing activities, but this spreadsheet is not for teamwork or testing.
- The more complex the business model, the more difficult it is to obtain on the spreadsheet.
- Outdoor or remote employees may not be able to maintain the workflow because they will not be involved.
- It is not possible to grant permissions and control certain permissions in the spreadsheet.
Test Management Tools – Necessity or Luxury?
- Posted By: Rubab Kazmi
- Posted On: October 29, 2020
Having a private jet to travel from one city to another city instead of traveling by car, can be a great example of what’s a necessity and what’s a luxury. Luxuries are the items that are beyond affordability; we don’t require it yet we wish to consume it. On the other hand, necessities are the items or services that are indispensable or required the most to have a daily life balance. Therefore, when it comes to the business world, there are also some necessities and luxuries that businesses need or wish for. When it comes to the world of software development, necessities are not just confined to the backend technical facilities and developers. However, all such processes from which a software product goes through before it gets launched are its necessities. One of the indispensable parts of the software development life-cycle is software testing or software evaluation process.
But hang on! If software testing accounts to be the need for businesses then the types of equipment and tools they use are considered to be luxuries? Well, the answer to this question varies from business to business. Why? Because every business that conducts software testing has its own needs and wants according to the number and level of severity of errors, defects, and vulnerabilities in their software products. Therefore, many organizations implement the use of various tools like; the implementation of an issue tracking system or defect management tool to better track all the problems in the system under development. The incorporation of these tools depends upon various factors such as if an organization has a skilled team of testers or not. In this case, such type of tools can be a need for organizations. But when it comes to managing the test cases or tests, organizations encounter great challenges if they manually manage the test cases. For this purpose, incorporating the use of test management tools for Jira is a clever decision for the effective management of tests, it can not account for the luxury, yet the level of severity for utilizing this tool can vary from company to company. Maybe an organization is satisfied today with its test management method via using spreadsheets or excel but this can not be used for long-term purposes if an organization wants to grow.
Here lie several reasons to support the necessity of a test management tool. Let’s discuss them out;
Use of SpreadSheet can be a pain in the neck - For complex software testing activities, the use of spreadsheets and excel can be nothing more than a pain in the neck especially CI and automation, but if you still consider spreadsheet or excel as the best way, you are already killing your productivity!
Let us add this to you. IBM shared an informative fact in a white paper entitled "The Risks of Statistical Analysis Using Spreadsheets", "More than 90% of mission-critical spreadsheets contain errors."
The only thing to keep in mind is to open up your eyes as much as possible. You must be aware that if you continue to show reluctance towards test management tools while using the spreadsheets, then be ready to face the consequences as well:
Some of those hindrances include;
