IBM DOORS vs Inflectra SpiraTest comparison

"The most valuable feature for me is the ability to enter data into one table, or context, and link it across modules."

"I like being able to sort and categorize the requirements and the exporting functions."

"I like the user interface with regard to creating links between requirements and tracing links to requirements."

"Compared to other tools that I have used over the past 20 years, DOORS is the best of the best."

"What I like about DOORS is baselines, it's easy and I use the capability of multiple users. The traceability or links between different levels are very nice. Additionally, it is used by all of our suppliers, which brings us commonality."

"When you install DOORS locally, you have the flexibility to do what you want with the solution. You can add functionality and do many things that you can't do with other tools or do well enough to satisfy your users' requirements."

"Rational DOORS' most valuable feature is that you can write any kind of requirement you want."

"Starting to use the solution is pretty straightforward. There isn't too much of a learning curve."

"We were able to add a step-by-step procedure for someone to follow to assist in testing."

"The reporting functionality helps vendors and technical resources identify bugs and issues that need to be addressed. The simple dashboard-style home page makes training end-user testers simple and straightforward. The actual testing UI is VERY straightforward and very intuitive for the end-users that test the system since very often we pull from business and operational users to help test new systems."

"The features of this product most valuable to me were the test case management and the visual status, by which it was displayed."

"I found Inflectra SpiraTest intuitive enough. It's also easy to learn, so this is what I like about it."

"The user-friendly features are the most valuable. For example, migration of requirements and migration of test cases and the creation of traceability. You have various reports that you need. The plug-ins that are available to connect with the other tools."

"The ability to reuse test cases already used across projects is the most valuable feature of this solution. We don't need to create new ones."

"Inflectra SpiraTest has a lot of functionality, which is good."

"The web application DOORS Web Access doesn't have the same functionality as the standard client, so it's not a real substitute. For example, web Access only provides writing requirements, but you can't do much more with it."

"Both the performance and the price could be improved."

"Enhancing security measures, particularly when handling multiple projects simultaneously, would be beneficial to prevent data loss within DOORS."

"Complexity, performance, openness are the three areas that can be improved. The IBM architecture and specifically Jazz looks more complex. There are a lot of servers. It's quite complicated. The search capabilities lack in IBM Rational DOORS Classic for customers who have a database with a requirement of more than 25,000 records. For example, you can search easily for a module, but it's really difficult to look for keywords through the whole database because all the modules are separated into small components, which makes the search quite complex. This is something that's really annoying because when we want to make an impact analysis, we would like to analyze the product globally. It's quite difficult to manage. The fact that you can interact externally with data makes it complex. The approach is complex and doesn't work as expected. For example, when I tried to experiment with exporting some records, the tool crashed, but I couldn't find out the root cause, that is, whether it happened because of Rational Windows or lack of memory. It was just crashing. Logs weren't very clear. IBM can try to use more recent technology for different aspects and make it easy. They can also provide free integration from DOORS Classic to DOORS. Currently, all the customization in Excel is lost, which makes it very complex. It would be a feature to make new versions compatible with features in the past versions."

"It used to be very clunky."

"One of the things that many people complain about is it's hard to manage attributes. For example, tables or figures. This is something that can be improved."

"The images are not clear. We have to use them as OLE objects. And in the testing part, I'm not sure how to link it with it. This is my main concern."

"Overall, the user experience should be enhanced."

"The UI for managing test cases, test sets, test runs could be a little more integrated, currently, these feel disjointed at times and confusing. Also, the test steps page needs to display the test steps closer to the top of the UI so as to not have to scroll down to find."

"It should develop integration with JIRA. We have some complexities which caused us not to decide to integrate it with our JIRA, like synchronous data."

"The user interface is slightly complicated and not very consistent. It could be more user friendly."

"Being able to add scripting for testing can and does save a lot of time. When you are able to just ‘run’ a test case rather than manually add it and run it."

"The folder organization in Inflectra SpiraTest could be better, though I cannot comment whether that is structure-related. Most of what I need would probably be in the tool, but as a test manager, I need to be able to create dashboards and reports easily."

"Migrating is not very easy. It depends on the organization, how efficient and effective the decision-making process is. The plug-ins should be easier and more integrated rather than the user trying to integrate the tools which are more popular, like Jira et al."

"Two areas that can stand improvement: integration with third party products and making it more intuitive."

"I would rate the pricing a seven out of ten, with one being very affordable and ten being quite expensive."

"I don't personally know what the numbers are. I just know that one of the reasons we've limited it to three seats is a function of cost."

"IBM Rational DOORS is highly expensive."

"IBM is a bit too expensive in terms of pricing. Customers are paying a lot for the license, and the price is quite high for this kind of environment. It is quite high as compared to what we can get today with other solutions."

"We have to pay for a license. I think it's a one-time payment as my company hasn't notified me about more charges. I don't think it's expensive for large corporations, but it will be costly for an average person."

"I think it's expensive because you have to pay for the licenses to IBM and all that and maintain them."

"The licensing costs for the product are quite high."

"Licensing fees are billed annually and there is no support included with what I pay."

"I Googled the pricing for Inflectra SpiraTest, and it's about $4,000 annually."

"The pricing was excellent. I would recommend the enterprise solution."