Deployment models & regulated industries
Hereās an elephant in the SaaS room: on-premise offering is rarely feasible for new service providers. It means extra effort to create a separate version of the test management solution ā an effort that is better spent gaining early traction. Qase is no exception: they are a Cloud-only service.
aqua deployment models
Cloud-only services, while offering extra convenience and flexible pricing, wonāt work for heavily regulated industries. Even the private cloud option is not good enough: banks, insurance companies, government agencies can only store their data in-house.
Vendor Cloud
Private Cloud
On-Premise
Logging
Regulations-wise, both tools pass the requirement to create an externally auditable log of actions. aqua, however, takes it a steps further and enables users to revert changes done by other users.
Logging
Change history
Change reversal
User Management
Good user management is essential when it comes to third-party services. You should pick one that meets your data access policy, fits the scope of the business, and matches the size of the company.
Qase role selector
aqua’s permission editor
Default user roles
Custom roles
Permissions for roles
Individual permissions
Non-enterprise tier user limit
SSO
LDAP
Test Management
Both tools demonstrate solid depth of test management functionality.
Test cases in Qase
Test management with aqua
Test cases
Test scenarios
Test reports
Shared steps
Nested test cases
Bulk edits
Scripts
Release planning
Labelling
Custom fields
Parametrisation
Filters
Folders
Views
Shared views
Workflows
Logging
Change history
Change reversal
Comments
Attachments
Mentions
Email nudging
Workflows are a highly impactful feature to get the most out of your software testing. Even QA specialists may let a bug or two slip because they didn’t go through the proper step or requested a senior’s review where needed. aqua’s native workflows dictate the lifecycle of every ticket, ensuring that nothing goes to production until it is truly ready.
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Integrations & Automated Testing
Qase and aqua take two different approaches to automated testing. While aqua allows you to hook all the popular third-party test automation tools, Qase takes the matter into its own hands. Luckily, if youāre unhappy with out-of-the-box integrations, both tools offer REST API to link the test management solution with any other external tool.
aqua also brings a unique integration among test management solutions ā a Chrome extension to run tests and immediately document them. aqua Test Recorder enables you to record interactions, edit captured data, leave comments, annotate screenshots, and then send everything to your companyās aqua server. This approach saves time on all the tab switching, and immediate documentation ensures the QA specialists share everything they observed.
For context, virtually all aqua competitors lack a first-party Chrome extension. They have to rely on third-party solutions that often cost extra money and lack native integrations with test management solutions.
Chrome extension
Management Integrations
Automation integrations
First-party automation
REST API
External versioning
Auto-translation in workspace
Misc. integrations
Full list of aqua integrations
Dashboards
Dashboards are a time-saving visualisation tool for QA and also a great way for non-testers to see how things are going. Both Qase and aqua offer them.
Qaseās dashboard widget selector (including duplicates)
Qase pie chart
aqua dashboard with KPI Alert at work
Dashboards
Data
Custom fields data
Graph types
KPI Alerts
Reporting
For clarity, this section refers to non-dashboard reports that can be generated and exported outside of the test management solution. Qase only provides the dashboard functionality, so they indeed wonāt tick any boxes here.
aqua report example
Table of contents
Pulling any data
Custom layout
External text & imagery
Drag-and-drop
Custom bands
Text formatting
Image formatting
Diagrams
Pivot tables
Scripts
Parametrisation
ALM
aqua has the functionality to perform Application Lifecycle Management, replacing multiple if not all tools that your team uses. Qase, on the other hand, is a test case management solution.
Test case management
Requirements management
Defect management
Software dev. methodology
Workflows
Project management
aqua project plan
aqua workflow
Misc.
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Conclusion
aqua and Qase offer similar test management functionality, with aqua slightly edging out the competitor. Thereās also some parity when it comes to integrations, automation, and dashboards. aqua, however, can be your aqua test management system while Qase is not really designed for that. Apart from dashboards, Qaseās reporting functionality is virtually non-existent. Most crucially, entire industries canāt use Qase due to the lack of an on-premise version. aqua, on the other hand, offers both Cloud and On-Premise.
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