Thursday, January 28, 2021

ZenTao Ranked No.1 Test Management Tool For Five Years

 

The term “Test Management” encompasses anything and everything that we do as testers and we take the help of a best and efficient test management software to perform this task. Test management tools play a very significant role in enhancing software quality effectively. Nowadays, the C-suite is investing a lot of time to find the best-suited tool as per their organization’s requirements. If you are one of them, you are looking at the right test managment solution right here.


ZenTao, with 43% market share in testing management tools, is the most popular test managment tool in China for the fifth consecutive years, according to the survey by 51testing.com, a professional software testing service provider which provides the overall solution of software testing for enterprises, trains excellent software testing talents for the industry, and provides an open platform for software testing and collaboration.


Data from the report show that the Top 3 most popular tools are ZenTao43%), Jira26%), and in-house solution(19%). As some of you might have read the article about 10 Best Test Management Tools 2019 our team posted, ZenTao was the top 1 and had 40% share of the market. ZenTao market share keeps growing over years as you can see from the diagram below and has been implemented in more and more companies, including Twitter, Changan US, ZTE, Lenovo, Volkswagen Shanghai, etc

What ZenTao can help with


ZenTao users can manage the whole process of testing using the Test feature which include Bug, Test Case, Test Request, and CI modules.Jenkins is integrated and automated testing framework is also available. What's more, Git and Subversion repositories can be set in ZenTao to check the log and comments, as well as to view and diff the code.


Strucure the process of testing

Test management tools enable groups to combine and construction the test cycle utilizing one test the executives instrument, rather than introducing various applications that are intended to oversee just one stage of the cycle. Test management tools permit groups to oversee experiment conditions, robotized tests, deformities and venture errands. A few applications incorporate progressed dashboards and point by point following of key measurements, taking into consideration simple following of progress and bug trackiing.

Implementation

A test management tool that incorporates all that expected to deal with the test cycle can save analyzers the issues of introducing separate applications that are important for the testing cycle, which can likewise be tedious. They can be implementaed with negligible programming capacity, taking into consideration simple establishment and checking of the test cycle across various venture gatherings. Once introduced, groups have moment admittance to a UI and can quickly begin running and recording experiments. These sorts of uses are intended to rearrange the test the executives cycle with significant degrees of robotization and following inherent, yet don't need progressed programming abilities or information to implement. They are helpful for groups who deal with an assortment of experiments and for bigger groups who need a comprehensive application for project management.

Using

When a project is started, a test management tool tracks bug status, defects and tasks, and takes into account coordinated effort across the team. When running test cases, users can get to dashboards to access information quickly, making the test cycle productive and exact. The sort of dashboard utilized is controlled by the extent of the task and the data and information that should be separated during the testing cycle. Information can be shared and gotten to across various undertaking groups, taking into consideration compelling correspondence and coordinated effort all through the testing cycle.


Read more for ZenTao performance ins the last three years

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

5 Reasons to Move from Jira to ZenTao

 

Before we dig down on to consider migration from Jira to ZenTao, let’s start with the basics, for business positions, who might be new to this. We’ll briefly introduce you to Jira, it’s the most popular alternative — ZenTao, and then touch base on the most common reasons, why businesses decided to move from Jira to ZenTao.

What is Jira?

Jira is an issue tracking tool developed by Atlassiann. It is the "#1 software development tool used by agile teams". Jira Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software. Originally, Jira was designed as a bug and issue tracker. But today, Jira has evolved into a powerful work management tool for all kinds of use cases, from requirements and test management to agile software development. 

When you should start looking for Jira alternative?

  1. Your monthly bill is continually increasing.
  2. You don’t use most of the features.
  3. Your team has too many problems with receiving support.
  4. Your account performance is decreasing.
  5. You need to pay extras for each plug-in integration.

What is ZenTao ALM?

ZenTao is an open source project management software for product management, project management, test management, document management, bug tracking, CI management and todo management. It is a professional Application Lifecycle Management(ALM), covering the core process of software development. It is based on Scrum, a popular Agile framework that is very pragmatic and easy to implement. It fits the fast iterative development of software projects. ZenTao self-hosted and Cloud are both available.

What are the reasons to migrate from Jira to ZenTao?

Unlike Jira, you could directly use built-in features in ZenTao without paying extras for plug-ins, such as Document Management, Gantt Charts, Effort Management and SVN/GIT repositories. ZenTao has more to offer than that, so read on the following reasons that you should migrate from Jira to ZenTao.

1. Affordable and reasonable pricing with best I/O

Jira pricing is nice for small teams, but the subscription starting from $70 per user monthly. It could be a big chunk of cost to your team. If you look at the pricing and features of ZenTao, you will find it worth what it offers. For all ZenTao Biz features, it is only $32.9 per user annually. You can find more plans for ZenTao self-hosted HERE and Cloud HERE.

2. Must-have features for application lifecycle management

ZenTao is a solution for the application lifecycle. It starts from the user story management(PBI management) and planning of a product development, to the testing, releasing and feedback of the project. It is especially for agile teams aiming for fast delivery and feedback.


3. Fast support via Zoom meeting, 1-ON-1 remote support, and emails

ZenTao support team serves users from all over the world. For new users, they have bi-weekly online introduction Zoom meeting. You can find information on the latest one scheduled on Feb 2, 2021 HERE. You can also schedule a demo with the team HERE. The average response time of the team is 24 business hours if you send an email asking for support.

4. Rapid loading and stable performance

Unlike Jira which is complained as loading too low, ZenTao can be self-hosted, so it is more in the users' hand. Also, the average page loading time of ZenTao is within 0.5 seconds. But it’s not the interface that slows down your Jira account, but instead all SaaS applications. That’s why Jira users are looking for on-premise alternatives, especially when Jira announced their server and data center products are stopped on Februrary 2, 2021. 

5. No locked in by features

If you ever used Jira, you would know that almost every feature a development team needs can be integrated in Jira, such as Confluence, Slack, BitBucket, etc. The other side of the coin is that you have to buy the apps separately and then integrate it one by one. ZenTao has document management, instant messager, CI features and such all built-in. You just pay it once and for all. You can check the features of ZenTao Biz HERE.


For feature comparison charts and details, read Agile Tool-ZenTao ALM vs. Jira Software.


Reference

1. https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/troubleshoot-long-page-load-times-in-jira-server-959307746.html

2. https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-questions/Why-is-JIRA-so-slow/qaq-p/295649


Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Agile Practice: Why small release in Scrum?

 

Extreme Programming and Small Releases

T his idea that instead of having a big release at the end of a long development cycle, we try to release very often, comes from Extreme Programming. Small releases are essential for your XP as they show you the accuracy of your team towards the project. Extreme Programming promotes small Releases through continuous integration(CI) and other extreme programming practices. Small Releases helps to deliver a small working increment in a few weeks, so the Development Team can do a weekly review.


Advantages of Small Releases

There are many advantages to small releases into release often. The first one is that we deliver real business value in a very short cycle. And what that means is that we get business value sooner and that intends to increase our customer confidence and make the customer happier. 


Small releases also mean rapid feedback. We release the software soon. We get feedback from the customer soon and we can in this way do exactly what we were saying before, and adapt quickly to possible changes in the requirements. We avoid working for six months on a project and find out six months later that the customer wants something else and we got the wrong requirements. 


In addition, having small releases of product deployed and released soon produces a sense of accomplishment for the developers. It also reduces risks because again, if we're going down the wrong path, we will know right away. If we are late, we will know right away. So these are just additional advantages of having this quick cycle and more releases. 


And finally, as we also said before, we can quickly adapt in case our requirements change our code to the new requirements.

How to do small releases

Before the small release, you should make sure that you are prepared for it and create a release plan. The release planning is used to plan small units that can be released to the customer early in the project. At the release planning meeting, quantify scope, resources, time, and quality. Make sure the iteration is no more than two weeks.


After the release, learn from the past and continuously improve to meet your customer's requirements. 

Reference

1. https://explainagile.com/agile/xp-extreme-programming/practices/small-releases/

2. http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/releaseoften.html

Monday, January 25, 2021

Online Event - Scrum and Scrum Tool - Feb 2, 2021

 Online Scrum Training and Scrum Tools

Scrum is an agile framework for developing, delivering, and sustaining complex products, with an initial emphasis on software development. It is designed for small teams to break their work into goals that can be completed within a sprint, aka a time-boxed iteration. 

ZenTao is an open source project management software, and its features are product management, project management, test management, document management, bug tracking, CI management and todo management. It is a professional Application Lifecycle Management(ALM), covering the core process of software development. Join us to know this amazing Scrum tool.

The event will touch on the basics of Scrum and also how to do Scrum by implementing ZenTao, a on-premise Scrum tool,  will be demonstrated.

Event Highlights

  • Walk through the basics of Scrum, including roles, values, events, artifacts, etc.
  • Demonstrate ZenTao ALM workflow and understand Scrum practice presented in it.
  • FAQ on ZenTao features and free trial request collecting.

Event Time

Feburary 2, 2021

GMT +8:00 Asia/Hong Kong 2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Event Type

Online Zoom Meeting 

How to join the event

You can leave a comment HERE.

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