Top 3 reasons to choose Xray over Zephyr and Zephyr Scale

Explore and learn more about everything that separates Xray from its main competitors in test management for QA in Jira.

Test-Management

Accelerated efficiency with enterprise support for Automated Testing

With native support for BDD (Gherkin/Cucumber) and integration with multiple test automation frameworks, including JUnit, NUnit, Robot, behave, Calabash, SpecFlow, Selenium, and UFT Developer (formerly UFT Pro or LeanFT), there’s no excuse not to automate.

Exploratory-Testing

Powerful coverage analysis and test environments for fast deployment

Xray’s unique capability of advanced coverage analysis gives you real-time statuses of the coverage of requirements on a given version, a given plan, and even a specific environment, so you can quickly assess if requirements are validated and can be safely deployed.

poor-coverage

The only app that allows you to manage all your tests as Jira issues

Xray’s tests are normal Jira issue types, allowing you to configure screens, workflows, and add custom fields to your testing-related issues. With Test Management natively integrated, your testers and developers are working on the same interface and can easily collaborate.

Xray vs Zephyr & Zephyr Scale Features

Specify
Create, view, edit, clone tests
Link to Defects and Requirements
Visual editor for steps
Imbued Generic Automated Tests
Native support for BDD (Gherkin/Cucumber)
Preconditions for test cases
Re-use preconditions between test cases
Multiple preconditions for test cases
Organize
Organize testing artifacts in the same or different projects
Organize tests in Test Sets
Hierarchical test organization in folders and subfolders
Plan
Test plans
Hierarchical tests for execution organization in folders and subfolders
Execute
Create, edit, clone and schedule test executions
Ad hoc style (execute unplanned tests)
Personalize and create Test run statuses
Reusability
Modular Test Design
Data-driven testing
Test parameterization
Measure
Track with progress bars on Test Execution/Cycles
Track requirement coverage/status directly on issues, as an attribute
Explore and evolve
Advanced query language
Built-in REST API
Characteristics
Consistency (Test changing non-retroactivity on past executions)
Split test executions and plans between different projects
Email notifications
Usage of Jira Issue Types:
Test
Pre-Condition, Test set, Test execution, Test plan
Test Environments
Analyze test results and requirement coverage per Test Environment
Configuration
Extensive configuration, including behavior
Per project configuration
Support for project separation between requirements and tests
Agile integration
See Test Executions and Test Plans in Jira's native Agile board
CI Integrations:
Jenkins
Bamboo
Importing results:
Cucumber, JUnit, NUnit, Robot framework, Behave, Selenium, Xamarin Test Cloud
Importing tests:
Manual via Excel/CSV
Cucumber
JUnit, NUnit, Robot framework
Importing results from HP ALM/QC 12.5x
Exporting Tests to fully customized DOC/PDF/Excel with Xporter
Integration with other Jira-related tools (e.g. Confluence)
UI supported languages:
English, German, French, Spanish
More languages

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Xray vs Zephyr Pricing

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Xray

$10
$1,000
$2,000
$4,000
$7,500
$11,000
$19,000
$28,000
$42,000

Zephyr Squad

$229
$1,717
$3,435
$5,725
$10,304
$12,594
$21,753
$40,072
$74,419

Zephyr Scale

$229
$1,717
$3,435
$5,725
$10,304
$13,418
$23,176
$42,693
$79,287
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Xray

$10,320
$18,000
$21,000
$30,625
$37,500
$52,500
$57,500
$62,500
$70,000
$75,000

Zephyr Squad

$13,475
$19,599
$23,276
$34,301
$42,877
$52,674
$60,027
$67,377
$74,727
$79,628

Zephyr Scale

$14,105
$20,517
$24,363
$35,904
$44,880
$55,138
$62,832
$70,526
$78,220
$83,349
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Xray

$10
$100
$250
$375
$500
$750
$1,250
$1,625
$2,000
$2,550
$4,200

Zephyr Squad

$10
$102
$255
$383
$511
$835
$1,289
$1,582
$1,874
$2,234
$3,314

Zephyr Scale

Free
$102
$255
$383
$511
$835
$1,344
$1,692
$2,039
$2,549
$4,079