Case Study: Large Communications Company standardizes testing and cuts tool costs 7X with SmartBear QAComplete

SmartBear QAComplete Helps save 7X over IBM Rational TestManager and HP Quality Center

A large Canadian communications company with nearly 750 internal and external technical resources faced fragmentation across the software lifecycle: teams used spreadsheets, Bugzilla, Redmine, IBM Rational and HP Quality Center, which made consolidated reporting, consistent status definitions, and accurate test-coverage analysis difficult and labor-intensive.

The company selected SmartBear QAComplete for its ease of use, clean UI, configurable workflows, dashboard/reporting, and cost (about one-seventh of competing enterprise tools), rolling it out from defect management to test, requirements and release management with a test-center team to drive adoption. The result: rapid uptake (licenses grew 5X), support for ~150 projects and ~60,000 test cases, clear traceability between requirements/tests/defects, faster, consolidated reporting, and an accelerated path to production with plans to integrate SoapUI for API testing.