What is OpenText ALM Octane?
OpenText™ ALM Octane includes integrated planning, continuous integration, test management, and release management. With these capabilities, Agile teams and DevOps toolchains deliver high-quality software with insight, traceability, analytics-focused end-to-end visibility, and continuous quality.
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84 Likeliness to Recommend
95 Plan to Renew
81 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
Emotional Footprint Overview
+92 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love OpenText ALM Octane?
Pros
- Saves Time
- Continually Improving Product
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
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Feature Ratings
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ALM Integration
Automation
Traceability
Workflow Management
Bug Tracking & Issue Mgmt
Agile Work Management
Visual Analysis Design
Resource Planning
Managed Artifact Repository
Artifact Management
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Breadth of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Quality of Features
Ease of Data Integration
Usability and Intuitiveness
Vendor Support
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of IT Administration
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OpenText ALM Octane Reviews
Raymond K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Jan 2022
QA Software Testing Management Tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates OpenText ALM Octane from other similar products?
ALM Octane was a good replacement for ALM HP which was the old version of the tool which was more of manual Testing tool, meanwhile ALM Octane enables you automate the testing process and also allows you to directly write the test cases on the platform unlike ALM Hp which you had to write Test cases on an excel sheet offline the go through a complex upload process.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
ALM Octane supports Gherkin Language which allows you to write test cases and Scenarios using user stories and epics, which can be automated during the test process. Also it integrates requirements and defect management into Software Life-cycle which leverages traceability to ensure Quality of the Software
What do you dislike most about this product?
It has a learning curve, anyone new to Software testing tools will require a training session in order to know how to navigate and use the application. Its not a straight forward user interface that anyone can know how to use at a glance.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you want to implement Agile process , ALM Octane is the best tool for continuous integration , automated Testing and release management.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Fatima R.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Telecommunications
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2021
Fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates OpenText ALM Octane from other similar products?
Unlike other microfocus products, it has numerous sections for requirements, deficiencies, test labs for running test cases, and test projects for storing test cases. In addition, the notification mechanism and reporting functions are also competitive.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Setting up and managing test cases and test labs is pretty easy. It contains everything for every need, such as test requirements, traceability matrix, test cases, defect panels, plan panels, studies and much more
What do you dislike most about this product?
The only problem we encountered is that the server tends to get slow, which causes us to lag a little behind in the tests, but the rest of the product is admirable.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
We have the opportunity to recommend it because it is a pretty good test management tool that allows it to keep up with work, which makes handling and recording problems and data very easy
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Unique Features
- Inspires Innovation
Sharon C.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Oct 2021
Fantastic product
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates OpenText ALM Octane from other similar products?
ALM Octane has been the most relied platform in maintaining all our lifecycle applications tools.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
It gives us insights on time that ensures that we prepare for any future occurrence. Creation of reports and data analysis is conveniently done with tis powerful product. Assigning duties and roles to each team members and monitoring production has enabled our company to grow faster.
What do you dislike most about this product?
I have not has any major challenge while using this application management tool.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For effective application management I highly recommend ALM Octane for its great results in our organization with less maintenance cost.
Pros
- Reliable
- Caring
- Fair
- Acts with Integrity