Acunote vs Azure Test Plans

Acunote is web-based project management and Scrum software for software development, IT project management, and company-wide project work. Teams can set sprint start and end dates while keeping future work in an undated backlog. Tasks can represent user stories, to-dos, bugs, or issues, with descriptions, status, estimates, remaining time, comments, attachments, due dates, and dependencies. Reporting includes burndown charts, work-completion predictions, cross-sprint analytics, and task analytics. Project and task wikis can hold requirement documents and dashboards. Integrations include Subversion, Perforce, GitHub, Bitbucket, JIRA, Bugzilla, Mantis, FogBugz, and Trac; changesets from integrated source control appear in a Timeline for review. Plans include a free option for up to five users and paid tiers. Business costs $49 a month, Corporate $99 a month, and Enterprise $149 a month, each with seven users included and additional-user charges. The maker describes plans for groups from small teams to matrix organizations. Acunote is made by Pluron, Inc. and was founded in 2007.

Azure Test Plans gives teams tools to plan, run, and track manual and exploratory testing for apps. For scripted tests, teams can track actionable defects and connect test cases and suites to user stories, features, or requirements. Exploratory sessions let testers design and run tests at the same time. During manual tests, Test Runner can capture screenshots, image action logs, and screen recordings. Reports, dashboard widgets, and customizable Power BI reports show plan progress and trends. The service integrates with Azure Pipelines for CI/CD testing and offers REST APIs and an extension contribution model. Manual testing is available in the web portal through supported browsers on major platforms; a free Test & Feedback extension supports exploratory testing in Chrome and Microsoft Edge. The free Stakeholders plan does not allow users to create or manage Test Plans. Basic is free for the first five users, then $6 per user per month; Basic + Test Plans costs $52 a month, billed at $52 per user per month. A 30-day trial is listed. Azure DevOps cloud-based load testing is deprecated; Microsoft points users to Azure Load Testing for managed load testing.