Azure Test Plans vs Gemfury

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.

Gemfury is a hosted repository for public and private software packages. It supports RubyGems, npm, PyPI, Go Modules, Composer, Maven, DEB, RPM, Bower, and NuGet. Packages can be uploaded through a web interface or command line, with transfers to the repository over SSL. Private packages can be deployed through a Gemfury Repo URL using existing package-management tools and workflows. Gemfury says a secret token in the URL protects packages, and uploads, deployments, and installations use SSL. Users can share an account with coworkers; business plans add separate billing, multi-ownership, and fine-grained permission control. The Free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited collaborators, public packages, and versions, but no private packages. Personal 1C costs $9 a month for one collaborator; Team 10P costs $25 a month for unlimited collaborators and 10 private packages. Gemfury offers a 14-day trial without a credit card and says trial use has no limits. Packages are deleted one month after account cancellation and cannot be recovered.