Azure Test Plans vs Hawzu

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.

Hawzu is a cloud test management platform connecting test cases, requirements, executions, defects, releases, and analytics. It scores release readiness and produces go/no-go verdicts and sign-off reports. Test authors can use structured steps, reusable shared steps, parameters, datasets, and dynamic or hybrid suites. Its AI generates test cases from requirements, specifications, or PDFs, maps coverage, and cites source documents through Canon. The beta Hawzu Recorder Chrome extension creates readable manual steps and scripts for Playwright TypeScript or pytest with Selenium Python. Hawzu does not run those scripts; customers run them in their own CI and import reports. It imports JUnit, TRX, NUnit, Cucumber, and Allure results and maps them to test cases. Integrations include Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jira, GitHub Issues, GitLab Issues, Azure DevOps, Linear, Slack, and signed webhooks. Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, with role-based access, scoped API tokens, audit logs, and workspace isolation. Free allows five people and three projects; Growth is $20 a month per member billed yearly.