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What is aqua?

aqua is an AI-powered test management system which helps tech companies to organize tests & teams, run testing scenarios of any complexity and scale, and go from manual to automated testing smoothly.

Launch aqua’s AI assistant while browsing a requirement to get a complete test case covering it. 42% of aqua's AI test cases require no extra human input.

aqua's real-time analytics & enterprise-level reports give clarity over QA & dev workflows: you see what to improve & automate.

Who Uses aqua?

SaaS, outsource teams who need to manage multiple manual and automation testing tools centrally; Banking&FinTech, Manufacturing, Insurance tech teams who need to be auditable in their testing.

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Reviews of aqua

Average score

Overall
4.7
Ease of Use
4.5
Customer Service
4.9
Features
4.7
Value for Money
4.7

Reviews by company size (employees)

  • <50
  • 51-200
  • 201-1,000
  • >1,001

Find reviews by score

5
71%
4
29%
Rost
Rost
Technical Writer in Vietnam
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Easy Project Setup and Quick Test Case Creation

5.0 8 months ago

Comments: It helped us create test cases from requirements and solved all our test management problems.

Pros:

Getting started with Aqua Cloud was quite easy thanks to its good web interface. I was able to set up projects and create test cases quickly. Really loved an AI test case generation feature. It generated test cases by analyzing requirements.

Cons:

It couldn't integrate with some of the tools I'd need.

Marko
Softwaretester in Germany
Computer Software, 201–500 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Super program for test management and perfect connection to other tools

4.0 2 years ago

Comments: Our Experience are very good. We have build in 2,5 years a teststructure with more then 1000 Testcases.

Pros:

This tool offers an own system structure, also you have a perfect individual overview. You can integrate a lot of tools with the free api.

Cons:

The Performance can be fastersome little things can be better but these aren't test relevant things

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, Self Employed
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Perfect Bug tracking

5.0 9 months ago

Pros:

Easy to use, big set of functions, good reports

Cons:

Everything is fine, I can do everything I need with it

Josephine
IT Test Manager in Germany
Biotechnology, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Intuitive Sofware

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: Our users are glad to work with aqua!

Pros:

Aqua is very easy to learn. It enables the management of manual and automated tests. The user and roles management as well as project configuration ensure an exact information management at projects. Additionally Andagon offers a great product support.

Cons:

The documentation of SSO wasn't up to date, which caused us some issues. But Andagon helped out within a conference call.

Roland
Senior Consultant in Germany
Management Consulting, 10,000+ Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Complete Test Management Tool out of the SaaS Box

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: We looked for a test management tool without excessive infrastructure set up but with all features which are needed for every days testing. Crowd testing is also an option since aqua ALM can be made accessible for externals as well.
Selenium integration is also possible within the web client, windows must be underlaying for this, because powershell scripts control the interface to it.

Pros:

Intuitive operating without excessive training if you know such tools like HP-ALM. If training is needed e.g. for testers there are enough documents available for that.

Cons:

Building test scenarios (=test sets) for a dedicated release is a bit tricky. You have to enter the target release in the requirements, set a filter to that target release and then display the related test cases and build a test scenario out of that.

Sergio
Software Developer in Switzerland
Computer Software, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Great product: really easy to use and great support

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: We are using the testcases with teststeps and the testscenarios. That allowes us to give a great feedback about errors that occure.

Pros:

It is really intuitive, has a great look and shows the results very visual. It is as well very easy to personalize with own fields and selections. And the support is very quick and helpful!

Cons:

There is nothing bad I can say about this product, except that I still need to do the testing myself :-D

Mohamed
Application Manager in Germany
Oil & Energy, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

Excellent ALM - great features, easy to use

5.0 9 months ago

Pros:

It really has everything an ALM tool should have and it's still getting better with every update. Price is reasonable and their support team is fast and reliable.

Cons:

The desktop client has still a few more features than the web client

Jennifer
Senior Associate Quality Assurance ERP in Netherlands
Pharmaceuticals, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Personal assessment of Aqua

4.0 10 months ago

Pros:

Clear structure and handling for a test documentation.

Cons:

I find the manual very complex. There are probably many other functions you could use Aqua for - but filtering them out takes a lot of time.

Jossmely
Jossmely
Especialista de Redes y Plataforma Tecnológica in Venezuela
Verified LinkedIn User
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

So complete and mature tool for the management of tests in the market,

4.0 7 years ago

Comments: So complete and mature tool for the management of tests in the market, We had success impressive visibility over the whole QA.

Pros:

aqua can be operated intuitively, administration is easily understandable. The reporting is conclusive and provides a good basis for decision making. After having used aqua, employees value the speed. Automating manual test cases is easier. A seamless integration environment with a set of test tools helps to do it. The tests can be run efficiently with different test data, thanks to possible sets of variables.

Cons:

In my experience I have not had dissatisfaction with the application. the implementation of modules, generate report, was practical and simple.

Dhimitri
Dhimitri
Senior Consultant in Spain
Verified LinkedIn User
Information Technology & Services, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Very good experience with a very good testing tool

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: The experience with Aqua ALM was overall very positive. This tool, pretty much, exceeded our expectations since it's very complete and easy to use. Even with some limitations due to the trial version, the customer service was excellent and very fast to answer every doubt or request that we had and this was very much appreciated.

Pros:

-Friendly interface and easy to use. -A complete tool for testing. You can do pretty much any testing-related tasks. -Automatic testing. -Great customer service. -Fair prices.

Cons:

-At the beginning, maybe not 100% intuitive. -Limited trial version. It would be nice to have the experience of a user management system even during the trial period.

Solomia
Product designer in Ukraine
Banking, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

This tool helps us to keep our tasks organized

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: We use aqua for requirements engineering, communication with developers and testers and bug reporting. I would definitely recommend this product to any company looking to improve their communication process or find a better way of reporting bugs.

Pros:

aqua is the best tool I've ever used for requirements and test case management. It's very easy to use, and has a convenient Google Chrome app that allows us to track bugs easily and create reports Automatically. The new beta AI features also save our time by allowing us to create test cases from requirements automatically and requiring only minor editing by our testers.

Cons:

It would be nice if there were more videos during onboarding

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Internet, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 2+ years
Reviewer Source

We tried different tools and aqua is the best for test management

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Aqua is an important tool in our team. It helps us to collect all the necessary information about requirements, test cases and bugs. We keep all the communication regarding that in aqua

Pros:

I think we got a fair price for a solid mix of issue tracking, reporting, and even some agile functionality. Customer support is always answering very quickly and the product is often updated. Recently they added AI features in test case creation and it already saves us a lot of time.

Cons:

I don’t know, I have nothing in mind

Verified Reviewer
Verified LinkedIn User
Computer Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Excellent help with test case management and bug tracking

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: Our team's work became more effective after we started using aqua. Visibility of test cases has increased since now not only QA can see the test cases, Dev team also can see the test cases covered for a given bug and see which test case has failed for the given bug.

Pros:

It's a great tool that integrates seamlessly with Jira and simplifies communication between developers and testers in our team

Cons:

Nothing special. We implemented it pretty quick in our company

Kostiantyn
DevOps in Romania
Information Services, 2–10 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Best option on the market

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: We moved all our manual and automated QA effort to aqua. It was a pleasant surprise that the reporting functionality is much deeper yet intuitive than my experience with the free trial suggested.

Pros:

Aqua gives us a great overview over all our testing activity, including test cases and test scenarios.

Cons:

Views would sometimes get stuck and show no tickets, but that doesn't happen anymore.

Arthur
Frontend Developer in Ukraine
Computer Software, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

aqua helped optimize our process

5.0 2 years ago

Comments: aqua is a great support to make switching to automated testing easier

Pros:

aqua helps to gather all the data from automated and manual testing in one place. The integrations work really good, it saves us a lot of time

Cons:

There is no test automation inside the tool, so we have to use test automation tools as integrations

Elena
Testmanager in Germany
Information Technology & Services, 501–1,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

working with aqua is fun and easy

5.0 5 years ago

Pros:

I learned aqua intuitively, it was as if I had always known aqua! It is very easy to create complex data constellations for the test cases, for example in Excel and import them into aqua. When carrying out the test, you have the right conditions, the right data for every test step and the expected results for every test scenario! Reports and dashboards are easy to configure and you always get the data in real time, very useful to act quickly.

Cons:

If you don't find something, refresh the view or delete the filters ;-)

Jan
Robot Creator in Germany
Industrial Automation, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 6-12 months
Reviewer Source

Aqua

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: In general, we are happy with aqua and are increasing our usage.

Pros:

The product is very easy to use, it comes with an office like UI and we were able to get started within hours. Aqua offers a number of options to optimize or filter certain aspects and hide a lot of complexity. Thus being easy to use for multiple people. We liked the reporting functionality and the comment functions to help improve our requirements and test process.

Cons:

We ran into some minor issues which were mostly solved by the support team. We still have some issues with exporting to excel, since rtf export were not human readable.

Daniel
General Manager in Germany
Automotive, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Easy to use tool for requirements engineering

5.0 5 years ago

Pros:

We use aqua primarily for requirements engineering and it works very good for us. Before we started with aqua we used text files for describing the requirements of our products. Especially the change-tracking was very complicated. With aqua it is now very easy to collect requirements from different sources and managed them.

Cons:

The installation of new aqua-releases could be simplified and some pre-definied reports would be helpful.

Zoheil
QA Engineer in UK
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Fantastic Test Management Tool

5.0 5 years ago

Pros:

Very comprehensive tool that covers Test Management from A-Z. Sales/Customer Support was amazing. The option to add free users to work on Defect Management only is perfect for smaller teams and companies that work with externals. At the same time, the more expensive options give clients that can afford it all the extras they could need.

Cons:

The layout/look is a little traditional (which some companies actually may prefer) and the lack of an agile/scrum board for Defect Management for free Users was an issue for us (but it's a free version so can't really complain)

Johannes
Fachbereichsleiter in Germany
Information Technology & Services, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1+ year
Reviewer Source

Aqua ALM is a modern and easy to use Application Lifecycle Management Tool

5.0 2 years ago

Pros:

Modern, sleek look and easy to use and great interface to use with other tools

Cons:

More interfaces for different tools would be great

Clemens
Qualitymanager in Germany
Outsourcing/Offshoring, 5,001–10,000 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Multifarious tool, with a lot of helpful functions for the test

5.0 5 years ago

Pros:

- modern and clean surface - supports all phases of the fundamental test process -> helpful functions for the test planning -> promotes the control of the tests (transparent inspection trough the active test analysis and execution -> structured test design -> easy documentation of the test execution -> detailed reporting - individual and adaptable reports - helpful wiki

Cons:

- the abundance of functions is not only a blessing, it's also a curse -> at the beginning it's not easy to understand all the different Buttons, functions, tabs and so on

Oliver
Quality assurance in Germany
Internet, 11–50 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Fits perfectly to our needs

5.0 5 years ago

Comments: Super friendly staff, good on boarding and fast access

Pros:

- Desktop application / Web application - Functionality - Pricing - License management

Cons:

More possibilities in the Jira Sync plugin

Volker
Testkoordinator in Germany
Information Technology & Services, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Review Aqua

4.0 5 years ago

Pros:

The Product is easy to use. The Product is extensive

Cons:

I Dont missing features. Integration Confluence. Testautomation is not so easy to implemated

Steffen
Project Manager in Germany
Real Estate, 1,001–5,000 Employees
Used the Software for: 1-5 months
Reviewer Source

Good product

4.0 5 years ago

Pros:

Easy to use, intuitive approach from testcase to bugs an solutions

Cons:

Difference between Desktop and WebClient in administrator mode

Jan
Product Manager in Germany
Research, 51–200 Employees
Used the Software for: Free Trial
Reviewer Source

Alternatives Considered:

aqua tests

4.0 5 years ago

Pros:

usability & functionality & GUI & setting-up multiple users

Cons:

UML for relation settings & some minor bugs