Global App Testing vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Comparison


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About Global App Testing (GAT) enables tech teams to conduct testing across 189+ countries with a network of over 60,000 professional testers, using real devices and environments. By leveraging the GAT platform, you can streamline your testing process, boost release quality, and accelerate time-to-market while optimizing budget efficiency. The platform is fully integrated to seamlessly work with your existing DevOps or CI/CD tools. Whether you need ongoing QA support or additional resources to manage peak release cycles, GAT’s integration-driven approach allows you to manage your entire testing workflow—from test initiation to results analysis—without leaving your familiar tools like GitHub, Jira, and TestRail. With our integrated platform, both unscripted exploratory testing and scripted functional test execution can be embedded into your CI/CD and SDLC processes, ensuring perfect alignment with your automation testing tools.	About IBM® Rational® Quality Manager is a collaborative, web-based tool that offers comprehensive test planning, test construction, and test artifact management features throughout the development lifecycle. Rational Quality Manager is for test teams of all sizes and supports various user roles, such as test manager, test architect, test lead, tester, and lab manager. The application also supports roles outside the test organization. Comprehensive test planning, test design with test cases, test script construction and reuse. Test execution, test analysis, reporting, and live views. Team collaboration, lab management, web application security, configuration management. and governance. Establish a review and approval process for the test plan and for individual test cases. Manage project requirements and test cases and establish the interdependencies between the two. Define the schedule for each test iteration and track the dates of other important test activities.
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Audience CTOs, App Developers, Software Engineers, QA Testers, Product Managers	Audience Companies looking for a collaborative, web-based tool with comprehensive test planning, test construction and test artifact management features
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Supported Online Supported
API Offers API Supported	API Offers API Not Supported
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Pros & Cons from Real Users Pros Very simple experiment test results that usually delivered within 48hours - with a precise breakdown to replicate any issues found. Love the ease of use of the platform and how easy it is to launch tests. It's quick, effective, and keeps our launches smooth. The user interface is super easy to understand, and they are constantly rolling out updates and improvements to their platform to make things even better. They were so easy to work with, really liked having a project manager to help with managing testing. They were very flexible and open to our needs/feedback, even hosted a training session with testers to ensure they understood the nature of our business. - Easy setup in testing sessions - Very responsive testing managers - Reliable execution of all required test cases Cons Raising experiments not as simple as previously Found it to be a little confusing. There's not much I've experienced so far that I don't like. I think most companies that rely on freelancers have some issues with consistency/quality –having a project manager from GAT helped with this a lot but there were still a few instances were bugs were raised with different levels of quality feedback. - Long test execution time - Sometimes incoherent results, issues that have been marked as "intentional" get flagged again
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Company Information Global App Testing Founded: 2013 United Kingdom www.globalapptesting.com	Company Information IBM Founded: 1911 United States www.ibm.com/www.ibm.com/docs/en/elm/6.0.1
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Categories API Testing Supported Crowd Testing Supported Functional Testing Supported Localization Supported Mobile App Testing Supported Performance Testing Supported QA Testing Supported Regression Testing Supported Software Testing Supported Test Management Supported UI Testing Supported Usability Testing Supported Web Accessibility Testing Supported Website Accessibility Supported	Categories Artifact Management Supported Performance Testing Supported Test Management Supported
Performance Testing Features API Testing Supported Benchmarking Not Supported Cross Browser Testing Supported Debugging Supported Historical Reporting Not Supported Load Testing Not Supported Mobile Testing Supported Parallel Testing Not Supported Regression Testing Supported UI Testing Supported Web Testing Supported Show More Features Functional Testing Features Automated Testing Supported Interface Testing Supported Regression Testing Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Sanity Testing Supported Smoke Testing Supported System Testing Supported Unit Testing Not Supported Mobile App Testing Features Functional Testing Supported Installation Testing Supported Interruption Testing Not Supported Memory Testing Not Supported Performance Testing Supported Usability Testing Supported Software Testing Features Automated Testing Supported Black-Box Testing Supported Dynamic Testing Supported Issue Tracking Supported Manual Testing Supported Quality Assurance Planning Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Static Testing Supported Test Case Management Supported Variable Testing Methods Supported White-Box Testing Not Supported Usability Testing Features A/B Testing Not Supported Annotations Not Supported Audience Targeting Not Supported Heatmaps Not Supported Impression Testing Supported Mobile Testing Supported Moderated Usability Testing Not Supported Prototype Testing Supported Quantitative Metrics Not Supported Remote User Testing Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Surveys and Feeback Supported Video Recording / Transcription Not Supported Web Accessibility Testing Features ADA Compliance Not Supported Alerts / Notifications Not Supported Automated Testing Not Supported Mobile Accessibility Testing Supported Ongoing Accessibility Monitoring Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Visualize Accessibility Not Supported WCAG Compliance Not Supported	Performance Testing Features API Testing Supported Benchmarking Supported Cross Browser Testing Not Supported Debugging Supported Historical Reporting Not Supported Load Testing Supported Mobile Testing Supported Parallel Testing Not Supported Regression Testing Supported UI Testing Supported Web Testing Not Supported Test Management Features Automation Integration Supported Collaboration Tools Supported Pass/Fail Results Tabulation Supported Reporting / Analytics Supported Requirements Management Supported Test Scheduling Not Supported Test Tracking Not Supported Time/Budget Tracking Not Supported
Integrations Jira Supported GitHub Supported IBM Rational Synergy Not Supported Jira Work Management Supported Slack Supported TestRail Supported Zephyr Enterprise Supported View All 6 Integrations	Integrations Jira Supported GitHub Not Supported IBM Rational Synergy Supported Jira Work Management Not Supported Slack Not Supported TestRail Not Supported Zephyr Enterprise Not Supported View All 2 Integrations
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