The 10 Best Quality Engineering Software Tools in 2024: A Complete Guide

New Relic is a performance monitoring system for data for engineers to monitor, debug, and improve their entire stack. It's designed to help you keep an eye on your software's health and performance with a variety of flexible reports and dashboards. It's incredibly useful for getting a clear, detailed picture of how your software is performing. It's not just about spotting problems—although it's great at that—it's also about understanding trends, identifying potential issues before they become big problems, and generally keeping everything running smoothly.

The APM (Application Performance Monitoring) feature is a feature worth noting. It gives you real-time insights into your software's performance, so you can spot and fix issues quickly. Then there's the Infrastructure Monitoring feature, which lets you keep an eye on your entire infrastructure, from servers to cloud services. And the Browser Monitoring feature is great for understanding how your software is performing from the user's perspective. They also have a generative AI assistant, New Relic Grok, which can inject conversational questions like 'What caused this CPU spike?' and answer them via a chat interface.

Integrations include over 600 apps that include cloud platforms like AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, CI/CD tools like Jenkins, CircleCI, and Travis CI, communication tools like Slack and PagerDuty, and other monitoring and analytics tools like Grafana, Datadog, and Splunk. It also has an API you can use to build custom integrations.

New Relic has a free version available. Their paid plans start at $49/user/month and offer additional features, like SAML single sign-on, 24x7 support availability, 2-hour critical initial support response SLA, and additional data ingest per month. 

Tricentis’s Continuous Testing Platform supports the entire testing lifecycle across enterprise and custom applications. Tricentis uses AI-driven data analytics to power faster, smarter testing and its platform is fully automated and codeless, making it easy and quick to set up and run automated tests, whether you’re a developer or a business leader.

The Tosca automated testing module separates the automation model from the underlying application. This means that changes to the application’s source code don’t impact the test automation. This helps to accelerate software testing by removing bottlenecks.

Tricentis pricing information is unavailable. Free trials are available for the qTest and NeoLoad modules.

QA Wolf is a high-quality testing service used to outsource quality engineering tasks. Their service includes an expert team of QA engineers to write, run, and repeat all your critical tests. They are used by companies like Gumroad, MainStreet, Mailchimp, Replay, and Padlet.

QA Wolf does quality engineering (QE) by having their team run tests, investigate failures, and then write up a bug/issue report with repro steps, a video recording, logs, and any other data you need. You can log into the platform to view progress at any time or wait for a scheduled review session. Key services include building a test plan for you, end-to-end test coverage, failure triaging and test maintenance, high-quality bug reports, fast parallel test run infrastructure, and an easy-to-use app for real-time status updates.

QA Wolf's software is built on Microsoft Playwright, which is a common product chosen for open-source developments. This gives clients the freedom to carry all their existing tests and data with them should they ever want to bring their testing in-house on the test suite of their choice.

QA Wolf integrates with tools like Stripe, Salesforce, email providers, Auth0, SMS, Github, and even more options through their flexible API.

Appsurify’s TestBrain is a risk-based testing solution that delivers test results on a per-change basis. It's one of the best quality engineering software tools in the market for experienced testing teams who want to build more efficiencies into their test automation practice, providing features that help QA teams streamline their software testing environment, reduce CI pipeline build times, achieve Shift Left testing, and reduce overall costs.

Appsurify has two main subscription plans available: Plus and Professional. Appsurify Plus is tailored for small businesses and startups, and it starts at $59 per seat/month with a 60-day free trial. The Professional plan best suits the QA automation testing requirements of midsize teams and large enterprises. SaaS and on-premise license options are available, but the latter is only bundled with the Professional plan.

Both subscription packages come with a variety of features such as smart test selection and execution, auto-mapping of tests to code, advanced reporting, advanced analytics, risk alerts, and flaky failure prevention. Both plans support various test types, including UI, E2E, integration, unit, API tests, and more. The features exclusive to the Professional package are prioritized manual testing, full onboarding, and priority support, although standard support and initial setup onboarding are included in the Plus package too.

Katalium is a test automation framework that makes it easier to automate software testing using TestNG, Selenium, and other popular open-source test automation frameworks within Visual Studio Code.

To put it simply, Katalium gives software testers a blueprint for test automation projects, minimizing the learning curve to enable teams to ship higher quality products in less time.

Katalium is an open-source project by Katalon, which offers a robust suite of enterprise software testing automation and TestOps tools.

Katalium is open source and available free of charge.

CucumberStudio helps teams to arrive at a clear shared understanding of precisely what the product should do and co-design effective acceptance tests. CucumberStudio also allows teams to accelerate test cycles through test automation.

Thanks to its seamless Git integration, CucumberStudio serves as a single source of truth by automatically ensuring documentation is up to date, accessible, and easy to understand even for non-technical members of cross-functional teams.

CucumberStudio pricing starts from ~$33.65/per user per month (€29/u/m). CucumberStudio offers a 14-day free trial and a free open source version, CucumberOpen, is also available.

SeaLights is an enterprise software risk scoring tool that enables software development teams to implement quality governance at scale.

SeaLights automatically identifies, analyzes, and flags software quality risks in real-time throughout the SDLC, empowering software teams to deliver quality at speed.

SeaLights pricing information is currently unavailable.

LinearB is a project board specifically designed for dev leads, providing detailed project updates in a single screen. This helps dev leads to track project progress, identify risks such as bottlenecks and high-risk code, and offer assistance where it’s needed most.

LinearB uses team-based metrics (not individual metrics) to help dev leads track quality and efficiency trends and distribute work evenly to prevent team overload or burnout.

LinearB pricing starts from $15 per dev per month and they offer a “free forever” trial for up to 8 devs (with 45 days of data retention).

Perforce’s suite of software development tools for enterprise teams includes a variety of solutions for planning, developing, and creating; testing and validating; and operating, managing, and scaling software.

Perforce has a range of DevOps solutions that address quality, compliance, security, speed, and collaboration throughout the entire product lifecycle from ideation to launch. This makes it an excellent choice for enterprise quality engineering.

Each Perforce tool has its own pricing model, available on request. A free trial is available.

The Inflectra suite is a whole application management and testing product ecosystem, with tools geared towards product managers, developers, and testers to promote quality engineering throughout the software development lifecycle.

Inflectra gives product managers a bird’s eye view of projects, enabling them to track project burndown, review test coverage, and allocate resources where it’s most needed.

For developers, it’s a great tool to centralize everything because it supports effortless IDE integration, source code management, bug and user story tracking, CI management, and automation.

For software testers, Inflectra’s tools facilitate manual testing, testing automation, exploratory testing, and team management.

Inflectra’s pricing varies by tool or bundle and the number of monthly users. Users receive a discount on bundled products. Inflectra does not offer a free trial.