TestRail alternative
Leaving TestRail, without leaving your test cases behind
AxonQA imports your TestRail cases, runs them, repairs them when your app changes, and turns the results into a straight answer on whether you can ship. This page covers what actually moves across, what does not, and who is better off staying put.
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The short answer
AxonQA is a TestRail alternative for teams who want the whole quality process in one place rather than test management on its own. Your test cases import in one step, up to 5,000 at a time. Run history stays in TestRail. If it does not suit you, your cases export straight back.
Your evaluation
What to check before moving
Use a representative workflow to compare execution, migration and release evidence.
Connect cases to execution
Try one representative test from creation through its result.
TestRail can generate automation code for download and execution in your own environment. In AxonQA, evaluate the connected path from a case to a browser run, failure evidence and release assessment.
An existing execution pipeline may already meet your needs. Compare the work required to maintain it with the value of bringing execution into the QA workspace.
Test the migration with your own suite
Start with a small import before committing to a move.
Check how titles, steps, expected results, priorities and suite structure arrive. Use the transfer inventory below to identify history and custom fields you would need to retain elsewhere.
A migration is only worthwhile if the new workflow helps your team enough to justify its setup and data-transfer limits.
Compare the evidence behind your reports
Use the same release question in both tools.
TestRail offers cross-project reporting on Enterprise. Ask which evidence your team needs alongside those reports. AxonQA connects browser and API checks, manual phases, bugs and acceptance decisions within a release assessment.
If your current reports and integrations already provide the evidence you need, staying may be the right decision.
After the move
What actually changes day to day
Not a feature count. Three moments in a normal release that work differently.
Today
Write the cases in one tool, automate them in another, run them in CI, paste the results back.
With AxonQA
Cases, the automation, the runs and the results sit in one place, so nothing needs pasting back.
Today
A lead moves between the test library, CI, API client and bug tracker to keep the release moving.
With AxonQA
Ask Axon for the outcome. It can organise the work, run UI and API checks, investigate failures, update Jira or Azure DevOps, and report back.
Today
A test breaks because a button moved, and someone spends the morning working out whether it is a bug.
With AxonQA
Axon repairs locator drift without changing what the test expects, so an assertion failure stays red for review.
Today
Release day is a judgement call assembled from four tabs.
With AxonQA
Coverage, runs, failures and bugs resolve into one answer on whether you can ship, with the evidence attached.
Be honest about it
Who should stay on TestRail
This section is not politeness. It is the reason to trust the rest of the page.
Stay where you are if
- You need ISO 27001 certification or SSO and SAML today. Both are on our roadmap and stated as roadmap, which means TestRail Enterprise is the better answer for you right now.
- Your test management is genuinely the part that works, and the gap is somewhere else entirely.
- You have deep customisation built on TestRail's API that a move would unpick.
- Your team wants a tool that stays out of the way rather than one that proposes things.
A move is worth it if
- Your cases and your automation live in different tools and you are the integration between them.
- Nobody can answer whether the release is safe without opening four things first.
- Tests break when the interface moves and fixing them is somebody's standing chore.
- You want coverage measured against requirements rather than counted by hand.
Weighing them rather than leaving? Read the side by side
The migration
What transfers when you move
Including what does not, because you will find that out in the first hour anyway.
It is one sentence
Connect TestRail, then tell Axon what you want:
Import my Checkout project from TestRail
It finds the project by name, and if the name is ambiguous it says so and lists what is there rather than guessing. It shows you the count and waits for a yes before it writes anything. Up to 5,000 cases at a time, and it tells you up front if your project is bigger. The Import hub does the same job by clicking, up to 1,000.
Line by line
- Test case titles, steps, data and expected results
- Priority and category, mapped to the AxonQA equivalents
- Project, suite and section structure, resolved by name
- Run history and past results
- Milestones and TestRail-specific custom fields
Changed your mind later? Your cases export back to TestRail, into an existing project or a new one we create. Leaving is built in.
Before you move
Questions teams ask first
Do my TestRail test cases come across?
Yes. Titles, steps with their data and expected results, expected outcomes, priority and category all transfer, and the project, suite and section structure is resolved by name. You can ask Axon in a sentence, for example import my Checkout project from TestRail, or use the Import hub if you prefer clicking.
How many test cases can I import at once?
Up to 5,000 in a single import when you ask Axon, and 1,000 through the Import hub, which is why large suites are easier to move by asking. Either way it previews the count first and tells you if your project is bigger than the limit, before it writes anything.
What happens to my run history and past results?
They stay in TestRail. AxonQA imports test cases, not historical runs, so if you need that archive export it from TestRail before you close the account. Your new run history starts building in AxonQA from your first run.
Can I get my data back out if it does not work out?
Yes. Your cases export back to TestRail, either into an existing project or into a new one AxonQA creates for you. Nobody should have to gamble a migration on a tool they have not used yet, so leaving is built in rather than bolted on.
Is AxonQA a replacement for TestRail or something I run alongside it?
Most teams move across, because running both means maintaining cases in two places. Some keep TestRail for a regulated programme and use AxonQA for everything else. Both work, and the integration stays connected either way so cases can move in both directions.
Do I need an automation engineer to get value from it?
No. AxonQA explores your app, drafts the cases, writes the automation and repairs it when your interface changes. That is the whole reason it exists. If you do have automation engineers, they own the generated framework code rather than being handed a black box.
What does AxonQA cost?
Pro is £69 a month, Team is £199 a month, and Enterprise starts at £999. Every plan and allowance is published on the pricing page.
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