Azure DevOps is where a lot of teams plan, build, and ship — but the moment they need real test management, the story gets awkward. Work items track the build, pipelines run the deploy, and then the test cases end up scattered across spreadsheets, a separate SaaS tool, or behind the extra licensing of Azure Test Plans. We built Testaro to close that gap: native Azure DevOps test management that lives where your work already does.
The testing gap inside Azure DevOps
Most teams on Azure DevOps do not have a clean home for test case management in Azure DevOps. Azure Test Plans exists, but it sits behind separate paid access, which pushes smaller teams and trial users toward spreadsheets or a third-party tool. Both of those choices have the same two costs:
- Money — Azure Test Plans is licensed on top of your existing Azure DevOps seats, and external test tools add yet another subscription.
- Data residency — once your test cases and results live in someone else's SaaS, your test evidence has left your tenant, which is a hard conversation in regulated or security-conscious orgs.
- Context-switching — testers bounce between Azure DevOps for the work item and a separate tool for the test case, so traceability is manual and easy to break.
What Testaro is
Testaro is a native test management extension for Azure DevOps — a practical Azure Test Plans alternative that keeps your test data in your own ADO tenant. Cases, suites, runs, and full execution history are stored natively in Azure DevOps, so your test evidence never leaves the organisation you already trust. It is currently in early access and free to install from the Azure DevOps Marketplace.
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How it works — three steps to your first run
Getting started is deliberately short. There is no separate account to create and no data to migrate out of your tenant:
- Install Testaro for your organisation from the Azure DevOps Marketplace (marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Baytek.testaro-ado).
- Open the Testaro hub in Azure DevOps and create your first test plan, suite, and cases — everything is stored natively in your ADO tenant.
- Run a suite, record pass/fail results against your requirements, and review the history right where your work items live.
The features that matter
Testaro is built for everyday test case management in Azure DevOps, with the governance and reporting that real QA teams need:
- Native storage — test cases, suites, runs, and execution history are kept in your own Azure DevOps tenant, never in our servers.
- Bring-your-own-AI-key — connect your own AI provider key to generate and triage test cases; keys are session-only and are never persisted, so test generation stays under your control.
- Reporting and traceability — pass rates, requirement traceability, trend analysis over time, and shareable read-only reports for stakeholders who do not live in Azure DevOps.
- Scheduled runs — trigger test runs automatically via cron-based pipelines, so regression and exploratory testing in Azure DevOps fit into your existing CI cadence.
- Governance built in — soft-admin roles, custom fields, shared steps, and review workflows keep larger teams organised without locking smaller ones out.
Who it is for, and how to get it
Testaro is for any team already on Azure DevOps that wants free test management for Azure DevOps without sending test data to a third party — QA engineers who need structured test case management, delivery leads who want requirement traceability, and security-conscious orgs that need test evidence to stay inside their tenant. Because it is security-first by design, your data never leaves your Azure DevOps organisation.
- Install free during early access from the Azure DevOps Marketplace.
- Read the full feature breakdown on the Testaro product page.
- Learn more at testaro.baytekdev.com.
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