Azure Test Plans
Azure Test Plans is Microsoft's test case management tool, part of the Azure DevOps suite — used for planning, tracking, and executing manual and exploratory tests, tightly integrated with Azure Boards for work item tracking and Azure Pipelines for CI/CD.
Its main advantage over a standalone test management tool is native integration within the broader Azure DevOps ecosystem — test cases link directly to user stories and bugs in Azure Boards, and test results can gate or report into the same pipelines used for builds and releases, without needing a separate integration layer.
It includes a dedicated exploratory testing extension too, letting testers record session notes, screenshots, and even screen recordings directly while exploring an application, then convert findings straight into work items — a workflow aimed at organizations already standardized on Microsoft's toolchain rather than a best-of-breed, tool-agnostic setup.
