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Features
Hawzu is a modern test case management platform designed around execution discipline, traceability, and long-term clarity. This page documents the core capabilities available in Hawzu.
Test Case Management
- Rich test case editor with structured steps and expected results
- Support for preconditions and shared preconditions
- Free-flow authoring with optional Gherkin-style syntax
- Inline variables and parameterized values
- @mentions for users and contextual references
- Attachments including images and documents
- Versioned test case updates with history
Test Suites & Organization
- Hierarchical folder and test suite structure
- Drag-and-drop organization
- Logical grouping by module, feature, or area
- Reusable shared steps across test cases
Executions & Test Runs
- Executions as first-class entities tied to releases
- Support for ad-hoc test runs without mandatory release coupling
- Step-level execution status (Pass / Fail / Blocked)
- Execution comments and actual results
- Execution immutability once release is locked
- Clear separation between execution context and authoring
Release Management
- Releases as explicit execution containers
- Release status controlling execution mutability
- Execution tracking per release
- Historical comparison across releases
Requirements Traceability
- First-class requirements management
- Linking requirements to test cases
- Traceability between requirements, executions, and defects
- Coverage insights per requirement
Defect Management
- Defects managed directly in Hawzu
- Link defects to executions and requirements
- Defect status tracking
- Single source of truth for defect metadata
Integrations
- Integration with external defect tracking systems (e.g. Jira)
- Multiple configurations per integration
- One defect mapped to one external configuration
- Webhook-based updates from external systems
- External tools treated as views, not sources of truth
Roles & Access Control
- Workspace-level roles and permissions
- Project-level custom roles
- Group-based access management
- Direct and inherited access visibility
- Fine-grained permission aggregation across roles and groups
Access Tokens
- API-only access tokens
- Token-specific permissions
- Token rotation support
- Token lifecycle audit logging
Audit Logs
- Security event logging
- User and role management events
- Repository and execution changes
- Token creation, rotation, and revocation events
- Traceable history for compliance and review
Analytics & Dashboards
- Execution trend analysis
- Failure analysis by priority and severity
- Automation effectiveness tracking
- Defects per requirement insights
- Custom dashboard support with multiple chart types
AI Assistance
- In-app AI assistance grounded in Hawzu documentation
- Answers limited to documented features and concepts
- No hallucinated functionality
- Designed to explain workflows and system concepts
Security & Compliance
- Workspace and project isolation
- Encrypted data in transit and at rest
- Strict access control enforcement
- Execution immutability for historical integrity