I've been asked to make a testing issue tracker. The challenge is that there's a many-to-many relationship between test cases & issues (i.e. a case would be impacted by multiple issues, & an issue can impact multiple cases).

I was planning to solve this with Excel's Power Pivot tool so I could put multiple tables into a single data model, but my company's on MacBooks (and won't allow Basecamp Windows OS) and Mac's Excel doesn't have this.

How can I solve? I'm open to any tools, not just Excel.

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Jira. Don’t reinvent the wheel

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Excel for test case and bug management. Red flag

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Unless I completely misunderstood , you could probably make a private git repo to accomplish this, or use a ticketing solution like Jira or RT. Notion or Airtable may also be able to accomplish this. These are are all largely free(at some tier) and/or open source

I would not recommend attempting this in excel for the reasons you stated and this quickly can escalate into a technical mess.

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Deloitte doesn’t have a test management tool? Come on.

I could make it for you, but I need to charge a consulting fee

Jira or HPALM

Use access

I should clarify I'm looking for something that would be relatively accessible to a client. The tracker of test cases is in Excel (on the client's SharePoint) because it's co-edited by us/client, and so looking for a tool that's either embedded in the same file, or one that can regularly pull the data from the Excel file and incorporate it into a data model with the issue info in order to create dashboards.

I'm not skilled with network databases, so any details are appreciated!

can be solved within excel without power pivot tool, using match function, and sorting.

Unfortunately, like I mentioned in the description, our MacOS version of Excel seem to only have Power Query, not Power Pivot

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You say you have Power Query, so you can still read SharePoint files into a workbook and do full joins to preserve your many-to-many relationships. If you run into row count limits, you can take your PQ script and copy it to Power BI which is more scalable than Excel.

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