We performed a comparison between Jira and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We have around 2000 plus users, so scale wise, there are no issues. We can easily scale up with multiple users."
"The pricing of the product is very good. It's not too expensive"
"Some of the features that are most important to me of JIRA Agile are the sprint planning, being able to write user stories and being able to use task management."
"Jira is a pretty capable product, and a lot of features are valuable. We value being able to set up separate projects and configure teams in them, set up sprints, and manage our sprints with its history tracking. These are all very useful features. It has been a very popular product for our work."
"Jira has a good reporting system. It also has an API, so we can do all sorts of reporting."
"Powerful features including a good reporting capability."
"Being able to automatize the deployment of the solution has been great."
"Transparency of development projects, as well as approval processes for some business projects, has improved massively."
"It has great functionality: work items, backlogs, source code, build releases, and it's easy to use."
"The solution is very much stable."
"I like the build management features and the integration with Jenkins and many other tools."
"I feel that the test plan and test tools are more manageable in TFS."
"The most valuable features are related to source code management. Using TFS for source code management and being able to branch and have multiple developers work on the same projects is valuable. We can also branch and merge code back together."
"Complete integration with VS IDE and Office tools: This give us a possibility of high-level automation, thus minimizing human error."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is that it keeps the code secure while working collaboratively in a team of four or five individuals."
"Since it is a robust solution, I face no performance issues. Also, considering how well the implementation process of the solution was carried out, we never faced any issues while using the solution."
"The help desk and services management features are in need of improvement."
"I'd like some more features around software testing. I'd like to see some more stuff done around data testing. That's what I'm most interested in."
"Jira could improve by making the user interface easier to use and the functionality could be better. While we are managing multiple sprints and other elements of the projects, it's very difficult to manage the labels and other aspects."
"Jira required a significant amount of system resources, particularly for larger organizations with extensive workflows and numerous projects."
"There should be a way to look for specific comments. When we have thousands of comments on a Jira ticket, there is no way to look at the comments of a specific type. In the comments, if there is a way to put a tag, it would be helpful. For example, when there are a lot of lengthy discussions happening on a particular ticket, there could be a conclusion tag or something like that to indicate a conclusion. It would help in sorting the comments based on a certain category, such as conclusion."
"It would be ideal if the solution could be available as a mobile application."
"I would like to see it connecting to Git. That could be useful. We use it for Stash, but I think there is one for Git also. I don't know if it's a plug-in that exists already, but that could be nice."
"I do know the initial setup was pretty complicated. The user interface could be better organized and easier. "
"TFS's CI/CD, project pipelines, and management development could be improved."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
"They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA."
"The interface can be improved and made more user-friendly."
"There's not automatic access to test case management and execution."
"The test management interface is not very handy."
"I would like to see TFS improve its web interface as there are some limitations with IDs and the integration behind it and with open-source tools like VS Code."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail. See our Jira vs. TFS report.
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