We performed a comparison between Atlassian ALM 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."The most valuable feature is the Scrum board."
"This solution fits very well into our agile product management environment."
"The main power of this tool is the integration between the different products of the Atlassian suite. We have good integration with work management with Java. This is the major strength from this provider."
"The most valuable feature is integration, particularly if you have a .NET application."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is its compatibility with Microsoft Windows systems. We have predominantly Microsoft solutions and TFS work well."
"The most valuable feature is simplicity."
"TFS' most valuable feature is the triage process. It is a robust solution that is easy to use."
"The traceability is valuable. While managing the workflows, it was always nice to have that traceability from requirements and all the way through design. It integrates with Microsoft Test Manager, and you can have everything that is related to a requirement attached to it."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"The most valuable features of TFS are bug reporting and its high performance."
"There is room for improvement in the high-level project management."
"The automation for scheduling software and doing software tests should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid."
"The reports are not really customizable, which is something that they should improve on."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
"Integration from Visual Studio could be improved."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"In the next release, I would like them to include integration for various projects, similar to what JIRA has, and they could create this feature on the dashboard."
"Merging branches is definitely one of the more challenging aspects for people new to TFS."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"I'd like to see some kind of visualization tool for TFS that would make life much easier."
Atlassian ALM is ranked 16th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 6 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Atlassian ALM is rated 7.6, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Atlassian ALM writes "Scrum board feature is highly valuable and handles different user volumes". 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". Atlassian ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational ALM, Polarion ALM and Rally Software, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and Tricentis Tosca. See our Atlassian ALM vs. TFS report.
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