We performed a comparison between OpenText Silk Central and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText, Microsoft, IDERA and others in Test Management Tools."The stability of this solution is very good. In our experience it is approximately ninety-nine percent."
"The solution's iteration board is good because you can track all your work with it."
"Basically, the capacity to construct various products is something I find handy."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is that it keeps the code secure while working collaboratively in a team of four or five individuals."
"Some of the valuable features are version control and the ability to create different collections in terms of segregating the authorization for teams who connect to small projects."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"The solution is very much stable."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is its compatibility with Microsoft Windows systems. We have predominantly Microsoft solutions and TFS work well."
"Version Control: TFS offers both the centralized “TFVC” version control technology as well as the distributed “Git” version control technology."
"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."
"The execution of test cases could stand improvement."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"The project management side should be addressed and the project and release planning should be somewhat extended."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
"Overall, I think it would be useful to have something similar where Microsoft comes up with supporting concepts of scaling Agile in TFS so that clients don't have to look for a separate tool."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
Earn 20 points
OpenText Silk Central is ranked 20th in Test Management Tools while TFS is ranked 2nd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. OpenText Silk Central is rated 7.8, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Silk Central writes "We have many possibilities to customize the utilization and we can also work easily at database level for custom reporting and to manage additional information and integration". 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". OpenText Silk Central is most compared with OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Zephyr Enterprise, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and OpenText ALM / Quality Center.
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