We performed a comparison between Parasoft Development Testing Platform and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites."It really helps developers execute scenarios through DTP and share reports/results across the teams."
"The most valuable feature is code coverage."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"The solution's iteration board is good because you can track all your work with it."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"Version Control: TFS offers both the centralized “TFVC” version control technology as well as the distributed “Git” version control technology."
"The work item feature is most valuable. It allows us to store all product requirements. We can also link the test cases to those requirements so that we know which feature has already been tested, and which one is waiting for testing. We can also couple the code reviews, unit tests, and automated tests into these requirements. It is reliable. It has all the features and good performance. It also has reporting tools or analysis tools."
"The most valuable features of TFS are the test plans. We can reproduce reusable test plans in test automation. We have a lot of queries and this feature is very useful."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"The solution's speed has room for improvement."
"Parallel execution: It would help it multiple executions could be done at the same time."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"The user interface could improve and test management was not useful in TFS."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"Merging branches is definitely one of the more challenging aspects for people new to TFS."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"TFS's CI/CD, project pipelines, and management development could be improved."
"The project management side should be addressed and the project and release planning should be somewhat extended."
Parasoft Development Testing Platform is ranked 15th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 1 review while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 27 reviews. Parasoft Development Testing Platform is rated 8.6, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Parasoft Development Testing Platform writes "Provides 100 percent code coverage, is stable, and scalable". 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". Parasoft Development Testing Platform is most compared with Codebeamer and Jira, 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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