We performed a comparison between SmartBear TestComplete and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Test Automation Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution has a very nice interface."
"The most valuable features are the desktop and mobile modules."
"It allows us to test both desktop and web applications."
"The solution helps improve the stability of our product. It also decreases the work of our manual quality assurance engineers."
"Complete works perfectly with CUTE. That includes all dialogues, right-click menus, or system dialogues, etc., which are handled well."
"Recording and playback of tests were easier with SmartBear TestComplete...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a strong automation tool for desktop, browser, and API testing."
"The product is stable for what we are currently using it for, and it is sufficient for us."
"The solution's iteration board is good because you can track all your work with it."
"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."
"TFS is very user-friendly."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is that it keeps the code secure while working collaboratively in a team of four or five individuals."
"The most valuable feature is integration, particularly if you have a .NET application."
"The most valuable features are test case writing and bug tracking."
"TFS’s test management capability without the expensive licensing has large gaps. Users will be unable to access performance testing and coded UI testing capabilities."
"Basically, the capacity to construct various products is something I find handy."
"We were testing handheld barcode scanners running WindowsCE with many menus of warehouse functions, and our biggest problem was the timing between input and responses."
"The integration tools could be better."
"The artificial intelligence needs to be improved."
"Increased performance with less memory and CPU usage."
"To bring it up to a 10, I would be looking for the addition of some key functional API testing."
"Error handling features in the tool are a little limited."
"TestComplete gives support to do requests to a SOAP web service but has no support to do HTTP requests on Restful services."
"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."
"TFS needs to be stable."
"I would like to see the reporting features expanded so that I can see details on the users connected to all of the projects."
"The program and portfolio planning facility can be improved."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"Access and permissions are confusing when attempting to include basic manual testing functionalities."
SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 8th in Test Automation Tools with 70 reviews while TFS is ranked 2nd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. SmartBear TestComplete is rated 7.6, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SmartBear TestComplete writes "A stable product that needs to improve its integration capabilities with other test management tools". 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". SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio, Ranorex Studio, OpenText UFT One and froglogic Squish, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our SmartBear TestComplete vs. TFS report.
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