We performed a comparison between TFS and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Test Management Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Build definitions and releases within the product. allow us to put our latest applications in the field."
"The interface is easy to navigate."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is its compatibility with Microsoft Windows systems. We have predominantly Microsoft solutions and TFS work well."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"The most valuable features are test case writing and bug tracking."
"The solution is very much stable."
"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."
"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product."
"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."
"The solution is very stable."
"Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development."
"It's great for the development of .NET."
"The debugging feature is valuable."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"They have room for improvement in merging the source code changes for multiple developers across files. It is very good at highlighting the changes that the source code automatically does not know how to handle, but it's not very good at reporting the ones that it did automatically. There are times when we have source code that gets merged, and we lose the changes that we expected to happen. It can get a little confusing at times. They can just do a little bit better on the merging of changes for multiple developers."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"The program and portfolio planning facility can be improved."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"The overall reports in TFS could improve. Additionally, there should be an easier way to migrate from an older version to a newer one."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
"The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."
"It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."
"The documentation is limited."
"The data flow can be improved."
"The integration with Git needs improving because it is a bit disjointed and unpredictable."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"Sometimes Visual Studio is slow. It uses a lot of resources like memory and processing power. You should optimize the performance by only installing what you need on your machine. Don't install unnecessary things that will slow your machine."
"Its UI could be better."
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TFS is ranked 2nd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 5th in Test Management Tools with 46 reviews. TFS is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete, OpenText UFT One and TestRail. See our TFS vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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