We performed a comparison between Polarion 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."It meets with everybody's needs without having to grab plugins."
"Scalability is good...The integration is quite good."
"The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"It is a very stable solution."
"You can see the work ticket and you can circulate that within the teams. You can define your flows, customize according to your needs, and you can create dashboards and create the reports according to your needs."
"Polarion ALM helps us better structure our customer requirements, and we can also validate the specs of our products against those. If anything changes on our side, we see the impact, and we can see the effect If a customer changes requirements."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"Since it is a robust solution, I face no performance issues. Also, considering how well the implementation process of the solution was carried out, we never faced any issues while using the solution."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"The biggest value-add is the solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."
"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."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"It is a stable solution."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"Test management lacks an automated process."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"The tool needs to improve its planning. It also needs to add more integrations."
"The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"The solution should have better dashboards."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"Microsoft should discontinue the use of SharePoint as I don’t really see any value add to TFS, document management features can be included in TFS web portal itself, if required!"
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"The execution of test cases could stand improvement."
"It has been really dated. When you start to work more in an agile environment, it is not really that flexible. They tried to replicate the look and feel of Jira, but it is not quite there. It was nice to use in the past, but it is not as flexible now with the changing development environments and methodologies."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
Polarion ALM is ranked 8th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Polarion ALM is rated 7.8, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "Though needing an improvement in reporting and time for extraction of the data, its integration capabilities are good". 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". Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and IBM Engineering Workflow Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and Codebeamer. See our Polarion ALM vs. TFS report.
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