We performed a comparison between Jira 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's easy to escalate the issues to the product development team."
"I like the test cases in Jira. The orange dash items view was great, and I like the features and layout of the data. It's quite different, and people are now getting their items so quickly."
"The most valuable feature of Jira is the reporting feature, which allows us to track our team's tasks."
"I enjoy working with (and can recommend) Jira for a number of reasons. The best features are that it is friendly and provides good visibility. It's to the point and very effective."
"The user interface is simple."
"Jira is great for story management."
"It handles all of the issues that we need it to do."
"This solution focuses on lean methodology which we have found useful and it can also be used on any device."
"TFS's best features include user-friendly test management, bug reporting, and ID assignment."
"It is very user-friendly."
"The API for managing TFS programmatically is very powerful, you can listen on work items changes by TFS events."
"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 features are test case writing and bug tracking."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"The interface is easy to navigate."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"I manage the progress of the stories in an Excel chart with dates on work progress or thing to do. I don't like the progress or the stage changing from the stories in Jira."
"The biggest complaint industry-wide about JIRA is they need to purchase additional extensions, such as reporting automation. If they could provide some additional extensions from the initial purchase it would be a huge benefit."
"I'd like some more features around software testing. I'd like to see some more stuff done around data testing. That's what I'm most interested in."
"One thing that I don't like about Jira is that when you do an export, it only allows a thousand issues. So the export feature needs to be better."
"I find the dashboard to be Jira's most problematic feature."
"From the project management perspective, I would say there are a lot of different issues that could be tweaked. There can be small improvements with traceability, for example."
"It's also difficult to migrate through, things don't always tie-up. It's not easy to use."
"The plugin management needs a lot of work."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"We encounter issues with backups."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"Currently, we are looking for a solution with which we can incorporate third-party development sites or third-party project teams into the system. Because it is on-premise, it is a bit problematic because we need to have a VPN or something else in the system. A cloud-based solution would be better for us, and that's what we are looking for. Our biggest problem is the external connection, which, of course, is limited by our own IT. It would be good to have some kind of publishing service for this external connection. It might be there, and it might be that our IT is making it impossible for us. Its template editor could be easier to use. Currently, customizing the project templates according to your needs requires some work."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"I understand Microsoft is phasing out TFS in favor of Git, so I would steer anyone interested in TFS to look into Git."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". 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". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional, TestRail and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our Jira vs. TFS report.
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