We performed a comparison between OpenText Silk Central and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText, IDERA, Microsoft and others in Test Management Tools."The stability of this solution is very good. In our experience it is approximately ninety-nine percent."
"Build definitions and releases within the product. allow us to put our latest applications in the field."
"The API for managing TFS programmatically is very powerful, you can listen on work items changes by TFS events."
"It is easy to push our changes from quality to pre-prod and prod."
"I feel that the test plan and test tools are more manageable in TFS."
"The most valuable features of TFS are bug reporting and its high performance."
"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 most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"The tool's installation is straightforward."
"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."
"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 overall reports in TFS could improve. Additionally, there should be an easier way to migrate from an older version to a newer one."
"Access and permissions are confusing when attempting to include basic manual testing functionalities."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"Merging branches is definitely one of the more challenging aspects for people new to TFS."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"The price could be cheaper."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
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OpenText Silk Central is ranked 21st in Test Management Tools while TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. OpenText Silk Central is rated 7.8, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Silk Central writes "We have many possibilities to customize the utilization and we can also work easily at database level for custom reporting and to manage additional information and integration". 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". OpenText Silk Central is most compared with OpenText ALM / Quality Center, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, TestRail and OpenText ALM / Quality Center.
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