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."It's user friendly. We haven't had any issues so far. It's flexible. If we need something, we can always contact the owner in our headquarters to make a configuration."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"TFS' most valuable feature is the triage process. It is a robust solution that is easy to use."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"It 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 tool's installation is straightforward."
"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."
"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."
"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."
"The solution is easy to use and they have also integrated with Microsoft."
"The product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."
"Code testing is the most valuable feature of this solution for developing software."
"Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development."
"The user interface is very friendly."
"The most valuable features of Visual Studio Test Professional are the IntelliSense and the ease of adding the NuGet packages."
"The program and portfolio planning facility can be improved."
"TFS's CI/CD, project pipelines, and management development could be improved."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"There's not automatic access to test case management and execution."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"We encounter issues with backups."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"The tool crashes and has high memory consumption."
"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."
"One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone."
"The solution's documentation could be improved because it keeps disappearing from the solution."
"The price is reasonable, but it's not the best."
"The product must provide more integration."
"Its UI could be better."
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TFS is ranked 3rd 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, TestRail and Tricentis Tosca. See our TFS vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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