We performed a comparison between Helix ALM and TFS 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."The tool offers high stability."
"Helix ALM enables users to build, make efficient and effective decisions, and use least-cost methods for maximum benefit, as fast as possible. They allow you to see and visualize your configuration."
"The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility."
"TFS is very user-friendly."
"Version Control: TFS offers both the centralized “TFVC” version control technology as well as the distributed “Git” version control technology."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"The tool's installation is straightforward."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is its compatibility with Microsoft Windows systems. We have predominantly Microsoft solutions and TFS work well."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement."
"It would be great to see Perforce's strategy is for implementing intelligence into the process via AI or ML. It's not clearly defined, at least not to my knowledge."
"Helix ALM should be able to integrate with other systems better. Helix ALM should also have an easier user interface, and the solution needs to have drag-and-drop tools included in it."
"The reporting functionality is something that they should work on."
"I'd like to see some kind of visualization tool for TFS that would make life much easier."
"Integration from Visual Studio could be improved."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
"TFS and MTM have their own style of working and they are different from other tools like Jira or TestRail, which are simpler and easy to use."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
Helix ALM is ranked 16th in Test Management Tools with 7 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. Helix ALM is rated 6.4, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Helix ALM writes "Helix ALM is insanely configurable, with great traceability, and flexibility". 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". Helix ALM is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, Jira, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, Polarion Requirements and Tricentis qTest, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, TestRail and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our Helix ALM vs. TFS report.
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