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."The solution's iteration board is good because you can track all your work with it."
"The solution is very much stable."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"Good branching and labelling features."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is project management, which includes user stories as well as task management."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"The most valuable feature is integration, particularly if you have a .NET application."
"The most valuable features of Visual Studio Test Professional are the IntelliSense and the ease of adding the NuGet packages."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability."
"The tool is flexible and easy to manage. We use it since it is scalable and easy to use. It integrates with solutions."
"The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects."
"The user interface is very friendly."
"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"Overall, I think it would be useful to have something similar where Microsoft comes up with supporting concepts of scaling Agile in TFS so that clients don't have to look for a separate tool."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
"The manageability and performance of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution should have better dashboards."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less."
"The documentation is limited."
"The product must provide more automation."
"The database administration could be better; you should be able to choose new tools with the development environment in Visual Studio. It could be easier to use."
"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."
"It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."
"The price is reasonable, but it's not the best."
"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."
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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 48 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, TestRail and OpenText ALM / Quality Center, 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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