We performed a comparison between TFS and Zeenyx AscentialTest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText, IDERA, Microsoft and others in Test Management Tools."I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"The API for managing TFS programmatically is very powerful, you can listen on work items changes by TFS events."
"Version Control: TFS offers both the centralized “TFVC” version control technology as well as the distributed “Git” version control technology."
"It is a stable solution."
"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 interface is good with TFS."
"The tool's installation is straightforward."
"It's an integrated system that includes all the information that we need to deliver our products smoothly and to track the progress of each piece of code."
"AscentialTest's object recognition in snapshots is a robust feature that goes beyond standard elements, even accurately identifying objects within Datawindows."
"The most valuable feature of AscentialTest for us is that it fully supports PowerBuilder."
"If you use the PowerBuilder application, do choose AscentialTest without thinking twice."
"It’s been really easy to automate the same application TestComplete struggled with. I have been able to automate two of our key applications in just a few months. I haven’t even taken their training."
"One of the areas that could be improved is to have an effective full lifecycle management."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"The interface can be improved and made more user-friendly."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
"I'd like to see some kind of visualization tool for TFS that would make life much easier."
"The user interface could improve and test management was not useful in TFS."
"The only thing I can't wait for is for Zeenyx to add automating Mobile apps."
"Streamlining the retrieval of results from individual test set runs would be beneficial."
"I would like to see an improvement in the User Interface."
"Classes are not as object-oriented as I would like, but I am a programmer and not QA so I expect a lot."
TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews while Zeenyx AscentialTest is ranked 10th in Test Management Tools with 13 reviews. TFS is rated 8.0, while Zeenyx AscentialTest is rated 9.4. 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 Zeenyx AscentialTest writes "Robust automation with reusable steps and seamless integration". TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, TestRail and OpenText ALM / Quality Center, whereas Zeenyx AscentialTest is most compared with Tricentis Tosca and SmartBear TestComplete.
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