We performed a comparison between Jira, Polarion ALM, and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites."Overall, the solution is very nice and has a variety of great features."
"Workflow administration is an easy process, especially with respect to defects."
"Kanban board: The board is easy to use and visually impressive to non-IT users, who found it easy to relate to."
"One of the most valuable features is querying because the jQuery function is very good. Additionally, we can create good designs very easily."
"It's a Scrum tool, so it's very easy to use."
"The solution has been very stable overall."
"Jira is easy to use and there are a lot of tools that are integrated with it."
"The most valuable features of Jira are all the integrations with other systems. It's not the best in any specific area but it has lots of plug-ins and integrations."
"The technical support is quite good."
"Polarion ALM helps us better structure our customer requirements, and we can also validate the specs of our products against those. If anything changes on our side, we see the impact, and we can see the effect If a customer changes requirements."
"The tool helped us to more effectively and efficiently gather and structure the information (requirements, test plans, project management data, etc.), and share it with the involved stakeholders in a safe and change-controlled manner."
"It offers good performance."
"The best feature of Polarion ALM to me is its traceability link."
"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"You can see the work ticket and you can circulate that within the teams. You can define your flows, customize according to your needs, and you can create dashboards and create the reports according to your needs."
"It is a very stable solution."
"The solution is very much stable."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"The interface is good with TFS."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"Good branching and labelling features."
"TFS's best features include user-friendly test management, bug reporting, and ID assignment."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"The part when it comes to the testing area is a bit hard to handle. The screen is too small, you can't really read what you're typing in, and it's only for the testing area. It looks like they have pressed in more than the UI system could handle to display it properly."
"There needs to be a way to export a user story."
"I don't know if it's the way it's deployed in the organization, but the interface we are provided is not as customizable as other tools. The multi-language report is not enabled in our installation. I don't really know if it's something related to the tool or our installation."
"Because I am a developer, I would like integration with Git Source Code Management so that for tickets, we can reference the code where the change has happened and where the issue is. This feature might be there, and I probably haven't discovered it."
"For a non-technical person to use, Jira is not intuitive."
"The plugin management needs a lot of work."
"Based on the feedback from my admin, it is sometimes difficult to find some of the features. It is not a big deal, but its configuration interface can be improved to make it easy to find things."
"Backlog pruning and visualization are poor."
"The solution needs to improve its user experience and graphics."
"Technical support needs some improvement."
"As Polarion ALM is a development-oriented tool, easy support or easy access is provided by default, but if I want to use detailed features, I need to write the script, particularly the VM script, and this is its area for improvement. I want Polarion ALM to have a graphical user interface that doesn't need scripting. In the next release of the tool, I'd like for it to not require scripting and programming because needing to run script language is time-consuming."
"The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"Based on my understanding, the tool's integration capabilities with multiple tools is an area of concern that Polarion needs to focus on more."
"The solution's editing capabilities need improvement."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"The price could be cheaper."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"I would like to see TFS improve its web interface as there are some limitations with IDs and the integration behind it and with open-source tools like VS Code."
"Merging branches is definitely one of the more challenging aspects for people new to TFS."
"More options could be provided from the perspective of requirements management, which would help product owners to use the tool effectively."
