We performed a comparison between Helix ALM, OpenText ALM / Quality Center, and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"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 tool offers high stability."
"The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility."
"Produces good reports and has a great traceability feature."
"It allows us to easily make linkage and dependencies, with plenty of integrations."
"By standardizing our template, we publish reports at the business unit level."
"Quality management, project management from a QA perspective - testing, defect management, how testing relates back to requirements."
"With test execution, you have an option to create custom fields. It is also really user-friendly. With other tools, we only have restricted fields and we cannot customize or add new columns or fields that users can make use of while testing. ALM is very flexible for creating new fields. It is easy for users to understand the application."
"You can do your development from start to finish: starting with the requirements, ending with defects, and testing in-between."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus ALM Quality Center is the alignment of the test to the execution and the linking of the defects to the two. It automatically links any issues you have to the test."
"Being able to manage tests as this is something very difficult to find in other products."
"The interface is good with TFS."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"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."
"The most valuable features are related to source code management. Using TFS for source code management and being able to branch and have multiple developers work on the same projects is valuable. We can also branch and merge code back together."
"It is easy to push our changes from quality to pre-prod and prod."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"I like the build management features and the integration with Jenkins and many other tools."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement."
"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."
"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."
"There is room for improvement in the scalability and stability of the solution."
"One drawback is that ALM only launches with the IE browser. It is not supporting the latest in Chrome... It should be launched for all of the latest browsers."
"ALM uses a waterfall approach. We have some hybrid approaches in the company and need a more agile approach."
"Only Internet Explorer is supported. That is a big problem. They don't support Chrome and Firefox and so on."
"We are looking for more automation capabilities."
"The UFT tests don't work very well and it seems to depend on things as simple as the screen resolution on a machine that I've moved to."
"We cannot rearrange the Grid in the Test Lab. It is in alphabetical order right now. But sometimes a user will want to see, for example, the X column next to the B column. If they came out with that it would be useful for us. They are working on that, as we have raised that request with Micro Focus."
"The integration could be improved because with Agile technology you are working more quickly than with a top-down methodology."
"I understand Microsoft is phasing out TFS in favor of Git, so I would steer anyone interested in TFS to look into Git."
"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."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"The overall reports in TFS could improve. Additionally, there should be an easier way to migrate from an older version to a newer one."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"TFS needs to be stable."
"The user interface could improve and test management was not useful in TFS."
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