We performed a comparison between OpenText ALM / Quality Center 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."Templates: Allows us to standardize fields, workflows throughout hundreds of HPE ALM projects."
"Reporting was the main thing because, at my level, I was looking for a picture of exactly what the coverage was, which areas were tested, and where the gaps were. The reporting also allowed me to see test planning and test cases across the landscape."
"So the first impression that hits me about HP UFT 14.0 (formerly QTP) is that it seems to be a whole lot faster! But that could be subjective, as I'm running it on a high end gaming system."
"It's user friendly, scalable, and very stable and strong. It's cooperative, meaning that I can assess the test to check it and follow the flow of defects, and the developers and the business can use this tool to follow the test process."
"ALM Quality Center's best features are the test lab, requirement tab, and report dashboard."
"The solution is very user-friendly."
"The execution module and the test planning module are definitely the most valuable features. The rest we use for traceability, but those are the two modules that I cannot live without."
"The tools could be useful if we were utilizing them more effectively"
"One of the best documentation in the world."
"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"Easy to use and easily scalable."
"The solution is very stable."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."
"Code testing is the most valuable feature of this solution for developing software."
"ALM uses a waterfall approach. We have some hybrid approaches in the company and need a more agile approach."
"The uploading of test scripts can get a little cumbersome and that is a very sensitive task. They could improve on that a lot. It's really important that this gets better as I'm loading close to a thousand test scripts per cycle."
"There needs to be improvement in the requirement samples. At the moment, they are very basic."
"ALM Quality Center could be improved with more techniques to manage Agile processes."
"Client-side ActiveX with patch upgrades"
"We have had a poor experience with customer service and support."
"The BPT also known as Business Process Testing can sometimes be very time intensive and sometimes might not be very intuitive to someone who is not familiar with BPT."
"I'd like to see the concept of teams put into it."
"The product must provide more automation."
"The tool crashes and has high memory consumption."
"It would be great to support other languages and applications, and that is one of the things we can improve."
"Sometimes, the product is too complex to use."
"Visual Studio Test Professional could improve by having better integration with external databases."
"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."
"Sometimes, the solution hangs, so its performance could be improved."
"The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."
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OpenText ALM / Quality Center is ranked 1st in Test Management Tools with 197 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 5th in Test Management Tools with 46 reviews. OpenText ALM / Quality Center is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of OpenText ALM / Quality Center writes "Offers features for higher-end traceability and integration with different tools but lacks in scalability ". 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 ". OpenText ALM / Quality Center is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, OpenText ALM Octane, Jira, Tricentis qTest and Zephyr Enterprise, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT One. See our OpenText ALM / Quality Center vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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