We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ClearQuest and Visual Studio Team System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."The combination of a highly flexible state machine together with a platform independent API enables possibilities to automate many steps that in many systems are manual."
"It can be adapted to any process flow and easily be integrated with other in-house tools using the ClearQuest API."
"I am not familiar with any issues with respect to stability, and I have never seen Team System crash."
"The solution has a good framework that is user friendly and scalable."
"IntelliSense and CodeLens are helpful because they can show you details about your function, such as how many times it is called from other places within the code."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"Visual Studio Team System is the most powerful IDE available in the market."
"The solution is scalable, stable and has allowed us to upgrade our frameworks."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Every month there is an increase in the number of users. It is a scalable solution."
"The product is efficient."
"Lack of a modern web interface compared to other systems might discourage customers."
"I have seen customizations with Team System that allowed it to integrate into other ticketing systems like Jira, which would be a really nice feature to see."
"Accessibility switches available on the desktop should also be available on mobile devices for coding or developing on the go."
"The tool's subscriptions are expensive for medium and small businesses. It works fine on Windows. However, it is not stable on other platforms."
"The product must improve its stability."
"The stability of the product could be better."
"The technical support could be better."
"I would like to see the inclusion of more programming languages, especially better support for Java."
"The user experience for the task assignment functionality, and more generally the software lifecycle development, needs to be improved."
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IBM Rational ClearQuest is ranked 6th in Software Configuration Management while Visual Studio Team System is ranked 3rd in Software Configuration Management with 14 reviews. IBM Rational ClearQuest is rated 7.2, while Visual Studio Team System is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ClearQuest writes "Tracks change requests, problems, and physical asset management. I would like to see data type for floating point numbers. ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Team System writes "A scalable and efficient solution that can be used to perform tasks involved in developing information systems". IBM Rational ClearQuest is most compared with Jira, IBM Rational ClearCase, HCL Compass and IBM Rational Synergy, whereas Visual Studio Team System is most compared with .
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