IBM Rational Quality Manager vs. Visual Studio Test Professional

IBM Rational Quality Manager is ranked 15th in Test Management Tools with 4 reviews vs Visual Studio Test Professional which is ranked 13th in Test Management Tools with 1 review. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Quality Manager writes "Global Configuration allows the user to maintain different versions of the same artifact. It does not provide inbuilt capabilities for managing the tasks related to testing". The top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "It needs to be independent and user-friendly". IBM Rational Quality Manager is most compared with Quality Center, SmartBear TestComplete and TestRail. Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with Apache JMeter, LoadRunner and UFT (QTP).

IBM Rational Quality Manager

Visual Studio Test Professional

18128

IBM Rational Quality Manager

Based on 4 reviews.

18866

Visual Studio Test Professional

Based on 1 review.

Most Helpful Review

Setembrino Lusa

Engenheiro de Software - DevOps - Agile - Application Lifecycle Management Practice Specialist at a tech services company

It allows users to assign each other tasks and view the status of the assigned tasks

The software lets users register their role and create task or test-specific teams, and it allows users to assign each other tasks and view the... Read more »

Thangavel Sundaram

Project Lead at Aspire Systems

It needs to be independent and user-friendly

I haven't worked with any real projects, but did some R&D using TFS and MTM. MTM is very good for maintaining the test plan, test suite and... Read more »

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RANKING	15th out of 32 In Test Management Tools Views 2,816 Comparisons 1,368 Reviews 4 Followers 284 Avg. Rating 7.3	13th out of 32 In Test Management Tools Views 6,093 Comparisons 4,118 Reviews 1 Followers 282 Avg. Rating 7.0
Top Comparisons
Top Comparisons	Quality Center vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Compared 72% of the time. SmartBear TestComplete vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Compared 4% of the time. TestRail vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Compared 3% of the time. See more IBM Rational Quality Manager competitors »	Apache JMeter vs. Visual Studio Test Professional Compared 20% of the time. LoadRunner vs. Visual Studio Test Professional Compared 17% of the time. UFT (QTP) vs. Visual Studio Test Professional Compared 8% of the time. See more Visual Studio Test Professional competitors »

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Also Known As	Rational Quality Manager
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Website/Video	IBM	Microsoft
Overview
Overview	IBM Rational Quality Manager is a collaborative hub for business-driven software and systems quality across virtually any platform and type of testing. This software helps teams share information seamlessly, use automation to accelerate project schedules and report on metrics for informed release decisions. Rational Quality Manager helps quality assurance teams collaborate by sharing project information and status updates seamlessly so team members can synchronize teamwork throughout the lifecycle. It helps them automate by reducing labor-intensive activities to accelerate project schedules. In addition, it helps them govern by understanding and reporting on project metrics enabling accurate, reliable and timely release decisions.	Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7.
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Sample Customers
Sample Customers	Ehrhardt, Cisco Systems, Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik, CareCore National, ItaÒ BBA, Barr	Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa

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