We performed a comparison between Kovair ALM Studio 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."We increased our development and testing team velocity, were able to manage traceability, and deliver software faster."
"Wide range of adapters/connectors which allow connectivity to any tools."
"I have found almost all of the features valuable because it integrates well with your Microsoft products. If a client is using the entire Microsoft platform, then TFS would be definitely preferable. It integrates with the digital studio development environment as well."
"The tool's installation is straightforward."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"It is a stable solution."
"TFS is very user-friendly."
"It is very user-friendly."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"The API for managing TFS programmatically is very powerful, you can listen on work items changes by TFS events."
"Needs an easier and less heavy UI."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"Integration from Visual Studio could be improved."
"The solution's server for deployment needs to be improved."
"The price could be cheaper."
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"Overall, I think it would be useful to have something similar where Microsoft comes up with supporting concepts of scaling Agile in TFS so that clients don't have to look for a separate tool."
"We encounter issues with backups."
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Kovair ALM Studio is ranked 22nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Kovair ALM Studio is rated 10.0, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Kovair ALM Studio writes "We increased our development and testing team velocity and were able to manage traceability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". Kovair ALM Studio is most compared with , whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and OpenText ALM / Quality Center.
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