We performed a comparison between OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites 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."
"Most of the features that I like the best are more on the analytics side."
"The stability is very good."
"The setup is pretty straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is the ST Add-In. It's a Microsoft add-in that makes it much easier to upload test cases into Quality Center."
"Lab Management is a valuable feature, because you have a 360 view."
"It's basically the way to show the work that we do as QA testers, and to have a historical view of those executions."
"Cross project customization through template really helps to maintain standards with respect to fields, workflows throughout the available projects."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is that it keeps the code secure while working collaboratively in a team of four or five individuals."
"I like the build management features and the integration with Jenkins and many other tools."
"Good branching and labelling features."
"The most valuable features of TFS are the test plans. We can reproduce reusable test plans in test automation. We have a lot of queries and this feature is very useful."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"The most valuable feature is simplicity."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is its compatibility with Microsoft Windows systems. We have predominantly Microsoft solutions and TFS work well."
"Micro Focus ALM Quality Center could improve its marketing. For example, Tricentis is much better at letting the market know about new solutions and updates. The migration of the tool could improve, but it can be difficult."
"The performance could be faster."
"I'd like to see the concept of teams put into it."
"It's not intuitive in that way, which has always been a problem, especially with business users."
"Micro Focus ALM Quality Center should improve the reports. Reporting on tax execution progress against the plan. However, they might have improved over two years since I have used the solution."
"It needs Pure-FTPd WebUI and single sign-on."
"There needs to be improvement in the requirement samples. At the moment, they are very basic."
"Certain applications within this solution are not really compatible with certain applications like ERP. The problem is when we're trying to use these applications or devices, the solution itself doesn't scale."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"The user interface could improve and test management was not useful in TFS."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"TFS's CI/CD, project pipelines, and management development could be improved."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"The interface can be improved and made more user-friendly."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
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OpenText ALM / Quality Center is ranked 6th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 197 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. OpenText ALM / Quality Center is rated 8.0, while TFS is rated 8.0. 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 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". OpenText ALM / Quality Center is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, OpenText ALM Octane, Jira, Tricentis qTest and Rally Software, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and TestRail. See our OpenText ALM / Quality Center vs. TFS report.
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