We performed a comparison between OpenText Silk Central and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText, Microsoft, IDERA and others in Test Management Tools."The stability of this solution is very good. In our experience it is approximately ninety-nine percent."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"Build definitions and releases within the product. allow us to put our latest applications in the field."
"The interface is good with TFS."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"I feel that the test plan and test tools are more manageable in TFS."
"Since it is a robust solution, I face no performance issues. Also, considering how well the implementation process of the solution was carried out, we never faced any issues while using the solution."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"It is a stable solution."
"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"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."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"The solution's server for deployment needs to be improved."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"We are also using Microsoft Teams. The two products function separately. There is not enough collaboration between Microsoft Teams and TFS."
Earn 20 points
OpenText Silk Central is ranked 20th in Test Management Tools while TFS is ranked 2nd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. OpenText Silk Central is rated 7.8, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Silk Central writes "We have many possibilities to customize the utilization and we can also work easily at database level for custom reporting and to manage additional information and integration". 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 Silk Central is most compared with OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Zephyr Enterprise, 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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