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."
"I like the Kanban board. It is very useful in terms of seeing who is working on what and what the current status of work is."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"Good branching and labelling features."
"The API for managing TFS programmatically is very powerful, you can listen on work items changes by TFS events."
"It is very user-friendly."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"Build definitions and releases within the product. allow us to put our latest applications in the field."
"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"TFS's CI/CD, project pipelines, and management development could be improved."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"The price could be cheaper."
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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