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."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"Complete integration with VS IDE and Office tools: This give us a possibility of high-level automation, thus minimizing human error."
"The traceability is valuable. While managing the workflows, it was always nice to have that traceability from requirements and all the way through design. It integrates with Microsoft Test Manager, and you can have everything that is related to a requirement attached to it."
"It is very user-friendly."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"Build definitions and releases within the product. allow us to put our latest applications in the field."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"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."
"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"TFS and MTM have their own style of working and they are different from other tools like Jira or TestRail, which are simpler and easy to use."
"The price could be cheaper."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"The program and portfolio planning facility can be improved."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"Currently, we are looking for a solution with which we can incorporate third-party development sites or third-party project teams into the system. Because it is on-premise, it is a bit problematic because we need to have a VPN or something else in the system. A cloud-based solution would be better for us, and that's what we are looking for. Our biggest problem is the external connection, which, of course, is limited by our own IT. It would be good to have some kind of publishing service for this external connection. It might be there, and it might be that our IT is making it impossible for us. Its template editor could be easier to use. Currently, customizing the project templates according to your needs requires some work."
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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