We performed a comparison between TestRail and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Test Management Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the flexibility, ease of use for writing new test cases, the test plans, and the composition."
"I use the product to create test cases and share them with my team and manager."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that there are various test case templates and test artifact maintenance."
"The most valuable features are the reporting in the dashboard and the general way in which we can create test runs is helpful."
"You don't need to follow complex procedures to create a test run, test case, etc."
"The most valuable features of TestRail by Gurock are the user experience, it's very easy to learn. There is no learning curve needed to work on projects and manage the test cases, it is easy. Exporting and importing are simple."
"From a testing perspective, the management is awesome. I am able to do testing and then add the reporting and the evidence. It is fair in terms of the price that you're paying. You get what you're paying for."
"Integration with Confluence and JIRA."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"I feel that the test plan and test tools are more manageable in TFS."
"TFS is very user-friendly."
"Complete integration with VS IDE and Office tools: This give us a possibility of high-level automation, thus minimizing human error."
"The solution's iteration board is good because you can track all your work with it."
"Build definitions and releases within the product. allow us to put our latest applications in the field."
"It is a stable solution."
"As far as queries are concerned, creating, grading, or customizing the queries as a primary requirement is very easy to do."
"TestRail should improve its pricing."
"The TestRail API to integrate reporting of automated tests is complete, but requires many requests to identify the appropriate entry."
"Reporting could be more flexible regarding repeating reports."
"I've encountered at some point, some difficulties on the administration side, but I don't remember exactly what they were."
"This solution has room for improvement. For example, some particular projects need to adjust access or add additional members and this isn't always possible. Role-based access would improve this."
"With TestRail, the APIs are there, but they may not be able to easily integrate with the Jenkins."
"I have faced some issues with the integration between TestRail and Jira, which haven't been permanently resolved yet."
"TestRail's user interface is not great. When you use it for the first time, you will be very uncomfortable and not know how to create test cases. It doesn't have a field for preconditions and post-conditions."
"We are also using Microsoft Teams. The two products function separately. There is not enough collaboration between Microsoft Teams and TFS."
"The price could be cheaper."
"Microsoft should discontinue the use of SharePoint as I don’t really see any value add to TFS, document management features can be included in TFS web portal itself, if required!"
"I would like to see TFS improve its web interface as there are some limitations with IDs and the integration behind it and with open-source tools like VS Code."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"The solution's server for deployment needs to be improved."
"TFS needs to be stable."
TestRail is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 21 reviews while TFS is ranked 2nd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. TestRail is rated 8.0, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of TestRail writes "A tool that provides effective test management and real-time reporting capabilities". 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". TestRail is most compared with Zephyr Enterprise, Tricentis qTest, Tricentis Tosca, Sealights and PractiTest, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and Zephyr Enterprise. See our TFS vs. TestRail report.
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