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."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."
"You don't need to follow complex procedures to create a test run, test case, etc."
"I use the solution for test management."
"This is a user friendly solution."
"The product’s most valuable feature is the UI. The structure of test cases is easy to understand."
"The API to support integration of the homemade automated testing tool."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that there are various test case templates and test artifact maintenance."
"The integration with Jira and the ability for extra configurations are the most valuable features."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"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 from my point of view is project management, which includes user stories as well as task management."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"As far as queries are concerned, creating, grading, or customizing the queries as a primary requirement is very easy to do."
"I feel that the test plan and test tools are more manageable in TFS."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"The TestRail API to integrate reporting of automated tests is complete, but requires many requests to identify the appropriate entry."
"Better prediction of text."
"The test suite management has room for improvement as well as better reporting."
"The platform needs improvement regarding performance and creating links."
"It would be useful if it had its own issue management system. At the moment, it's purely a test management tool and you have to link to a defect management tool, like JIRA. It would be useful if there was an option to use its own defect management tool so that it's integrated and not two separate tools."
"The reports should be more user-friendly."
"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."
"TestRail should improve its pricing."
"The program and portfolio planning facility can be improved."
"More options could be provided from the perspective of requirements management, which would help product owners to use the tool effectively."
"The dashboard needs more enhancements."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"The price could be cheaper."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"They have room for improvement in merging the source code changes for multiple developers across files. It is very good at highlighting the changes that the source code automatically does not know how to handle, but it's not very good at reporting the ones that it did automatically. There are times when we have source code that gets merged, and we lose the changes that we expected to happen. It can get a little confusing at times. They can just do a little bit better on the merging of changes for multiple developers."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
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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