We performed a comparison between Helix ALM 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 tool offers high stability."
"Helix ALM enables users to build, make efficient and effective decisions, and use least-cost methods for maximum benefit, as fast as possible. They allow you to see and visualize your configuration."
"The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility."
"Team Foundation Server (TFS) is easy to use, and we have a complete trail and traceability. We also like the access control part."
"As far as queries are concerned, creating, grading, or customizing the queries as a primary requirement is very easy to do."
"It is very user-friendly."
"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."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is project management, which includes user stories as well as task management."
"Helix ALM should be able to integrate with other systems better. Helix ALM should also have an easier user interface, and the solution needs to have drag-and-drop tools included in it."
"The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement."
"It would be great to see Perforce's strategy is for implementing intelligence into the process via AI or ML. It's not clearly defined, at least not to my knowledge."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"I'd like to see some kind of visualization tool for TFS that would make life much easier."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"The user interface could improve and test management was not useful in TFS."
"In the next release, I would like them to include integration for various projects, similar to what JIRA has, and they could create this feature on the dashboard."
"The solution should have better dashboards."
"We encounter issues with backups."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
Helix ALM is ranked 16th in Test Management Tools with 7 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. Helix ALM is rated 6.4, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Helix ALM writes "Helix ALM is insanely configurable, with great traceability, and flexibility". 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". Helix ALM is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, Jira, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, Polarion Requirements and Tricentis qTest, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, TestRail and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our Helix ALM vs. TFS report.
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