We performed a comparison between TFS and Visual Studio Test Professional 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 related to source code management. Using TFS for source code management and being able to branch and have multiple developers work on the same projects is valuable. We can also branch and merge code back together."
"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."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"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."
"It is a stable solution."
"Version Control: TFS offers both the centralized “TFVC” version control technology as well as the distributed “Git” version control technology."
"The work item feature is most valuable. It allows us to store all product requirements. We can also link the test cases to those requirements so that we know which feature has already been tested, and which one is waiting for testing. We can also couple the code reviews, unit tests, and automated tests into these requirements. It is reliable. It has all the features and good performance. It also has reporting tools or analysis tools."
"The most valuable feature is simplicity."
"The documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems."
"The debugging feature is valuable."
"The most valuable features of Visual Studio Test Professional are the IntelliSense and the ease of adding the NuGet packages."
"Performance-wise, it is a great tool."
"Visual Studio Test Pro is super helpful for my Microsoft app work."
"I was satisfied with the support given by customer service."
"Easy to use and easily scalable."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very scalable solution."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
"One of the areas that could be improved is to have an effective full lifecycle management."
"The manageability and performance of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution should have better dashboards."
"The user interface could improve and test management was not useful in TFS."
"The dashboard and the customization of dashboards is an area they have to work on."
"The test management interface is not very handy."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user."
"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."
"Visual Studio Test Professional could improve by having better integration with external databases."
"I would like to see more integration in the solution."
"The solution should be cheaper."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier."
"The price could be improved."
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TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 5th in Test Management Tools with 46 reviews. TFS is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete, TestRail and Tricentis Tosca. See our TFS vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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