We performed a comparison between Atlassian ALM and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites."The main power of this tool is the integration between the different products of the Atlassian suite. We have good integration with work management with Java. This is the major strength from this provider."
"The most valuable feature is the Scrum board."
"This solution fits very well into our agile product management environment."
"For what I need TFS for, I have never run into any limitation."
"The tool's installation is straightforward."
"It is easy to push our changes from quality to pre-prod and prod."
"It is very user-friendly."
"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 features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"The automation for scheduling software and doing software tests should be simplified because it's complex and too rigid."
"The reports are not really customizable, which is something that they should improve on."
"There is room for improvement in the high-level project management."
"One of the areas that could be improved is to have an effective full lifecycle management."
"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."
"Integration from Visual Studio could be improved."
"The test management interface is not very handy."
"I understand Microsoft is phasing out TFS in favor of Git, so I would steer anyone interested in TFS to look into Git."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"More options could be provided from the perspective of requirements management, which would help product owners to use the tool effectively."
"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."
Atlassian ALM is ranked 16th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 6 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Atlassian ALM is rated 7.6, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Atlassian ALM writes "Scrum board feature is highly valuable and handles different user volumes". 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". Atlassian ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational ALM, Polarion ALM and Rally Software, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and Codebeamer.
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