ConformIQ Creator vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

Conformiq and Microsoft are both solutions in the Test Management Tools category. Conformiq is ranked #20, while Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. Conformiq holds a 2.6% mindshare in TMT, compared to Microsoft’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Conformiq users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Visual Studio Test Professional and ConformIQ Creator offer unique benefits in the testing tools category. ConformIQ Creator appears to have the upper hand due to its advanced features and higher long-term ROI.

Features: Visual Studio Test Professional is praised for seamless integration with other Microsoft products, robust test management capabilities, and extensive debugging tools. ConformIQ Creator is recognized for advanced automation features, intuitive design, and efficiency in test case generation.

Room for Improvement: Visual Studio Test Professional users suggest enhancements in performance speed, automation capabilities, and user interface. ConformIQ Creator users recommend improving reporting features, simplifying certain processes, and boosting overall system performance.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Visual Studio Test Professional is valued for straightforward deployment within Microsoft environments and responsive customer support. ConformIQ Creator's deployment is seen as complex, requiring more training and support, though users appreciate its thorough customer assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Visual Studio Test Professional is favored for cost-effectiveness, especially for existing Microsoft users. ConformIQ Creator demonstrates a higher long-term ROI based on powerful functionalities and efficient automation capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

ConformIQ Creator

Ranking in Test Management Tools

20th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Design Automation (2nd), AI-Augmented Software-Testing Tools (12th)

Visual Studio Test Professi...

Ranking in Test Management Tools

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of ConformIQ Creator is 2.6%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visual Studio Test Professional is 2.8%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Test Management Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Visual Studio Test Professional	2.8%
ConformIQ Creator	2.6%
Other	94.6%

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QE Manager at Capgemini

Feature-rich stable tool with multiple options to control output, good integration with other tools, and knowledgeable support team

The core functionality of the tool is automated test generation of optimized test suite; the tool has extensive list of options for the same. The product's integration with other tools sets it apart. It has integrations with many upstream (for requirements mapping) and downstream (export of test cases to various tools) products. It is like "plug-and-play". For any customized downstream tool, like our proprietary automation framework, support is provided for custom development. It is has features - Business AD - to use in Agile implementations. The latest version seems to have support for BDD/Gherkin as well, which we have not used much.

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Payel Saha

Test Automation Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Integrated collaboration with automated test management has improved our agile workflows and continuously supports quality reporting

Visual Studio Test Professional could be improved as earlier we had flexibility in automation testing with TFS, which became a bit difficult moving to Azure DevOps. Additionally, in Visual Studio Code, we have an agent mode for GitHub Copilot, which is very helpful in testing or development phases, while Visual Studio's GitHub Copilot is a bit tricky and sometimes does not provide my desired output.For future improvements, I would like to see prompt fixing, as currently, if something goes wrong in Visual Studio, the fixing options are not always correct. If that intelligence is embedded, it would be very helpful.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The tool has the ability to integrate with various requirement management, test management, and version control tools."

"Though optimized and automated test generation is the core functionality, the product's integration with other tools sets it apart."

"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."

"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."

"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product."

"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."

"It is a good and user-friendly tool."

"One of the best documentation in the world."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very scalable solution."

"Code testing is the most valuable feature of this solution for developing software."

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Cons

"I would like to see the output data optionally used as input for the model, as further action in the flow."

"It would be helpful to have a feature in the tool's UI to map object locators within the system."

"Even though the 4.1 version is a far-improved version from its earlier avatars, the performance of test generation is still an issue on real-time models we have."

"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"The solution can improve the startup time."

"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its scalability."

"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its stability."

"The product must provide more automation."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is expensive."

"The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Users have to pay a licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is not an expensive solution."

"The pricing is expensive."

"There are two versions of Visual Studio Test Professional: Community and Professional. We are currently using the Community version, but if we start working on a commercial product, we will consider upgrading to the Professional version. We need to identify how we will proceed with our projects, and based on that, we will decide on our licensing."

"We pay for the solution annually and the price could be reduced."

"It is a price-effective solution"

"We have licensing for Visual Studio Community edition."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very expensive solution."

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	24

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Also Known As

Conformiq Creator, Conformiq Transformer

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Overview

Conformiq Creator provides a solution for automating testing processes and speeding up the software development lifecycle of Enterprise IT applications. Conformiq Creator is used in various sectors, including Telecom, Banking, Finance, Insurance, Retail, and Public Sector services. Launched initially in 2013, Creator quickly gained popularity among its users for its functional testing, application testing, system testing, and end-to-end testing.

Conformiq Transformer shortens the path to test automation, simplifies model-based testing (MBT) adoption using existing methods, and automates manual test execution. Along with Conformiq Creator, which generates executable test cases, scripts and documentation from models, it automates and transforms test design, extending the Conformiq 360° Test Automation™ solution for complex system testing at the speed of development.

Conformiq

Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

Alcatel-Lucent, Avaya, Daimler, Ericsson

Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa

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