We performed a comparison between Helix ALM 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 of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility."
"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."
"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."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a scalable solution."
"It's great for the development of .NET."
"The most valuable feature has been to store all our packages in one place including SSIS packages, SQL tables, TFS and SSR."
"The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."
"The solution is very stable."
"The tool is flexible and easy to manage. We use it since it is scalable and easy to use. It integrates with solutions."
"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."
"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."
"The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement."
"The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier."
"Sometimes Visual Studio is slow. It uses a lot of resources like memory and processing power. You should optimize the performance by only installing what you need on your machine. Don't install unnecessary things that will slow your machine."
"One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone."
"The pricing of this solution should be lowered."
"It would be great to support other languages and applications, and that is one of the things we can improve."
"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 database administration could be better; you should be able to choose new tools with the development environment in Visual Studio. It could be easier to use."
"The performance could be faster."
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Helix ALM is ranked 16th in Test Management Tools with 7 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 5th in Test Management Tools with 46 reviews. Helix ALM is rated 6.4, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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 Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". Helix ALM is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, Jira, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, Polarion Requirements and Tricentis qTest, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT One. See our Helix ALM vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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