We performed a comparison between IBM Rational ClearCase and Visual Studio Team System based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, BMC, Microsoft and others in Software Configuration Management."The tool had features similar to Git for version control. It offered branching and merging capabilities, providing better control over code management. Integration was possible with other tools, including some change management tools. The overall process was normal."
"IBM Rational ClearCase is a stable solution. I have not had any difficulty with reliability."
"ClearCase integrates well with other engineering tools and frameworks such as the Eclipse environment."
"Microsoft makes great products. They are quite robust."
"I am not familiar with any issues with respect to stability, and I have never seen Team System crash."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"The product helps with version control. I can build, develop, test and deploy applications from a single platform."
"The solution is scalable, stable and has allowed us to upgrade our frameworks."
"IntelliSense and CodeLens are helpful because they can show you details about your function, such as how many times it is called from other places within the code."
"The product is efficient."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Every month there is an increase in the number of users. It is a scalable solution."
"I have found it very difficult to understand many functionalities in IBM Rational ClearCase. We have had many problems and it is not user-friendly."
"The protection needs to be improved."
"The solution's UI is slow compared to other tools. It is an old tool."
"The user experience for the task assignment functionality, and more generally the software lifecycle development, needs to be improved."
"I would like to see the inclusion of more programming languages, especially better support for Java."
"The overall customer support needs to improve."
"The technical support could be better."
"The stability of the product could be better."
"The tool's subscriptions are expensive for medium and small businesses. It works fine on Windows. However, it is not stable on other platforms."
"The product must improve its stability."
"I have seen customizations with Team System that allowed it to integrate into other ticketing systems like Jira, which would be a really nice feature to see."
IBM Rational ClearCase is ranked 4th in Software Configuration Management with 6 reviews while Visual Studio Team System is ranked 3rd in Software Configuration Management with 14 reviews. IBM Rational ClearCase is rated 6.4, while Visual Studio Team System is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of IBM Rational ClearCase writes "Difficult to use, not efficient, but stable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Team System writes "A scalable and efficient solution that can be used to perform tasks involved in developing information systems". IBM Rational ClearCase is most compared with Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, IBM Rational ClearQuest and Helix Core, whereas Visual Studio Team System is most compared with .
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