We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Quality Manager, OpenText ALM / Quality Center, and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
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"It's very reliable as a solution."
"Integration with the other professional tools is a very strong advantage, so that we can have a traceability between the requirements and defects in Rational Team Concert. That's the most important aspect."
"RQM is something that we use everyday, so it has to be up and running, otherwise we would lose everything."
"Latest features include versioning of testings which can be great when used for multiple releases of a product."
"It allows user to add whichever widget (predefined) based on the need. It has integration with CCM and RM to achieve traceability."
"The one feature that has not allowed us to switch to any other solution is the integration with functional testing."
"RQM's best features are integration with test automation and performance testing."
"Reusability and integration capabilities which make it a great choice for organizations that use a variety of development tools and platforms."
"Cross project customization through template really helps to maintain standards with respect to fields, workflows throughout the available projects."
"Produces good reports and has a great traceability feature."
"It is stable and reliable."
"It allows us to easily make linkage and dependencies, with plenty of integrations."
"Being able to manage tests as this is something very difficult to find in other products."
"It's user friendly, scalable, and very stable and strong. It's cooperative, meaning that I can assess the test to check it and follow the flow of defects, and the developers and the business can use this tool to follow the test process."
"The product can scale."
"The most valuable feature of Micro Focus ALM Quality Center is its support for many automation technologies."
"It's an integrated system that includes all the information that we need to deliver our products smoothly and to track the progress of each piece of code."
"It is a stable solution."
"I like the build management features and the integration with Jenkins and many other tools."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is its compatibility with Microsoft Windows systems. We have predominantly Microsoft solutions and TFS work well."
"The initial setup is fairly easy."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"Stability is okay."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"It would be helpful if we could assign a hierarchy to a group of test cases."
"I think it's fine from a performance perspective but usability is something that needs improvement."
"Adding support for uploading a collection of test cases would be a helpful addition."
"Integration capabilities with other vendors' tools should improve."
"RQM could be improved by adding a feature that allows test requirements to be selected when creating a task plan."
"Organizing the test cases is tedious. There is no mechanism to keep and maintain the test cases as hierarchy. This should be seriously addressed."
"Mainly Quality Assurance and DevOps, but of course the whole company and management areas with more knowledge of quality and client success approach."
"Currently, the user interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"I'd like to be able to improve how our QA department uses the tool, by getting better educational resources, documentation to help with competencies for my testers."
"The version of Micro Focus ALM that we use only works through Internet Explorer (IE). We have to communicate to everyone that they can only use IE with the solution. This is a big limitation. We should be free to use any type of browser or operating system. We have customers and partners who are unable to log into the system and enter their defects because they work on a different operating system."
"The support is not good and the documentation is not consistent."
"The integration could be improved because with Agile technology you are working more quickly than with a top-down methodology."
"It can be quite clunky, and it can easily be configured badly, which I've seen in a couple of places. If it is configured badly, it can be very hard to use. It is not so easy to integrate with other products. I've not used Micro Focus in a proper CI/CD pipeline, and I haven't managed to get that working because that has not been my focus. So, I find it hard. I've often lost the information because it had committed badly. It doesn't commit very well sometimes, but that might have to do with the sites that I was working at and the way they had configured it."
"Micro Focus ALM Quality Center could improve how the automation process works. Addiotnlally, the parallel execution needs to be optimized. For example, if multiple users, which are two or more users, are doing an execution, while we execute the cases, I have seen some issues in the progress."
"Currently, what's missing in the solution is the ability for users to see the ongoing scenarios and the status of those scenarios versus the requirements. As for the management tools, they also need to be improved so users can have a better idea of what's going on in just one look, so they can manage testing activities better."
"I'd like to see the concept of teams put into it."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"The reporting functionality is something that they should work on."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
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