We performed a comparison between IBM Rational Quality Manager 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."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."
"It allows user to add whichever widget (predefined) based on the need. It has integration with CCM and RM to achieve traceability."
"Reusability and integration capabilities which make it a great choice for organizations that use a variety of development tools and platforms."
"It's very reliable as a solution."
"RQM is something that we use everyday, so it has to be up and running, otherwise we would lose everything."
"The most valuable feature is the RFT because it allows us to automate manual test cases."
"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."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"The setup is easy and straightforward."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The user interface is very friendly."
"Performance-wise, it is a great tool."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability."
"Visual Studio Test Pro is super helpful for my Microsoft app work."
"The documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems."
"It would be helpful if we could assign a hierarchy to a group of test cases."
"While RQM allows for running tests and viewing results, it could be further enhanced in terms of performance and speed."
"Organizing the test cases is tedious. There is no mechanism to keep and maintain the test cases as hierarchy. This should be seriously addressed."
"Integration capabilities with other vendors' tools should improve."
"Adding support for uploading a collection of test cases would be a helpful addition."
"Currently, the user interface needs to be more user-friendly."
"Mainly Quality Assurance and DevOps, but of course the whole company and management areas with more knowledge of quality and client success approach."
"RQM could be improved by adding a feature that allows test requirements to be selected when creating a task plan."
"I would like to see more integration in the solution."
"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less."
"One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
"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."
"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."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."
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IBM Rational Quality Manager is ranked 7th in Test Management Tools with 11 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 5th in Test Management Tools with 46 reviews. IBM Rational Quality Manager is rated 7.6, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Quality Manager writes "Scalable and Stable solution with good integration function and support team". 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 ". IBM Rational Quality Manager is most compared with OpenText ALM / Quality Center, TestRail, Zephyr Enterprise 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 IBM Rational Quality Manager vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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