We performed a comparison between Jira, PTC Integrity, and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Nutanix and others in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites."Internally we use Jira for our own implementations and capturing requirements and our customers are using the whole tool for the whole software development life cycle. They're using it for the full life cycle of the product."
"Offers a common language set so we can bring people into projects and get them up and running almost immediately."
"It's easy to deploy."
"The most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"The pricing of the product is very good. It's not too expensive"
"It includes by default all the necessary tools for a project manager to work and make their work more efficient."
"It's a Scrum tool, so it's very easy to use."
"It's very simple to change the workflow and adapt it. Jira is very user friendly for the agent and the user."
"We found the requirement management and the version control features to be the most useful for our client."
"PTC Integrity has good stability."
"The tool is quite structured and has a good command set."
"The most valuable feature is traceability starting from the requirements until the end of a project."
"We have been using it because it gives certain abilities in the automotive industry, such as auditing or keeping track of information."
"The solution is flexible in terms of customization. You can bend and reformat it in many ways. You can also customize the APIs and public functions."
"It's a good tool to manage software versions, update the status, and manage tasks."
"Complete traceability as per process requirements."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"It is a stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"For what I need TFS for, I have never run into any limitation."
"Good branching and labelling features."
"Stability is okay."
"The most valuable features of TFS are the test plans. We can reproduce reusable test plans in test automation. We have a lot of queries and this feature is very useful."
"Nowadays, many organizations are moving toward the Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework, and this is something that Jira should be able to accommodate."
"Once the solution is deployed, it's not easy to configure."
"It would be very useful to have drag and drop time tracking."
"As the solution is highly configurable, it has very poor governance."
"Users can be confused about how to use this tool as it's very complex."
"Its UI can be improved a little bit. I know this a business tool and not a commercial tool, but it could be a little bit more interactive like the HP ALM/Quality Center, which provides you the results of graphs and gives you a lot of visual representations. I feel Jira lacks a little bit in this aspect."
"Although it covers the overall requirements and measurements, it'll help if they had their own test execution feature."
"Jira is a little bit old fashioned, it could be more user friendly."
"There are not enough reports. People would like to see something similar to what is available in JIRA."
"It's not easy to plan on this solution and it's not user-friendly. The interface should be more like a web interface. It's not easy to use."
"The tool's web-based UI needs improvement. Some functionalities don't work yet, and querying items is slow. Also, it's not in the cloud yet. I don't know if they'll do it in the future because they already have core agreements with customers. If they offer these functionalities, customers will likely buy their product."
"From my experience over the years, I believe there might be room for improvement in PTC Integrity. While it's already a good product, it tends to be slower than other software. When it becomes bulky, it slows down even more, sometimes leading to crashes or hangs that require restarting the computer before being able to use PTC Integrity again. This has been my experience multiple times."
"The web version does not have all the functionalities of the non-web version. Administration and adding/removing fields, etc. cannot be done on the web version. People want solutions that are compatible with Android. I also want to have a version by which I can bulk edit all the fields."
"To be honest, the third controller system is kind of old. There are lots of transactional changes that have not been implemented in PTC. If you have a larger project, for example, whenever you give bits and need to change 10,000 files you can just commit them. But here the work style is a little more file based, so you'll have to take care of almost all the files individually. It's not a single commit like you do here, but rather you have to allocate time for each component or file that you want to check in or commit. That's a very big issue."
"It's not so customizable. Compared to other tools, defining user stories is a slightly more cumbersome process as an ALM engineer."
"For complex businesses, the internal templates could have more flexibility and compatibility."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
"TFS and MTM have their own style of working and they are different from other tools like Jira or TestRail, which are simpler and easy to use."
"The solution is stable but could improve."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"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."
"We are also using Microsoft Teams. The two products function separately. There is not enough collaboration between Microsoft Teams and TFS."
