Original Software TestAssist vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

Manual testing will always be a vital part of your testing processes – you just can’t automate everything. But there’s no need for manual testing to be painful and inefficient. TestAssist makes it incredibly easy for testers to run their tests – even business users who aren’t familiar with testing. Feedback is concise, accurate, and flagged instantly to test managers so they can triage issues fast. Better still, TestAssist can use existing tests to create new tests, document processes, and even create user guides.

Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7.