We performed a comparison between Polarion ALM and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The features I find the most valuable are requirement tracking and schematics."
"Polarion ALM has some valuable tools for managing our targets and requirements. I think that's its best feature."
"The initial setup of this solution was straightforward, and there were not too many problems with it."
"The solution offers good integration."
"It is a very stable solution."
"We had a nice experience with technical support."
"The most valuable feature is the function of the ALM system."
"I am impressed with the solution’s stability."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"The most valuable feature is the backlog."
"TFS's best features include user-friendly test management, bug reporting, and ID assignment."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"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."
"The configuration aspect of the solution is not easy. A person needs a lot of programming knowledge in order to successfully handle the job."
"Technical support needs some improvement."
"The user interface is not yet optimized."
"The interface for this solution needs to be made more user-friendly to provide a better user experience."
"One of Polarion's shortcomings would be planning. It can handle plans, but the planning feature is very basic."
"The ease-of-use could be improved a little."
"Test management lacks an automated process."
"As Polarion ALM is a development-oriented tool, easy support or easy access is provided by default, but if I want to use detailed features, I need to write the script, particularly the VM script, and this is its area for improvement. I want Polarion ALM to have a graphical user interface that doesn't need scripting. In the next release of the tool, I'd like for it to not require scripting and programming because needing to run script language is time-consuming."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"It has been really dated. When you start to work more in an agile environment, it is not really that flexible. They tried to replicate the look and feel of Jira, but it is not quite there. It was nice to use in the past, but it is not as flexible now with the changing development environments and methodologies."
"The project management side should be addressed and the project and release planning should be somewhat extended."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"Overall, I think it would be useful to have something similar where Microsoft comes up with supporting concepts of scaling Agile in TFS so that clients don't have to look for a separate tool."
"Microsoft should discontinue the use of SharePoint as I don’t really see any value add to TFS, document management features can be included in TFS web portal itself, if required!"
"The solution should have better dashboards."
"The price could be cheaper."
Polarion ALM is ranked 7th in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 17 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Polarion ALM is rated 7.6, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Polarion ALM writes "Though needing an improvement in reporting and time for extraction of the data, its integration capabilities are good". On the other hand, the top reviewer of TFS writes "It is helpful for scheduled releases and enforcing rules, but it should be better at merging changes for multiple developers and retaining the historical information". Polarion ALM is most compared with Jira, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Codebeamer, PTC Integrity and Rally Software, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and Tricentis qTest. See our Polarion ALM vs. TFS report.
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