PractiTest vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

PractiTest and Microsoft are both solutions in the Test Management Tools category. PractiTest is ranked #17, while Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.4. PractiTest holds a 3.0% mindshare in TMT, compared to Microsoft’s 2.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of PractiTest users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Visual Studio Test Professional and PractiTest are popular test management tools. PractiTest appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set and excellent customer support.

Features: Visual Studio Test Professional integrates well with Visual Studio and Azure DevOps, facilitating seamless workflows. It also enhances the development process within the Microsoft ecosystem. PractiTest provides customizable dashboards, full traceability, versatile investigation and debugging tools, and supports extensive reporting and project overview.

Room for Improvement: Visual Studio Test Professional needs better test case management and improved integration capabilities. Users recommend enhancements for smoother workflows. PractiTest requires improvements in automation features and better CI/CD integration. Feedback also points to increasing the robustness of automated testing processes.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Visual Studio Test Professional offers straightforward deployment within Microsoft environments but has a steep learning curve. PractiTest is highlighted for its intuitive setup and excellent customer support, offering detailed documentation and responsive helpdesk assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Visual Studio Test Professional users indicate satisfaction with initial setup costs but have mixed feelings about long-term ROI due to licensing costs. PractiTest is perceived as offering good value for money, with a positive ROI due to enhanced productivity and feature robustness. PractiTest's cost structure is seen as more transparent and justified by its comprehensive features.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

PractiTest

Ranking in Test Management Tools

17th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (23rd)

Visual Studio Test Professi...

Ranking in Test Management Tools

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of PractiTest is 3.0%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visual Studio Test Professional is 2.8%, down from 3.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Test Management Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Visual Studio Test Professional	2.8%
PractiTest	3.0%
Other	94.2%

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Dave Carter

Test Team Lead at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Flexible and intuitive with easy reporting, and good support that is instantly available through chat

It doesn't allow you to connect to multiple different bug tracking tools at the same time. This is not an issue if you only have one bug tracker but we can potentially use different tools for different projects. As an example, if you connect PractiTest to Jira for one project, that's the one you have to use for all projects. We had a requirement to connect with Jira for one project, and a different tool for another, project but it was unable to accommodate that unfortunately. I would therefore like to see it easier to integrate with bug tracking tools at project level which would give each project the opportunity to use a different bug tracker if required.

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Payel Saha

Test Automation Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Integrated collaboration with automated test management has improved our agile workflows and continuously supports quality reporting

Visual Studio Test Professional could be improved as earlier we had flexibility in automation testing with TFS, which became a bit difficult moving to Azure DevOps. Additionally, in Visual Studio Code, we have an agent mode for GitHub Copilot, which is very helpful in testing or development phases, while Visual Studio's GitHub Copilot is a bit tricky and sometimes does not provide my desired output.For future improvements, I would like to see prompt fixing, as currently, if something goes wrong in Visual Studio, the fixing options are not always correct. If that intelligence is embedded, it would be very helpful.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the way the libraries are structured so that they were not folder driven."

"The product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."

"The setup is easy and straightforward."

"The solution is easy to use and they have also integrated with Microsoft."

"The debugging feature is valuable."

"Performance-wise, it is a great tool."

"Visual Studio is the easiest to use."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very scalable solution."

"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."

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Cons

"It doesn't allow you to connect to multiple different tracking tools."

"The product needs contextual help integrated within its interface. Currently, I need to search online to find out how to use certain functions."

"We would like to be able to easily integrate this solution with our continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins."

"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."

"The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user."

"Visual Studio Test Professional could be improved as earlier we had flexibility in automation testing with TFS, which became a bit difficult moving to Azure DevOps."

"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."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"The pricing of this solution should be lowered."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is probably in the middle, it's not the cheapest but it's not the most expensive."

"It is a price-effective solution"

"The tool is affordable."

"There is a paid version of the solution as well as a community version that is free."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very expensive solution."

"We have licensing for Visual Studio Community edition."

"Our company pays a yearly licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional."

"The pricing is expensive."

"We use the solution’s community version, and the solution’s pricing could be cheaper."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Government

University

Manufacturing Company

15%

Performing Arts

13%

Financial Services Firm

Outsourcing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	1

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	24

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Overview

Manage your QA and Testing process, controlling your testing tasks while getting complete visibility into your results, and most importantly releasing your products in a professional way

Professional end to end QA management for your manual and automation testing.

Create your manual tests and organize them based on cycles, sprints, etc.
Seamlessly integrate your manual testing with your automation and CI processes.
Reuse tests and correlate results across different releases and products.
Release your products with confidence and control.

PractiTest

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.

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Sample Customers

Canonical, SAS, Amobee, Play Buzz, Abbott, Aternity, Zerto, Freeman

Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa

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