We performed a comparison between TFS 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."User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"The work item feature is most valuable. It allows us to store all product requirements. We can also link the test cases to those requirements so that we know which feature has already been tested, and which one is waiting for testing. We can also couple the code reviews, unit tests, and automated tests into these requirements. It is reliable. It has all the features and good performance. It also has reporting tools or analysis tools."
"It is very user-friendly."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"Team Foundation Server (TFS) is easy to use, and we have a complete trail and traceability. We also like the access control part."
"It's an integrated system that includes all the information that we need to deliver our products smoothly and to track the progress of each piece of code."
"Some of the valuable features are version control and the ability to create different collections in terms of segregating the authorization for teams who connect to small projects."
"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"The setup is easy and straightforward."
"The tool is flexible and easy to manage. We use it since it is scalable and easy to use. It integrates with solutions."
"Code testing is the most valuable feature of this solution for developing software."
"The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product."
"They have room for improvement in merging the source code changes for multiple developers across files. It is very good at highlighting the changes that the source code automatically does not know how to handle, but it's not very good at reporting the ones that it did automatically. There are times when we have source code that gets merged, and we lose the changes that we expected to happen. It can get a little confusing at times. They can just do a little bit better on the merging of changes for multiple developers."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"The execution of test cases could stand improvement."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
"The usability of TFS is not that great."
"They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA."
"The solution's documentation could be improved because it keeps disappearing from the solution."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"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 product must provide more integration."
"The product must provide more automation."
"The performance could be faster."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"Sometimes, the solution hangs, so its performance could be improved."
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TFS is ranked 2nd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 5th in Test Management Tools with 46 reviews. TFS is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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". 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 ". TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete, OpenText UFT One and Tricentis Tosca. See our TFS vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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