Tricentis qTest vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

Tricentis and Microsoft are both solutions in the Test Management Tools category. Tricentis is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3, while Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.6. Tricentis holds a 14.6% mindshare in TMT, compared to Microsoft’s 2.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Tricentis 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 Tricentis qTest are two leading test management solutions. Tricentis qTest appears to have the upper hand due to its extensive features and robust functionality.

Features: Visual Studio Test Professional integrates seamlessly with Azure DevOps, manages test cases efficiently with Microsoft tools, and ensures streamlined workflows. Tricentis qTest supports Agile and DevOps methodologies, offers superior automation capabilities, and provides advanced reporting features. qTest's comprehensive feature set makes it suitable for complex testing environments.

Room for Improvement: Visual Studio Test Professional needs better automation, more flexible reporting options, and an improved user interface. Tricentis qTest could enhance usability, improve integration with third-party tools, and streamline the setup process. Focusing on these enhancements would significantly benefit users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Visual Studio Test Professional's straightforward deployment suits Microsoft-centric environments but has less responsive customer service. Tricentis qTest has a more complex deployment due to broader tool integration but offers highly responsive and supportive customer service. qTest's customer support is a notable advantage.

Pricing and ROI: Visual Studio Test Professional is cost-effective for Microsoft product users. Tricentis qTest has higher upfront costs but provides better ROI due to its extensive features and capabilities. The comprehensive feature set and better ROI make qTest a more attractive long-term option.

To learn more, read our detailed Tricentis qTest vs. Visual Studio Test Professional Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Tricentis qTest

Ranking in Test Management Tools

3rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Visual Studio Test Professi...

Ranking in Test Management Tools

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of Tricentis qTest is 14.6%, up from 12.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visual Studio Test Professional is 2.6%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Test Management Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Tricentis qTest	14.6%
Visual Studio Test Professional	2.6%
Other	82.8%

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SamuLehikoinen

Partner Manager at Agiilit Oy

Efficient and collaborative software testing providing comprehensive test management capabilities, seamless integration with various tools and impressive manual regression testing features

The user interface has a somewhat outdated design, which is certainly an area that could be improved. Some of the modules appear to be loosely connected, but despite these aspects, our overall experience with the tool was positive. When you begin integrating your testing tools with qTest, the available examples may not be very clear, and I believe this is an area that could be enhanced, particularly in terms of providing clearer integration guidance. While the tool's integration with various testing tools is impressive, there is room for improvement in showcasing more cases and benefits, especially through additional videos and documentation.

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CharlesChang

Department Manager, Certification Project Management at Institute for Information Industry

Valuable performance and libraries but needs compatibility improvements

We use Visual Studio Test Professional to develop our internal applications for our company The performance of Visual Studio Test Professional is valuable. Additionally, there are many libraries that I can use, and it supports cross-platform functionality. Visual Studio Test Professional is…

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"UI and UX are pretty easy to understand without much of a problem."

"Works well for test management and is a good testing repository."

"The integration with Selenium and other tools is one of the valuable features. Importing of test cases is also good."

"What I found most valuable in Tricentis qTest is that it doesn't require installation. You use it through the URL. It also has an excellent reporting feature."

"The main thing that really stuck out when we started using this tool, is the linkability of qTest to JIRA, and the traceability of tying JIRA requirement and defects directly with qTest. So when you're executing test cases, if you go to fail it, it automatically links and opens up a JIRA window. You're able to actually write up a ticket and it automatically ties it to the test case itself."

"The most important feature which I like in qTest manager is the user-friendliness, especially the tabs. Since I'm the admin, I use the configuration field settings and allocate the use cases to the different QA people. It is not difficult, as a QA person, for me to understand what is happening behind the scenes."

"The JIRA integration is really important to us because it allows our business analysts to see test results inside the JIRA ticket and that we have met the definition of "done," and have made sure we tested to the requirements of the story."

"The most valuable feature is reusing test cases. We can put in a set of test cases for an application and, every time we deploy it, we are able to rerun those tests very easily. It saves us time and improves quality as well."

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"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is a scalable solution."

"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."

"Its initial setup process is easy."

"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is highly valuable because it provides extensive extensions and plugins that assist in measuring code quality."

"The interface is easy to use."

"The ability to quickly make your own components has been valuable."

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Cons

"I really can't stand the Defects module. It's not easy to use. ALM's... Defects Module is really robust. You can actually walk through each defect by just clicking an arrow... But with the qTest Defects module you can't do that. You have to run a query. You're pretty much just querying a database. It's not really a module, or at least a robust module. Everything is very manual."

"Tricentis qTest's technical support team needs to improve its ability to respond to queries from users."

"The Insights reporting engine has a good test-metrics tracking dashboard. The overall intent is good... But the execution is a little bit limited... the results are not consistent. The basic premise and functionality work fine... It is a little clunky with some of the advanced metrics. Some of the colorings are a little unique."

"I would really love to find a way to get the results, into qTest Manager, of Jenkins' executing my Selenium scripts, so that when I look at everything I can look at the whole rather than the parts. Right now, I can only see what happens manually. Automation-wise, we track it in bulk, as opposed to the discrete test cases that are performed. So that connection point would be really interesting for me."

"For UFT to Tosca migration, scripts need to be rewritten as there are no automatic converters available."

"Could use additional integration so that there is a testing automation continuum."

"We faced challenges when trying to consolidate data in a repository, and similar features were lacking in qTest. It also does not allow for task tracking or calculating time spent on tasks, which affects project timelines."

"We feel the integration between JIRA and qTest could be done even better. It's not as user-friendly as qTest's other features. The JIRA integration with qTest needs to mature a lot... We need smarter execution with JIRA in the case of failures, so that the way we pull out the issues again for the next round is easy... Locating JIRA defects corresponding to a trait from the test results is something of a challenge."

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"The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us."

"The vendor must release a lightweight version of the solution."

"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."

"The solution’s stability could be improved."

"The database administration could be better; you should be able to choose new tools with the development environment in Visual Studio. It could be easier to use."

"It would be great to support other languages and applications, and that is one of the things we can improve."

"Sometimes, the solution hangs, so its performance could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"For the 35 concurrent licenses, we pay something like $35,000 a year."

"For me, pricing for Tricentis qTest is moderate, so that's a five out of ten. It's more affordable than my company's previous solution, which was Micro Focus ALM."

"The price I was quoted is just under $60,000 for 30 licenses, annually, and that's with a 26.5 percent discount."

"We signed for a year and I believe we paid $24,000 for Flood, Manager, and the qTest Insights. We paid an extra for $4,000 for the migration support."

"We're paying a little over $1,000 for a concurrent license."

"We're paying $19,000 a year right now for qTest, with 19 licenses. All the on-premise support is bundled into that."

"It's quite a few times more costly than other tools on the market."

"Our license price point is somewhere between $1,000 and $2,000 a year."

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"I positioned it at a mid-range level. It isn't an inexpensive solution, but considering its capabilities, it represents excellent value for the functionalities it offers."

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

"There are two versions of Visual Studio Test Professional: Community and Professional. We are currently using the Community version, but if we start working on a commercial product, we will consider upgrading to the Professional version. We need to identify how we will proceed with our projects, and based on that, we will decide on our licensing."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is not an expensive solution."

"We pay for the solution annually and the price could be reduced."

"The product is very expensive."

"The tool is expensive in my region."

"I think that the pricing is quite good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Insurance Company

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Performing Arts

10%

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	13

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	23

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Tricentis qTest?

I found the reporting aspect to be the most valuable as it provided a comprehensive overview of the efforts needed and the workload for individual tests.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tricentis qTest?

The solution is expensive. For the features that are available, depending on the volumes of licenses we get, we are able to get better discounts as strategic partners of Tosca. We can pass some ben...

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What needs improvement with Tricentis qTest?

Customers are moving towards Tricentis due to their association with SAP. There is interest in understanding if there are connectors for converting UFT scripts to Tosca, as many customers are looki...

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What do you like most about Visual Studio Test Professional?

The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Visual Studio Test Professional?

The tool is free, resulting in no costs associated with its use. The absence of price makes it cost-effective.

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What needs improvement with Visual Studio Test Professional?

The product needs contextual help integrated within its interface. Currently, I need to search online to find out how to use certain functions. This feature would save time by providing direct assi...

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Overview

Tricentis is the global leader in enterprise continuous testing, widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications. The Tricentis AI-based, continuous testing platform provides a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing. An approach that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality.

Tricentis

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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