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"Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development.""The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper.""User-friendly ID and direct integration with GitHub are the most valuable.""One of the best documentation in the world.""The documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems.""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.""The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about.""The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."

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"If you use the PowerBuilder application, do choose AscentialTest without thinking twice.""It’s been really easy to automate the same application TestComplete struggled with. I have been able to automate two of our key applications in just a few months. I haven’t even taken their training.""The most valuable feature of AscentialTest for us is that it fully supports PowerBuilder."

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"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less.""Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation.""It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port.""It is not good in terms of performance. When you open Visual Studio, you have to wait for a while to process your code. It uses a lot of resources and has a lot of features. If we could disable some of the features, it would be lighter and faster to use. Nowadays, for some of the projects, we use VS Code for JavaScript or Python. VS Code is very light and easy to use, whereas, in Visual Studio, we have to wait because it takes time to compile or run a project. It has a lot of competitors in terms of performance, such as Intelligent ID. Intelligent ID is very easy to use. It has many features, and it is lighter to use than Visual Studio. In terms of error handling, sometimes, it shows an error before you finish your code, which can be improved. It would be good if it has a version for Linux. I use VS Code on Linux, but I am not sure if Visual Studio has a version for Linux.""The vendor must release a lightweight version of the solution.""The documents on the Microsoft website are not very useful, and they ought to make it easier to find answers.""The product must provide more automation.""The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user."

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"Classes are not as object-oriented as I would like, but I am a programmer and not QA so I expect a lot.""The only thing I can't wait for is for Zeenyx to add automating Mobile apps.""I would like to see an improvement in the User Interface."

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  • "For the cloud services option, you buy a subscription per account or per user. This costs around $52 a month per person."
  • "I think that the pricing is quite good."
  • "The pricing is expensive."
  • "We pay for the solution annually and the price could be reduced."
  • "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."
  • "The tool is expensive in my region."
  • "We pay a yearly licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional, which is expensive."
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  • "Once it starts generating ROI, which for us took between three and six months, one will not even think about the investment."
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    Overview
    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.
    AscentialTest™ by Zeenyx Software is an enterprise level Test Management System that encompasses Test Planning, Development, Data Management, Execution and Defect Tracking for applications running on Windows, the web, java, dotNet, terminals and PowerBuilder. This “next generation” testing solution allows users to build robust automated and manual tests from reusable components created by its powerful object recognition engine without recording or scripting. Our patented ‘snapshot’ technology generates graphical representations of the application under test which allows users to build ‘Steps’ by dragging and dropping objects in a visual test editor. Reusable Steps are combined to form a multitude of automated and manual tests that are easy to create and maintain. With AscentialTest, companies realize a dramatic reduction in test creation and maintenance times, resulting in increased productivity and lower costs.
    Sample Customers
    Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa
    TJX Companies, Nuance Communications, Ericsson Inc., Transatlantic Reinsurance Company, Accenture, Nutrition Coordinating Center, Univ. of MN, iConectiv, Fortress Software, and LMP Corp.
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    Computer Software Company35%
    Financial Services Firm10%
    Healthcare Company6%
    Manufacturing Company6%
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    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm16%
    Manufacturing Company7%
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    Government15%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Energy/Utilities Company9%
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    Small Business23%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise50%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise67%
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    Small Business50%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise29%
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    Large Enterprise70%
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    Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 8th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews while Zeenyx AscentialTest is ranked 34th in Functional Testing Tools. Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6, while Zeenyx AscentialTest is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zeenyx AscentialTest writes "Easy to create tests because you just drag and drop objects instead of writing code". Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT One, whereas Zeenyx AscentialTest is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, SmartBear TestComplete and Selenium HQ.

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