TFS Reviews

Versioning and seamless integration with Visual Studio are the features I like most.

We have had to recall a prior “production-ready” version to provide as a temporary solution.

History view outlining edits by user would be a nice addition.

I've been using it for four years.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

I've not used it specifically for TFS.

We previously used SourceSafe.

It's straightforward.

It was done as an in-house implementation.

TFS was recommended by outside vendors as well as in-house staff. No other products were evaluated

I am an end-user, using this solution to assign tasks for my development team.

The most valuable feature is simplicity. It's very easy.

It's simple to design and it's straightforward. This is an advantage for TFS.

They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA. QA around the world basically does the same thing, and also development. Similar to Scrum, they should have something already built-in.

I would like to see templates for design added, and the option to make it more complicated.

I have been using this solution for five years.

This is a scalable solution. I have plans to increase usage.

I worked with Jira two years ago. As a product, Jira is better but it's much more complex. It is hard to design but after that, it's easy to use.

It was already in place when I arrived. I was not a part of the initial setup or the deployment.

It's a good product and it's fulfilled all that I want it to do.

I recommend this product. If you are looking for something simple, TFS is what you should use. If you are looking for a more complex solution then I would suggest going with Jira.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

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.

It's one continuous integrated solution that includes the code. We can put all of our work from tasks with cases and user tool requirements.

The dashboard needs more enhancements.

• Version control
• Project management
• Test management
• Release management

• Agile project management
• Enterprise level development
• Testing of large enterprise applications

Test case management could be improved.

For over 12 years now.

Nope. The product is very stable.

Nope. The product is absolutely scalable for use in large enterprise companies.

10 out of 10 is the technical support that I have received from Microsoft.

We used VSS earlier, then switched to the TFS product.

Setup has very specific documentation that needs to be followed 'exactly', and it's straight forward.

Microsoft changes licensing and pricing every year. Best thing to do is reach out to their licensing/sales folks for the latest info.

Yes, Perforce and Git were evaluated, but we wanted a single solution for the entire SDLC. This product fit the bill.

It's an outstanding product, but needs technically qualified people to administer this product.

We have a DevOps team and we primarily use TFS for bug tracking.

The current dashboard has limited report charts, We need more in reporting as charts are not enough to represent project full stat.

Addition to that, configuring reporting service require a SQL report server, which is anextra cost and need allot of effort to build

The most valuable features are test case writing and bug tracking.

The reporting functionality is something that they should work on.

The dashboards can be improved.

Migrating from version to version should be easier.

I have been working with TFS for four years.

The stability is good and I would recommend it based on that.

This is a scalable product. We have more than 50 users.

I have worked with similar solutions, albeit a long time back. Visual SourceSafe was one of them and it is now discontinued. We switched to TFS as part of an upgrade.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We have one or two people who are responsible for maintenance.

We pay subscription fees on a yearly basis and the price is reasonable.

In summary, this is a good product and I strongly recommend it. If the reporting were enhanced then it would be even better.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We use TFS for source control and we use code to connect to TFS as well. It's all generated and the normal process for a developer; we take the latest coding, and whenever there is a build required, we get the latest from other developers and carry out the build. We also do branching and leveling. I'm a solution architect and our company has a partnership with Microsoft. 

The features such as branching and labelling are very good because they actually help you create a master branch which is a running branch. You can then have other branches like staging correction. I also like the user interface, it's intuitive and easy to use and, most importantly, you can access it from the browser.

When you are trying to connect from Visual Studio code to TFS the integration isn't so easy and I think that could be improved. There's one feature we'd really like to see. If I want to scan through how many files have checked out by name, there are no extensions or plugins available for us to readily get the information from TFS because it's being managed by someone else. As a development partner, we're dependent on them for the details and our preference would be to have the ability to do that ourselves. 

I've used multiple versions of TFS over the past decade. 

The scalability of the solution is good. There are 20 developers in my specific project who use TFS for storing the code repository. We work on multiple projects so there can be anywhere up to 25 people in the company using the product at any one time. It's a development tool so we use it on a daily basis as a centralized code repository.

The initial setup is quite simple. I found information from the Azure DevOps portal and they have a lot of videos. 

This is a good tool for core depository, but there are a lot of thing in TFS you can do: You can automate the entire update process. You can run your sprint and everything, it's a good option enterprise wise. Nowadays everything has DevOps so it's a good thing to use. 

I would rate this solution an eight out of 10. 

The Test Management features.

It has made the management of test artifacts more effective, thus leading to the improvement in the quality of our products from a testing/quality perspective.

For VSTS, more flexibility around the customisation of test reports.

Over two years.

No.

No.

The Microsoft Tech Support team responded very quickly to the requests we made to them.

As a Test Architect, I have used varying solutions. So, it depends on the direction that the company is taking from a tooling perspective.

It was straightforward with help from online help articles and Microsoft documentation.

Microsoft has different licensing models. Each organisation would have to decide which is best for them.

It was client specific. So in this instance, it was the chosen option.

Do a proof of concept to ascertain that it fits with your organisation.

Record and playback is a good feature.

• Tech support needs a lot of improvement
• License is expensive

I've used it for six months.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

No issues encountered.

Their support needs much improvement.

The company chose to switch from HP to Microsoft because of the expense of the licenses.

It was complex.

I don't know the ROI yet.

HP products were also evaluated.