Visual Studio Test Professional Reviews

Visual Studio Test Professional is purely used for the development of web applications, Windows services, and API.

Visual Studio Test Professional is a complete IDE. The most valuable features of Visual Studio Test Professional are the IntelliSense and the ease of adding the NuGet packages.

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

I have worked for different organizations and have been using Visual Studio Test Professional since 2010.

Visual Studio Test Professional is a stable solution.

Around 50 users are using Visual Studio Test Professional in our organization.

The solution's technical support is good, and we have no complaints.

The solution's initial setup is straightforward for me because I have been using it for quite some time.

We implemented the solution through an in-house team.

We have seen a return on investment with Visual Studio Test Professional because it improves developers' efficiency.

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

I would recommend Visual Studio Test Professional to other users.

Overall, I rate Visual Studio Test Professional a nine out of ten.

I am using this solution to automate the sequencing of processes and to manage them. For example, using remote access services to see the interactions between applications. It has taken us two years to build the tool we are working on. 

The ability to quickly make your own components has been valuable. The documentation is simple but you will need to explore the solution and put in the effort for success.

One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone. Additionally, I would like to see an orchestrator added to the solution.

I have been using the solution for approximately 15 years.

The stability is great, I trust in the solution.

We have 20 people in my organization using the solution.

The installation of the solution is easy. However, if you want some additional components such as Workflow which is not including in the original packaging of the solution, it will take more time to install.

The solution is very powerful but you have to know how to use it.

I rate Visual Studio Test Professional an eight out of ten.

We use Visual Studio for product development. It includes the development of modules from the requirements through to the testing and deployment.

The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper.

The running of unit tests in the background is helpful.

The integration with Git needs improving because it is a bit disjointed and unpredictable.

The diagrammatic representation of the database in the entity framework is helpful but it seems to have been removed.

I have been using this solution for about six years, since 2014.

I think that this product is quite stable and good to use.

This is a scalable solution that seems to cope well with large systems.

We have fewer than 200 users and we are unlikely to change our usage.

I have never been in contact with technical support.

I think that the pricing is quite good.

Visual Studio is a good solution that I would recommend. My only complaints are about the Git integration and the removal of the diagrammatic representation of the database from the entity framework.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Visual Studio is for custom software development.

Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market.

Some of the features appreciated by our teams that work with VS are:

IntelliSense, rename functions (classes, methods, variables), move definition to file, error navigation, search in files (match case, regex), NuGet package manager, GIT experience (especially at solving merge conflicts and view history on a specific file, compare with the previous file to see changes in time), watch list and the fact it can be pinned for the variable you are monitoring, conditional breakpoints, moving execution line up when debugging, shortcuts to arrange elements in the page and remove unused namespaces, possibility to chose the Thread you want to monitor when you have multiple threads, code snippets, easy navigation to the definition and to other classes/methods/properties that refer them, and configuration of code cleanup on multiple profiles and with a lot of options.

We have been selling Visual Studio for more than 10 years.

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.

It depends on what you mean by scalability. Only one person uses Visual Studio at a time, but it's scalable in terms of project size. We have
70 users. We will grow usage as we grow the department and the company. We're expecting between 5 and 10 percent growth in usage next year.

Microsoft support could be faster. It took a while to get to a knowledgeable person in some cases, but we got the answer that we were looking for in the end.

Setting up Visual Studio is straightforward. Each developer configures their own environment.

We have both options. Some licenses are paid yearly. Others are monthly subscriptions.

I rate Visual Studio Test Professional nine out of 10.

I use this solution to load data from Excel into a database and perform transformations on the data in between.

The most valuable features are the SSIS reports, the deployment models, and the ability to interact with other Microsoft tools.

The stability of this solution needs to be improved because sometimes it hangs and crashes.

The speed at which deployment can be done has room for improvement.

The support documentation that is available on the Microsoft website should be improved.

I would like to see more visuals, such as graphs and diagrams, added.

I have been using Visual Studio Test Professional for two years.

If it were not for the hangs and crashes that I sometimes experience, I would say that this solution is stable.

This is a scalable solution and I have enrolled a lot of users. We have perhaps 1,000 users.

I would rate Microsoft technical support for this solution a seven out of ten.

I have not spoken with them directly, but I have had problems when I go online and search for solutions. The documents on the Microsoft website are not very useful, and they ought to make it easier to find answers. The documents, overall, are a bit hard to understand and are not user-friendly. 

I have used previous versions of Microsoft Visual Test Studio including the 2010 and 2008 editions. I switched to the 2015 version because of the new features.

I would say that the initial setup is fine, although I would rate it a medium level of complexity. Deploying this solution is not very quick, which is something that can be improved.

I was also considering Alteryx but I chose this solution because of the cost.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

Our primary use case of this solution is for UA automation. I'm a process manager and we are customers of Visual Studio. 

The product is very easy to use and we were able to scale up the automation solution quickly which was beneficial.

It's an expensive solution which is an issue for us. 

I've been using this solution for five years. 

The solution is stable and we get upgrades every couple of years. Most of our developers use Visual Studio; we have around 150 users in total.

The initial setup is straightforward, it took us around four to five hours and we were able to do it by ourselves with our own three-person IT team.

We pay an annual licensing fee. 

We took a look at Tricentis Tosca and SmartBear TestComplete a few months ago but nothing has been finalized. We're looking for an alternative to Visual Studio Test Professional. 

If cost is not an issue then I would recommend this solution. 

I rate this solution eight out of 10. 

I use Visual Studio Test Professional for C# and Java. Within our continuous integration environment, our testing using this solution includes running a script that takes about ten minutes.

At work, I use the paid version but at home, I use the Community Edition.

The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects. Most of our clients are using C# and .NET and they prefer to use Visual Studio for automating.

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

We are having trouble that necessitates entering the identification properties of objects manually.

I have been using this solution for four years.

We have not met with any issues regarding stability.

The scalability of this solution is good.

I have been in contact with technical support lots of times. I used to get answers from the portals and the blogs, which was useful for me. When I can't get the answers from those then I contact support.

In addition to Visual Studio Test Processional, I used Selenium Java and Selenium C#. I also use products by SmartBear.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We are only using test scripts, which involves a minimal number of the features that are provided. We have also recommended this solution to some of our clients.

I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.

I primarily write small applications for windows with it; we also use it for database administration.

The main interface is very user-friendly. The system overall is very useable. If you have to start a new project or new area, the system and the tutorial are great.

The database administration could be better; it would be nice if we could do every design related task also in Visual Studio what is possible in SQL Server Management Studio.

I've been using the solution for 20 years. 

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

The solution is very scalable.

I've never reached out to technical support. Typically, if I run into problems, I look for answers in the forums.

The initial setup was straightforward.

If you are buying the solution, it's quite pricey. They also offer a community version, which is a good approach.

At the start, many years ago, it was not the best solution, but now it is the best in a technical development environment. The solution is installed directly onto PCs. We're using the 2017 version; the last few years the solution hasn't changed too much.

I'd rate the solution ten out of ten. 

It's my favorite tool, I haven't used anything else which is better than Visual Studio. I feel that I'm not using all of the capabilities so I'm content with the level of features on offer. In the latest versions, you can also develop and rate applications with it so it's really quite a complete product.

In terms of advice I would give to others, I'd recommend that they go through the tutorials to get used to the solution and its offerings.