We performed a comparison between Jira and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."In terms of product management, Jira increases productivity and visibility into the product. Those are the top benefits this tool provides to the team. Also, it's accessible to the executives and whoever wants to sign on to Jira to see what's going on."
"This tool can be used anywhere and on any device."
"The solution is easy to use and user-friendly."
"We can integrate a lot of tools with the solution."
"The task management aspect of Jira is pretty pure. They have a lot of great plugins that really expand your options."
"I found it super useful, as it is customizable for different teams and users."
"Its visual display and ease of use are most valuable."
"One of the valuable features is traceability from requirements to test cases."
"For what I need TFS for, I have never run into any limitation."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"The traceability is valuable. While managing the workflows, it was always nice to have that traceability from requirements and all the way through design. It integrates with Microsoft Test Manager, and you can have everything that is related to a requirement attached to it."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"The most valuable features of TFS are bug reporting and its high performance."
"As far as queries are concerned, creating, grading, or customizing the queries as a primary requirement is very easy to do."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"Jira is a little bit old fashioned, it could be more user friendly."
"The release of a MailServer feature within Jira would be beneficial."
"The performance is not so good sometimes. I know that fully depends on the implementation and the IT environment of Jira or the version of Jira installed. The performance is sometimes not so good. I would like to have a better response time from the Jira server. And it fully depends on the administration side of the Jira."
"What could be improved is the migration between the testing and production environments. This could be automated somehow as the manual transfer of certain workflows and functionalities is very time consuming right now."
"Out-of-the-box reporting is limited. It would be helpful if more customisation was possible."
"For a non-technical person to use, Jira is not intuitive."
"Reporting is something Jira could work on. The reporting capabilities should have the same flexibility we see in Excel, including the ability to manipulate data and create graphs. They need to have that, so we don't need to export to a spreadsheet."
"Sometimes the solution doesn't communicate well with other platforms. It's quite difficult to integrate things and make the data flow from A to B, to Jira, and then back to other areas."
"They should have design patterns in TFS for the development team, and design patterns for the QA."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"The overall reports in TFS could improve. Additionally, there should be an easier way to migrate from an older version to a newer one."
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
"The test management interface is not very handy."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"The price could be cheaper."
"The manageability and performance of the product are areas of concern where improvements are required."
Jira is ranked 1st in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 266 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Jira is rated 8.2, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Jira writes "A great centralized tool that has a good agile framework and is useful for day-to-day planning, task management, and work log efficacy". On the other hand, 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". Jira is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, IBM Rational DOORS, OpenText ALM Octane, Rally Software and ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail. See our Jira vs. TFS report.
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