We performed a comparison between TFS and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Test Management Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"Build definitions and releases within the product. allow us to put our latest applications in the field."
"The solution's iteration board is good because you can track all your work with it."
"I like the Kanban board. It is very useful in terms of seeing who is working on what and what the current status of work is."
"The solution is very much stable."
"As far as queries are concerned, creating, grading, or customizing the queries as a primary requirement is very easy to do."
"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 documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very scalable solution."
"The setup is easy and straightforward."
"You can easily write code, test, and deploy within the same environment. It is a mature tool. It regularly receives new updates and versions. In my opinion, it's one of the best products by Microsoft for developers."
"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."
"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."
"The ability to quickly make your own components has been valuable."
"User-friendly ID and direct integration with GitHub are the most valuable."
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
"Overall, I think it would be useful to have something similar where Microsoft comes up with supporting concepts of scaling Agile in TFS so that clients don't have to look for a separate tool."
"Sometimes we feel that it need more CPU, and RAMs on TFS server, either we implemented the hardware with the product minimum requirements."
"The interface can be improved and made more user-friendly."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
"The tool needs improvement in stability."
"More options could be provided from the perspective of requirements management, which would help product owners to use the tool effectively."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The interface should be made attractive."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"Visual Studio Test Professional could improve by having better integration with external databases."
"The solution can improve the startup time."
"The product must provide more automation."
"It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."
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TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 5th in Test Management Tools with 48 reviews. TFS is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, TestRail and Zephyr Enterprise, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete, Tricentis Tosca and TestRail. See our TFS vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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