We performed a comparison between IBM Engineering Workflow Management and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Enterprise Agile Planning Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"All of the features work together to provide a powerful holistic solution - from the dashboard all the way through to security."
"We can track the status of test cases (passed or saved) in a single view. Based on releases and other attributes, we generate various reports and extract metrics from the data."
"Agile templates give us a standard methodology for every Agile project. Also, the ability to create our own object types and linkages to features/epics allows us to enhance the verification of feature readiness."
"Work distribution among team members and accountability for completion with a clearer picture."
"The most valuable features of the solution are highly customizable reports and visibility for all the higher management."
"Good for managing stories, sprints, hydration and releases."
"Traceability reporting is inbuilt and includes all your requirements."
"TFS’s test management capability without the expensive licensing has large gaps. Users will be unable to access performance testing and coded UI testing capabilities."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"It's user friendly. We haven't had any issues so far. It's flexible. If we need something, we can always contact the owner in our headquarters to make a configuration."
"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."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"The most valuable features of TFS are bug reporting and its high performance."
"The most valuable features of TFS are the test plans. We can reproduce reusable test plans in test automation. We have a lot of queries and this feature is very useful."
"The solution is very much stable."
"If you have multiple projects on one server, the tool becomes very slow, and some reports take longer to load."
"Lacks ability to customize and reporting can be slow."
"Teams need clearer pictures of resource availability in charts and dashboards along with plans."
"We have encountered issues with stability. We have seen where the entire system kind of goes for a toss when certain people use certain types of queries, which are very costly. Then the system kind of slows down a bit, and we have to monitor it."
"Some administrative tasks are difficult to perform. These could be simplified."
"The solution is very heavily vendor dependent."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"As an end-user, I expect the solution's performance to be faster while staying as stable as possible."
"The user interface could improve and test management was not useful in TFS."
"Merging branches is definitely one of the more challenging aspects for people new to TFS."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
"They have room for improvement in merging the source code changes for multiple developers across files. It is very good at highlighting the changes that the source code automatically does not know how to handle, but it's not very good at reporting the ones that it did automatically. There are times when we have source code that gets merged, and we lose the changes that we expected to happen. It can get a little confusing at times. They can just do a little bit better on the merging of changes for multiple developers."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"It would be better if we could bring it out on the cloud."
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IBM Engineering Workflow Management is ranked 10th in Enterprise Agile Planning Tools with 15 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. IBM Engineering Workflow Management is rated 6.8, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of IBM Engineering Workflow Management writes "Offers good traceability elements but UI needs improvement ". 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". IBM Engineering Workflow Management is most compared with Jira, Codebeamer, Microsoft Azure DevOps, GitLab and Polarion ALM, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, TestRail and OpenText ALM / Quality Center. See our IBM Engineering Workflow Management vs. TFS report.
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