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 solution is very much stable."
"Basically, the capacity to construct various products is something I find handy."
"Stability is okay."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"I feel that the test plan and test tools are more manageable in TFS."
"The most valuable features are test case writing and bug tracking."
"The API for managing TFS programmatically is very powerful, you can listen on work items changes by TFS events."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very scalable solution."
"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."
"The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use."
"The interface is easy to use."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability."
"It is very easy to use. You can handle a lot of things together at once in one package, which is a good point for us."
"TFS's CI/CD, project pipelines, and management development could be improved."
"The execution of test cases could stand improvement."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
"I'd like to see some kind of visualization tool for TFS that would make life much easier."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"Currently, we are looking for a solution with which we can incorporate third-party development sites or third-party project teams into the system. Because it is on-premise, it is a bit problematic because we need to have a VPN or something else in the system. A cloud-based solution would be better for us, and that's what we are looking for. Our biggest problem is the external connection, which, of course, is limited by our own IT. It would be good to have some kind of publishing service for this external connection. It might be there, and it might be that our IT is making it impossible for us. Its template editor could be easier to use. Currently, customizing the project templates according to your needs requires some work."
"The solution should have better dashboards."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"I would like to see more integration in the solution."
"Over the years, I haven't identified any specific enhancements that I desire; Visual Studio has consistently met my requirements seamlessly and flawlessly."
"Its UI could be better."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"The solution's documentation could be improved because it keeps disappearing from the solution."
"The solution can improve the startup time."
"It is not good in terms of performance. When you open Visual Studio, you have to wait for a while to process your code. It uses a lot of resources and has a lot of features. If we could disable some of the features, it would be lighter and faster to use. Nowadays, for some of the projects, we use VS Code for JavaScript or Python. VS Code is very light and easy to use, whereas, in Visual Studio, we have to wait because it takes time to compile or run a project. It has a lot of competitors in terms of performance, such as Intelligent ID. Intelligent ID is very easy to use. It has many features, and it is lighter to use than Visual Studio. In terms of error handling, sometimes, it shows an error before you finish your code, which can be improved. It would be good if it has a version for Linux. I use VS Code on Linux, but I am not sure if Visual Studio has a version for Linux."
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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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