Tricentis qTest vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

Tricentis and Microsoft are both solutions in the Test Management Tools category. Tricentis is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.7, while Microsoft is ranked #5 with an average rating of 8.5. Tricentis holds a 15.7% mindshare in TMT, compared to Microsoft’s 3.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Tricentis users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Visual Studio Test Professional and Tricentis qTest are two leading test management solutions. Tricentis qTest appears to have the upper hand due to its extensive features and robust functionality.

Features: Visual Studio Test Professional integrates seamlessly with Azure DevOps, manages test cases efficiently with Microsoft tools, and ensures streamlined workflows. Tricentis qTest supports Agile and DevOps methodologies, offers superior automation capabilities, and provides advanced reporting features. qTest's comprehensive feature set makes it suitable for complex testing environments.

Room for Improvement: Visual Studio Test Professional needs better automation, more flexible reporting options, and an improved user interface. Tricentis qTest could enhance usability, improve integration with third-party tools, and streamline the setup process. Focusing on these enhancements would significantly benefit users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Visual Studio Test Professional's straightforward deployment suits Microsoft-centric environments but has less responsive customer service. Tricentis qTest has a more complex deployment due to broader tool integration but offers highly responsive and supportive customer service. qTest's customer support is a notable advantage.

Pricing and ROI: Visual Studio Test Professional is cost-effective for Microsoft product users. Tricentis qTest has higher upfront costs but provides better ROI due to its extensive features and capabilities. The comprehensive feature set and better ROI make qTest a more attractive long-term option.

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Categories and Ranking

Tricentis qTest

Ranking in Test Management Tools

4th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Visual Studio Test Professi...

Ranking in Test Management Tools

5th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of Tricentis qTest is 15.7%, up from 9.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visual Studio Test Professional is 3.2%, down from 5.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Sudipto Dey

Technical Lead at Linde

It doesn't require installation because you can use it through the URL; it's user-friendly and has an excellent reporting feature

The support for Tricentis qTest has room for improvement. The response could be better. There's a feature I want to document on the Tricentis Idea Portal for Tricentis qTest, which I hope to see in the next version of the tool. It's a feature available in Micro Focus where you execute a test, and then on a spec level, you mark it as pass or fail. Then at the overall level, Micro Focus will automatically mark the test as a pass if all steps passed or failed, even if one step failed. However, here in Tricentis qTest, you still need to mark the overall level of the test cases. It's not automated, unlike what you have in Micro Focus. If Tricentis adds that feature in Tricentis qTest, it will make life easier for testers.

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Roger_Morera

Full Stack Developer Lead at Yuxi Global

Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services

Customization is the most powerful feature of this product because you can mold and design to your requirements. It's possible, for example, to build an OCR test from PDF or work files or build your own component based on OCR provisions and obtain the data required to process. If you extract a bill you can get the identification of the vendor or IT of the product, its quantity, value, unit, and additional information. Test Professional has the advantage of being able to integrate with any kind of third-party service which is very useful for the programming phase. It also has the ability to integrate without programming or the need for developing any APIs or services to integrate with robots. A regular user can do it.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Works well for test management and is a good testing repository."

"qTest helps us compile issues and have one place to look for them. We're not chasing down emails and other sources. So in the grand scheme of things, it does help to resolve issues faster because everyone is working off of the same information in one location."

"What I found most valuable in Tricentis qTest is that it doesn't require installation. You use it through the URL. It also has an excellent reporting feature."

"The integration with Selenium and other tools is one of the valuable features. Importing of test cases is also good."

"UI and UX are pretty easy to understand without much of a problem."

"I found the reporting aspect to be the most valuable as it provided a comprehensive overview of the efforts needed and the workload for individual tests."

"Being able to log into Defects, go right into JIRA, add that defect to the user story, right there at that point, means we connect all of that. That is functionality we haven't had in the past. As a communication hub, it works really well. It's pretty much a closed loop; it's all contained right there. There's no delay. You're getting from the defect to the system to JIRA to the developer."

"The test automation tracking is valuable because our automated testing systems are distributed and they did not necessarily have a single point where they would come together and be reported. Having all of them report back to qTest, and having one central place where all of my test executions are tracked and reported on, is incredibly valuable because it saves time."

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"The most valuable feature has been to store all our packages in one place including SSIS packages, SQL tables, TFS and SSR."

"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product."

"The product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."

"The solution is easy to use and they have also integrated with Microsoft."

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

"The interface is easy to use."

"The tool is free, resulting in no costs associated with its use. The absence of price makes it cost-effective."

"The solution is very useful for compiling existing projects and developing new projects."

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Cons

"I really can't stand the Defects module. It's not easy to use. ALM's... Defects Module is really robust. You can actually walk through each defect by just clicking an arrow... But with the qTest Defects module you can't do that. You have to run a query. You're pretty much just querying a database. It's not really a module, or at least a robust module. Everything is very manual."

"The Insights reporting engine has a good test-metrics tracking dashboard. The overall intent is good... But the execution is a little bit limited... the results are not consistent. The basic premise and functionality work fine... It is a little clunky with some of the advanced metrics. Some of the colorings are a little unique."

"The support for Tricentis qTest has room for improvement. The response could be better."

"As an admin, I'm unable to delete users. I'm only able to make a user inactive. This is a scenario about which I've already made a suggestion to qTest. When people leave the company, I should be able to delete them from qTest. I shouldn't have to have so many users."

"Reporting shouldn't be so difficult. I shouldn't have to write so many queries to get the data I'm looking for, for a set of metrics about how many releases we had. I still have to break those spreadsheets out of there to get the data I need."

"I wouldn't say a lot of good things about Insights, but that's primarily because, with so many test cases, it is incredibly slow for us. We generally don't use it because of that."

"Could use additional integration so that there is a testing automation continuum."

"You can add what I believe are called suites and modules. I opened a ticket on this as to what's the difference. And it seems there's very little difference. In some places, the documentation says there's no difference. You just use them to organize how you want. But they're not quite the same because there are some options you can do under one and not the other. That gets confusing. But since they are very close to the same, people use them differently and that creates a lack of consistency."

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"The product must provide more integration."

"The Git extensions are very basic and can be more extensive compared to other software focused on Git, like GitTower or SmartGit."

"Over the years, I haven't identified any specific enhancements that I desire; Visual Studio has consistently met my requirements seamlessly and flawlessly."

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

"The performance could be faster."

"Visual Studio Test Professional could improve by having better integration with external databases."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We're paying $19,000 a year right now for qTest, with 19 licenses. All the on-premise support is bundled into that."

"We signed for a year and I believe we paid $24,000 for Flood, Manager, and the qTest Insights. We paid an extra for $4,000 for the migration support."

"The price I was quoted is just under $60,000 for 30 licenses, annually, and that's with a 26.5 percent discount."

"For the 35 concurrent licenses, we pay something like $35,000 a year."

"Our license price point is somewhere between $1,000 and $2,000 a year."

"We're paying a little over $1,000 for a concurrent license."

"It's quite a few times more costly than other tools on the market."

"For me, pricing for Tricentis qTest is moderate, so that's a five out of ten. It's more affordable than my company's previous solution, which was Micro Focus ALM."

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"We have licensing for Visual Studio Community edition."

"We pay for the solution annually and the price could be reduced."

"The pricing is expensive."

"There are two versions of Visual Studio Test Professional: Community and Professional. We are currently using the Community version, but if we start working on a commercial product, we will consider upgrading to the Professional version. We need to identify how we will proceed with our projects, and based on that, we will decide on our licensing."

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

"There is a paid version of the solution as well as a community version that is free."

"It is a price-effective solution"

"I think that the pricing is quite good."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

14%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Insurance Company

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Tricentis qTest?

I found the reporting aspect to be the most valuable as it provided a comprehensive overview of the efforts needed and the workload for individual tests.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Tricentis qTest?

Based on whatever I heard, I can say that Tricentis qTest is a little costlier than other test management tools, like Jira, Zephyr, or Xray.

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What needs improvement with Tricentis qTest?

The user interface has a somewhat outdated design, which is certainly an area that could be improved. Some of the modules appear to be loosely connected, but despite these aspects, our overall expe...

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What do you like most about Visual Studio Test Professional?

The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Visual Studio Test Professional?

The tool is free, resulting in no costs associated with its use. The absence of price makes it cost-effective.

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What needs improvement with Visual Studio Test Professional?

There are not any specific areas for improvement since there are so many libraries and frameworks already available, and we have not even touched everything yet.

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Overview

Tricentis is the global leader in enterprise continuous testing, widely credited for reinventing software testing for DevOps, cloud, and enterprise applications. The Tricentis AI-based, continuous testing platform provides a new and fundamentally different way to perform software testing. An approach that’s totally automated, fully codeless, and intelligently driven by AI. It addresses both agile development and complex enterprise apps, enabling enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by dramatically increasing software release speed, reducing costs, and improving software quality.

Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7.

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