Visual Studio Test Professional Reviews

Visual Studio is an IDE that we use for development.

Visual Studio is the easiest to use. 

We have used Visual Studio for as long as I can remember. It has been about 10 years.

I rate Visual Studio nine out of 10 for stability.

I rate Visual Studio nine out of 10 for scalability.

Setting up Visual Studio is straightforward, and it takes a couple of hours at most. 

They have different pricing levels. There is a free community edition, professional, etc. It depends on the use. The price is reasonable, but it's not the best.

I rate Visual Studio Test Professional nine out of 10. I highly recommend Visual Studio for any software engineer.

I use it just for coding our applications and features. We are using version 4.5, which is an old version. We haven't tried its latest version.  

It probably is deployed in a private cloud. It is a part of our firm architecture or infrastructure. 

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

It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently. 

I have been using this solution for five years. 

It is stable. We didn't find any issues.

I don't know much about scalability. It is more related to the infrastructure side. 

We have around 2,015 people in our organization who use this solution.

I have never really used Microsoft technical support. I just find the information on the internet.

It is easy to set up. The deployment duration depends on the projects. We are working with different projects and persons. For one of our projects, we need one week to deploy. We usually test when all the teams have integrated changes in an environment. It takes some time to test. After that, the changes are deployed to another pre-production environment, where we again test. After that, when we are sure, we deploy to the production environment.

It is an old technology, and I would like to try using a new technology. However, it is necessary for us to stay with this technology because we have a legacy product, but we are thinking of updating to newer versions or migrating to another technology. We didn't do that in the past because of the fear of losing some of the features and having any kind of breakage because of incompatibility. We are looking for microservices for the database. I would advise not to keep a lot of gap between upgrades. The risks are more when you upgrade after a long gap, such as four years. It also takes more time to test all the functionalities.

I would rate Visual Studio Test Professional a seven out of ten.

Visual Studio Test Professional is purely used for the development of web applications, Windows services, and API.

Visual Studio Test Professional is a complete IDE. The most valuable features of Visual Studio Test Professional are the IntelliSense and the ease of adding the NuGet packages.

Sometimes, the solution hangs, so its performance could be improved.

I have worked for different organizations and have been using Visual Studio Test Professional since 2010.

Visual Studio Test Professional is a stable solution.

Around 50 users are using Visual Studio Test Professional in our organization.

The solution's technical support is good, and we have no complaints.

The solution's initial setup is straightforward for me because I have been using it for quite some time.

We implemented the solution through an in-house team.

We have seen a return on investment with Visual Studio Test Professional because it improves developers' efficiency.

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

I would recommend Visual Studio Test Professional to other users.

Overall, I rate Visual Studio Test Professional a nine out of ten.

I am using this solution to automate the sequencing of processes and to manage them. For example, using remote access services to see the interactions between applications. It has taken us two years to build the tool we are working on. 

The ability to quickly make your own components has been valuable. The documentation is simple but you will need to explore the solution and put in the effort for success.

One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone. Additionally, I would like to see an orchestrator added to the solution.

I have been using the solution for approximately 15 years.

The stability is great, I trust in the solution.

We have 20 people in my organization using the solution.

The installation of the solution is easy. However, if you want some additional components such as Workflow which is not including in the original packaging of the solution, it will take more time to install.

The solution is very powerful but you have to know how to use it.

I rate Visual Studio Test Professional an eight out of ten.

Visual Studio is for custom software development.

Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market.

Some of the features appreciated by our teams that work with VS are:

IntelliSense, rename functions (classes, methods, variables), move definition to file, error navigation, search in files (match case, regex), NuGet package manager, GIT experience (especially at solving merge conflicts and view history on a specific file, compare with the previous file to see changes in time), watch list and the fact it can be pinned for the variable you are monitoring, conditional breakpoints, moving execution line up when debugging, shortcuts to arrange elements in the page and remove unused namespaces, possibility to chose the Thread you want to monitor when you have multiple threads, code snippets, easy navigation to the definition and to other classes/methods/properties that refer them, and configuration of code cleanup on multiple profiles and with a lot of options.

We have been selling Visual Studio for more than 10 years.

Sometimes Visual Studio is slow. It uses a lot of resources like memory and processing power. You should optimize the performance by only installing what you need on your machine. Don't install unnecessary things that will slow your machine.

It depends on what you mean by scalability. Only one person uses Visual Studio at a time, but it's scalable in terms of project size. We have
70 users. We will grow usage as we grow the department and the company. We're expecting between 5 and 10 percent growth in usage next year.

Microsoft support could be faster. It took a while to get to a knowledgeable person in some cases, but we got the answer that we were looking for in the end.

Setting up Visual Studio is straightforward. Each developer configures their own environment.

We have both options. Some licenses are paid yearly. Others are monthly subscriptions.

I rate Visual Studio Test Professional nine out of 10.

I use this solution to load data from Excel into a database and perform transformations on the data in between.

The most valuable features are the SSIS reports, the deployment models, and the ability to interact with other Microsoft tools.

The stability of this solution needs to be improved because sometimes it hangs and crashes.

The speed at which deployment can be done has room for improvement.

The support documentation that is available on the Microsoft website should be improved.

I would like to see more visuals, such as graphs and diagrams, added.

I have been using Visual Studio Test Professional for two years.

If it were not for the hangs and crashes that I sometimes experience, I would say that this solution is stable.

This is a scalable solution and I have enrolled a lot of users. We have perhaps 1,000 users.

I would rate Microsoft technical support for this solution a seven out of ten.

I have not spoken with them directly, but I have had problems when I go online and search for solutions. The documents on the Microsoft website are not very useful, and they ought to make it easier to find answers. The documents, overall, are a bit hard to understand and are not user-friendly. 

I have used previous versions of Microsoft Visual Test Studio including the 2010 and 2008 editions. I switched to the 2015 version because of the new features.

I would say that the initial setup is fine, although I would rate it a medium level of complexity. Deploying this solution is not very quick, which is something that can be improved.

I was also considering Alteryx but I chose this solution because of the cost.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

I am using Visual Studio Test Professional for developing architectural designs and diagnostics in the cloud.

What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration.

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

I have been using Visual Studio Test Professional for approximately four years.

Visual Studio Test Professional is stable. It has high availability.

I have not contacted support.

The installation was straightforward for Visual Studio Test Professional.

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

I rate Visual Studio Test Professional a seven out of ten.

Our primary use case of this solution is for UA automation. I'm a process manager and we are customers of Visual Studio. 

The product is very easy to use and we were able to scale up the automation solution quickly which was beneficial.

It's an expensive solution which is an issue for us. 

I've been using this solution for five years. 

The solution is stable and we get upgrades every couple of years. Most of our developers use Visual Studio; we have around 150 users in total.

The initial setup is straightforward, it took us around four to five hours and we were able to do it by ourselves with our own three-person IT team.

We pay an annual licensing fee. 

We took a look at Tricentis Tosca and SmartBear TestComplete a few months ago but nothing has been finalized. We're looking for an alternative to Visual Studio Test Professional. 

If cost is not an issue then I would recommend this solution. 

I rate this solution eight out of 10.