We reviewed Microsoft Azure DevOps vs TFS according to our users’ review in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison results: Microsoft Azure DevOps is a more advanced solution than TFS. Regardless of the higher cost, it offers stronger capabilities, evolving features, and better support.
"The features that have a significant impact on us include CI/CD, where we have full integration with the source code repository and Azure Pipelines."
"The creation of test plans is valuable and I like the reporting features."
"What I like the most about this product is that it's free and it's secure."
"The available Kanban board is the best feature for management decisions."
"It's very user-friendly, and the documentation is good. The most valuable feature is backlog item creation, where we pick features and other things. The burndown chart created for projects to be maintained by the development teams is also useful."
"It's got something that you won't find in other products."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the CI/CD pipeline, and the testing automation."
"The most valuable feature is the ease of use and performance."
"The most valuable features of TFS are bug reporting and its high performance."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is project management, which includes user stories as well as task management."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"As far as queries are concerned, creating, grading, or customizing the queries as a primary requirement is very easy to do."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is that it keeps the code secure while working collaboratively in a team of four or five individuals."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"Azure DevOps could be improved with more security plugins, especially for SaaS scanning and vulnerability scans."
"There are certain features, and reporting that can only be used in PowerBI, but not directly in DevOps."
"Definitely, there should be more integration between GitHub and Azure DevOps."
"Not all companies use the same methodology which could limit the use of this solution."
"All of the tests of the applications are done on the mobile or web interface and it could be improved."
"Right now, they tend to have a limit of 1,000 tasks per sprint, and some of their web-based boards, such as the Kanban boards, no longer display tasks. Once you hit over a certain number of task limits, you need to increase those limits."
"The user management in the solution could improve."
"There is only one key area of improvement for me. The new imaging thing is that there is DevOps, where security is important because it is always lasting. So, to integrate security in our DevOps, that would be nice."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"TFS's CI/CD, project pipelines, and management development could be improved."
"More options could be provided from the perspective of requirements management, which would help product owners to use the tool effectively."
"We are also using Microsoft Teams. The two products function separately. There is not enough collaboration between Microsoft Teams and TFS."
"The price could be cheaper."
"TFS is scalable with different Microsoft tools for test management but it is not scalable with other third-party tools."
"I would like to see TFS improve its web interface as there are some limitations with IDs and the integration behind it and with open-source tools like VS Code."
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 127 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 93 reviews. Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.2, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Allows us to deploy code to production without releasing certain features immediately and agile project management capabilities offer resource-leveling". 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". Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with GitLab, Jira, Rally Software, ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management and OpenText ALM / Quality Center, whereas TFS is most compared with Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and TestRail. See our Microsoft Azure DevOps vs. TFS report.
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TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very friendly user interface. I think TFS does have a few valuable features, though, such as its project management, which happens to not only include user stories, but task management as well. It would be good if TFS offered better integration for third-party tools like Jira. For my needs specifically, for example, I need to do a lot of manual tasks, and integration with SharePoint is not easy. Other than that, I consider the product to be pretty solid, stable, and also scalable, and haven’t experienced too many issues with it.
In contrast to TFS, Azure DevOps provides a seamless user experience that is not only consistent across Azure DevOps service, but is consistent across Azure DevOps server too. It also has great navigation and the user interface is responsive, helping employees focus better on their work. Azure also allows users to connect GitHub Enterprise with Azure Boards, with no disruption to other workflows.
While both Azure DevOps and TFS require SQL Server, Azure DevOps server can be hosted on virtual machines running on Azure. In turn, these support Azure SQL Databases give users superior backup and scaling options - and do so all without increased administrative costs that are usually tacked on to running such complex services. I also like that Azure DevOps has advanced search capabilities. For example, certain features allow information from different components of the product to be accessible from whichever parts users are working on. You can also expand the search box from the product header, which I find useful and a great addition to help improve navigation.
Conclusion:
Azure DevOps is a better match for me than TFS because it has several new features and more additional benefits than TFS can offer for my needs.
Hi @Netanya Carmi,
Both are good and in fact, TFS is now rebranded as Azure DevOps server.
Now the point is about your requirement, if your requirement is to work closely with Cloud Services Cloud Application and you are Ok to manage your code and CI/CD plans over the cloud platform then go for Azure DevOps whereas if you can't move the data to cloud use Azure DevOps Server.
But for such tools my first choice is Gitlab.
Rest you can call me at 9717996125 or drop me at kulbhushan.mayer@thinknyx.com to discuss further.
Both, it depends on what you want to do with it and what is your technical environment.