We performed a comparison between OpenText ALM / Quality Center 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."I like the traceability, especially between requirements, testing, and defects."
"The most valuable Quality Center feature, I find, is the solution's integration with some of our automation tools. For us, the ability to capture and record and the ease of use from a user perspective, are all key."
"The stability is very good."
"I found the ease of use most valuable in Micro Focus ALM Quality Center. Creating test cases is easier because the solution allows writing in Excel."
"Most of the features that I like the best are more on the analytics side."
"The independent view of elevated access is good."
"ALM Quality Center is a reliable, consolidated product."
"It is stable and reliable."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"Code testing is the most valuable feature of this solution for developing software."
"Easy to use and easily scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects."
"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."
"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."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"Defect ageing reports need to be included as built-in."
"The uploading of test scripts can get a little cumbersome and that is a very sensitive task. They could improve on that a lot. It's really important that this gets better as I'm loading close to a thousand test scripts per cycle."
"An area for improvement in Micro Focus ALM Quality Center is not being able to update the Excel sheet where I wrote the test cases. Whenever I update some test cases, I'm unsuccessful because there is overlapping data or missing cases from the sheet."
"If the solution could create a lighter, more flexible tool with more adaptability to new methodologies such as agile, it would be great."
"The QA needs improvement."
"There's room for improvement in the requirements traceability with Micro Focus ALM Quality Center. That could use an uplift."
"Quality Center's UI is outdated, and it's a little bit slow on the login part and different parts of the application. That's why we're switching solutions. I believe most companies are switching to Octane or something else. Micro Focus should enhance the interface and reports."
"HPE ALM’s out-of-the-box reporting can be perceived as rigid and limited, to an extent."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"The product must provide more integration."
"The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier."
"The price could be improved."
"One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone."
"We would like to be able to easily integrate this solution with our continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins."
"The performance could be faster."
"The data flow can be improved."
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OpenText ALM / Quality Center is ranked 1st in Test Management Tools with 197 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 5th in Test Management Tools with 47 reviews. OpenText ALM / Quality Center is rated 8.0, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of OpenText ALM / Quality Center writes "Offers features for higher-end traceability and integration with different tools but lacks in scalability ". 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 ". OpenText ALM / Quality Center is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, OpenText ALM Octane, Jira, Tricentis qTest and Zephyr Enterprise, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and TestRail. See our OpenText ALM / Quality Center vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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