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 solution is easy to implement and easy to use."
"The installation is very straightforward."
"The most valuable feature is that it's fully integrated, where we have a single place to do everything that we need."
"Azure enables us to create a staging environment through to a production environment in an easier way and then get the code and run that."
"The most valuable aspect of Azure DevOps for me is its robust version control functionality, which is critical for our workflow."
"It's a pretty problem-free solution."
"Most of the features are very valuable for us, especially the source code control and task management."
"I like the entire tool because it is a one-stop-solution for DevOps."
"The solution's iteration board is good because you can track all your work with it."
"Build definitions and releases within the product. allow us to put our latest applications in the field."
"Basically, the capacity to construct various products is something I find handy."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"I like its MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) section which gives us options to create various test plans and add test cases into it."
"It is a stable solution."
"User alerts are very helpful for knowing when work is required."
"Team Foundation Server (TFS) is easy to use, and we have a complete trail and traceability. We also like the access control part."
"I'd like to have something better for the test plan."
"Non-functional testing such as security testing, log testing, and performance testing can be improved with a better visualization."
"I would like to see more customization available to the administrator."
"The active directory password system needs some improvement because many times the password for the active directory expires before the set time."
"They have brought a lot of new collaboration features in the latest version. We haven't used those features, but they should continue to expand it more on the collaboration front so that two developers can look at the code and work at the same time. It will be helpful for working from home."
"Being more technology-agnostic through ease of integration would be beneficial."
"The price could be lowered. It would be nice if it was cheaper."
"Testing is very important. Microsoft Azure DevOps tests very well. However, DevOps teams need to be aware of what they are impacting when someone updates anything on the system."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"The user interface could improve and test management was not useful in TFS."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"There should be management of the project built-in."
"Integration from Visual Studio could be improved."
"Microsoft should discontinue the use of SharePoint as I don’t really see any value add to TFS, document management features can be included in TFS web portal itself, if required!"
Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 2nd in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites with 126 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.