We performed a comparison between OpenText Silk Central and TFS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText, IDERA, Microsoft and others in Test Management Tools."The stability of this solution is very good. In our experience it is approximately ninety-nine percent."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"TFS is very user-friendly."
"I have found almost all of the features valuable because it integrates well with your Microsoft products. If a client is using the entire Microsoft platform, then TFS would be definitely preferable. It integrates with the digital studio development environment as well."
"Team Foundation Server (TFS) is easy to use, and we have a complete trail and traceability. We also like the access control part."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"Version Control: TFS offers both the centralized “TFVC” version control technology as well as the distributed “Git” version control technology."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is integration."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is the central repository, and you can see what changes other developers did from which branch."
"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"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."
"Integration from Visual Studio could be improved."
"TFS should allow more integration with different platforms."
"Its pricing could be improved."
"TFS needs to be stable."
"I would also like a true command prompt like Git."
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OpenText Silk Central is ranked 21st in Test Management Tools while TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. OpenText Silk Central is rated 7.8, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of OpenText Silk Central writes "We have many possibilities to customize the utilization and we can also work easily at database level for custom reporting and to manage additional information and integration". 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". OpenText Silk Central is most compared with OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Zephyr Enterprise, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and OpenText ALM / Quality Center.
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