We performed a comparison between OpenText Silk Central and Visual Studio Test Professional 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."
"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."
"The most valuable feature has been to store all our packages in one place including SSIS packages, SQL tables, TFS and SSR."
"The interface is easy to use."
"The product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."
"Performance-wise, it is a great tool."
"The setup is easy and straightforward."
"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects."
"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."
"Sometimes, the solution hangs, so its performance could be improved."
"I would like to see more integration in the solution."
"The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."
"The solution's documentation could be improved because it keeps disappearing from the solution."
"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 could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."
"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 It is a bit outdated currently."
"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less."
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OpenText Silk Central is ranked 21st in Test Management Tools while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 5th in Test Management Tools with 47 reviews. OpenText Silk Central is rated 7.8, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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 Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". OpenText Silk Central is most compared with OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Zephyr Enterprise, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and TestRail.
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