We performed a comparison between TestRail and TFS 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."You don't need to follow complex procedures to create a test run, test case, etc."
"The integration with Jira and the ability for extra configurations are the most valuable features."
"Reliable and stable. It is important that TestRail be up and running 24/7 as we have users around the world using it."
"The most valuable features are the reporting in the dashboard and the general way in which we can create test runs is helpful."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the dashboard."
"The ability to time test runs gives the tester the ability to compare calculated times to actual times it takes for a test case to run."
"The most valuable features of TestRail by Gurock are the user experience, it's very easy to learn. There is no learning curve needed to work on projects and manage the test cases, it is easy. Exporting and importing are simple."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, ease of use for writing new test cases, the test plans, and the composition."
"The most valuable feature is integration, particularly if you have a .NET application."
"The most valuable feature from my point of view is project management, which includes user stories as well as task management."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"The most valuable feature of TFS is that it keeps the code secure while working collaboratively in a team of four or five individuals."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"Microsoft's technical team is supportive."
"Basically, the capacity to construct various products is something I find handy."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
"This solution has room for improvement. For example, some particular projects need to adjust access or add additional members and this isn't always possible. Role-based access would improve this."
"TestRail's user interface is not great. When you use it for the first time, you will be very uncomfortable and not know how to create test cases. It doesn't have a field for preconditions and post-conditions."
"I have faced some issues with the integration between TestRail and Jira, which haven't been permanently resolved yet."
"The platform needs improvement regarding performance and creating links."
"Reporting could be more flexible regarding repeating reports."
"It would be useful if it had its own issue management system. At the moment, it's purely a test management tool and you have to link to a defect management tool, like JIRA. It would be useful if there was an option to use its own defect management tool so that it's integrated and not two separate tools."
"There are a number of improvements that have been requested. While I don't have a list of these requests available, many can be found on Gurock's forum."
"TestRail should improve its pricing."
"This solution is quite old and it is already being bundled as Azure DevOps Server."
"The reporting functionality is something that they should work on."
"The project management side should be addressed and the project and release planning should be somewhat extended."
"I'm looking for specific options that aren't currently available, such as active status, new status, or what's currently in progress."
"They have room for improvement in merging the source code changes for multiple developers across files. It is very good at highlighting the changes that the source code automatically does not know how to handle, but it's not very good at reporting the ones that it did automatically. There are times when we have source code that gets merged, and we lose the changes that we expected to happen. It can get a little confusing at times. They can just do a little bit better on the merging of changes for multiple developers."
"I would like to see the reporting features expanded so that I can see details on the users connected to all of the projects."
"We encounter issues with backups."
"Merging branches is definitely one of the more challenging aspects for people new to TFS."
TestRail is ranked 2nd in Test Management Tools with 21 reviews while TFS is ranked 3rd in Test Management Tools with 93 reviews. TestRail is rated 8.0, while TFS is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of TestRail writes "A tool that provides effective test management and real-time reporting capabilities". 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". TestRail is most compared with Zephyr Enterprise, Tricentis qTest, Tricentis Tosca, Sealights and PractiTest, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, Visual Studio Test Professional and Zephyr Enterprise. See our TFS vs. TestRail report.
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