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."The most valuable features are the reporting in the dashboard and the general way in which we can create test runs is helpful."
"The most valuable features are the flexibility, ease of use for writing new test cases, the test plans, and the composition."
"Reliable and stable. It is important that TestRail be up and running 24/7 as we have users around the world using it."
"I use the product to create test cases and share them with my team and manager."
"The features that I have found most valuable are that there are various test case templates and test artifact maintenance."
"Integration with Confluence and JIRA."
"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 product helps us create test cases and reports."
"For what I need TFS for, I have never run into any limitation."
"Work item management integration with source control."
"Stability is okay."
"It's an integrated system that includes all the information that we need to deliver our products smoothly and to track the progress of each piece of code."
"The work item feature is most valuable. It allows us to store all product requirements. We can also link the test cases to those requirements so that we know which feature has already been tested, and which one is waiting for testing. We can also couple the code reviews, unit tests, and automated tests into these requirements. It is reliable. It has all the features and good performance. It also has reporting tools or analysis tools."
"The solution is very much stable."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"The most valuable features of TFS are bug reporting and its high performance."
"It would be nice to have a description section when creating the test scenario itself so I can indicate what the configuration should be."
"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."
"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."
"It's not easy to create a custom report. It's not straightforward. A good improvement would be if there was a way to report and create a custom report without using a plugin or scripting language."
"TestRail should improve its pricing."
"The TestRail API to integrate reporting of automated tests is complete, but requires many requests to identify the appropriate entry."
"With TestRail, the APIs are there, but they may not be able to easily integrate with the Jenkins."
"The test suite management has room for improvement as well as better reporting."
"The solution should have better dashboards."
"Since the TFS was an on-prem solution, the private network accessibility was restricted."
"Since it is Microsoft, it is technology agnostic, thus it does not really fit into various different technologies in the organization."
"TFS isn't a great tool if you're on the cloud."
"Integration from Visual Studio could be improved."
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
"The user interface could be improved to make it simpler and increase usability."
"There are many things that I cannot do, and I have a lot of bugs."
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 OpenText ALM / Quality Center, whereas TFS is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Jira, Rally Software, OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Visual Studio Test Professional. See our TFS vs. TestRail report.
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