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 feature that I have found most valuable is the dashboard."
"I haven't faced any stability issues using the solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I use the product to create test cases and share them with my team and manager."
"This is a user friendly solution."
"Integration with Confluence and JIRA."
"I was on the lookout for automation testing on the browser and I believe this tool is very interesting in that matter. The solution is useful for UI testing. You just need to add the URL that is to be checked."
"From a testing perspective, the management is awesome. I am able to do testing and then add the reporting and the evidence. It is fair in terms of the price that you're paying. You get what you're paying for."
"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."
"We use TFS for forecast management."
"The biggest value-add is the solution integrates well with most Microsoft products."
"The traceability is valuable. While managing the workflows, it was always nice to have that traceability from requirements and all the way through design. It integrates with Microsoft Test Manager, and you can have everything that is related to a requirement attached to it."
"The API for managing TFS programmatically is very powerful, you can listen on work items changes by TFS events."
"It is a stable solution."
"What I like the most is that you can set permissions on just one folder."
"The interface is easy to navigate."
"From the project management perspective, the tool is efficiently managing teams by giving management information, such as reports, graphs, velocity, capacity, etc."
"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."
"TestRail should improve its pricing."
"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 by Gurock could improve by adding a defect management module tool. It would add a lot of value if I want to install it and I don't have Jira or an isolating team. For example, if I am providing a service it's separated from the development team, it then would be better to have defect management included with the test management. However, as it is now I need to be integrated with Jira or another defect management tool to complete the testing process."
"With TestRail, the APIs are there, but they may not be able to easily integrate with the Jenkins."
"I've encountered at some point, some difficulties on the administration side, but I don't remember exactly what they were."
"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."
"The test suite management has room for improvement as well as better reporting."
"TFS on-premise does not support integration with SharePoint Online."
"The price could be cheaper."
"Overall, I think it would be useful to have something similar where Microsoft comes up with supporting concepts of scaling Agile in TFS so that clients don't have to look for a separate tool."
"TFS's CI/CD, project pipelines, and management development could be improved."
"The reporting functionality is something that they should work on."
"I only use 1% of the functionality, so I am not familiar enough to know what needs to be improved."
"As an end-user, I expect the solution's performance to be faster while staying as stable as possible."
"In the next release, I would like them to include integration for various projects, similar to what JIRA has, and they could create this feature on the dashboard."
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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