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Original Software Qualify vs TFS comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Original Software Qualify
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
29th
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
TFS
Ranking in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
99
Ranking in other categories
Test Management Tools (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites category, the mindshare of Original Software Qualify is 1.0%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TFS is 4.5%, up from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
TFS4.5%
Original Software Qualify1.0%
Other94.5%
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites
 

Featured Reviews

Konstantinos Tasiopoulos - PeerSpot reviewer
Group Integration Tools Manager at TITAN
Flexible, multifunctional, and stable testing software with good technical support
I've been using the latest version of Original Software Qualify AQM. Over 100 users in our company use Original Software Qualify AQM. We only have two people in charge of its deployment and maintenance. This software is extensively used in our company. Personally, I recommend Original Software Qualify AQM to other people looking into implementing it. You can do a lot of things with this software. The support is very good. The communication is very good, and they also listen to problems raised. They add new features and functionalities as a response to past problems or issues. It's a very good tool and I recommend it. We've seen a return on investment from this software. I'm rating Original Software Qualify AQM a nine out of ten, because of several reasons: It's very good software, it's a supportive company, and we have very good results from it. This software also minimizes the effort of UATs, and it also allows us to deploy whatever we want.
PF
Angular C Full Stack Developer at Great American Insurance
Simplified task creation enhances seamless development workflow
We use TFS for our Agile board to handle our sprints, epics, stories, and tasks, tracking how work is progressing. It is also a repository for managing code changes TFS integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio and Azure Cloud, facilitating continuous integration and continuous deployment, which…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"You can do a lot of things with this software; the support is very good, the communication is very good, they listen to problems raised, add new features and functionalities as a response to past problems or issues, and we have seen a return on investment from this software."
"Flexible software with multiple functions, e.g. scenario deployment, new entity creation, workflow creation, etc. Technical support for this software is very good."
"It has made the management of test artifacts more effective, thus leading to the improvement in the quality of our products from a testing/quality perspective."
"The most valuable features are the dashboard and task-selection capability."
"The solution helps with pretty much all aspects of the development cycle, including using it for QA, testing, development, and the release, and it's useful for every aspect of the development cycle."
"As the solution is cloud-based, we always use the latest version, and we use it comprehensively for client career management."
"Using TFS allowed us to document our requirements as Features and User Stories on a Product Backlog, which allows all team members to access them at the same time and see updates and changes to them in real-time."
"I like the Kanban board. It is very useful in terms of seeing who is working on what and what the current status of work is."
"It's is a very stable solution."
"This solution enables us to link all items usefully, in the way we use Agile."
 

Cons

"The reporting engine of Original Software Qualify AQM needs to change. It's very difficult to develop complex reports. Its reporting function needs improvement."
"Customization of build templates - better tools."
"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."
"Even with VS Code as an open source ID, TFS at the backend as a repository is difficult and integration is complex."
"The test management interface is not very handy."
"The program and portfolio planning facility can be improved."
"They can improve the stability and merging features, especially with SSIS."
"Microsoft should discontinue the use of SharePoint as I don’t really see any value add to TFS, document management features can be included in TFS web portal itself, if required!"
"Not all of the functionality, which is exposed by the command line interface (tf.exe) is available in the Visual Studio GUI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This software is moderately priced."
"The pricing is reasonable at this time."
"TFS is more competitively priced than some other solutions."
"TFS is not cheap."
"The price of the solution is cheaper than other competitors and it is a per-user license."
"TFS is on the higher side, but if you intend to use the tool as a complete ALM tool, it will reduce your costs in the long run."
"We pay for the license yearly."
"The overall price of TFS is good."
"We are using the open-source version."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Healthcare Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Construction Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business16
Midsize Enterprise26
Large Enterprise64
 

Questions from the Community

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Which is better - TFS or Azure DevOps?
TFS and Azure DevOps are different in many ways. TFS was designed for admins, and only offers incremental improvements. In addition, TFS seems complicated to use and I don’t think it has a very fri...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for TFS?
While I do not know the exact pricing, TFS is likely more expensive than GitLab.
What needs improvement with TFS?
From a testing perspective, while the build and deploy automation capability and pipeline integration are already present to a great extent, these are areas where TFS can improve further.
 

Also Known As

Qualify
Team Foundation Server
 

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