We use the solution for performance analysis.
Manager QA at [x]cube LABS
A scalable solution that saves time and money and provides excellent debugging features
Pros and Cons
- "The debugging feature is valuable."
- "The vendor must release a lightweight version of the solution."
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The debugging feature is valuable. We also use the solution for automation. The product has a lot of features.
What needs improvement?
We need high-end machines to use Visual Studio. The vendor must release a lightweight version of the solution.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for more than four years.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Sometimes, we face some performance issues but do not face downtime. I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool is scalable. The solution releases a new version every day. The tool has improved in various areas in the last four years.
How are customer service and support?
Whenever we face challenges, we contact support. The support team is very good. The team responds and solves our issues immediately. The team provides support 24/7.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We used the community version before. We decided to use Visual Studio Test Professional because we were scaling our business, and it has more features. It also provides more support compared to the community version. While using the community version, we had to raise a request to the support team and wait for a response. However, now we can contact the team and get support immediately.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is very easy and straightforward. The configuration and deployment can be done within a day. Our team is fast.
What was our ROI?
The product has saved us time and money.
What other advice do I have?
Overall, I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
IT manager at Farmatrejd
A stable and easy-to-use solution that has a simple initial setup
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use."
- "The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."
What is our primary use case?
Visual Studio Test Professional can be used for a lot of things with C++ or C sharp. Java deployment is also included in the solution.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use.
What needs improvement?
The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Visual Studio Test Professional for ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Visual Studio Test Professional an eight out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I rate Visual Studio Test Professional an eight out of ten for scalability. Three people are using the solution in our organization.
How was the initial setup?
The solution's initial setup is not difficult.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented the solution through an in-house team. The solution's deployment took around 45 minutes. The solution can be deployed on-premises and on-cloud.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment with Visual Studio Test Professional.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We pay a yearly licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional, which is expensive.
What other advice do I have?
Two people are required for the solution’s deployment and maintenance. I would recommend Visual Studio Test Professional to other users.
Overall, I rate Visual Studio Test Professional an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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IT head at Ficobank
A highly stable and scalable solution that gives a good return on investment
Pros and Cons
- "Visual Studio Test Professional is a very scalable solution."
- "The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier."
What is most valuable?
Visual Studio Test Professional is a very scalable solution. We use the solution for integrating into other programming languages.
What needs improvement?
The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Visual Studio Test Professional for ten years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I rate Visual Studio Test Professional ten out of ten for stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Only three users are using Visual Studio Test Professional in our organization.
I rate Visual Studio Test Professional ten out of ten for scalability.
What about the implementation team?
We implemented the solution through an in-house team, and it took us around three hours to deploy it. You have to check the hardware requirements before you install the product.
What was our ROI?
We have seen a return on investment with Visual Studio Test Professional.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Visual Studio Test Professional is a very expensive solution.
What other advice do I have?
We are using the latest version of Visual Studio Test Professional. Users should try to use Visual Studio Test Professional because of its features.
Overall, I rate Visual Studio Test Professional a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Android Developer at Fizetési Pont Kft.
A scalable and stable solution that is easy to deploy and is the best for .NET development
Pros and Cons
- "The whole suite is made for .NET development."
- "The product must provide more automation."
What is our primary use case?
We use the solution for .NET development.
What is most valuable?
The whole suite is made for .NET development. We cannot use anything else for this purpose. I'm super happy with the product.
What needs improvement?
The product must provide more automation.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The tool is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
The tool is scalable. Three people use the product in our company. We have plans to increase the number of users to five or six.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We use different solutions for other development environments. We use what’s best for each language we support or use. We use Visual Studio Test Professional because it supports .NET the best.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was straightforward. It took us 15 to 20 minutes to deploy the solution.
What about the implementation team?
We’re software engineers. The deployment can be done in-house.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Junior Engineer at Mauritius Telecom
Is easy to use, stable and scalable, but needs a more appealing interface
Pros and Cons
- "The interface is easy to use."
- "The interface should be made attractive."
What is most valuable?
The interface is easy to use.
What needs improvement?
The designs are not really very appealing. When you make the design, it's quite basic which includes the icons. The tool needs to include brighter colors and be more user-friendly. The interface should be made attractive.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the solution for two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The product is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution. There are five to ten users presently.
How are customer service and support?
I think the technical staff are well-versed because they usually have to make designs for the customers.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is easy. For me to start the design from scratch, it actually took less than 15-30 minutes.
What other advice do I have?
I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Digital Transformation Specialist at Technovert
Straightforward environment and flexible
Pros and Cons
- "User-friendly ID and direct integration with GitHub are the most valuable."
- "It would be great to support other languages and applications, and that is one of the things we can improve."
What is our primary use case?
Test Professional is a versatile solution that can be utilized for a wide range of projects such as integration, analysis, reporting, development, and BIS or data-related projects that are based on Microsoft technologies. While it is a useful tool for many purposes, we primarily use it for security testing as it excels in this area.
What is most valuable?
User-friendly ID and direct integration with GitHub are the most valuable. We can integrate it with other platforms and even use Python. So, it's not limited to just one platform and has good coding capabilities.
What needs improvement?
One significant issue is when there are multiple annual updates, and we are developing a project, it should be compatible. We may need to either upgrade or downgrade the project, depending on the package. That can be a difficult and bothersome task. We need to maintain the same version of the environment. So compatibility should be improved.
For additional features, it can also support the Python language. We can develop using Python features in Visual Studio. It would be great to support other languages and applications, and that is one of the things we can improve. Visual Studio is very open, and we can develop in no time.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have used it for five to six years, primarily for community, enterprise, and solution projects. I am using the latest version.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is stable enough, I would rate it nine out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It has good scalability. We have six to seven users currently working with it.
How was the initial setup?
The setup is straightforward. The deployment process can be executed quickly. Once it's in our system, we can use it for any development project based on the project we need. The deployment can be done in-house without any technical team necessary.
What about the implementation team?
Deployment usually takes about ten minutes, and I can do it myself in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
It's costly, but not too much, and it's just within our budget. One good thing is we can make use of community relations.
There aren't any additional costs, like extra system integration or something. However, there may be some differences in the pricing since the PS will be different. As a standard version, it will have most of the capabilities.
What other advice do I have?
The environment is straightforward and user-friendly, so there's not much of a learning curve. I used it for my project, and it worked well, and I definitely recommend it for future use.
Overall, I would rate it a nine out of ten.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Executive Manager at Hexagon AB
Highly stable solution with a rich IDE
Pros and Cons
- "Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development."
- "Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
What is our primary use case?
We do a lot of test-driven development and acceptance test-driven development, so we write all our test cases for our .net development through Visual Studio Test Professional.
How has it helped my organization?
Visual Studio Test Professional has allowed us to increase the quality of one of our web portal products drastically. We went two years with only one regression in our software because of the automated testing we built with Visual Studio Test.
What is most valuable?
Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development.
For how long have I used the solution?
I've been using Visual Studio Test Professional for as long as I can remember.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I'd rate Visual Studio Test Professional's stability eight out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I would rate Visual Studio Test Professional's scalability nine out of ten.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup was pretty straightforward.
What was our ROI?
We've seen an ROI because the IDE is much richer than others we've used.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey - I would rate its pricing six out of ten.
What other advice do I have?
I would recommend anybody thinking of implementing Visual Studio Test Professional to go for it. I'd give Visual Studio Test Professional a rating of eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer. Partner.
Senior Software Engineer at Eurofins
Integrated testing solution that stores a broad range of packages and offers scalability
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable feature has been to store all our packages in one place including SSIS packages, SQL tables, TFS and SSR."
- "The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us."
What is our primary use case?
When using Visual Studio, we have two type types of reports that we use including TFS and Git. I use TFS to open the solutions, make any changes and to complete tests for quality program production.
What is most valuable?
The most valuable feature has been to store all our packages in one place including SSIS packages, SQL tables, TFS and SSR.
What needs improvement?
The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been using this solution for almost a year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
This solution is not that stable. The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
This solution is scalable.
How are customer service and support?
We have our own tech support in the office so we do not use their customer support.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup is straightforward. We have partial scripts and we used them to run the setup using Octopus.
What other advice do I have?
I would advise others to save changes in their repository or it might get lost.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Sr. Network Administrator at ACMC
A secure solution with an easy deployment
Pros and Cons
- "It's great for the development of .NET."
- "Visual Studio Test Professional is great for the development of .NET and we use it both as a cloud solution and on-premises."
- "The solution should be cheaper."
What is our primary use case?
It's great for the development of .NET.
What needs improvement?
The solution should be cheaper. But unfortunately, Microsoft products are usually expensive.
For how long have I used the solution?
We've been using this solution for several years and have used Visual Studio 10, 12 and 13. We use it both as a cloud solution and on-premises.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It is a stable solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It is a scalable solution. It is secure because most of our applications are in .NET.
How was the initial setup?
The deployment was not complicated, and our developers completed the deployment. Only those two developers use the solution, and we don't plan to increase usage at this time.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Visual Studio Test Professional has an annual license.
What other advice do I have?
I rate this solution a ten out of ten. I recommend Visual Studio Test Professional, primarily if you work with .NET. If we are developing something in .NET or C++, we use Visual Studio. But if we are developing something in Java, we have to use Java.
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Head of .NET Department at Evozon
It's a highly powerful tool for custom software development
Pros and Cons
- "Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
- "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."
What is our primary use case?
Visual Studio is for custom software development.
What is most valuable?
Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market.
Some of the features appreciated by our teams that work with VS are:
IntelliSense, rename functions (classes, methods, variables), move definition to file, error navigation, search in files (match case, regex), NuGet package manager, GIT experience (especially at solving merge conflicts and view history on a specific file, compare with the previous file to see changes in time), watch list and the fact it can be pinned for the variable you are monitoring, conditional breakpoints, moving execution line up when debugging, shortcuts to arrange elements in the page and remove unused namespaces, possibility to chose the Thread you want to monitor when you have multiple threads, code snippets, easy navigation to the definition and to other classes/methods/properties that refer them, and configuration of code cleanup on multiple profiles and with a lot of options.
For how long have I used the solution?
We have been selling Visual Studio for more than 10 years.
What do I think about the stability of 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.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
It depends on what you mean by scalability. Only one person uses Visual Studio at a time, but it's scalable in terms of project size. We have
70 users. We will grow usage as we grow the department and the company. We're expecting between 5 and 10 percent growth in usage next year.
How are customer service and support?
Microsoft support could be faster. It took a while to get to a knowledgeable person in some cases, but we got the answer that we were looking for in the end.
How was the initial setup?
Setting up Visual Studio is straightforward. Each developer configures their own environment.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have both options. Some licenses are paid yearly. Others are monthly subscriptions.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Visual Studio Test Professional nine out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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