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OğuzKalaycı - PeerSpot reviewer
system engineer at Yaşar Holding
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
A scalable solution that is very useful for compiling existing projects and developing new projects
Pros and Cons
  • "The solution is very useful for compiling existing projects and developing new projects."
  • "Sometimes, the product is too complex to use."

What is most valuable?

The solution is very useful for compiling existing projects and developing new projects. The features provided by the tool are enough for me.

What needs improvement?

Sometimes, the product is too complex to use. It must be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for 10 to 15 years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten. It can be improved.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The tool is scalable. We have ten users.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is straightforward. It took us an hour to deploy the product. It is very difficult to download. It took a very long time.

What about the implementation team?

I installed the solution myself.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We pay a yearly license fee for the tool. The product is very expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I will recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Kaveesha Liyanage - PeerSpot reviewer
Student at University of Huddersfield
Real User
Top 5
Has good stability, but its UI needs improvement
Pros and Cons
  • "Its initial setup process is easy."
  • "Its UI could be better."

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution for web-based application development.

What is most valuable?

The solution has good stability.

What needs improvement?

The solution's UI could be better.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have used the solution for a month or two.

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.

How was the initial setup?

The solution's initial setup process is easy.

What about the implementation team?

I implemented the solution myself.

What other advice do I have?

I rate the solution a six out of ten.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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Visual Studio Test Professional
April 2025
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Kevin McAllister - PeerSpot reviewer
Executive Manager at Hexagon AB
Real User
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.
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Mohamed Sadek - PeerSpot reviewer
Lead DevOps and Release Engineer-L2 at ITWORX
Real User
Top 10
Good integration between the management data and the test cases
Pros and Cons
  • "We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."
  • "The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user."

What is most valuable?

There are many valuable features, including the integration between the management data and the test cases. You have the ability to link them with the requirements and user stories. You also have the ability to track the running of the test cases and the reporting of the results of each test case. You are able to send some reports via dashboard control to see the status of the overall testing across specific requirements or specific user stories. It enables us to connect the bugs and the cases to the requirements.

What needs improvement?

The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user.

The solution needs more reports and more dashboards as well as more details for each originated spare test case or best guess in test cases.

There are still some issues in the results. There is an extension integrated with the test manager that enables you to run manual testing and to track the progress of any scenarios you've written in the Test Professional. We have noticed some bugs in this extension and this is the core of running the manual test cases. These bugs need to be resolved. They have to enhance or to add more stability to this extension specifically.

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using the solution for around two years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The solution is very stable. We didn't find any issues regarding the stability or the maintenance of the system.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The solution is very scalable. The main concern is the cost. Even if it were implemented on-premises, the cost of the license is too high. Currently, we have around 20 to 25 users, all of which are engineers. We are planning to expand this number; we need to publicize this system across the organization.

How are customer service and technical support?

We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward. The cloud service allows you to subscribe to use it. We also have an on-premises model and it was very simple to install and implement that as well.

What about the implementation team?

We implemented the solution ourselves.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

For the cloud services option, you buy a subscription per account or per user. This costs around $52 a month per person.

What other advice do I have?

We are using the cloud deployment model, on Azure cloud services as well as an on-premises deployment model.

We have around 100 quality engineers that we eventually want to get on the system. To do this, we need to apply a test specific license for using and testing the modules in a real case or in TFS. I don't know how much this will ultimately cost, but it's not cheap. We are a partner with Microsoft, so we are eligible for some free license-related testing. We're using the on-premises deployment model for this. They do require some subscriptions for cloud services with limited accounts as well.

The highest value for this product is the integration. Everything is tracked, everything in your software lifecycle can be integrated. Data can be added. You can track and monitor and make some reports and dashboards across your project to get more details as well as more accurate data about day to day activities done on your project. It's very useful.

Before using Visual Studio Test Professional, we could not imagine that we could track certain types of or large amounts of data for the testing team. We were so focused on the development and issues and bugs without linking them with testing. Now we use testing data and test management to test the plans and to link everything with the requirements and the project lifecycle.

I would rate this solution nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company has a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer: Partner.
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VenkateshK4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Digital Transformation Specialist at Technovert
Real User
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: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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MauricioFlores - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Backend Developer at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Real User
Easy documentation, scalable and helps to create safe solutions
Pros and Cons
  • "The documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems."
  • "It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."

What is our primary use case?

It helps us to create happy and safe solutions.

What is most valuable?

It is a free solution, the documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems.

What needs improvement?

It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it. The interface could also be more simple.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using this solution for four years. It is deployed on-premises and on Azure cloud.

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 very scalable. The backend developer and full-start developer use this solution, and it doesn't require maintenance.

How was the initial setup?

Few people are needed for deployment, and it is easy because it is Microsoft technology. It takes about one hour to deploy.

What other advice do I have?

I rate this solution a nine out of ten. I would recommend this solution to others, but it requires a lot of learning to use it.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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CTO at Hammerknife
Real User
Top 5
User-friendly tool with good stability
Pros and Cons
  • "It is a good and user-friendly tool."
  • "It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."

What is our primary use case?

We are primarily using Visual Studio Test Professional for the C Sharp environment.

What is most valuable?

It is a good and user-friendly tool.

What needs improvement?

The product is only available on Windows. It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port. It is challenging to use it for larger projects. Also, it needs to be rewritten with additional features.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Visual Studio Test Professional for more than twenty years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is a very robust and stable product.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The product needs to be more scalable. It requires a good set of machines to perform well.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup process is long and tedious. It works like installing an operating system on the server and takes an hour to complete. We run the setup, select the components and features, and install it on the system. It is well organized but a very lengthy process.

What about the implementation team?

I installed the product myself.

What was our ROI?

The product generates very low revenues for us.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We have licensing for Visual Studio Community edition.

What other advice do I have?

I would not recommend Visual Studio Test Professional. I rate it an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
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IT manager at Farmatrejd
Real User
Top 5
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: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.
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