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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Atlassian Jira

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AAtlassian Jira is a project management tool, featuring an interactive timeline for mapping work items, dependencies, and releases, Scrum boards for agile teams, and out-of-the-box reports and dashboards.

    $9

    per month per user

    Visual Studio Test Professional

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AAn add-on for the Visual Studio IDE, Visual Studio Test Professional subscription helps teams drive quality and speed. It includes test case management and collaboration features that streamline quality control and support continuous delivery.

    $2,169

    for the first year (renews at $869)

    Pricing
    Atlassian JiraVisual Studio Test Professional
    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $9
    per month per user
    Premium
    $17
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    per year
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Atlassian JiraVisual Studio Test Professional
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsHigher volume teams may qualify buyers for a discount.—
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    Community Pulse
    Atlassian JiraVisual Studio Test Professional
    Considered Both Products
    Atlassian
    No answer on this topic
    Microsoft
    Chose Visual Studio Test Professional
    Our dev team is used to developing with Microsoft tools and managing projects with Azure devops server and service. QA uses the same collaborative platform, so it was easier - almost natural - for all of them to use Visual Studio Test Professional, with full integration and …
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    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    138 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    12 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    121 Answers
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    10 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
    136 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    12 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    71 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    9 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    91 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    Atlassian JiraVisual Studio Test Professional
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Atlassian Jira and Visual Studio Test Professional
    Feature
    Atlassian Jira
    7.8
    66 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Visual Studio Test Professional
    -
    Ratings
    Task Management8.765 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management7.963 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts7.149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.858 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.861 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration8.564 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.765 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.950 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management6.954 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration7.855 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access7.044 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking7.744 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management8.149 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.136 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Atlassian Jira and Visual Studio Test Professional
    Feature
    Atlassian Jira
    7.7
    40 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Visual Studio Test Professional
    -
    Ratings
    Quotes/estimates7.732 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing8.125 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting7.436 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.427 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Atlassian JiraVisual Studio Test Professional
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    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
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    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Atlassian JiraVisual Studio Test Professional
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.3
    (254 ratings)
    7.0
    (15 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (37 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    7.8
    (79 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Availability
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (24 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Atlassian JiraVisual Studio Test Professional
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Atlassian
    Jira facilitates software development, bug tracking, and sprints. It's ideal for structured workflows, issue management, and customer communication. However, more straightforward tools might be more efficient for highly creative, unstructured tasks or tiny, agile teams with quick visual overviews. Jira's complexity can be overkill for basic task lists.
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    Microsoft
    It would be well suited if we used it with Azure DevOps as we can effortlessly integrate the test cases and even stories or tasks to stay on track with our work. Those test cases can even be reused across multiple projects. Using any other third-party tools, such as Jira, can be less appropriate, as it's not a Microsoft tool, and its capabilities will be limited.
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    Pros
    Atlassian
    • Integration of tools like Bitbucket, Github, etc., has made it easier to track the code changes, pull requests, and branches linked to the respective ticket.
    • The detailed tracking system in JIRA has helped the teams prioritize and understand the project tasks and issues.
    • JIRA's project tracking board helps you keep track of the project, its flow, and expectations in a structured format.
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    Microsoft
    • Availability of the desktop client or the web interface. The web interface being the favorite and providing a better experience.
    • It enables you to write unit tests with so much ease.
    • Allows the recording and repeating of manual tests
    • It can be set up for collaboration.
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    Cons
    Atlassian
    • The interface is not intuitive to learn for new users
    • JQL is similarly challenging for newbies
    • It's possible to accidentally move issues from one sprint to another without realizing your mistake
    • Certain issue attributes aren't available in certain view (e.g. story points from the epic overview)
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    Microsoft
    • The user community of the Visual Studio Test product is weak. For instant problems with this product, it is necessary to quickly reach the source of the error.
    • Licence fees need to be more reasonable. License prices need to be reduced so that they can easily compete with free testing tools.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Atlassian
    This is because Jira Software generates a huge profit for an affordable price. Having a tool that makes team management transparent and effective is very valuable.
    In addition, the renewal of Jira Software and all Atlassian tools is predictable and clear, as the prices are published on the Atlassian website and there is no pyramid of intermediaries.
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    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Atlassian
    The interface is simple and easy to use if you have some experience with it. Configuration is also logical most of the time. However, less experienced users tend to find themselves lost in some tasks - usually complex project configuration- but sometimes simple things, such as seeing why a user can't move issues in a workflow. Jira configuration requires a good amount of experience - and even experienced users often resort to documentation. It's a tool that's easy to use if you know what you're doing and where to find the proper documentation, but novice users tend to find it challenging.
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    Microsoft
    It is very usable if you are familiar with Visual Studio to begin with. If you are new to the interface, it can be a long ramp up period for Testers not used to the GUI. There is always the web option which seems to be more intuitive for many Testers.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Atlassian
    Did not face any issues and whenever they plan maintanance they update all of us very well in advance also so in that view we are good with the product stability.
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    Performance
    Atlassian
    Performance is really good though it holds lot of data it loads quickly especially search operation also get the results very quickly as needed hence its good
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    Microsoft
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    Support Rating
    Atlassian
    I have not had a chance to contact JIRA's customer support. It does offer extensive documentation, although it often feels too technical for me. There is also a JIRA training app that lets you take little lessons and quizzes on different areas (e.g., JIRA basics, agile). I did find it a helpful way to teach myself.
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    Microsoft
    Visual Studio Test Professional is backed up by the full support of the Microsoft Corporation. That means twenty-four/seven customer support by quality, highly-trained professionals who understand every possible issue that you have experienced before. They are nice, efficient, and highly professional. I recommend them.
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    In-Person Training
    Atlassian
    Had received training from our own internal user so it was good and also very easy to understand topics and many tasks in the UI are self explanatory and we can do by our own
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    Online Training
    Atlassian
    One of their strong points i stheir documentation. Almost all of the basic set up needed within JIRA is available online through atlassian and its easy to find and very precise. The more critical issues need to be addressed as well and hence the rating of 8 instead of a 9.
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    Implementation Rating
    Atlassian
    Take your time implementing Jira. Make sure you understand how you want to handle your projects and workflows. Investing more time in the implementation can pay off in a long run. It basically took us 5 days to define and implement correctly, but that meant smooth sailing later on.
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    Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Atlassian
    monday.com cannot be integrated with CI/CD tools, whereas Atlassian Jira integrates with CI/CD tools seamlessly. Atlassian Jira has strong Agile and Scrum support. Coming to monday.com, it has basic agile functionality. But Atlassian Jira has a complex UI, and monday.com has an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface. Overall, Atlassian Jira provides features like Agile project management, DevOps integration, and customizable workflows.
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    Microsoft
    The visual Studio Test tool is faster than other tools. Since the development and testing processes are in one tool, it is more profitable in terms of cost. It is more inconvenient to write a test case in DevOps.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Atlassian
    Product is rellay good but pricing part I am not aware
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    Scalability
    Atlassian
    Atlassian Jira is highly stable and good with its performance and its has all the required scalability features as business needs
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    Return on Investment
    Atlassian
    • For our marketing team, Jira Work Management caused us to lose valuable work time due to manual updates that could have been automated.
    • Due to lack of creative review tools within Jira Work Management, our team had to pursue other tools that do not integrate with Jira Work Management, thus creating additional OpEx.
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    Microsoft
    • One of the positive ROIs of Visual Studios is the fact that it makes producing our work at a quick rate, things like Intellisense make our work get produced at a much higher rate which is good for our return of investment.
    • Testing by the developers has increased by 23%, we now take the time to actually test our product before we send it to our QA people.
    • I am not aware of any negative ROI aspects to our company that have been found.
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