Azure DevOps Services vs Perfecto, by Perforce

Likelihood to Recommend

Azure DevOps is an excellent option for companies looking to streamline their development pipeline and code repository. It is highly collaborative and extremely easy to use. Our company is also using it within our IT Operations department to track infrastructure related work efforts as well and it has been very successful for that as well. Smaller companies may be able to use GitHub and other cheaper solutions for this type of work.

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Mark McCully

Senior Network Administrator

University HealthSystem ConsortiumHospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees

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Same test case scripts can be executed on different mobiles irrespective of operating systems and language it supports. This covers a wide range of devices (Android, iOS, Blackberry etc) on which automated testing can be performed in very less time. The test scripts are written written using keyword-based Script Once Technology. The creation of scripts are easy. It saves time and effort. Repetitive testing on each iteration would be now be less tedious. This would also allow QA to focus on quality. It would expand test case coverage in the application and finally release reliable/robust application. In all, improving the app quality.

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Aswath Bava

QA Mobile Automation Engineer ► Team Lead ♦ Cross Functional Management

ElevateFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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Pros

Flexible Requirements Hierarchy Management: AZDO makes it easy to track items such as features or epics as a flat list, or as a hierarchy in which you can track the parent-child relationship.
Fast Data Entry: AZDO was designed to facilitate quick data entry to capture work items quickly, while still enabling detailed capture of acceptance criteria and item properties.
Excel Integration: AZDO stands out for its integration with MS Excel, which enables quick updates for bulk items.

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Verified User

Manager in Marketing

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Impressive UI
Strong support system
Wide variety of devices

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Naresh Padmanabhan(Paddy)

Practice Manager - Digital Assurance

Hexaware TechnologiesInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Column sorting when in filtered states.
A way to show cross-team dependencies.
A customized "From" field for notifications. Sometimes when a mail comes from Azure DevOps the teams do not realize that I am sending it
A way to do online poker that doesn't require a plug-in.

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Amy Liston

Product Owner

Development Dimensions InternationalHuman Resources, 1001-5000 employees

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It has a lot of room for improvements in terms of reporting and integration with other reporting and defect tools.
It should have the capability of capturing charts data.
It should be able to do some scenarios that only manual testers can do. Like - use of camera and touch ID features.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 10,001+ employees

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Likelihood to Renew

Azure DevOps Services 10.0

Based on 3 answers

I don't think our organization will stray from using VSTS/TFS as we are now looking to upgrade to the 2012 version. Since our business is software development and we want to meet the requirements of CMMI to deliver consistent and high quality software, this SDLC management tool is here to stay. In addition, our company uses a lot of Microsoft products, such as Office 365, Asp.net, etc, and since VSTS/TFS has proved itself invaluable to our own processes and is within the Microsoft family of products, we will continue to use VSTS/TFS for a long, long time.

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Raylene Wall, PMP

Business Analyst

InnovaSystems International, LLCComputer Software, 201-500 employees

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Usability

Azure DevOps Services 7.7

Based on 5 answers

Azure DevOps is a powerful, complex cloud application. As such there are a number of things it does great and something where there is room for improvement. One of those areas would be in usability. In my opinion it relies too much on search. There is no easy way to view all projects or to group them in a logical way. You need to search for everything.

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Kyle Kochtan

Technical Lead

Newell RubbermaidConsumer Goods, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

Azure DevOps Services 8.7

Based on 19 answers

When we've had issues, both Microsoft support and the user community have been very responsive. DevOps has an active developer community and frankly, you can find most of your questions already asked and answered there. Microsoft also does a better job than most software vendors I've worked with creating detailed and frequently updated documentation.

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Verified User

Professional in Information Technology

Architecture & Planning Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Implementation Rating

Azure DevOps Services 10.0

Based on 2 answers

Was not part of the process.

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Verified User

Analyst in Research & Development

Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

For the last 4- 5 years I have only used VS. We can't imagine switching to another product. It is secure, reliable, intuitive, and easy to use. If we need to add compatibility of other language with this, then we need to simply add the Plugin and use it .

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AMANDEEP KUNDRAO

VLSI TEST ENGINEER

Tessolve Services Pvt. Ltd.Semiconductors, 1001-5000 employees

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Perfecto has a wide array of mobile devices we can chose from. Automation is easier using OCR technology. The test script generated detailed report of the executed test script at the end with vast variety of information such as actual results, screen captures in digital format, continuous video recording of the entire script and graphs showing statistics about the execution

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Aswath Bava

QA Mobile Automation Engineer ► Team Lead ♦ Cross Functional Management

ElevateFinancial Services, 201-500 employees

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Return on Investment

When I first VSTS it was with a team of developers who always work on their own. This project was the first one at the company that used six developers all work on the same product at the same time. Integrating someone else code into the system was an unknown entity. VSTS really helped move this new collaboration forward. The staff who were on this team then moved on work together on other teams because they knew how to handle this type of work.
The learning curve on VSTS is quite large so make sure you have some of your best starting anew VSTS project. They will fail a few times but after a few mistakes they will get how to do things and your build, tests and deployments will all be automated.
The user integration into VSTS is very good. As long as you developers can use Team Foundation Server source control, either Microsoft's or git, then they already have the permission to have VSTS access source control. This is very good.

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Glenn Jones

Sr. Systems and Security Architect

Mathematica Policy ResearchResearch, 1001-5000 employees

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Since the devices are over cloud, it saves a lot of investment on mobile testing.
Can be used by testers across the globe.

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Naresh Padmanabhan(Paddy)

Practice Manager - Digital Assurance

Hexaware TechnologiesInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Azure DevOps Services Editions & Modules

Edition

Basic Plan	$6¹
Basic + Test Plan	$52²
Azure Artifacts	$2³
Azure Pipelines - Microsoft Hosted	$40⁴
Azure Pipelines - Self-Hosted	$15⁵

per user per month (first 5 users free)
per user per month
per GB (first 2GB free)
per parallel job (1,800 minutes free with 1 free parallel job)
per extra parallel job (1 free parallel job with unlimited minutes)

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Perfecto, by Perforce Editions & Modules

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