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Zephyr Enterprise vs. Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Zephyr Enterprise

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AZephyr Enterprise provides optimization, quality, speed, and processing of testing activities in a single tool. Other features include creating test cases, defining user requirements and generating reports.N/A

    Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)

    Score6.9 out of 10
    N/AVisual Studio App Center was a solution used to build, test, release, and monitor mobile and desktop apps, as well as to continuously monitor real-time performance. The product was discontinued in March 2025, and is no longer available.

    $40

    per month per build concurrency

    Pricing
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Builds
    $40
    per month per build concurrency
    Standard Test Plan
    $99
    per month per build concurrency
    Enterprise Test Plan
    $499
    per month per build concurrency
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Test Management
    Comparison of Test Management features of Zephyr Enterprise and Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Feature
    Zephyr Enterprise
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Visual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Centralized test management9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Map tests to user stories9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test execution reporting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Defect management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
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    Azure DevOps
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Azure DevOps Server
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio App Center (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SmartBear
    1. Well suited for companies having several applications which need rigorous continuous testing cycles due to periodic upgrades to products/features.
    2. Ideally suited for use cases where there is a need to run sanity and regression suites very frequently.
    3. It is very helpful to have a traceability matrix across Stories/tasks and easy to link all the test cases to be covered to stories.
    4. Variety of reports for Quality Dashboard.
    Incentivized
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    Honestly, it's an all around solution that needs some enhancements. Need to build an app, check! Need to test that app, check! Need to debug that app, check! Visual Studio App Center is a well rounded platform for multiple types of builds and services.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
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    • Creation of Folders, Sub Folder and Releases for various Teams/Projects
    • Ability to create cycles and adding cases to these
    • Ability to copy/clone entire test cycles for regression/sanity needs
    • Linking of defects to Test Cases
    Incentivized
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    • It supplies the right native integration for test cases both IOS and Android
    • Constant device updates means you are working with the right builds to support product use cases
    • Excels in automated test cases that are easy to implement, monitor, and digest results
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    SmartBear
    • Better Test case Upload Utility
    • Ability to quickly map test cases from excel to JIRA fields
    Incentivized
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    • Webview support was lacking
    • User management seems a bit disconnected from the standard Microsoft ecosystem. Almost feels like you are managing local users and sharing access more than an enterprise solution
    • Price could be better
    • Buggy on some of the latest versions of windows
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    Alternatives Considered
    SmartBear
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    Discontinued Products
    The biggest benefit is in integrations and plug-ins, as well as the fact that it's not open source. I know open source is popular, but we have all been on the downside of open source and waiting for things to be voted up or a contribution to fix an issue. This alone makes VSAC a nice solution! Plus, it comes with a complete IDE integration of services, documentation, and is light weight
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    Return on Investment
    SmartBear
    • Time saving and productivity enhancement for QA teams by preventing context and tool switching
    • High observability to management via QA Dashboards
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Cut down on time to delivery enhancements and overall builds to users
    • Helps test new proposed releases with ease
    • Cuts down on local build issues as it does do a good job with local development environments as well
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