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Zephyr Enterprise vs. Visual Studio Test Professional

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    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 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
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio Test Professional
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio Test Professional
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio Test Professional
    Considered Both Products
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio Test Professional
    Test Management
    Comparison of Test Management features of Zephyr Enterprise and Visual Studio Test Professional
    Feature
    Zephyr Enterprise
    9.3
    1 Ratings
    14% above category average
    Visual Studio Test Professional
    -
    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
    User Ratings
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio Test Professional
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (15 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (10 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (10 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Zephyr EnterpriseVisual Studio Test Professional
    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.
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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
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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
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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
    SmartBear
    • Better Test case Upload Utility
    • Ability to quickly map test cases from excel to JIRA fields
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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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    Usability
    SmartBear
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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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    Support Rating
    SmartBear
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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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    SmartBear
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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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    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
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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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