Visual Studio Test Professional

It does a great job at combining developer tool and test software together.

It is a good package to build app for our platform.

it is good for automating test for our applications.

It mostly works with Microsoft products.

It is not easy to use if you are not familiar with visual studio.

Test scenarios in the SDLC process can be easily applied to the Visual Studio Test tool.

It works compatible with Microsoft Windows Server and database.

The debug screen of the Visual Studio Test product is quite successful. It allows you to quickly access the details of the error received.

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.

It plays an active role in both the testing and development process.

It is the only tool for all test processes.

User friendly design.

Easy of use

Database management needs to be improved.

Shortcuts are insufficient.

It is difficult to learn.

It is costly.

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.

The price is a bit out of reach of many.

The learning curve is quite steep. It needs a lot of foundational knowledge to grasp.

Can be quite hardware-resource intensive.

Test integrity

Overall build quality

Ongoing delivery

Build management

Collaboration

Testing in multiple environments

Testing in the cloud

Recording test results

Name confusion with Microsoft Test Manager

Testing across platforms could have easier user interface

Testing in the cloud could have easier user interface

Multi-platform development capabilities

No need for additional plug-ins

Real-time code debugging capabilities

Supports many different programming languages

Auto-populate functionality

Intuitive and user friendly design

Very easy to create libraries

Requires a lot of RAM/memory

The need to reboot one's computer following an update is cumbersome.

Very expensive, therefore, likely not accessible to single-users/small start-up businesses

Testing management.

Inter-team communication.

Test data sharing.

The tool can be a little bit hard to understand for non-IT users.

Consumes many hardware resources.

The new cloud version is very different from the desktop former one.

Visual Studio Test Professional when paired with Azure DevOps is the best solution for Test Case Management when compared to other Testing tools we've used in the past.

Test Results and Artifacts are always available with full traceablility for audits.

Testing and Release Management are tied together as one continuous pipeline.

Interface can be confusing.

Needs more shortcut keys.

Needs better export features, like exporting to Excel.

Bug fixes

Free to use

Lightweight

Poor support on a few Linux Distros

Crashes sometimes

The debugger is extremely good.

There are many valuable features, including the integration between the management data and the test cases.

The unit testing functionality is very helpful.

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.

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

The tools for unit testing can be improved, giving a better ability to manage tests.

Creation and handling of test plans and test cases.

Full integration with Microsoft Team Foundation Server, including Agile or Scrum templates.

Recording and automation of tests in Internet Explorer or Windows desktop environments.

Test Manager became outdated and can be fully substituted by Microsoft TFS features most of the time.

Friendly web interface - we find the web interface to be a good focal point for our testing.

Links to work items - Test professional links nicely to Team Foundation Server meaning we can generate a test from a work item, and a work item (bug/feature request) from a test.

Flexible - the option to use the desktop application over the web interface is useful for some management operations.

The web interface, while very comprehensive, just can't get close to the desktop test manager when it comes to managing the tests. It would be nice for the desktop client and web interface to match up functionality wise.

A direct link to Team Foundation Server work items would be useful, currently you can't have a dashboard showing test work item summarys and development work item summarys. For us, this means that we can't compare active development items with active tests on the same screen

I really like team explorer option. This makes finding the pending changes super easy and uploading my changes to the software very simple and not a hassle at all.

The debugger is awesome, I have used other software that is somewhat difficult to add breakpoints and clear them once they are put in place, but Visual Studios has all those bases covered.

Along with the ease of the break points other debug options like the error list and the detailed very accessible call stack is very helpful.

One thing that I don't love is the pinning options. If you unpin something I find it fairly hard to find how to get it back and that frustrates me sometimes.

The icons, other than the save and folder icons, aren't as clear as to what they are as I would like. I find myself spending a lot of time hovering over each icon to see what it actually is.

We use Crystal Reports when we are setting up our reports for the doctors' offices. I wish there Crystal Reports was integrated into Visual Studios. It would be much nicer than have to switch to the Crystal editor to get the report changed.