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A Solid Tracking and Deployment System
September 12, 2017

A Solid Tracking and Deployment System

Christopher Belanger | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

VSTS is used across the organization for the full breadth of its features. It is used for bug and feature tracking, continuous integration builds, deploys, and automated testing. Every portion of development uses it, developers, quality assurance, product owners, etc. Everyone is in the system multiple times throughout the day to manage their workflows.
  • Integration of version control/pull requests to bug tracking.
  • Multiple views of team work - lists, kanban boards, etc
  • Supports the full product lifecycle from planning to deployment
  • The website has a tendency to log out, and the sign-in is a popup that bypasses password managers.
  • All instances look the same. If you need to use multiple versions, it can be hard to tell which you are in.
  • The security/permission system is strange and is not simply the sum of your roles.
  • It saves a lot of time in manually deploying code.
  • Nightly builds catch errors sooner.
  • The tracking keeps all our work in order.
VSTS is the best integrated tracking and deployment software for a pure Microsoft shop. It has some weaknesses, the builds aren't as easy to configure as TeamCity and the security setup is needlessly convoluted, but it is a solid offering.
VSTS is good for any feature tracking. The build and deploys are platform independent, but as this is a Microsoft product the integrations are better for Microsoft products. If you are using entirely non-Microsoft, this is probably not the best tool for you. If you are a pure or mostly Microsoft shop, this will give you many integrations out of the box that you would need to install or build for a competing product.