TFS - The complete Development Tool
December 01, 2017
TFS - The complete Development Tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Team Foundation Server
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is used by the development and test teams at Peppermint Technology. It is used for management of our source code and we also take advantage of the automated build functionality. We also use it for storing all of our release user stories, tracking enhancements and bugs as well as taking advantage of the project management tools to support our agile development process.
- Work Item tracking - The ability to define the flow of your work items to match your development/test process is really valuable
- Version Control - The ability to easily track changes between every checked in version of source code can be a life saver
- Project Management - The project management dashboards showing things like burndown enables us to easily track whether we are on target for a release
- Integration between our help desk system and TFS was possible but not as easy as I would expect considering both are Microsoft products
- Advanced reporting for dashboards could be made easier
- Difficult to put an ROI for TFS, however it has enabled us to become a more agile development team which in turn allows us to better service our customers
I have only previously used Visual Source Safe, back in the early noughties within a very small development team, TFS is the natural evolution from Visual Source Safe which primarily was just a repository for source code. You can't really compare the two and MS released TFS as a complete replacement for Visual Source Safe.