I like to work with Team Foundation Server
April 16, 2018
I like to work with Team Foundation Server
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Team Foundation Server
We use Team Foundation Server as Source Control Managment System and for automated Builds and Tests. We don't use the WorkItem System of Team Foundation Server. We Used it a couple of years ago, but it was to complicated. Right now we just use Trello with a Scrum AddOn for Task and Backlog Planning. Right now only our Developers are using Team Foundation Server.
- I like the Team Foundation Source Control Management much more compared to other Systems like GIT, because:
- - Perfect Integration into Visual Studio
- - Easy and direct checkout/check-in
- - Perfect branching and merging
- - Workflow Support with autmated Reminders
- The Build System is just great. Since Version 2017 its very easy to integrate self made tools into the build process.
- Easy Managament of Users and User Rights.
- Team Foundation Server could be improved in the Task and Backlog Managment for smaller Teams. E.G.: It's hard to quickly write down Tasks during a meeting because you have to fill in lots of Fields per WorkItem. It is hard to push the Items around.
- Team Foundation Server saves us a lot of Time working together on the same code and reviewing changes of colleagues. We save a lot of time here.
- Even with very small projects we use Team Foundation Server. Here it saves the time of backing up the source code without adding any overhead.
- I use it also for my private and learning projects.
Git and GitHub are very popular right now and they are OK. But they do not integrate automated Testing and Building... The Work Item Management of Jira is about as complicated as the one of TFS so we use Trello. The other Source Control Systems are more complex to use because the integration into Visual Studio is not as good.