Visual Studio Test Professional Information Reviews & Insights

Score7 out of 10

44 Reviews and Ratings

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Pros

Efficient Testing Automation: Users have consistently found the product efficient for automating tests, emphasizing its crucial role in streamlining the software development life cycle and improving overall productivity. The seamless integration of developer tools and test software contributes to its value as a comprehensive application-building package.

User-Friendly Design: Customers appreciate the intuitive user interface and straightforward design of the tool, which enhances usability for a diverse range of users involved in testing and development tasks. The accessibility of features further adds to its appeal among users.

Effective Collaboration Features: Reviewers highlight the effective collaboration features that enable seamless teamwork, such as sharing test data, inter-team communication capabilities, and streamlined testing management functionalities. These collaborative tools contribute significantly to enhancing team efficiency and coordination during the testing process.

Visual Studio Test Professional Reviews

6 Reviews

InformationComputer Software6

A credible software for comprehensive text execution.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

January 15, 2025

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it to streamline our testing for the .net framework and our ansible roles molecule testing. It efficiently executed those and even helped us track potential bugs. Most of its use in our organization is for testing workflows and integration with Azure DevOps to align them with development cycles, organizing workflows in one place.

Pros

One of the best things is that it supports both manual and automated testing.
Along with the execution of tests, the tester can even view whether their tests pass or fail.
Multiple testers or developers can collaborate with each other through shared dashboards, allowing them to stay on track.

Cons

Although it is good for .net Windows-based apps, its support for mobile applications is minimal.
Most organizations today don't use Azure DevOps, which is flexible. Support with GitHub action would help.
Lags when performing on heavy projects and hangs a lot.

Likelihood to Recommend

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.

Verified User

Employee in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Best tool for quality assurance throughout development

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

September 21, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Visual studio test professional is used with In the department of Product of Development. We are making an ongoing delivery with quality optimization. It helps in the integration of test cases and services. Along with development, it helps in building a great application with good quality measures.

Pros

Test integrity
Overall build quality
Ongoing delivery

Cons

Build management
Collaboration

Likelihood to Recommend

Visual studio test professional is well suited for frequent changes with ongoing deliveries of products where we most require the high level of test integrity that this provides. For build management, it is less appropriate.

Krishn Garg

SharePoint Consultant in Information Technology at Infosys (Computer Software, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional is very professional

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

September 18, 2020

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Visual Studio Test Professional across the whole organization in order to test the applications that I code and develop. It allows me to do testing in the cloud and test in multiple environments in order to make sure that all of my releases are clean and reliable. Highly recommend.

Pros

Testing in multiple environments
Testing in the cloud
Recording test results

Cons

Name confusion with Microsoft Test Manager
Testing across platforms could have easier user interface
Testing in the cloud could have easier user interface

Likelihood to Recommend

Visual Studio Test Professional is extremely well suited for people who want to test applications they are coding in a manner that is easily repeatable, recordable, and done in a business-like manner. Visual Studio Test Professional is less suitable for the actual coding itself of applications you are working on.

Verified User

Professional in Professional Services (Computer Software company, 1-10 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

Automating Tests using Visual Studio Test Professional

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 6, 2019

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Visual Studio Test Professional to interact with Team Foundation Server to:

- Create and manage test plans.

- Create, author, and maintain manual and automated test cases.

- Manage the association of automation for test case artifacts.
- Run exploratory tests.

- Analyze previous manual, automated, or exploratory test runs.

- File rich actionable bugs while executing manual test runs or from automated test runs.

- Create and provide individual or shared lab environments with multiple machines for development or testing with Lab Management.

- Connect to physical or virtual lab environments for development or testing with Lab Management.

- Facilitate structured User Acceptance Testing (UAT) from business users.

- And lots more…

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

You have the ability to link them with the requirements and user stories. You also have the ability to track the running of test cases and the reporting of the results of each test case. You are able to send some reports via dashboard control to see the status of the overall testing across specific requirements or specific user stories. It enables us to connect the bugs and the cases to the requirements.

Eduin Zuloaga

IT Architecture Manager in Information Technology at Edenred México (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Visual Studio Test Professional, rounding off your development system nicely

Rating: 7 out of 10

Incentivized

December 12, 2017

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use visual studio test professional in conjunction with Team Foundation Server to complete our development process. It helps us keep an efficient workflow and links to and from work items in Team Foundation Server. Without it, testing developments in our products would be difficult.

Pros

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.

Cons

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

Likelihood to Recommend

Test Professional is great for our development process where a developer closes a work item out, and creates a test from their work item. This test is then easy to reference for both test execution and test result review. It also helps build an audit trail for development items.

Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology (Computer Software company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

VSTP aka Visual Studio Test Professional aka Very Stupendous Testing Product

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 28, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

At my company we program and test our entire product in Visual Studios. We write medical software for doctors so we use Visuals Studios to program updates and fix bugs that are found by our offices. The whole company does not use this product but all the developers in the company do. This includes about 50 programmers/engineers located in New York and Pennsylvania. Whenever a bug is found we are alerted and we go in Visual Studios where our product is kept, fix and test the problem and then send it off to QA who further tests it.

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

I would definitely recommend this product to a colleague or even another programmer who doesn't work for my company. Our software is pretty complex and large but this is not a problem for Visual Studios, it helps us keep everything in order and runs are testing exactly how we want it to. One of the great things that VS does is the search box, without this tool I would probably spend hours looking for certain things.

Alexandria Lunderman

Software Engineer in Information Technology at STI Computer Services (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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VSTP aka Visual Studio Test Professional aka Very Stupendous Testing Product

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

July 28, 2016

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros

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.

Cons

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.

Likelihood to Recommend

Alexandria Lunderman

Software Engineer in Information Technology at STI Computer Services (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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