Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015の評判・口コミ 全5件

What do you dislike?

Merges and branching still seems clumsy at times. Although I like TFS' new scripted builds system, it's traditional XAML based builds seem heavy and very configuration based, and not process/step based. Microsoft hasn't made deployment / release management a first-class citizen for it's on-premise TFS implementations.

What do you like best?

I like it best because of direct integration to Visual Studio. TFS 2015 supports both native version control, but also Git repositories. It's build system is flexible, allowing for building through both internal and external sources.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Understand the differences between the on-premise implementation and Microsoft's online implementation, especially for deployment / release management.

What do you dislike?

I am always encountering problems with TFSVC and we have so many projects that the team is afraid to convert to fully to git. Here are some of the issues I've encountered recently:

* TFSVC: Commits through Visual Studio regularly complain that the commit failed and code was auto-merged, so try again (no indication of what was auto-merged)

* TFSVC: Auto-generating version numbers from changesets (via MSBuild Community Tasks TFSClient) often results in a 'tfs.exe exited with code 100' error and the only fix is to build projects serially

* TFS Web Access: Clearing cookies in Chrome after TFS2015 Update 1 results in TFS being unusable for me in Chrome, so I have to use IE (which I hate)

* TFS: TFS doesn't intuitively associate Code Reviews, Changesets, and other Work Items, making it a huge pain to report on these as a whole

* TFS: Customizing process templates is a huge pain. For example, we've added code review tabs to user stories and tasks to track collaboration and the only way to hook up code reviews to these items is as a 'Related' item

* TFS: While vso plugins are 'getting there', it is still a struggle to integrate a lot of the open source community tools we use (karma, protractor, cucumber, etc.)

* TFS: Configuring new agents and their 'system variables' is not well documented

* TFS: In general TFS requires a lot more overhead than using GitHub Enterprise as I did with a previous employer. However, TFS gives you reporting, built-in proprietary testing tools, and a slew of other things you wouldn't get immediately with GitHub.

* TFSVC: From a development perspective, I spend more time getting TFSVC to do what I want it to do than I ever did with git

What do you like best?

TFS integrates well with Visual Studio and offers many great features for Scrum, Agile, and CMMI. Integration with git rather than TFSVC gives you the flexibility to use a top-notch distributed version control system while automatically hooking into your backlog.

The new build stuff in TFS 2015 has improved our build strategy immensely.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Be sure to check out GitHub or BitBucket and determine whether you really need more than an issue tracker and distributed version control system. Sure, TFS and its integration with Visual Studio allow you to "suspend" your work and persists your open windows, tabs, files (everything) to the server so you can get back to it after doing something else... but do you need that? You could go with Visual Studio Online or Atlassian Jira/BitBucket and have maybe 85% of the functionality with less headaches.

What do you dislike?

The client-server model. It requires a lot of communication and if the connection is broken, all work comes to a halt. It needs to be able to cache changes and then sync them with the server. Also, all work must be done within TFS. Changes made outside TFS will not be tracked.

What do you like best?

TFS is an easy to use and very flexible software development manager and tracker. It easily allowed our international teams to work together and work on different features at the same time. when developing with a MS tools such as Visual Studio, it makes collaboration and management very easy.

Recommendations to others considering the product

TFS is great for working in a ms development environment. It is a little lacking in developing for non-microsoft environments. Be sure to consider all development needs including testing, bug tracking, version control, and others when deciding on this product.

What do you dislike?

As the product is large and meets a number of customer needs across a large swathe of industries and departments, ensuring that you configure it for your business needs can be overwhelming and it's quite easy to get a few little things wrong which may impact your ability to introduce change easily in the future.

What do you like best?

The integration with Visual Studio is built-in, making it simple to link the two and work straight out of one environment. It's a massive improvement over Visual Source Safe, VB6, third party tracking tools, testing suites and management reporting tools!

The web portal and management reporting tools are also simple to use but powerful enough to meet the most demanding of requirements.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Plan your build and development processes out right from the start - getting it wrong through doing it too quickly at the start can lead to lots of pain further down the line.

What do you dislike?

That different versions don't always play nice together.

What do you like best?

This program can be used in a simple way or made for more complex needs. That is what makes it great for almost any projects needs.

Recommendations to others considering the product

Out of all the bug trackers I have used over the years, TFS is in my top choices.