Perfecto vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Visual Studio Test Professional and Perfecto compete in the testing solutions category. Perfecto seems to have the upper hand due to its strong cross-platform testing capabilities and customer support.

Features: Visual Studio Test Professional provides strong integration with TFS and management data, robust code testing with C# and .NET, and powerful bug tracking capabilities. Perfecto excels in cloud-based manual and automated testing, offering comprehensive cross-platform and mobile testing, allowing resource-efficient use without a physical inventory.

Room for Improvement: Visual Studio Test Professional requires improvements in stability and automation integration, and could benefit from a more streamlined interface. Areas for enhancement for Perfecto include faster cloud device interaction and advanced reporting interfaces, as well as introducing machine learning for analytics.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Visual Studio Test Professional is primarily on-premises, with varying customer support quality. Perfecto offers flexibility with its public and private cloud solutions, consistently delivering high customer support satisfaction and promptly addressing issues.

Pricing and ROI: Visual Studio Test Professional is perceived as expensive but offers good productivity returns. Its pricing varies with licensing models, and a free community edition is available. Perfecto's pricing is competitive but can be higher; however, it provides excellent customer support and a reliable cloud service, ensuring strong ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

Perfecto

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

19th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (12th), Mobile App Testing Tools (6th), Test Automation Tools (19th)

Visual Studio Test Professi...

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

7th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Perfecto is 2.3%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visual Studio Test Professional is 2.3%, up from 1.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Functional Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Visual Studio Test Professional	2.3%
Perfecto	2.3%
Other	95.4%

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Rodrigo Candido Costa

Software Quality and Automation Specialist at PRIME CONTROL

The solution saves us money because the cost of each license is 10 times lower than what we would spend to maintain infrastructure here

Sometimes, when the automated tests sync up or we have to debug remotely, we cannot interact directly with the device. We can interact with the code in the debugging tool, but we cannot directly click on the element on the screen or send other kinds of inputs to the device. This is possible with other tools. Also, it would be nice if there were some kind of API to get a list of available devices. Currently, we have to look at the web interface to see the available devices, but the pipelines can't do it on their own there. We always need to do this manually, so it would be better if this feature was automated.

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Payel Saha

Test Automation Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Integrated collaboration with automated test management has improved our agile workflows and continuously supports quality reporting

Visual Studio Test Professional could be improved as earlier we had flexibility in automation testing with TFS, which became a bit difficult moving to Azure DevOps. Additionally, in Visual Studio Code, we have an agent mode for GitHub Copilot, which is very helpful in testing or development phases, while Visual Studio's GitHub Copilot is a bit tricky and sometimes does not provide my desired output.For future improvements, I would like to see prompt fixing, as currently, if something goes wrong in Visual Studio, the fixing options are not always correct. If that intelligence is embedded, it would be very helpful.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Perfecto has affected our software quality in a good way; it has allowed us to catch our defects earlier, thus improving the quality of our applications."

"Using the device lab has definitely helped us to scale our testing operations."

"Overall, it's a great solution."

"The number one feature, which if we didn't have out-of-the-box would be missed, is the fact that we have video execution. That gives us the ability to view errors or defects in the progression, from beginning to the end of the video."

"It saves on the cost and effort of having to maintain our own virtual testing environment. Even our onshore team is not in the city that we work in, so that helps a lot. Even if we didn't invest a lot in getting multiple devices, having to share those devices would become a hassle."

"Overall, it has definitely translated to cost savings and the reason is multifold."

"We have seen the biggest improvement in cost savings, initially saving $2.6 million a year just on roaming charges."

"In terms of cross-platform testing, they offer all of it, every device available in the market. It covers real scenarios that mimic production so that we don't miss out on any devices that our clients might be using to run the applications we develop. It's been great and very helpful."

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"Searching is extensive and helpful."

"You can easily write code, test, and deploy within the same environment. It is a mature tool. It regularly receives new updates and versions. In my opinion, it's one of the best products by Microsoft for developers."

"The user interface is very friendly."

"Microsoft programs are usually very easy and straightforward to install."

"The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use."

"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."

"The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is great for the development of .NET and we use it both as a cloud solution and on-premises."

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Cons

"We've had a couple of issues lately with videos not loading or browsers dying after some execution, although that happens very rarely."

"There was a discussion about having the capability to export the test results to a certain tool that we use in our project. If that were added it would be great not having to manually take screenshots, put them in a document, and share them on the different test management tools."

"Its performance should be improved. Anything to speed up the user interface would be a great help. We've had a lot of pain with their migration from a product UI that was based on Adobe Flash to the new product that is based on HTML5. Migrations like that seemed to be very painful and not a real smooth process. We're still sort of recovering from that migration from old technology to new, and we haven't got all the functionality ported over that we used to have on the old UI."

"If we could run an accessibility test in Perfecto against builds, it would help us a lot. Currently, that's a very manual process for us. We haven't found a tool that can do accessibility scans for iOS and doesn't depend on engineering effort. Having a feature related to that would be really awesome for us."

"In iOS, it needs improvements with some limitations."

"I'm hoping they can support on-premises instances. We have been working on a JIRA integration with Perfecto—and I'm extremely impressed that they have that—but at this time they're not supporting onsite JIRA instances, which is what we have."

"I would like to see the inclusion of machine learning features. If we can have that, it will be a better tool."

"It would be nice if there were some kind of AI to compile a list of available devices. Currently, we have to look at the web interface to see the available devices, but the pipelines can't do it on their own there. We always need to do this manually, so it would be better if this feature were automated."

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"The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."

"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less."

"Sometimes, the solution hangs, so its performance could be improved."

"The solution should be cheaper."

"It's an expensive solution which is an issue for us."

"The solution can improve the startup time."

"We would like to be able to easily integrate this solution with our continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins."

"The solution is quite expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I am not sure about its pricing, but from our perspective, licensing has been easy. Anytime I have new users or requests for users that want to get added, it's a very simple process. I just give the architectural owner of the product the name and email address, and they're able to easily add a new user. We don't have any issues in regards to getting licenses, but I don't have any insights into pricing."

"Perfecto is about 30-40% cheaper than Device Anywhere. That was a big reason why we switched. Perfecto also solves some of the issues that we had with Device Anywhere. We have grown by 100% since we started to use Perfecto, and now we have devices roaming. When we look at the competition, we would still stick with Perfecto."

"Although Perfecto is a good product for us to use, it is a bit expensive. It takes management a bit of work to find the appropriate funding for us to keep Perfecto. I imagine there could be some way to make it more accessible."

"Pricing is an area where Perfecto can do a little better. When we obtain additional licenses, we enter into negotiations with them."

"This is an expensive solution compared to others, by 30% to 40%."

"It's definitely on the higher end of prices for this type of service."

"Perfecto has definitely saved us on the costs and efforts of having to maintain our own virtual test environment. We lost about 20 devices in the past to maintenance and audit. That was a massive loss for us, as a company, because we were giving devices to someone, but don't know whether we would get it back or not. Having those virtual labs, we don't need to worry about these kinds of things. We are easily saving $5,000 to $10,000 a month on device costing."

"Pricing-wise, it is fine. It is not as expensive as what we used to have in the past from HP, IBM, and others. It is decently priced."

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"The tool is affordable."

"We pay a yearly licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional, which is expensive."

"We have licensing for Visual Studio Community edition."

"There is a paid version of the solution as well as a community version that is free."

"Our company pays a yearly licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional."

"The product is very expensive."

"The pricing is expensive."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is not an expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Construction Company

11%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	25

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Also Known As

Perfecto Mobile, Perfecto Web

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Overview

Perfecto is a cloud-based testing platform that supports automated and manual testing processes across many devices and operating systems, facilitating cross-platform and real-time data access. Users experience seamless testing integrations, although improvements are sought in some areas.

Perfecto provides extensive mobile testing capabilities across iOS, Android, and more, with automation and enhanced reporting options such as video recordings. While it excels with Appium and Selenium integration for cross-platform consistency and CI Dashboard features, it faces challenges in iOS web testing and hybrid apps. Users indicate the need for better integration with test management tools, dashboard metrics improvements, and machine learning features. Cloud device response times and UI interactions could benefit from performance enhancements, while users desire longer report history and API automation advancements.

What are Perfecto's most important features?

Cloud-based Architecture: Access a vast array of devices and OS versions for testing scalability.
Automation: Supports Selenium and Appium for streamlined testing processes.
Enhanced Reporting: Offers video recordings to help validate tests thoroughly.
Cross-platform Testing: Execute tests across multiple platforms efficiently.
Real-time Data Access: Monitor tests via CI Dashboard and Live Stream.

What benefits or ROI can users expect from reviews?

Increased Device Availability: Quickly access the newest devices and software updates.
Improved Testing Speed: Allow faster test execution and feedback loops.
Scalability: Easily scale up or down with cloud-based resources.
Enhanced Productivity: Automate tests and streamline reporting for efficiency.

Perfecto has broad applications in industries such as retail, finance, and technology, where secure and scalable testing is critical. Organizations employ it in both private and public cloud environments for mobile, web, and API testing. Its ability to provide extensive device coverage and integration into existing CI/CD processes makes it integral for ensuring reliable mobile app performance and compatibility across platforms.

Perforce

Visual Studio Test Professional offers sophisticated testing capabilities with a focus on integration with Azure DevOps. Supporting software development, it aids in application creation, lifecycle management, and testing, accommodating a wide array of programming languages.

Visual Studio Test Professional delivers robust features essential for software developers, including seamless integration with C# and .NET projects and extensive customization options. The platform's robust debugging, unit testing, and memory analysis help streamline the development process. Its intuitive interface and integration with tools like IntelliSense and NuGet package manager enhance productivity, alongside its collaboration capabilities with Azure DevOps. While beneficial, it faces challenges such as integration issues with CI tools, high technical skill requirements, and concerns about pricing and stability. Refinements in user interface design, platform compatibility, and support for AI and machine learning technologies remain necessary.

What are the most important features of Visual Studio Test Professional?

Seamless Integration: Works efficiently with C# and .NET, reducing setup complexities.
Intelligent Tools: Includes IntelliSense for coding, simplifying complex tasks.
Robust Debugging: Offers advanced debugging features for troubleshooting.
Extensive Customization: Adaptable to meet development needs effectively.
Azure DevOps Collaboration: Enhances project collaboration and tracking.

What benefits or ROI should users look for?

Improved Efficiency: Streamlines development workflow, saving time.
Enhanced Collaboration: Team integrations facilitate smoother project execution.
Expanded Capabilities: Supports automation, leading to increased productivity.
Comprehensive Documentation: Extensive resources aid in navigating platform complexities.

Visual Studio Test Professional finds its application in software development and automation testing industries, where technical teams use it to create and manage applications across multiple environments. It supports test-driven development, ensuring secure and functional project outputs, and aids in the integration of DevOps practices, enhancing collaborative efforts in software solutions creation.

Microsoft

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