JIRA vs TFS 2012 as full ALM system

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question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12679138/jira-vs-tfs-2012-as-full-alm-system

Answer 1

Here are TFS advantages:

1. TFS is an application life-cycle management (ALM) solution, but Jira is simply an issue tracker. Many features of TFS, e.g. source control and automatic builds are not supported in jira and you should use other solutions, e.g. Subversion or Bamboo to this aim.
2. All TFS components, i.e. source control, issue tracker, build automation are fully integrated. Such level of integration cannot be attained on other solutions.
3. It is fully integrated with Visual Studio.

Here are Jira (and other Atlasian Solutions) advantages:

1. It has been used in MANY open source projects, e.g. JBoss, Spring, etc.
2. For launching TFS, you need a high end server, MS SQL, etc. But Jira could be installed on an ordinary PC on open DBMSes, e.g. my SQL.
3. If you are using Java technologies, many Java IDEs, e.g. IntelliJ, Eclipse and Netbeans fully support Jira. I have not seen such a nice support for TFS.
4. There are lots of plug-ins available for Jira. You can take a look at them here.
5. If your team is small, Jira costs only $10. It is really cheap.
6. Atlasian solutions have better support for java technologies (Ant, Maven, junit, etc.)