No more typing reviews! Try our Samantha, our new voice AI agent.

CucumberStudio vs ServiceNow Now Platform comparison

Why PeerSpot?
 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 17, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

CucumberStudio
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
25th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) (12th)
ServiceNow Now Platform
Ranking in Rapid Application Development Software
16th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
51
Ranking in other categories
Low-Code Development Platforms (12th), No-Code Development Platforms (4th), Business Orchestration and Automation Technologies (18th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Rapid Application Development Software category, the mindshare of CucumberStudio is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ServiceNow Now Platform is 2.2%, up from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Rapid Application Development Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
ServiceNow Now Platform2.2%
CucumberStudio0.8%
Other97.0%
Rapid Application Development Software
 

Featured Reviews

Walter Wirch - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Expert at Bertelsmann SE & Co.
Facilitates integration of test scenarios while needing modernization of components
CucumberStudio is primarily used for designing test scenarios and automating testing. We have implemented it in conjunction with our own routines for integration into our infrastructure CucumberStudio aligns with our strategy for data-driven testing. It supports our product owners in designing…
Vishal Savajiani - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at DXC Technology
Low-code workflows have transformed how we automate processes and build enterprise apps
First and foremost, ServiceNow Now Platform allows us to do a low-code or no-code platform, which is the wonderful first feature. On top of that, if you want to do some customization along with the low-code and no-code, you can do it. Beyond that, if you write a full-fledged customized code and make your functionality, you can do it. Workflow is there, and we can automate our workflows. Flow is there as an option. Apart from workflow and flow, we have many business rules and script includes. These are all the technical components and features of ServiceNow Now Platform that allow us to achieve our objective. ServiceNow Now Platform offers a very easy feature that we call workflow or flow. Using workflow or flow, we can customize industry workflows. The development on that flow is very simple, and you can use drag and drop functionality. If you want to do some scripting, you can do it. This is an awesome feature of ServiceNow Now Platform that allows us to develop or automate any flow in quick time. Internally, ServiceNow Now Platform uses a lot of AI features and machine learning features. This makes it more wonderful. AI and machine learning are the core of ServiceNow Now Platform, and they are using it heavily. It is making a lot of impact on deliverables. You can develop anything whatever you want on ServiceNow Now Platform. If you understand ServiceNow Now Platform capabilities, you can develop a full-fledged application on ServiceNow Now Platform easily. You don't have to write scratch code or do any database operations. You just need to create tables and forms, which are very easy to develop if you are familiar with ServiceNow. Everything is on one platform, so it is a single source of data that you can find on ServiceNow itself for the overall enterprise. ServiceNow Now Platform offers a reporting feature very well. Along with the reporting, they are offering workspace and dashboard. All these UI interfaces you can use to extract precise information for your customer. This is really helping the customer make decisions with the precise and versatile reports. You can have a list report view, a graph report view, or a pie chart. All these features can be developed quickly and used in ServiceNow. This is where ServiceNow Now Platform makes a lot of difference.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Hiptest allowed us to clean up our test campaigns and standardize the way we write test cases and structure our BDD approach."
"The power of Hiptest is its test cases and campaign management."
"CucumberStudio has a very user-friendly interface."
"Integration with automation frameworks, keywords, and tags allows for saving time writing test cases and implementing automation."
"The solution is stable."
"Hiptest is a great test management tool for agile teams."
"Scenarios, since is a really easy way to create and control your test cases."
"The most valuable feature is the re-usability of action words."
"The ServiceNow Now Platform is also very customizable, scalable, and performance-wise, it's very good."
"In terms of scalability, I'm impressed; I'm happy with the capability of the Now Platform and I am positive that as time goes on we will be able to reap the real benefits of the platform."
"ServiceNow offers a lot of features when it comes to IT service management and IT operations management. What interested me in ServiceNow was that a lot of service management."
"This is a great platform but it must be used correctly, and not only for ticketing."
"ServiceNow can document and produce a historical working tool that deals with projects themselves. The user interface is another strong suit."
"The integration with other tools is pretty good."
"Assignment Group history is really important to me."
"What I appreciate best about ServiceNow Now Platform is that they are self-sufficient, they have a good ecosystem built around it, and they integrate with a lot of standard partners, which is a great thing to talk about."
 

Cons

"Support with In-App chat is great. However, it would be awesome to have real time support also for PT timezone."
"Copy-pasting something directly from JIRA requires too much modification and formatting."
"More tutorials and examples."
"The reporting and metrics can be improved. E.g.: If we wanted to have metrics across all projects."
"Yes, it is not stable when you create a data table that includes more than 30 elements, so it can lose your data."
"I think it would be better if we could also do the reporting with CucumberStudio."
"CucumberStudio's API integration could be improved both in terms of reliability and design."
"I would like to see better customer support."
"In ServiceNow Now Platform, UI is an area with certain shortcomings requiring improvements."
"The user experience could be improved. The current design of forms lacks intuitiveness, as there seems to be only one form available for all types of operations."
"This platform is used more by large companies because it is a little bit expensive."
"ServiceNow Now Platform wants AI embedded in the product to make it more powerful. Generative AI that will be a part of ServiceNow Now Platform is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The cost has room for improvement. It is currently expensive."
"The product's UI is ugly, making it an area where improvements are required."
"There's always room for improvement, but I think the biggest challenge with ServiceNow is the licensing model. It's not very clear and changes frequently."
"Because of the high cost of this product, you don't always see an ROI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

Information not available
"The solution is expensive, and I rate it a ten for pricing."
"It's expensive and if you need some analytical views of your activity, there is an additional cost."
"The product is very expensive."
"In my opinion, it is expensive. However, they do offer favorable licensing for charities, for example."
"It is expensive only."
"The solution is expensive."
"People seem to be buying the tool a lot. I think its licensing is okay."
"I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being very expensive solution."
report
Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Rapid Application Development Software solutions are best for your needs.
913,683 professionals have used our research since 2012.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Manufacturing Company
14%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
13%
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise36
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Hiptest?
CucumberStudio's API integration could be improved both in terms of reliability and design. The API requires data to be sent in a specific format, which takes time to build. Additionally, the repor...
What is your primary use case for Hiptest?
I use CucumberStudio as a test case repository. All of our test cases are stored there. It is also part of our test planning process. For every sprint, we plan the test cases in CucumberStudio and ...
What advice do you have for others considering Hiptest?
For teams following a BDD style software development approach, CucumberStudio is a great collaborative tool that covers all the basic requirements of a test management tool. I would rate CucumberSt...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ServiceNow Now Platform?
I do not know the setup cost details. I am not at that level where I make decisions on the cost.
What needs improvement with ServiceNow Now Platform?
There are areas of ServiceNow Now Platform that could be improved or enhanced in the future. So far, I do not have many complaints with ServiceNow Now Platform, and it is working as intended. I do ...
What is your primary use case for ServiceNow Now Platform?
As a customer of this solution, I use it as a ticketing platform in my projects. I have multiple use cases for ServiceNow Now Platform as I use it for service, requests, incident, and change and pr...
 

Also Known As

Hiptest
No data available
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Cisco, Cardinal Health, Intuit, Smartbox, Accenture, Deliveroo
experian, beachbody, health partners
Find out what your peers are saying about CucumberStudio vs. ServiceNow Now Platform and other solutions. Updated: September 2026.
913,683 professionals have used our research since 2012.