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Micro Focus Service Test [EOL] vs Sauce Labs comparison

 

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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

Micro Focus Service Test [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
1.0
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Sauce Labs
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
113
Ranking in other categories
Functional Testing Tools (12th), Test Automation Tools (19th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user375834 - PeerSpot reviewer
VRM - Venue Results Manager at a sports company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It made it easy for the test team to monitor and measure test execution​.
The most valuable features for us are Performance on execution Usage, once most of tasks are drag and drop, so you just need to drag the features during script preparation Integration with other ALM tools My team integrated test scripts from HP Service Test into HP QC ALM test management tool.…
MR
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Provides multiple test environments and saves time, but should have something for inspecting mobile apps screens
With the desktop browser, we can inspect any screen with the web developer option, but they should provide something for mobiles so that we can quickly inspect elements on the device. To write the Selenium scripts, we require web locators. We have to capture them from the local and execute the script on Sauce Labs. If Sauce Labs can provide a solution where we can inspect any of the mobile devices online, it will be very helpful for us. I also faced an issue where during the execution time, the iCloud password used to expire within a certain period, which used to create pop-ups on the screen making our tests fail. That was one thing that we faced many times. If that can be improved, it will be very helpful.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the graphical workflow."
"My team integrated test scripts from HP Service Test into HP QC ALM test management tool, which made it easy for the test team to monitor and measure test execution."
"Service Test provides different opportunities in SOA testing, which helps us to provide better SOA solutions to clients."
"Service Test is user friendly and requires QTP developers a relatively minimal learning curve to catch up with any changes in features that may get introduced by newer versions."
"It has helped a lot in reducing the time that would be put in for a particular module."
"The data validation used to take a lot of time, and now through Service Test it is done within minutes."
"I never faced any issues with the stability."
"The insights section provides a great overall state of the automation suite and can identify trends relatively quickly. If we see a dip in our passing rate over time, we can look at what changed when the test started failing to find the root cause rather than doing a quick fix to find that the test fails a short time later."
"Sauce Labs helps us identify the root causes of bugs. The solution offers a lot of flexibility by providing the latest iOS and Android emulator versions, and even the Appium updates when it comes out in the market."
"Having the ability to test our application on additional browser/OS/mobile device combinations opens up additional revenue streams for us because we have a larger user base."
"Testing my app on cloud has really helped us with save time and resources to procure various hardware and software, and set those up."
"With only a few clicks, it gives us the availability to use any browser and OS combination whenever we want."
"No need to purchase more real devices."
"The configuration and options within Sauce Labs are endless, which makes it an excellent product."
 

Cons

"When an entire script is ready in the tool and there is a modification of WSDL at the final point, you need to form the code from scratch and there will be a lot of objects in the tool that wouldn't work after the inclusion of the new WSDL, which requires significant manual effort to fix."
"Its pricing is a bit high when compared to other SOA testing tools."
"They should come up with something like Fiddler to see the service status."
"If the license server went down, all the HPST nodes would fail their automation tests, which would bring down the entire automated test infrastructure and people would think the current build was bad."
"Service Test technology is primarily meant to test applications without user interface therefore falling short of helping in the test of UI applications unlike QTP."
"Back in 2018 or 2019, I would have said that Sauce Labs' stability is horrible."
"I can't remove team members that have left the organization. I can only set them as inactive. It would be really nice to clean up my data and delete them from the team management."
"Lacks the ability to start multiple tests simultaneously."
"Sometimes pasting text while using "text object" does not seem to work, and it slows down testing times quite a bit."
"Speed."
"Unable to segregate reports for tests that are currently being developed, and might not be returning useful results."
"Playback needs improvement."
"Using Sauce Connect was very confusing."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Compared with other services, Sauce Labs is a bit expensive."
"Go ahead please. Try it at a smaller scale."
"They could improve on the pricing because it seems pretty expensive. I'm sure it's justified, but it's expensive."
"Their pricing is incredibly competitive."
"​Now that we have an enterprise license, we no longer have to worry about minutes each month!​"
"The pricing is reasonable due to the amount of diversity that they provide. However, I feel they might be more flexible to bargain based on their relationship with our organization."
"We pay for a specific number of VMs."
"Try the free trial and work with a Sauce Labs representative to see what package works best for your application(s)."
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Top Industries

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Construction Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise4
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business33
Midsize Enterprise26
Large Enterprise73
 

Also Known As

Service Test, HPE Service Test
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