Visual Studio Test Professional and ReadyAPI compete in the testing solutions market. Visual Studio Test Professional seems to have the upper hand due to its extensive integration capabilities, support for various programming languages, and excellent debugging tools.
Features: Visual Studio Test Professional includes integration with Microsoft ecosystems, a user-friendly testing environment, and rich debugging tools. ReadyAPI is known for its comprehensive API testing suite, ease of use, and integration with CI/CD tools.
Room for Improvement: Visual Studio Test Professional needs stability improvements, better integration with Visual Studio, and enhanced support for web and load testing. ReadyAPI requires better scalability, enhanced performance testing, and simpler licensing options.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both products offer on-premises and cloud-based deployment options. Visual Studio Test Professional supports private and hybrid clouds and has generally reliable, albeit slow, technical support. ReadyAPI provides good support and both products offer community resources.
Pricing and ROI: Visual Studio Test Professional is expensive but offers cost-effective solutions through various pricing plans, resulting in a positive ROI. ReadyAPI is moderately priced with flexible licensing, though adding features may increase costs.
SmartBear had an ALM tool that helped manage project documentation, including Jira-related specifications, test plans, and test cases.
Sometimes, the documentation is not readable, being too long or too detailed and not connected to my problem.
I rate ReadyAPI between five to six for scalability due to complexities associated with scripting.
ReadyAPI's performance testing capabilities can impact API scalability assessments.
Once all configurations and preparations are done, it is very stable.
One issue I found with ReadyAPI is related to event listeners compared to JMeter or SoapUI.
I'm considering the use of AWS and its Lambda functionalities prepared by the vendor.
Sometimes, the library version is not compatible with other libraries, causing errors in my application.
The product needs contextual help integrated within its interface.
The Git extensions are very basic and can be more extensive compared to other software focused on Git, like GitTower or SmartGit.
Currently, we don't extensively use the performance testing due to license costs.
The pricing of ReadyAPI is reasonable, considering its functionality compared to other tools in the market.
The price is expensive.
It also aids in faster feedback to developers, allowing them to implement developments in a sprint without the need for extensive testing afterwards, thus improving our time to market metrics.
ReadyAPI is valuable for web service automation and allowing us to generate test cases and automate processes.
ReadyAPI is a versatile tool for creating multiple testing frameworks and validating various parameters seamlessly.
It supports cross-platform functionality.
Visual Studio Test Professional is highly valuable because it provides extensive extensions and plugins that assist in measuring code quality.
ReadyAPI is an all-in-one automated testing platform that allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface.
ReadyAPI Features
Some of ReadyAPI’s key features include:
ReadyAPI Benefits
Some of the benefits of using ReadyAPI include:
Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Dell EMC Unity users.
PeerSpot user Vallalarasu P., Test Architect at a tech services company, states, “ReadyAPI is one of the best tools for API testing because they have made a single platform for functional testing, load testing security, and also service actualization. We also have virtual work that can be an add-in within ReadyAPI. For integration for CACD, they have something called TestEngine, which can also be an add-on for ReadyAPI. We use Python request library and things like that but if you're a bigger organization with hundreds of APIs, then ReadyAPI is a one-stop solution for complete API testing. If you consider TestComplete and other products for an equivalent outcome, you might get something nearly comparable, butReadyAPI is the outstanding product.”
An IT Manager at an insurance company says the solution has “Fast automation, less coding, and is pretty lightweight. When you are working in sprints, you need to have continuous feedback. ReadyAPI definitely helps in automating very fast and rapidly. We have less coding, and we can more easily define our assertions. We don't use it for full-blown performance testing, but normally if you are doing your functional testing, it gives you the request and response time. Anybody who is doing functional testing can see what the request and response times are and raise a flag based upon their business affiliates, that is, whether it is meeting their affiliates. You can identify this during functional testing."
Balamurugan A., Manager at a financial services firm, comments, “We like the user interface. The most valuable features are the integration with Jira and the test management tools.
They have interfaces with our performance tools, so we were able to leverage all of these integrations and plugins. It is very good from an integrative solution standpoint.”
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