We performed a comparison between Broadcom Service Virtualization and IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, OpenText, SmartBear and others in Service Virtualization."It's got probably the greatest amount of features, in terms of different technologies that you can automate and virtualize, out of any of the solutions out there."
"You can create virtual services from a live recording or convert raw traffic into request/response pairs."
"The innovation is amazing. CA has continued to add to services that it supports, the transports that it supports, and has built all of the enterprise capabilities into the product as well."
"Unit testing or early life testing did not have to be stopped or delayed because those services were not available."
"The most valuable features are the recording and creating of virtual services."
"We have had developers produce code later than we wanted to, but we've had some other stuff that was dependent on that. So what we were able to do was virtualize these assets and then go forward with our developer and not have to wait for these additional services to be available."
"We had a number of back-end services that were not available during testing times. What this had allowed us to do is get our early life testing done while those services are not available."
"Helps us to remove barriers that we have with dependencies on services that we don't own, or services that don't even exist yet."
"It has very easy and good validation techniques used for SWIFT, XSD, and WSDL validations."
"As we have used most of the MQ stub, "MQ recording" is the most useful feature."
"The cost is an area that needs improvement. There are a couple of other tools which provide support for performance testing with the base version itself, but Broadcom needs a separate component to support virtualization for performance testing. This is a costly component."
"DevTest is pretty massive. It's hard to tell what different parts of it can be used to do different things. They should modulize it more."
"They can always work on usability and making simple things simple to do. This is true of every product that deals with complexity."
"We had to implement an external service catalog. We put it in ServiceNow. I would like to see an integrated service catalog."
"Needs some additional lightweight, portable elements."
"From a reporting perspective I think we would like to have a more user-friendly approach."
"One major feature I would like to see is on the user administration part. Right now, anybody can access any of the folders and any of the projects."
"I would like to have more flexibility towards the mainframe virtualization and also in JDBC virtualization."
"Reporting: In the recent release of RCPT, the "Usage graph" feature is included, but that still needs improvements in terms of UI and timeline filtering criteria."
"User friendliness: I would rate it somewhere around 5/10 in terms of user-friendliness. It can be simpler to build stubs and middle-ware based test cases compared to the solution given by RTVS."
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Broadcom Service Virtualization is ranked 1st in Service Virtualization with 97 reviews while IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server is ranked 5th in Service Virtualization. Broadcom Service Virtualization is rated 8.2, while IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Broadcom Service Virtualization writes "Feature-rich, easy to configure and set up, and the support is good". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server writes "I would recommend it due to the robust infrastructure implementation and good technical support supporting standards". Broadcom Service Virtualization is most compared with ReadyAPI Test, Parasoft Virtualize, OpenText Service Virtualization and Tricentis Tosca, whereas IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server is most compared with .
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See this link, there is no direct comparison between the two - www.itko.com
I believe a Parasoft comparison, SV comparison can be found here -
www.itcentralstation.com
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www.itcentralstation.com
Hi Yifat
CA seems the market leader in service virtualization. CA is a niche player in this space while IBM's Greenhat is one of their products in their plethora of products. Having said that, CA Lisa's strength lies in Test Data management and virtualization of any type including and not limited to Java, MQ or any other webservices.
I can comment that IBM is a let arrival to this space and also joins the ranks of application service virtualization vi acquisition.
Consider IBM and CA's track record when it comes to acquiring companies, their technologies and integrating them into their portfolios.
IBM Greenhat
I unfortunately have not used the IBM software. I do have experience with CA LISA and some with Parasoft but I don't know the IBM product well enough to vote.
However there is a company called Voke that does studies and comparisons of them. You could do a google search for Voke and Lisa and IBm and service virtualizaton and likely find that study on white paper. I will check as well.
Hi,
I am looking for similar information as well. If you have any content, please could you let me know where to find it please?
Thanks very much
Regards
Anish