We performed a comparison between Broadcom Service Virtualization and Parasoft Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, OpenText, SmartBear and others in Service Virtualization."CA Service Virtualization has helped us advance the development cycle when third-party interfaces are not available to us."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature is that it supports so many protocols. We, being a large bank, have almost all the protocols, and it supports all of them, so that's one good thing."
"Unit testing or early life testing did not have to be stopped or delayed because those services were not available."
"We have been using it extensively for the shift left process and testing. It helps us to accelerate and virtualize services and assets that we don't have. It enables to test faster."
"You can have a lot of different people with different technologies use the tool, without any programming experience at all, all the way up to people who can program. And then, the more technical that you are, the more programming you have, the more you're able to customize the tool."
"The initial setup is quite easy to manage."
"The workstation component has a very out-dated UI and is in dire need of a facelift."
"UI should be more user friendly: better usability, more testing oriented."
"They can always work on usability and making simple things simple to do. This is true of every product that deals with complexity."
"More examples of portal-based virtualization."
"We had to implement an external service catalog. We put it in ServiceNow. I would like to see an integrated service catalog."
"I'd like to see more of the newer technologies included in there, looking mainly from a mobile perspective, possibly, so you can virtualize some of the aspects that we're going to be doing for mobile testing."
"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."
"I really want to see more of the "express" kind of model, where you get a little bit for free. I'd love to be able to see you be able to edit and author tests without having to be connected to a licensed server. And then, if you want to go and execute tests, then you go and connect to the server... I think it would unblock people to be able to do a lot more work from home or from remote places, where they can't really connect to the server."
"It would be ideal if the product offered more in terms of data virtualization or have a separate product that could be combined with this one that could offer a bit more in order to cover more of our requirements."
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Broadcom Service Virtualization is ranked 1st in Service Virtualization with 97 reviews while Parasoft Virtualize is ranked 4th in Service Virtualization. Broadcom Service Virtualization is rated 8.2, while Parasoft Virtualize is rated 8.8. 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 Parasoft Virtualize writes "Supports MessageQueue. Provides the ability to test applications detached from integration middleware". Broadcom Service Virtualization is most compared with ReadyAPI Test, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, OpenText Service Virtualization and Tricentis Tosca, whereas Parasoft Virtualize is most compared with OpenText Service Virtualization.
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