We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"The product is useful, particularly in its sensitivity and scanning capabilities."
"It has certainly helped us find vulnerabilities in our software, so this is priceless in the end."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"This solution saves us time due to the low number of false positives detected."
"It comes with all of the templates that we need. For example, we are a company that is regulated by PCI. In order to be PCI compliant, we have a lot of checks and procedures to which we have to comply."
"We can run multiple projects at the same time and we can design both types of framework, including data-driven or hybrid. We have got a lot of flexibility here."
"Selenium HQ's most valuable feature is picking up and entering values from web pages."
"It supports most of the actions that a user would do on a website."
"Some of the most valuable features of this solution are open-source, they have good support, good community support, and it supports multiple languages whether you use C-Sharp or not. These are some of the most important benefits."
"It is programming language agnostic, you can write tests in most currently used languages."
"There is a supportive community around it."
"I like the record and playback features. We also appreciate that it's not just writing on a script that we create. While we were browsing our web application, it automatically records all the clicks and movements of points. We also appreciate the fact that it provides screenshots of everything in the output."
"The stability of the solution has been good, it is reliable we have not had any bugs."
"There is room for improvement in the pricing model."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"We have experienced challenges when trying to integrate this solution with other products. When you compare it with the other SecOps products, the quality of the output is too low. It is not a new-age product. It is very outdated."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"A desktop version should be added."
"I think being able to search across more containers, especially some of the docker elements. We need a little tighter integration there. That's the only thing I can see at this point."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"We do not have enough resources or enough people to employ and hire. So, I'm hiring whoever I find, and they don't always have enough technical knowledge to operate Selenium."
"It would be awesome if there was a standalone implementation of Selenium for non-developer users."
"They should add more functionality to the solution."
"Katalon has built a UI on top of Selenium to make it more user-friendly, as well as repository options and the ability to create repositories for objects, among other things. It would be helpful if this type of information could be included in the Selenium tool itself, so people wouldn't have to do filing testing."
"Could have additional readability and abstraction."
"There is no good tool to find the Xpath. They should provide a good tool to find Xpath for dynamic elements and integrate API (REST/ SOAP) testing support."
"The solution does not offer up enough information in regards to personality testing."
"Selenium Grid set-up is bit complex."
HCL AppScan is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 103 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.8, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Easy to use with great pricing and lots of documentation". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and Automation Anywhere (AA).
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