We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."The UI was very intuitive."
"This is a stable solution."
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"The security and the dashboard are the most valuable features."
"It was easy to set up."
"The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution...The initial setup or installation of HCL AppScan is easy."
"AppScan is stable."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"It's great for the development of .NET."
"The product is good to create big or small projects fastly. It is one of the leaders in the area."
"User-friendly ID and direct integration with GitHub are the most valuable."
"The documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems."
"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."
"The debugging feature is valuable."
"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"Visibility is an issue for us. Our partners do not know we have integrations with some of IBM products."
"I would love to see more containers. Many of the tools are great, they require an amount of configuration, setup and infrastructure. If most the applications were in a container, I think everything would be a little bit faster, because all our clients are now using containers."
"One thing which I think can be improved is the CI/CD Integration"
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"If HCL AppScan is able to alert the clients over email once the scan is complete, it would be great. Right now, HCL AppScan doesn't let me know if the scanning part is finished or not, because of which I have to come back and check mostly."
"The solution often has a high number of false positives. It's an aspect they really need to improve upon."
"The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"The tool crashes and has high memory consumption."
"We would like to be able to easily integrate this solution with our continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins."
"The product must provide more integration."
"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 6th in Functional Testing Tools with 48 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.8, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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 Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and Tricentis Tosca.
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