We performed a comparison between SmartBear TestComplete and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Functional Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the integration with Azure DevOps."
"The solution helps improve the stability of our product. It also decreases the work of our manual quality assurance engineers."
"I like the cross browser compatibility. It saves a lot of time re-writing scripts to accommodate different browsers."
"The reporting is ready to use and doesn't require any setup."
"The product has many features."
"The solution has a very nice interface."
"The most valuable features are the desktop and mobile modules."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is regression testing tools."
"One of the best documentation in the world."
"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."
"The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"The interface is easy to use."
"The debugging feature is valuable."
"The most valuable features are the SSIS reports, the deployment models, and the ability to interact with other Microsoft tools."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability."
"Headless testing would be a big improvement."
"Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover."
"TestComplete gives support to do requests to a SOAP web service but has no support to do HTTP requests on Restful services."
"I didn't use it very heavily. One issue that I found was that there wasn't a quick way or a button to move Visual Basic scripts to TestComplete. We have a lot of such scripts in our organization, and it would be very useful to have some option to easily move these scripts. It is currently possible to convert these scripts to TestComplete, but it is not easy. I have to write some code, but everything is not available immediately."
"In scenarios where two of our engineers work on the same task, merging codes is a bit difficult."
"Right now, when you buy the solution, you need to pay for one solution. You receive one set up and you install it and it's just in that one machine. It would be ideal if they could offer one subscription where you can connect to different machines with a group subscription."
"Name Mapping feature should be clearer. Whenever I use it, I do not really know what will work and what will not work."
"The solution needs Mac OS support. Right now, the solution has only been developed to accommodate Windows OS."
"The solution's documentation could be improved for beginners."
"The tool crashes and has high memory consumption."
"The integration with Git needs improving because it is a bit disjointed and unpredictable."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"Enhancing the support for web application testing and load performance would be an improvement."
"The pricing of this solution should be lowered."
"The documentation is limited."
"One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone."
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SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 10th in Functional Testing Tools with 72 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 6th in Functional Testing Tools with 48 reviews. SmartBear TestComplete is rated 7.6, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of SmartBear TestComplete writes "A stable product that needs to improve its integration capabilities with other test management tools". 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 ". SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio, Ranorex Studio and OpenText UFT One, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, Tricentis Tosca and TestRail. See our SmartBear TestComplete vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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