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 most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"Technical support is helpful."
"I like the recording feature."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"It's generally a very user-friendly tool. Anyone can easily learn how to scan"
"Compared to other tools only AppScan supports special language."
"We leverage it as a quality check against code."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"Visual Studio is an exemplary integrated development environment that stands out due to its exceptional features. It allows for the seamless selection of the appropriate programming language for the specific development tasks at hand. This facilitates a swift and effortless transition between languages, providing a highly efficient development experience."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"The interface is easy to use."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a user-friendly solution."
"User-friendly ID and direct integration with GitHub are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use."
"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 initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"Improvement can be done as per customer requirements."
"There are so many lines of code with so many different categories that I am likely to get lost. "
"A desktop version should be added."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"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 It is very outdated."
"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."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"The solution could improve by having a mobile version."
"One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone."
"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."
"The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier."
"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."
"The solution should be cheaper."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"The price is reasonable, but it's not the best."
"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 15th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th 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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