We performed a comparison between Apache JMeter and SmartBear TestComplete based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."User-friendly and open source."
"The reporting features are really good. There's a lot less latency than other solutions."
"The solution has good transition controllers and distributed testing."
"What I like best about Apache JMeter is its user-friendly GUI because even if you don't have very good coding knowledge or understanding, or even if you don't come from a development background, you can still use the solution with just a few clicks. This is what's unique about Apache JMeter, in comparison with other tools in the market. As Apache JMeter is open source, when there's a missing feature, you can search in several community blogs for plugins that you can use to modify Apache JMeter to meet your requirements, and this is another advantage."
"When there's a high number of TPS I can achieve more transactions per seconds given the hyper-limitations."
"The solution is scalable."
"Due to process automation, I don't have to prepare reports, making it the perfect solution."
"It's a powerful tool that is open source."
"The reporting is ready to use and doesn't require any setup."
"The solution helps improve the stability of our product. It also decreases the work of our manual quality assurance engineers."
"The product has many features."
"TestComplete is simple, it's a very easy-to-use tool."
"I like the cross browser compatibility. It saves a lot of time re-writing scripts to accommodate different browsers."
"When compared to other tools, it is very simple."
"The most valuable features are the desktop and mobile modules."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Azure DevOps."
"If JMeter could provide a web version of editing, that would be good."
"If JMeter could integrate with the EPM solution, it would be great. It could also be improved by offering more integrations for security. For example, most applications are secure with OpenID Connect protocols."
"If the solution was GUI based, I believe that it would be more versatile."
"The memory utilization in JMeter is very poor."
"Because so much is being done these days with authentication processes, a better system for either getting bearer tokens or some kind of token-based authentication prior to executing APIs would benefit the product. It is there, and you can do things. It is just not real clean at this point. There should be a better authentication process for JMeter or some automation or better guidelines for gaining and utilizing tokens on the fly."
"Both scalability and stability could be improved in Apache JMeter."
"In this tool, automation in general is almost non-existent. Everything is done manually."
"Automation is difficult in JMeter."
"Increased performance with less memory and CPU usage."
"The pricing is the constraint."
"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."
"The licensing costs are a little bit high and should be reduced."
"If that engine could better identify more XPaths automatically and make the process more flexible, that would be better."
"To bring it up to a 10, I would be looking for the addition of some key functional API testing."
"What is currently missing from this solution is better support for mobile testing."
"The solution needs more training manuals or some form of online forum for learning. It needs more documentation."
Apache JMeter is ranked 1st in Performance Testing Tools with 82 reviews while SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 8th in Test Automation Tools with 70 reviews. Apache JMeter is rated 7.8, while SmartBear TestComplete is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "It's a free tool with a vast knowledge base, but the reporting is lackluster, and it has a steep learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SmartBear TestComplete writes "A stable product that needs to improve its integration capabilities with other test management tools". Apache JMeter is most compared with BlazeMeter, Postman, Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Katalon Studio, whereas SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio, Ranorex Studio, OpenText UFT One and froglogic Squish.
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