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."It gives accurate results and recommendations that we can implement to enhance the performance of websites."
"JMeter lets us generate virtual users and T-load, per our requirements. It's easy to configure and adjusting the virtual users according to the DPS we want to achieve."
"Scripting with the solution is good."
"The solution is free. You don't need to worry about licensing costs."
"The solution has good transition controllers and distributed testing."
"The solution helps by detecting bottlenecks."
"The most valuable feature in JMeter is the Thread Group, which helps us to see whether the performance is good."
"The solution's initial setup is easy."
"You can record your actions and play them back later."
"Runs in different remote machines. We have multiple versions of the software being tested."
"The solution is mainly stable."
"In TestComplete, I saw a conformed package of a tool that kept everybody in consistency. The team was able to regenerate further tests without having to manipulate more code because the record feature is great."
"The solution has a very nice interface."
"The solution helps improve the stability of our product. It also decreases the work of our manual quality assurance engineers."
"This company offers end-to-end capabilities for test suite creation and execution. One feature that I particularly appreciate is the tagging system. Tags are highly valuable, as they allow you to assign tags to your test cases. When there's an impact in a specific area, you can search for and run all test cases associated with that tag. I find this functionality very useful."
"It works very fine. It is fast on almost any machine, and it is also very well organized. I like its object mapping and its capability to find and interact with almost everything that exists on Windows."
"Apache should have a graphic interface."
"The interface could be made more user-friendly."
"Its reporting could be improved. There should be a better visual representation. That would be helpful for easy consumption of the reports."
"The plug-ins make the reports heavy and they have to be run in non-GUI mode."
"They should improve the solution on its UI front."
"The stability could be a bit better."
"JMeter should be more stable. Every time there is a new release coming up, a lot of its older functionalities or the new functionalities that are brought in are not very well-documented. It should be documented properly, and there should be proper use cases."
"Currently, the integration pipeline is implemented by using Jenkins or a similar tool platform. These are continuous integration tools. As far as I know, integration is done by using custom scripts. It would be good if the integration with a continuous integration pipeline, like Jenkins or Hudson, can be done out of the box without using a script."
"During the distribution of our regression test cases, the control IDs are not always recognized correctly."
"What is currently missing from this solution is better support for mobile testing."
"One notable drawback is the absence of native integration with Git."
"The artificial intelligence needs to be improved."
"Name Mapping feature should be clearer. Whenever I use it, I do not really know what will work and what will not work."
"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."
"We were testing handheld barcode scanners running WindowsCE with many menus of warehouse functions, and our biggest problem was the timing between input and responses."
"The licensing costs are a little bit high and should be reduced."
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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