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Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, OpenText, SmartBear and others in Service Virtualization."The most valuable features are the recording and creating of virtual services."
"We had a number of back-end services that were not available during testing times. What this had allowed us to do is get our early life testing done while those services are not available."
"We have been using it extensively for the shift left process and testing. It helps us to accelerate and virtualize services and assets that we don't have. It enables to test faster."
"I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable."
"Scalability has actually worked well and we are able to bring it to multiple environments."
"In the case of the virtualization of TCP/IP protocols for third-party terminal insurance, there was a device terminal, which was interacting with the application via the TCP/IP protocol. Most of the tools don't support that, but we were able to achieve it using Broadcom Service Virtualization."
"Unit testing or early life testing did not have to be stopped or delayed because those services were not available."
"We have had developers produce code later than we wanted to, but we've had some other stuff that was dependent on that. So what we were able to do was virtualize these assets and then go forward with our developer and not have to wait for these additional services to be available."
"The initial setup is quite easy to manage."
"Needs some additional lightweight, portable elements."
"We had to implement an external service catalog. We put it in ServiceNow. I would like to see an integrated service catalog."
"From a reporting perspective I think we would like to have a more user-friendly approach."
"The workstation component has a very out-dated UI and is in dire need of a facelift."
"One major feature I would like to see is on the user administration part. Right now, anybody can access any of the folders and any of the projects."
"The cost is an area that needs improvement. There are a couple of other tools which provide support for performance testing with the base version itself, but Broadcom needs a separate component to support virtualization for performance testing. This is a costly component."
"CA actually releases a new version every year. We had issues with the upgrade prior to the latest one."
"I really want to see more of the "express" kind of model, where you get a little bit for free. I'd love to be able to see you be able to edit and author tests without having to be connected to a licensed server. And then, if you want to go and execute tests, then you go and connect to the server... I think it would unblock people to be able to do a lot more work from home or from remote places, where they can't really connect to the server."
"It would be ideal if the product offered more in terms of data virtualization or have a separate product that could be combined with this one that could offer a bit more in order to cover more of our requirements."
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Broadcom Service Virtualization is ranked 1st in Service Virtualization with 97 reviews while Parasoft Virtualize is ranked 4th in Service Virtualization. Broadcom Service Virtualization is rated 8.2, while Parasoft Virtualize is rated 8.8. The top reviewer of Broadcom Service Virtualization writes "Feature-rich, easy to configure and set up, and the support is good". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Parasoft Virtualize writes "Supports MessageQueue. Provides the ability to test applications detached from integration middleware". Broadcom Service Virtualization is most compared with ReadyAPI Test, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, OpenText Service Virtualization and Tricentis Tosca, whereas Parasoft Virtualize is most compared with OpenText Service Virtualization.
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