We performed a comparison between Apigee and Parasoft SOAtest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two API Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Apigee has proven to be one of the best of the breed."
"Apigee Analytics dashboard is useful to monitor transactions, error percentage, transaction latency, etc."
"The most valuable feature is the API gateway."
"Great flexibility with its features."
"API/proxy lifecycle workflow for API providers is quite good and one of Apigee's strongest features."
"It has a very efficient logging system which is easy to maintain."
"There is plenty of support documentation available."
"Apigee is a great product with good feedback and recommendations from clients."
"Every imaginable source in the entire world of information technology can be accessed and used."
"The solution is scalable."
"Parasoft SOAtest has improved the quality of our automated web services, which can be easily implemented through service chaining and service virtualization."
"Generating new messages, based on the existing .EDN and .XML messages, is a crucial part or the testing project that I’m currently in."
"The testing time is shortened because we generate test data automatically with SOAtest."
"Good write and read files which save execution inputs and outputs and can be stored locally."
"We do a lot of web services testing and REST services testing. That is the focus of this product."
"They have a feature where they can record traffic and create tests on the report traffic."
"I'd like this solution to improve on releasing new features; I'd like it to be more frequent."
"They need to work on the cost of the solution."
"I am still struggling to understand how we can use Apigee as a hybrid system. The pricing of this solution could also be improved as there are multiple new products coming onto the market at competitive price points."
"It needs predictive analysis of consumption."
"I have heard there maybe be some security issues that need to be addressed. If this is the situation I would encourage taking a look at the security matters."
"They have an external developer platform that was a little bit painful."
"I would like them to add features, such as caching and mediation policies."
"Since it is based on various open sourced projects, we might have to depend on the fixes provided by those components rather than Apigee directly fixing the issues."
"UI testing should be more in-depth."
"Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings."
"From an automation point of view, it should have better clarity and be more user friendly."
"The feedback that we received from the DevOps of our organization was that the tool was a little heavy from the transformation perspective."
"During the process of working with SOAtest and building test cases, the .TST files will grow. A negative side effect is that saving your changes takes more time."
"The summary reports could be improved."
"The product is very slow to start up, and that is a bit of a problem, actually."
"Parasoft SOAtest has an internal refresh function where you can refresh the software to show the changes you’ve made in your projects. Unfortunately this function does not work properly, because it often does not show the changes after you’ve hit te refresh button a few times."
Apigee is ranked 6th in API Testing Tools with 82 reviews while Parasoft SOAtest is ranked 9th in API Testing Tools with 30 reviews. Apigee is rated 8.2, while Parasoft SOAtest is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Apigee writes "Has a robust community and outstanding performance". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Parasoft SOAtest writes "Good API testing and RIT feature; clarity could be improved". Apigee is most compared with Microsoft Azure API Management, IBM API Connect, Amazon API Gateway, WSO2 API Manager and Layer7 API Management, whereas Parasoft SOAtest is most compared with Postman, SonarQube, Coverity, Polyspace Code Prover and Klocwork. See our Apigee vs. Parasoft SOAtest report.
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