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 static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"The solution is cheap."
"It comes with all of the templates that we need. For example, we are a company that is regulated by PCI. In order to be PCI compliant, we have a lot of checks and procedures to which we have to comply."
"There's extensive functionality with custom rules and a custom knowledge base."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is scanning QR codes."
"It highlights, with several grades of severity, the types of vulnerabilities, so we can focus on the most severe security vulnerabilities in the code."
"The product is useful, particularly in its sensitivity and scanning capabilities."
"The most valuable feature of HCL AppScan is its integration with the SDLC, particularly during the coding phase."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"The solution is very stable."
"The initial setup is easy. It's easy to configure."
"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."
"It is very easy to use. You can handle a lot of things together at once in one package, which is a good point for us."
"The tool is flexible and easy to manage. We use it since it is scalable and easy to use. It integrates with solutions."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"Visual Studio is the easiest to use."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
"The tool should improve its output. Scanning is not a challenge anymore since there are many such tools available in the market. The product needs to focus on how its output is being used by end users. It should be also more user-friendly. One of the major challenges is in the tool's integration with applications that need to be scanned. Sometimes, the scanning is not proper."
"The product has some technical limitations."
"The solution's scalability can be a matter of concern because one license runs on one machine only."
"It has crashed at times."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"They have to improve support."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its stability."
"The price is reasonable, but it's not the best."
"The performance could be faster."
"The solution's documentation could be improved because it keeps disappearing from the solution."
"It is not good in terms of performance. When you open Visual Studio, you have to wait for a while to process your code. It uses a lot of resources and has a lot of features. If we could disable some of the features, it would be lighter and faster to use. Nowadays, for some of the projects, we use VS Code for JavaScript or Python. VS Code is very light and easy to use, whereas, in Visual Studio, we have to wait because it takes time to compile or run a project. It has a lot of competitors in terms of performance, such as Intelligent ID. Intelligent ID is very easy to use. It has many features, and it is lighter to use than Visual Studio. In terms of error handling, sometimes, it shows an error before you finish your code, which can be improved. It would be good if it has a version for Linux. I use VS Code on Linux, but I am not sure if Visual Studio has a version for Linux."
"The product must provide more integration."
"The data flow can be improved."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
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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, OWASP Zap and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and TestRail.
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