We performed a comparison between Broadcom Service Virtualization and Parasoft Virtualize based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, OpenText, SmartBear and others in Service Virtualization."It's got probably the greatest amount of features, in terms of different technologies that you can automate and virtualize, out of any of the solutions out there."
"Unit testing or early life testing did not have to be stopped or delayed because those services were not available."
"The ability to create virtual services and deploy them as Docker containers, and include them in our Jenkins build pipelines, is a valuable feature."
"The ability to do parallel development and testing reduces our costs for duplicating environments, improving the productivity of our developers, and bringing products faster to market."
"We are able to quickly scale our requests. We have tested across thousands of requests. We have had no problems so far."
"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."
"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."
"The initial setup is quite easy to manage."
"I'd like to see more of the newer technologies included in there, looking mainly from a mobile perspective, possibly, so you can virtualize some of the aspects that we're going to be doing for mobile testing."
"CA actually releases a new version every year. We had issues with the upgrade prior to the latest one."
"They can always work on usability and making simple things simple to do. This is true of every product that deals with complexity."
"Needs some additional lightweight, portable elements."
"UI should be more user friendly: better usability, more testing oriented."
"From a reporting perspective I think we would like to have a more user-friendly approach."
"It is not a stable solution."
"More examples of portal-based virtualization."
"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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