We performed a comparison between Broadcom Service Virtualization and ReadyAPI Test based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, OpenText, SmartBear and others in Service Virtualization."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."
"Scalability has actually worked well and we are able to bring it to multiple environments."
"You can create virtual services from a live recording or convert raw traffic into request/response pairs."
"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."
"There are several areas that are easily configurable."
"I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it supports so many protocols. We, being a large bank, have almost all the protocols, and it supports all of them, so that's one good thing."
"Helps us to remove barriers that we have with dependencies on services that we don't own, or services that don't even exist yet."
"The utmost importance lies in the performance of the application."
"The solution scales well."
"The solution has some good scanning features."
"It clearly makes it easy to test APIs based on the SOAP protocol. We are a logistics company, and we have lots of tracking calls coming in. We provide APIs for tracking services, and it makes sense for us to use SoapUI to test them thoroughly."
"It's a very simple solution to use."
"We used to write our own solutions, from small scripts to task web services, so this saves us thousands of hours."
"SoapUI is uncomplicated and user-friendly."
"The most valuable features are that it is user-friendly, it's easy to use and easy to teach to others."
"More examples of portal-based virtualization."
"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."
"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."
"I would rate the tech support a nine out of ten. They need more knowledge about the connectivity to DevOps orchestration."
"We had to implement an external service catalog. We put it in ServiceNow. I would like to see an integrated service catalog."
"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."
"I would like to have more flexibility towards the mainframe virtualization and also in JDBC virtualization."
"SoapUI Pro is a little heavy due to the number of features. Previously it was not that heavy. Now the tool is too heavy, they should work on fixing this issue because until your system has lots of resources, you won't be able to use it seamlessly. The performance of the application itself could improve."
"Could integrate the graphing module for load testing."
"There aren't any plugins for UI automation. You need to make a custom code and download a job to put into the libraries. If it were panelized, then it would be straightforward. It should be in a panel of the tools, so you can add those tools as your test step in your test cases."
"The UI could be a bit more flexible."
"The documentation needs to be improved because the interface is not easy for a first-time user."
"It is limited to scope and risk services only. It does have some support for JMS, but it is not out-of-the-box; you have to do some tweaks here and there."
"Automation features are not user-friendly."
"Stability has been an issue for us. It needs to be looked at and made a bit better."
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Broadcom Service Virtualization is ranked 1st in Service Virtualization with 97 reviews while ReadyAPI Test is ranked 15th in Functional Testing Tools with 31 reviews. Broadcom Service Virtualization is rated 8.2, while ReadyAPI Test is rated 8.0. 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 ReadyAPI Test writes "You can achieve any complex task with this tool". Broadcom Service Virtualization is most compared with Parasoft Virtualize, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, OpenText Service Virtualization and Tricentis Tosca, whereas ReadyAPI Test is most compared with Postman, ReadyAPI, Tricentis Tosca and Apigee.
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