Broadcom Service Virtualization vs IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server comparison

Broadcom Service Virtualization vs. IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server

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Broadcom Service Virtualiza...

Ranking in Service Virtualization

1st

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

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IBM Rational Test Virtualiz...

Ranking in Service Virtualization

5th

Average Rating

8.0

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Market share comparison

As of June 2024, in the Service Virtualization category, the market share of Broadcom Service Virtualization is 33.3% and it decreased by 6.1% compared to the previous year. The market share of IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server is 2.8% and it decreased by 71.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Q&A Highlights

it_user189042

Project Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 13, 2015

Do you have a comparison of IBM vs. CA Service Virtualization?

if you look for service virtualization tools you should check out Tricentis Orchestrated Service Virtualization Suite too. it supports following techniques without programming a single line of code: -) model based business flow definition to enable functional testers for test automation (with a technical single point of maintenance of XSDs, WSDLs...) -) stateful behaviour -) asynchronous business flows (mainly used for JMS, MQ systems) -) End2End testing with more than 20 UI technolgies (Mainframe, HTML, JAVA, Win32 etc) -) test data driven frontend automation & backend service simulation (single point of test data maintenance) --) this solves test data issues... -) and many more unique features Check it out here http://www.tricentis.com/tricentis-tosca-testsuite/orchestrated-service-virtualization/

Web service and MQ virtualization helped us build a virtual development environment for continuous testing and continuous development of our product.

Featured Reviews

it_user518724

Sr. DevOps Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Sep 23, 2016

Web service virtualization MQ virtualization These two features helped us to build a virtual development environment for continuous testing and continuous development of our product The release cycle in our project was initially three weeks and we wasted time waiting for environment…

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it_user549324

Head of Test Centre of Excellence at Maersk Line

Nov 9, 2016

I would recommend it due to the robust infrastructure implementation and good technical support supporting standards

We use it for service virtualization in our company. I am reviewing this product more for its Rational Test Virtualization Server - RTVS feature (the RIT aspect). The RTVS tool is something that comes in a package along with the Rational Test Workbench The main feature of the product is to…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Scalability has actually worked well and we are able to bring it to multiple environments."

"I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable."

"The innovation is amazing. CA has continued to add to services that it supports, the transports that it supports, and has built all of the enterprise capabilities into the product as well."

"Ability to vary the responses very easily (randomize, pick-lists, etc.)."

"The most valuable features are the recording and creating of virtual services."

"There are several areas that are easily configurable."

"CA Service Virtualization has helped us advance the development cycle when third-party interfaces are not available to us."

"The ability to create virtual services and deploy them as Docker containers, and include them in our Jenkins build pipelines, is a valuable feature."

More Broadcom Service Virtualization pros

"It has very easy and good validation techniques used for SWIFT, XSD, and WSDL validations."

"As we have used most of the MQ stub, "MQ recording" is the most useful feature."

Cons

"They can always work on usability and making simple things simple to do. This is true of every product that deals with complexity."

"I would rate the tech support a nine out of ten. They need more knowledge about the connectivity to DevOps orchestration."

"I would like to have more flexibility towards the mainframe virtualization and also in JDBC virtualization."

"It is not a stable solution."

"DevTest is pretty massive. It's hard to tell what different parts of it can be used to do different things. They should modulize it more."

"UI should be more user friendly: better usability, more testing oriented."

"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."

"Needs some additional lightweight, portable elements."

More Broadcom Service Virtualization cons

"Reporting: In the recent release of RCPT, the "Usage graph" feature is included, but that still needs improvements in terms of UI and timeline filtering criteria."

"User friendliness: I would rate it somewhere around 5/10 in terms of user-friendliness. It can be simpler to build stubs and middle-ware based test cases compared to the solution given by RTVS."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable."

"There are additional fees for advanced-level technical support."

"There is a yearly licensing cost, and I would give it a four out of five."

"I don't have the exact dollar amount, but we have spent close to $1,000,000 for a three-year agreement, for an enterprise level."

"IBM RTVS is not that expensive compare to other giants, but it is still much ahead of some other tool having less features."

"The product has a free trial available, which has saves on the initial investment costs."

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Answers from the Community

it_user189042

Project Manager at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Feb 13, 2015

Do you have a comparison of IBM vs. CA Service Virtualization?

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it_user190035

Works at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Feb 12, 2015

Hi, I am looking for similar information as well. If you have any content, please could you let me know where to find it please? Thanks very much Regards Anish

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it_user174312

QA Director at Bridgetree

Feb 12, 2015

I unfortunately have not used the IBM software. I do have experience with CA LISA and some with Parasoft but I don't know the IBM product well enough to vote. However there is a company called Voke that does studies and comparisons of them. You could do a google search for Voke and Lisa and IBm and service virtualizaton and likely find that study on white paper. I will check as well.

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

32%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Broadcom Service Virtualization?

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 th...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom Service Virtualization?

There is a yearly licensing cost, and I would give it a four out of five.

What needs improvement with Broadcom Service Virtualization?

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 ...

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Also Known As

ITKO LISA, CA LISA, CA Service Virtualization

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Overview

CA Service Virtualization acts as a catalyst for DevOps by simulating constrained or unavailable systems across the software development lifecycle (SDLC). This allows developers, testers and performance teams to work in parallel to accelerate app delivery, as well as to “shift-left” the app testing to improve application quality. CA Service Virtualization was previously known as LISA, the product from the ITKO acquisition.

Testing environments are often expensive and can have limited availability. IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server helps you shift testing to the left by removing dependencies on components that are unavailable or already in use. These components are simulated at the API layer, supporting a wide variety of technologies, allowing your team to test the riskiest elements earlier in the delivery lifecycle.

Sample Customers

Union Bank, Swisscom, Autotrader, KPN, ING Bank, Best Buy, American Family Insurance, TESCO, Telefonica, Molina Healthcare, California DMV, Aktia, City Index, Con-way, DirecTV, GRU Airport, Liquidnet, NAB, Nordstrom, T-Mobile, TIM Brasil,

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Broadcom Service Virtualization vs. IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server