We performed a comparison between Broadcom Service Virtualization and SmartBear TestComplete based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, OpenText, SmartBear and others in Service Virtualization."CA Service Virtualization has helped us advance the development cycle when third-party interfaces are not available to us."
"There are several areas that are easily configurable."
"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."
"We had a number of back-end services that were not available during testing times. What this had allowed us to do is get our early life testing done while those services are not available."
"The most valuable features are the recording and creating of virtual services."
"Unit testing or early life testing did not have to be stopped or delayed because those services were not available."
"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 the tools don't support that, but we were able to achieve it using Broadcom Service Virtualization."
"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 solution helps improve the stability of our product. It also decreases the work of our manual quality assurance engineers."
"The most valuable features are the desktop and mobile modules."
"The solution is mainly stable."
"The database checkpoints detect problems which are difficult for a human resource to find."
"The product has many features."
"It's cross platform automation capabilities specially ranging across web, UNIX (via putty), and other systems."
"It allows us to test both desktop and web applications."
"The reporting is ready to use and doesn't require any setup."
"It is not a stable solution."
"One major feature I would like to see is on the user administration part. Right now, anybody can access any of the folders and any of the projects."
"Needs some additional lightweight, portable elements."
"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."
"I would like to have more flexibility towards the mainframe virtualization and also in JDBC virtualization."
"UI should be more user friendly: better usability, more testing oriented."
"I would rate the tech support a nine out of ten. They need more knowledge about the connectivity to DevOps orchestration."
"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."
"Name Mapping feature should be clearer. Whenever I use it, I do not really know what will work and what will not work."
"The initial setup of SmartBear TestComplete was complex."
"One notable drawback is the absence of native integration with Git."
"In the cross-browser domain, it has a few snags with Microsoft Edge and Chrome; although, these problems are not critical."
"The solution needs Mac OS support. Right now, the solution has only been developed to accommodate Windows OS."
"To bring it up to a 10, I would be looking for the addition of some key functional API testing."
"The way objects are added and used when utilizing descriptive programming could be improved. It is a little unwieldy, compared to UFT."
"TestComplete gives support to do requests to a SOAP web service but has no support to do HTTP requests on Restful services."
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Broadcom Service Virtualization is ranked 1st in Service Virtualization with 97 reviews while SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 8th in Test Automation Tools with 70 reviews. Broadcom Service Virtualization is rated 8.2, while SmartBear TestComplete is rated 7.6. 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 SmartBear TestComplete writes "A stable product that needs to improve its integration capabilities with other test management tools". Broadcom Service Virtualization is most compared with ReadyAPI Test, Parasoft Virtualize, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, OpenText Service Virtualization and Tricentis Tosca, whereas SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio, Ranorex Studio, OpenText UFT One and froglogic Squish.
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