"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."
"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."
"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."
"Unit testing or early life testing did not have to be stopped or delayed because those services were not available."
"The most valuable features include the capability to use other program languages such as PLSQR, JAVA, .NET."
"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."
"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."
"The main characteristic that is useful is that the tool is completely free."
"The most valuable features of Selenium HQ are it is open source and has multiple languages and browser support. It's very useful."
"It supports many external plugins, and because it's a Java-based platform, it's language-independent. You can use Java, C#, Python, etc."
"The plugins, the components, and the method of the library with Selenium is very user defined."
"Data parametrization and parallelization are the most important features in any automation tool."
"The primary benefit is its cost and the ability to use the cloud."
"I like that it is a robust and free open source. There is a lot of community support available, and there are a lot of developers using them. There's good community support."
"Selenium HQ's most valuable feature is its online community support, which is comprehensive and easy to access."
"Needs some additional lightweight, portable elements."
"We had to implement an external service catalog. We put it in ServiceNow. I would like to see an integrated service catalog."
"I would like to have more flexibility towards the mainframe virtualization and also in JDBC virtualization."
"They can always work on usability and making simple things simple to do. This is true of every product that deals with complexity."
"The workstation component has a very out-dated UI and is in dire need of a facelift."
"UI should be more user friendly: better usability, more testing oriented."
"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."
"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."
"There is no good tool to find the Xpath. They should provide a good tool to find Xpath for dynamic elements and integrate API (REST/ SOAP) testing support."
"In the beginning, we had issues with several test cases failing during regression. Over a period of time, we built our own framework around Selenium which helped us overcome of these issues."
"The initial setup of Selenium HQ is difficult in many areas, such as the framework."
"I would like for the next release to support parallel testing."
"When we upgrade the version, some features are missing. I want the product to include some AI capabilities."
"I would like to see some reporting or test management tools."
"I would like to see Selenium HQ support legacy platforms."
"For email-based applications, we can't automate as we would like to, making it necessary to bring in a third-party product to do so."
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Broadcom Service Virtualization is ranked 1st in Service Virtualization with 97 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Functional Testing Tools with 102 reviews. Broadcom Service Virtualization is rated 8.2, while Selenium HQ 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 Selenium HQ writes "Continuously being developed and large community makes it easy to find solutions". Broadcom Service Virtualization is most compared with ReadyAPI Test, Parasoft Virtualize, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, OpenText Service Virtualization and Tricentis Tosca, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Telerik Test Studio, Worksoft Certify, Tricentis Tosca and OpenText Silk Test.
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