We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."We use it as a security testing application."
"It highlights, with several grades of severity, the types of vulnerabilities, so we can focus on the most severe security vulnerabilities in the code."
"The HCL AppScan turnaround time for Burp Suite or any new feature request is pretty good, and that is why we are sticking with the HCL."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"The solution is easy to use."
"For me, as a manager, it was the ease of use. Inserting security into the development process is not normally an easy project to do. The ability for the developer to actually use it and get results and focuses, that's what counted."
"It identifies all the URLs and domains on its own and then performs tests and provides the results."
"The reporting part is the most valuable feature."
"Visual Studio Test Professional's most valuable feature is the rich IDE for doing code and test development."
"Code testing is the most valuable feature of this solution for developing software."
"The solution is very stable; there's nothing in relation to stability to complain about."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"The documentation is easy, and it helps us solve our problems."
"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."
"The setup is easy and straightforward."
"User-friendly ID and direct integration with GitHub are the most valuable."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"I would like to see the roadmap for this product. We are still waiting to see it as we have only so many resources."
"The solution could improve by having a mobile version."
"We would like to see a check in the specific vulnerabilities in mobile applications or rooted devices, such as jailbreaking devices."
"We have experienced challenges when trying to integrate this solution with other products. When you compare it with the other SecOps products, the quality of the output is too low. It is not a new-age product. It is very outdated."
"The solution's scalability can be a matter of concern because one license runs on one machine only."
"Its UI could be better."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."
"It would be great to support other languages and applications, and that is one of the things we can improve."
"Enhancing the support for web application testing and load performance would be an improvement."
"Visual Studio Test Professional could improve by having better integration with external databases."
"I would appreciate some enhancements in the interface, maybe adding more color options."
"One of the problems with this solution is you need to be highly technically skilled to operate it, it is not for everyone."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT One.
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