We performed a comparison between HCL AppScan and IBM Rational Functional Tester based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Sonar, Veracode, Checkmarx and others in Application Security Tools."The static scans are good, and the SaaS as well."
"The solution offers services in a few specific development languages."
"It highlights, with several grades of severity, the types of vulnerabilities, so we can focus on the most severe security vulnerabilities in the code."
"Technical support is helpful."
"The product has valuable features for static and dynamic testing."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning or security part."
"The UI was very intuitive."
"It provides a better integration for our ecosystem."
"It is compatible with all sorts of Dark Net applications. Its coverage is very good."
"IBM Rational Functional Tester is very contextual."
"Test automation is most valuable because it saves a lot of time."
"The most valuable feature is the UI component tester."
"The penetration testing feature should be included."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"I think being able to search across more containers, especially some of the docker elements. We need a little tighter integration there. That's the only thing I can see at this point."
"Sometimes it doesn't work so well."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"The solution could improve by having a mobile version."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"The solution's scalability can be a matter of concern because one license runs on one machine only."
"If the solution is running on Linux, there are some issues around application compatibility."
"They need to do a complete revamp so that even a non-technical person can manage the tool."
"As many of our products are moving from PC to mobile, the most important thing that this solution needs is mobile app support."
"The latest version has increased load time before testing can be run."
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HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 39 reviews while IBM Rational Functional Tester is ranked 21st in Functional Testing Tools with 8 reviews. HCL AppScan is rated 7.6, while IBM Rational Functional Tester is rated 7.2. 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 IBM Rational Functional Tester writes "Reliable test automation, and test data creation with efficient support". HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, Checkmarx One and PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional, whereas IBM Rational Functional Tester is most compared with Katalon Studio, Selenium HQ, HCL OneTest, Tricentis Tosca and Worksoft Certify.
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