IBM Rational Quality Manager vs SmartBear TestComplete

IBM Rational Quality Manager is ranked 15th in Test Management Tools with 4 reviews vs SmartBear TestComplete which is ranked 4th in Test Management Tools with 15 reviews. The top reviewer of IBM Rational Quality Manager writes "Global Configuration allows the user to maintain different versions of the same artifact. It does not provide inbuilt capabilities for managing the tasks related to testing". The top reviewer of SmartBear TestComplete writes "Allows us to test both desktop and web applications". IBM Rational Quality Manager is most compared with Quality Center, SmartBear TestComplete and Visual Studio Test Professional. SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with UFT (QTP), Ranorex and Selenium HQ. See our IBM Rational Quality Manager vs SmartBear TestComplete report.

IBM Rational Quality Manager

SmartBear TestComplete

18128

IBM Rational Quality Manager

Based on 4 reviews.

18661

SmartBear TestComplete

Based on 15 reviews.

Most Helpful Review

Setembrino Lusa

Engenheiro de Software - DevOps - Agile - Application Lifecycle Management Practice Specialist at a tech services company

It allows users to assign each other tasks and view the status of the assigned tasks

The software lets users register their role and create task or test-specific teams, and it allows users to assign each other tasks and view the... Read more »

Mohd Zeeshan Zakee

QA Automation Lead at a tech services company

Our automation engineers can create tests more easily, but the code editor gives poorly formatted code.

TestComplete replaced QTP as the preferred choice of tool for the organization. It is much faster, works better across technologies (esp. Flex... Read more »

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Pros
Reusability and integration capabilities which make it a great choice for organizations that use a variety of development tools and platforms.Latest features include versioning of testings which can be great when used for multiple releases of a product.It allows user to add whichever widget (predefined) based on the need. It has integration with CCM and RM to achieve traceability. Read more »	The database checkpoints detect problems which are difficult for a human resource to find.Customer service and technical support responsiveness are high. Everyone is very professional.Test items, project variables helps in managing automation suite and scheduling execution.Selenium integration.It's cross platform automation capabilities specially ranging across web, UNIX (via putty), and other systems.The ability to run a whole suite of tests automatically (which we did overnight).TestComplete fits almost perfectly with a large amount of stacks, such as Delphi, C#, Java and web applications.Runs in different remote machines. We have multiple versions of the software being tested. Read more »
Cons
Mainly Quality Assurance and DevOps, but of course the whole company and management areas with more knowledge of quality and client success approach.Integration capabilities with other vendors' tools should improve.Organizing the test cases is tedious. There is no mechanism to keep and maintain the test cases as hierarchy. This should be seriously addressed. Read more »	Name Mapping feature should be clearer. Whenever I use it, I do not really know what will work and what will not work.Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover.Increased performance with less memory and CPU usage.Error handling features in the tool are a little limited.The code editor, though following eclipse-style, is still a work in progress and gives a very poorly formatted code once viewed via other editing tools.We were testing handheld barcode scanners running WindowsCE with many menus of warehouse functions, and our biggest problem was the timing between input and responses.TestComplete gives support to do requests to a SOAP web service but has no support to do HTTP requests on Restful services.Product is not stable enough and it crashes often. Read more »

Pricing and Cost Advice

Each license includes 12 months of customer support. A free 90-day trial of the software is also available.The licenses of these tools (the whole CLM package) is very costly as compared to other vendors' tools.

The license price for a physical machine is cheap, and for virtual machine, it is very expensive.Our ROI is about $10,000 a year.TestComplete now have come up with three modules (Web, Desktop & Mobile), so based on the type of product for automation, it is adequate to purchase the required module.Buy modules on demand. If you have a four-person team and they will each automate tests only 25% of the time, it's better to buy a floating licence and share the tool during the work day.The price is less, compared to other products, such as QTP.My advice so far, is that while it’s not quite as powerful and easy to use as UFT, its price tag more than makes up for it.The product is becoming more and more expensive.

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Ranking
RANKING	15th out of 32 In Test Management Tools Views 2,701 Comparisons 1,552 Reviews 4 Followers 425 Avg. Rating 7.3	4th out of 32 In Test Management Tools Views 29,416 Comparisons 13,318 Reviews 15 Followers 1,636 Avg. Rating 7.8
Top Comparisons
Top Comparisons	Quality Center vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Compared 73% of the time. SmartBear TestComplete vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Compared 4% of the time. Visual Studio Test Professional vs. IBM Rational Quality Manager Compared 3% of the time. See more IBM Rational Quality Manager competitors »	UFT (QTP) vs. SmartBear TestComplete Compared 22% of the time. Ranorex vs. SmartBear TestComplete Compared 18% of the time. Selenium HQ vs. SmartBear TestComplete Compared 8% of the time. See more SmartBear TestComplete competitors »

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Also Known As	Rational Quality Manager
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Overview
Overview	IBM Rational Quality Manager is a collaborative hub for business-driven software and systems quality across virtually any platform and type of testing. This software helps teams share information seamlessly, use automation to accelerate project schedules and report on metrics for informed release decisions. Rational Quality Manager helps quality assurance teams collaborate by sharing project information and status updates seamlessly so team members can synchronize teamwork throughout the lifecycle. It helps them automate by reducing labor-intensive activities to accelerate project schedules. In addition, it helps them govern by understanding and reporting on project metrics enabling accurate, reliable and timely release decisions.	TestComplete is a powerful and robust automated testing tool for mobile, web and desktop applications. Quickly and easily create accurate and repeatable tests across multiple devices, platforms and environments – regardless of experience level. It supports multiple languages, modern control sets and integrates with open source frameworks and tools like Selenium, SoapUI and Jenkins.
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Sample Customers
Sample Customers	Ehrhardt, Cisco Systems, Anadolu Hayat Emeklilik, CareCore National, ItaÒ BBA, Barr	Cisco, J.P. Morgan, Boeing, McAfee, EMC, Intuit, and Thomson Reuters.
Top Industries
Top Industries	No Data Available	REVIEWERS Software R&D Company 13% Retailer 13% Comms Service Provider 13% Manufacturing Company 13% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Manufacturing Company 14% Financial Services Firm 13% Retailer 10% Transportation Company 9%
Company Size
Company Size	No Data Available	REVIEWERS Small Business 15% Midsize Enterprise 39% Large Enterprise 46% VISITORS READING REVIEWS Small Business 16% Midsize Enterprise 26% Large Enterprise 58%

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