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."AppScan is stable."
"The product is useful, particularly in its sensitivity and scanning capabilities."
"We use it as a security testing application."
"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 leverage it as a quality check against code."
"The solution is easy to use."
"This is a stable solution."
"It provides a better integration for our ecosystem."
"The interface is easy to use."
"The solution is very useful for compiling existing projects and developing new projects."
"The ability to quickly make your own components has been valuable."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"The most valuable features are the SSIS reports, the deployment models, and the ability to interact with other Microsoft tools."
"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 most valuable feature has been to store all our packages in one place including SSIS packages, SQL tables, TFS and SSR."
"I would love to see more containers. Many of the tools are great, they require an amount of configuration, setup and infrastructure. If most the applications were in a container, I think everything would be a little bit faster, because all our clients are now using containers."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"Many silly false positives are produced."
"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."
"They have to improve support."
"We would like to integrate with some of the other reporting tools that we're planning to use in the future."
"The tool should improve its output. Scanning is not a challenge anymore since there are many such tools available in the market. The product needs to focus on how its output is being used by end users. It should be also more user-friendly. One of the major challenges is in the tool's integration with applications that need to be scanned. Sometimes, the scanning is not proper."
"The solution could improve by having a mobile version."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its stability."
"It would be great to support other languages and applications, and that is one of the things we can improve."
"I would appreciate some enhancements in the interface, maybe adding more color options."
"It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."
"I would like to see more integration in the solution."
"The pricing of this solution should be lowered."
"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud. It is a bit outdated currently."
"Sometimes, the product is too complex to use."
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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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