ReadyAPI vs Tricentis NeoLoad comparison

ReadyAPI is an all-in-one automated testing platform that allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface.

ReadyAPI Features

Some of ReadyAPI’s key features include:

• Continuous integration
• Comprehensive dashboard
• API discovery
• Central, standardized reporting function
• Plugin architecture
• ReadyAPI Projects
• Multiple options for scripting to create functional, load, or security tests

ReadyAPI Benefits

Some of the benefits of using ReadyAPI include:

• Easy and flexible test creation and execution: ReadyAPI has visual editors and wizards that make testing easy, saving time and simplifying onboarding.
  
  
• Test APIs continuously: With ReadyAPI you can run consistent tests on local environments, Docker containers, or other distributed staging environments.
  
  
• Team friendly: ReadyAPI enables software teams with the ability to easily share testing projects and artifacts, share licenses between team members, and report issues directly from the testing IDE.
  
  
• Powerful, data-driven testing capabilities: With ReadyAPI, you can save time by checking for numerous real world conditions.
  
  
• Supports multiple specifications, schemas, and protocols: ReadyAPI includes legacy SOAP services, microservices powered by Apache Kafka, and mainstream REST services, as well as IoT use cases leveraging MQTT. It allows you to test and virtualize the most popular API protocols and also to import APIs from specifications and schemas instantly.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Dell EMC Unity users.

PeerSpot user Vallalarasu P., Test Architect at a tech services company, states, “ReadyAPI is one of the best tools for API testing because they have made a single platform for functional testing, load testing security, and also service actualization. We also have virtual work that can be an add-in within ReadyAPI. For integration for CACD, they have something called TestEngine, which can also be an add-on for ReadyAPI. We use Python request library and things like that but if you're a bigger organization with hundreds of APIs, then ReadyAPI is a one-stop solution for complete API testing. If you consider TestComplete and other products for an equivalent outcome, you might get something nearly comparable, butReadyAPI is the outstanding product.”

An IT Manager at an insurance company says the solution has “Fast automation, less coding, and is pretty lightweight. When you are working in sprints, you need to have continuous feedback. ReadyAPI definitely helps in automating very fast and rapidly. We have less coding, and we can more easily define our assertions. We don't use it for full-blown performance testing, but normally if you are doing your functional testing, it gives you the request and response time. Anybody who is doing functional testing can see what the request and response times are and raise a flag based upon their business affiliates, that is, whether it is meeting their affiliates. You can identify this during functional testing."

Balamurugan A., Manager at a financial services firm, comments, “We like the user interface. The most valuable features are the integration with Jira and the test management tools.

They have interfaces with our performance tools, so we were able to leverage all of these integrations and plugins. It is very good from an integrative solution standpoint.”

Tricentis NeoLoad is a performance testing tool that provides developers and testers with automatic test design, test maintenance, realistic simulation of user behavior, fast root cause analysis, and built-in integrations with the entire SDLC toolchain. With NeoLoad’s plugins, teams can reuse and share test assets and results from functional testing tools, analytics, metrics, and APM tools in order to catch performance issues early. With NeoLoad’s full tech stack support, users can test the range of mobile, web, and desktop apps.

Tricentis NeoLoad Features

Tricentis NeoLoad has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

• Supports API technologies 
  
  
  • Support for SOAP/REST.
  • Assisted design with Swagger/Open API import and highly efficient extractors for quick test design and fewer errors in scripting.
  • Ability to test as code or GUI-based productivity.
    
    
• Automated testing of API performance
  
  
  • CI/CD automated API testing, dynamic load generation infrastructure, and auto pass/fail based on SLAs.
  • Real-time test results for fast dev feedback loop if bottleneck is found.
  • Non-regression API performance trends.

• API-based applications 
  
  
  • Ability to test stand-alone APIs or APIs within end-to-end tests. Same platform, same skills.
  • Dev, PO, QA, Ops share a common view of API performance.
  • Confidence in API and application speed and reliability.
    
    
• Design tests faster and update automatically
  
  
  • Assisted design using wizards and automatic parameter handling.
  • Reuse functional scripts and/or convert LoadRunner scripts to NeoLoad performance tests.
  • Update system-level scripts quicker with automatic user path updates.
  • Easy to reuse and maintain.
    
    
• Realistic user simulation
  
  
  • Simulate any business case.
  • Scale load tests with up to millions of virtual users.
    
    
• Bottleneck identification
  
  
  • Real-time test analysis.
  • Pass/fail based on SLA.
  • Root cause analysis.

Tricentis NeoLoad Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Tricentis NeoLoad. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

• Automate API testing within CI pipelines: Design, maintain, and run performance tests. Analyze results within continuous integration pipelines.

• Accelerate end-to-end app testing: Create test scripts fast for complex applications using a graphical user interface without the complexity of scripting new and updated tests.

• Find performance bottlenecks fast: Compare SLAs to server-level statistics to measure how an application is performing. See overall analysis of behavior or an analysis of the data flow to a particular user path.

• Manage across the enterprise: Collaborate across QA, operations, dev, and business teams to define SLAs and review results. Share test results and manage test infrastructure. Schedule and share resources across teams and apps.

Reviews from Real Users

Tricentis NeoLoad stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its price, its user-friendly UX, its API support, and its scalability. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Patrik B., Technical Lead at a tech services company, writes, “The licensing cost is very less for NeoLoad. It is user-friendly and easy to understand because they have created so many useful functionalities. When I started working with this tool, we just had to do the initial assessment about whether this tool will be able to support our daily work or not. I could easily understand it.”

A Global Delivery Head at a consultancy firm notes, “The API support is much better with this solution, compared with the competition. Pricing for it is also more affordable than its competitor. We have used Tricentis NeoLoad and we find it scalable.”