We performed a comparison between Parasoft SOAtest and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Functional Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."If you want something that’s not provided out of the box, then you can write it yourself and integrate it with SOAtest."
"Parasoft SOAtest has improved the quality of our automated web services, which can be easily implemented through service chaining and service virtualization."
"Technical support is helpful."
"Generating new messages, based on the existing .EDN and .XML messages, is a crucial part or the testing project that I’m currently in."
"Good write and read files which save execution inputs and outputs and can be stored locally."
"Since the solution has both command line and automation options, it generates good reports."
"They have a feature where they can record traffic and create tests on the report traffic."
"The testing time is shortened because we generate test data automatically with SOAtest."
"The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use."
"Visual Studio Test Pro is super helpful for my Microsoft app work."
"The setup is easy and straightforward."
"Easy to use and easily scalable."
"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."
"The interface is easy to use."
"Visual Studio is highly powerful. It's probably the best software development tool on the market."
"The ability to quickly make your own components has been valuable."
"The summary reports could be improved."
"The feedback that we received from the DevOps of our organization was that the tool was a little heavy from the transformation perspective."
"Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings."
"Reports could be customized and more descriptive according to the user's or company's requirements."
"Compatibility with HTTP 1.1 and TLS 1.2 needs to be improved."
"UI testing should be more in-depth."
"Reporting facilities can be better."
"The performance could be a bit better."
"The tool crashes and has high memory consumption."
"The documents on the Microsoft website are not very useful, and they ought to make it easier to find answers."
"The data flow can be improved."
"The solution's deployment is not very easy and should be made easier."
"Enhancing the support for web application testing and load performance would be an improvement."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
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Parasoft SOAtest is ranked 23rd in Functional Testing Tools with 30 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 46 reviews. Parasoft SOAtest is rated 8.2, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Parasoft SOAtest writes "Reliable with a good interface but uses too much memory". 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 ". Parasoft SOAtest is most compared with Postman, SonarQube, Coverity, Polyspace Code Prover and Klocwork, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT One. See our Parasoft SOAtest vs. Visual Studio Test Professional report.
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