We performed a comparison between ReadyAPI and SmartBear TestLeft based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Tricentis, OpenText, Perforce and others in Functional Testing Tools."One of the features of ReadyAPI that's worth mentioning is that it allows you to parameterize. I'm working with more than two hundred resources, so I don't have to go and make a small change at each point every time. I have the option to just parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere. Another valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it provides a customized environment. In my company, you work in different environments, such as QA, UAT, and LT, so the URLs for every environment are different. In ReadyAPI, you can customize your environment, set it up, then start working on it. Another feature worth mentioning that's offered in ReadyAPI is automating your test value as the tool allows Groovy scripting. In your test case, you can use a Groovy script that says that in a particular test case, you have ten resources, but you just want to exhibit five and that you don't want to exhibit the remaining five. You can write a small Groovy script that lets you execute just five resources out of the ten resources. I also like that ReadyAPI allows you to read the data from CFC and Excel. It also allows you to create or customize your data, but that only works at a certain point because every application has its specific data. ReadyAPI cannot generate every data, but when I'm posting and I want to generate a random name, such as a first name, I can do it in ReadyAPI. The tool also has many different features which I find valuable, including Git integration."
"The interface is ok and they have the ability to re-load tests so that you can reuse them."
"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are the ready-to-use assertions and filters which can perform the validation. If we want to filter out any value, the filters are available. Apart from that database integration, if you want to go ahead and perform validation in the database layer it is possible with the ready-to-use feature available. The execution and reporting are rich features."
"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are its robust functionality and collaboration capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is being able to run each version for test suites."
"The Excel sheet feature is good."
"The most valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it is user-friendly."
"It's great for those that don't have as much exposure to programming."
"The most valuable features are test executor and development."
"The solution is made up of multiple tools, and the one additional feature we'd like to have is load testing."
"They have performance testing also. However, it's not that great."
"The reporting in ReadyAPI could be better. It can become sloppy, sometimes it works and other times it does not."
"Better compatibility or more support for the older versions would be helpful."
"In terms of features, I have already raised different change requests on the ReadyAPI side. One of the largest functions I've requested is the validation of the payload for the REST APIs."
"Many users will consider this solution expensive compared to the layout. It is more expensive than other solutions."
"ReadyAPI could improve by having dynamic validation information."
"ReadyAPI's customer support isn't that great, particularly their response time."
"TestLeft captures a lot of space in terms of memory, which is one issue that can be improved."
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ReadyAPI is ranked 8th in Functional Testing Tools with 33 reviews while SmartBear TestLeft is ranked 32nd in Functional Testing Tools. ReadyAPI is rated 7.6, while SmartBear TestLeft is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of ReadyAPI writes "Allows you to parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere and lets you customize the environment, but its load testing feature needs improvement, and costs need to be cheaper". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SmartBear TestLeft writes "Simple to set up and the test execute feature is helpful, but the cost could be reduced". ReadyAPI is most compared with Apache JMeter, Katalon Studio, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas SmartBear TestLeft is most compared with SmartBear TestComplete and Tricentis Tosca.
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