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We performed a comparison between ReadyAPI and Worksoft Certify 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.
To learn more, read our detailed ReadyAPI vs. Worksoft Certify Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"I haven't seen any other tool that offers both types of tests. This is very helpful for us, and it's one of the main reasons why we chose this service.""A single platform for functional testing, load testing security, and service actualization.""It's easy to learn how to use it.""The feature that allows you to import an API collection or a project is valuable.""The most valuable feature has been the assertion as a test step as this has allowed us to increase the scope of testing and validation.""The two most valuable features we use are the functional test and the security test.""The dashboards are very good and consolidate all of the tests that you are performing with the client.""Reporting is more robust than other products because test reports can be exported in multiple ways."

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"What I like about Worksoft Certify is that end-to-end testing becomes faster.""The Capture 2.0 feature is very intuitive, useful, and user-friendly. You can do so much with it now, versus the older version.""The most valuable feature is the ability to automate quickly and to maintain and update scripts.""For this SAP upgrade or implementation, the business users are creating building blocks in their areas, then they're changing the building blocks into long end-to-end scripts to do a complete end-to-end testing to speed up the UAT. It definitely has a bigger coverage of UAT testing.""The ability to work with the data, with recordsets, and plug those into the scripts is very easy and very powerful. We use it extensively.""We prefer Worksoft over other platforms because it's a low-code solution""Worksoft Certify supports multiple interfaces and applications like SAP, Web, or Silverlight Java, and Mainframe. It is easily integrated.""Automation using Worksoft Certify has saved our testing times by 40% to 50%."

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Cons
"I would like to see a better dashboard for monitoring in the next release of this solution.""The UI is not user-friendly.""Version control does not work well.""Lacking flexibility of adding more custom verification for security testing.""The performance in some cases needs improvement. Sometimes it requires too many resources.""What needs improvement in ReadyAPI is its load testing feature because there was a hiccup when my team performed some load testing on the tool. My team had meetings with the ReadyAPI team and tried to get that issue fixed, but it still hasn't improved. This is a shortcoming of the tool, especially when you compare it with HP LoadRunner.""The initial setup could be less complex.""Can be improved by including an inherent feature for UI automation."

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"The problem with Worksoft Certify is that it's not always stable. It runs on a live platform that's constantly changing, so the test script needs to be adjusted every time, which is very painful.""An area that I would like to see improved is how the permissions are applied. If you're applying permissions groups to a user, one of the options is to delete the group entirely and lose the entire permission group, rather than just deleting the permission from the user, which seems a little silly. In my opinion, that whole module of permissions is very confusing and lends itself to common errors.""The definitions for the objects need to be automated. They need to be recognized automatically by Worksoft Certify instead of changing them back and forth manually. This is also something that Worksoft is currently working on.""Better automation capability would be helpful.""Certify is integrated with Solution Manager, but this integration could be easier.""Web UI testing was difficult in the beginning, as we had a homegrown product, and we had to do the proper object naming.""I would like to see the impact analysis integrated with the performance testing tool. We have multiple tools doing multiple items. I would like to have one common tool.""Worksoft Certify needs improvement on customization of reporting and how you report final outcomes."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This is a cheap solution when you consider the money that will be saved in testing."
  • "The cost of a license is probably around $1,000 to $2,000. Accounting is done by my leadership. I am more into implementations and making sure all things and processes are taken care of and the frameworks are maintained and managed."
  • "There are costs in addition to the licensing fee. For example, if you want to add the load testing you would pay more."
  • "The price of the solution has been fine."
  • "The price was around $6,000 for one license, but I don't remember exactly. It is definitely expensive. Our organization was planning on having multiple licenses for this year."
  • "For each license, they charge the same amount, which is less than $1,000 for each desktop license."
  • "The thing with ReadyAPI is that you have to buy different licenses for different purposes."
  • "We have approximately 12 licenses in place. There are other solutions that are more expensive than ReadyAPI that have more features, but if the scope of the project is limited to SOAP and REST service, then this is the best option."
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  • "The tool is not really good at all because you need to purchase some additional tools."
  • "We would purchase more licenses right now if they were cheaper. Pricing is a little bit of a hindrance."
  • "It is expensive compared to some of the other automation tools in the market. However, the benefits and ROI has proved that it has been a good investment."
  • "The initial upfront cost in terms of licenses, plus all the money that we spent developing tests, has proven it's worth. Now, we can do a regression test suite in ten days as opposed to sixteen weeks."
  • "Our ROI is primarily a reduction in testing time. The testing, when we were doing it manually, was 30 to 40 percent of the project's cost."
  • "We ended up buying too many licenses. They were very good at selling it to us, and probably oversold it a little. We bought 45 licenses and have never used more than twenty. However, they gave us a pretty significant discount on the bigger license, so it made sense for us to buy enough that we wouldn't have to go back and ask for more."
  • "We could use Certify to do robotic process automation, which is basically running a process on your correction system instead of your test system. Therefore, we may do that in the future."
  • "By using automation, it reduced about 75 percent of the time when compared to any other tool."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are its robust functionality and collaboration capabilities.
    Top Answer:The cost of the license is quite high. The licensing cost for ReadyAPI, at least for the current license I have, covers both general and security testing.
    Top Answer:There is room for improvement in ReadyAPI, particularly in the user interface. I prefer working with multiple windows or tabs, like in SoapUI, rather than the current single-window setup. It becomes… more »
    Top Answer:Tosca fulfills our business needs better because it is an end-to-end solution across technologies. We like that it is scriptless, so even non-experienced staff can use it. To put it simply, with… more »
    Top Answer:A specific feature that I found to be the most valuable in the solution for our company's work processes stems from the fact that it is useful as a low-code automation tool.
    Top Answer:Worksoft Certify is priced higher than most tools. I rate Worksoft Certify an eight out of ten for pricing.
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    Overview

    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.”

    Worksoft Certify is the industry's first codeless automated testing system, created for non-technical people to test end-to-end business processes at an enterprise scale.

    It was designed to test complicated processes spanning numerous apps and integrating into contemporary DevOps tool chains. Worksoft Certify manages dynamic input, process flows, and frequent variances in business processes with ease.

    Worksoft Certify automates the testing of your exact business processes across all of your enterprise applications. This solution makes it simple for customers and suppliers to package a process with all of its related dependencies, sub-processes, record sets, record filters, layouts, and variables.

    Worksoft Certify automates tests as effortlessly and quickly as the underlying applications permit, allowing you to evaluate business processes in record time with flawless dependability and consistency. Worksoft Certify speeds up test automation by utilizing a patented Object Action Framework, which effectively models the application under test as a set of pages containing GUI objects and test steps that perform actions on those objects.

    Worksoft Certify Features

    Worksoft Certify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

    • LiveTouch: Without coding, graphically edit and update tests.
    • No "fail" tests: See fail validations flagged when the end-to-end test continues.
    • Process comparison: Visually compare tests side by side and eliminate unnecessary tests to reduce maintenance
    • Magic search: AI-driven process search can find duplicate processes and keep automation libraries clean.
    • Exploratory testing: Real-time automated exploratory tests.
    • API testing: Utilize the virtual services and current SoapUI tests.
    • Test data generator: Obtain data from SAP for testing.
    • Create content: Make use of the more than 300 prebuilt SAP end-to-end testing scenarios.
    • Visual capture: Support agile testing by using automation artifacts from process discovery.
    • Full compatibility: Web, Java, .Net, client/server applications, SAP GUI, FIORI, web portal Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Ariba, SuccessFactors, Hybris, AJAX, and more.

    Worksoft Certify Benefits

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

    • Speed: Automate at least 80% of testing to accelerate innovation.
    • Savings: Reduce overall testing and maintenance expenditures by 60% to 80%.
    • Confidence: Identify defects faster and reduce production defects by 60%.
    • DevOps-ready: Run tests as part of continuous integration, testing, or delivery cycle.
    • Support for RPA: Convert test scripts into robotic process automation.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Jens N., Enterprise Architect SAP Solutions at a computer software company, writes, “As compared to other tools for test automation, what is very good in this tool is the ability to implement logic into the scripts without coding and learning a complex script language. It is comparable to defining formulas in Excel. It is pretty easy to learn how to make your scripts more intelligent and more flexible as per the situation.”

    Aditya C., Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features of Worksoft Certify are the way we can maintain the processes and sub-processes inside. We can immediately identify and replicate multiple objects in the application without having a major issue with it.”

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    Insurance Company25%
    Financial Services Firm25%
    Healthcare Company13%
    Logistics Company6%
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    Financial Services Firm18%
    Computer Software Company17%
    Insurance Company9%
    Government7%
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    Manufacturing Company36%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Pharma/Biotech Company7%
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    Manufacturing Company17%
    Computer Software Company12%
    Retailer8%
    Financial Services Firm7%
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    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise71%
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    Small Business19%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise68%
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    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise84%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise73%
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    ReadyAPI vs. Worksoft Certify
    March 2024
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    ReadyAPI is ranked 8th in Functional Testing Tools with 33 reviews while Worksoft Certify is ranked 6th in Functional Testing Tools with 64 reviews. ReadyAPI is rated 7.6, while Worksoft Certify is rated 8.4. 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 Worksoft Certify writes "Enables us to automate end-to-end testing of our integration between S/4HANA and Salesforce.com". ReadyAPI is most compared with Apache JMeter, Katalon Studio, ReadyAPI Test, Tricentis Tosca and SmartBear TestComplete, whereas Worksoft Certify is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Selenium HQ, OpenText UFT One, Katalon Studio and Panaya Test Dynamix. See our ReadyAPI vs. Worksoft Certify report.

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