Compare SmartBear TestComplete vs. Visual Studio Test Professional
SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 5th in Functional Testing Tools with 9 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional which is ranked 22nd in Functional Testing Tools with 1 review. SmartBear TestComplete is rated 8.2, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SmartBear TestComplete writes "The automated test farm of 20 virtual machines for execution, 20 TestComplete licenses and 20 automated testers are doing the job of 100 manual testers". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Good integration between the management data and the test cases". SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Ranorex Studio, UFT (QTP) and Katalon Studio, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with LoadRunner, Katalon Studio and Apache JMeter.
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The database checkpoints detect problems which are difficult for a human resource to find. Customer service and technical support responsiveness are high. Everyone is very professional. Test items, project variables helps in managing automation suite and scheduling execution. Selenium integration. It's cross platform automation capabilities specially ranging across web, UNIX (via putty), and other systems. The ability to run a whole suite of tests automatically (which we did overnight). TestComplete fits almost perfectly with a large amount of stacks, such as Delphi, C#, Java and web applications. | 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. |
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Name Mapping feature should be clearer. Whenever I use it, I do not really know what will work and what will not work. Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover. Increased performance with less memory and CPU usage. Error handling features in the tool are a little limited. The code editor, though following eclipse-style, is still a work in progress and gives a very poorly formatted code once viewed via other editing tools. We were testing handheld barcode scanners running WindowsCE with many menus of warehouse functions, and our biggest problem was the timing between input and responses. TestComplete gives support to do requests to a SOAP web service but has no support to do HTTP requests on Restful services. | The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user. |
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The license price for a physical machine is cheap, and for virtual machine, it is very expensive. Our ROI is about $10,000 a year. TestComplete now have come up with three modules (Web, Desktop & Mobile), so based on the type of product for automation, it is adequate to purchase the required module. Buy modules on demand. If you have a four-person team and they will each automate tests only 25% of the time, it's better to buy a floating licence and share the tool during the work day. | For the cloud services option, you buy a subscription per account or per user. This costs around $52 a month per person. |
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Overview | |
TestComplete is a powerful and robust automated testing tool for mobile, web and desktop applications. Quickly and easily create accurate and repeatable tests across multiple devices, platforms and environments – regardless of experience level. It supports multiple languages, modern control sets and integrates with open source frameworks and tools like Selenium, SoapUI and Jenkins. | Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7. |
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Sample Customers | |
| Cisco, J.P. Morgan, Boeing, McAfee, EMC, Intuit, and Thomson Reuters. | Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa |
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Manufacturing Company13% Software R&D Company13% Retailer13% Comms Service Provider13% Financial Services Firm18% Manufacturing Company18% Retailer6% Software R&D Company5% | No Data Available |
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Small Business12% Midsize Enterprise39% Large Enterprise49% Small Business11% Midsize Enterprise28% Large Enterprise61% | No Data Available |
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