Runscope pros and cons

Vendor: Broadcom

4.4 out of 5

11 reviews
100% willing to recommend

Runscope Pros review quotes

RL

Project Manager, QA Leader and Information Security Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jun 6, 2018

As we have the APIs scheduled, we use the notifications. We know the exact moment it is breaking something that might impact the customer system, that might result in a feature not working. We know "in advance" and we can fix it before the customer notices. It helps us to be more proactive.

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BM

DevOps Engineer at a tech company with 1-10 employees

Jul 25, 2018

This solution has improved our responsiveness to issues in both production and non-production environments. Through integration with Slack, our development and DevOps teams are quickly aware of issues related to new changes deployed to non-production environments, which tightens our feedback loop during testing. Through integration with PagerDuty, our DevOps resources are able to reduce the adverse impact of a given production issue.

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CA

Lead QA Engineer at MX

Aug 19, 2018

We love the fact that we can have our API tests run on a schedule as often as we need. We also take advantage of being able to set up different environment settings so that we can use the same test in our production, integration, and QA environments, easily. The ability to string together a number of API tests for a test suite is very important to us as well.

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NR

Director of Engineering at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Aug 22, 2018

It uses JavaScript which is easy.

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BR

Director, QA

Jul 25, 2018

It is a cloud-based environment for building and executing tests, which allows me to focus on building, running, and reviewing test results.

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Quality Assurance Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 6, 2018

It is a relatively reliable tool for running big amounts of API tests, which you can schedule to run periodically, as the product is very good.

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LL

Quality Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Jul 25, 2018

Valuable features include: Being able to add tests as sub-tests in a parent test for regression testing; notifications for tests that pass/fail; being able to customize expected results with assertions; being able to set tests to run daily.

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SB

Director of Engineering at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jul 25, 2018

It helps us verify that production deployments do not break the features our customers use.

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KF

QA Manager at a retailer

Jun 13, 2018

Environment initial variables allow our team to run tests against multiple environments on the fly.

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NM

Test Engineer

May 28, 2018

The feature of automatically executing tests at a predefined time interval is great as we can be continuously testing our end-points before and after builds are deployed.

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Runscope Cons review quotes

RL

Project Manager, QA Leader and Information Security Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jun 6, 2018

One thing that can be improved is the logging. Sometimes, when we have an error, we don't know how to find more information about the problem that has happened. Sometimes, it just returns something like "that gateway." More information would be a way to improve it.

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BM

DevOps Engineer at a tech company with 1-10 employees

Jul 25, 2018

We would like the ability to configure Runscope behavior when a given test has its schedule modified. That is, in a non-production environment, we often need to pause a test (either by removing it from the schedule or adjusting its frequency) and this results in the automatic kick-off of this test in all other environments. We would like the ability to simply pause a test for a specific shared environment without causing additional tests to be started.

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CA

Lead QA Engineer at MX

Aug 19, 2018

Navigation can be a little tricky when changing run environments and switching between test run results and editing the tests. It would be nice if you could switch the environment for all tests in a Bucket to run, rather than having to change each test environment.

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NR

Director of Engineering at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

Aug 22, 2018

I've noticed, once or twice, when there were some updates pushed by Runscope, at times it didn't refresh the pages. I was running it, there were multiple tests running at the same time, and it didn't update the webpage I was looking at. So I had to refresh it manually. Occasionally, it still happens.

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BR

Director, QA

Jul 25, 2018

File upload is a big part of the products that we test. The lack of file upload in Runscope requires us to still use UI (Selenium) automated tests for these scenarios.

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Quality Assurance Engineer at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jun 6, 2018

There are not many options for scalability.

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LL

Quality Analyst at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Jul 25, 2018

We would like to be able to select the actual time a test will run automatically. It appears that you can set up the automatic schedule, but the test runs based on the last time it ran and not a time you select. Since we want these tests to run in the middle of the night, it would be nice to be able to select that.

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SB

Director of Engineering at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Jul 25, 2018

The initial setup included a lot of repetitive manual work.

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KF

QA Manager at a retailer

Jun 13, 2018

If you forget to set the default environment during test creation, you have to go through every test and make sure that it is set to the environment that you prefer if using shared environments. If there was an option to force all tests within a bucket into a specific environment with one click, this would save a lot of time.

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NM

Test Engineer

May 28, 2018

Reliability. I would like to see more money invested in disaster recovery testing of the application. The product should be hosted across several AWS regions so if there are issues with an EC2 instance in a particular region, the whole application won't be affected. Once or twice a year there are issues with AWS that causes the reliability of the application to suffer.

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