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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    JMeter

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AJMeter, from Apache, is a load and performance testing tool.

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    ReadyAPI

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/AReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in their CI/CD pipelines without needing to code.N/A
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    Community Pulse
    JMeterReadyAPI
    Considered Both Products
    Apache
    Chose JMeter
    It's very easy GUI helps the tester to perform various testing scenarios. Easy to configure test cases and modules which has proper and well-maintained documentation. Its an excellent tool for performance testing and running a variety of load tests, stress tests, and longevity …
    Incentivized
    Chose JMeter
    The recorder provided by JMeter is ok and if your team has no idea about programming you can use it to test your web apps without writing any code.
    Incentivized
    Chose JMeter
    SOAP UI and LoadRunner
    Incentivized
    Chose JMeter
    Both tools are great, but JMeter allows for better performance/load testing, scalability, and is free.
    SmartBear
    Chose ReadyAPI
    ReadyAPI stands out among all these tools except for the fact that it is a paid tool.
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    Each product has a different specialty. With ReadyAPI, it combines multiple specialties into one product and also allows a combination of other products within the Smartbear suite. With other products integration of multiple test, products are far more difficult and require …
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    ReadyAPI manages DataSources, Endpoints, and Environments much better than Postman. Postman is a little simpler implementation but has a Team Workspace that is powerful for Development handoffs and manual testing.
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    The main competitor for ReadyAPI was Postman. It is much more lightweight, but that means you also get fewer features.
    ReadyAPI also provides an ecosystem in which you can have an entire lifecycle for your API, if that is what you want - and are willing to put in the work to …
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    It has many features including functional security testing. And it's known to be widely used.
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    Great premium features. Community support. Support for groovy script for extending the existing SoapUI functionality. Load testing support.
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    SoapUI is more complete in every way, it facilitates the user's work and allows managing all the SOAP and REST requests that are needed in a more organized way.
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    SOAP UI provides a much better way to create load tests with a friendly UI, in comparison other frameworks which we found hard to learn and maintain the scripts
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    I didn't select soapui. The company selected because the original team was most familiar with it. I prefer a tool, like REST assured, where I define the scope and depth of my automation. But it's got a value that can only be measure by your skill set, company culture, software …
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    None of the alternatives are comparable with SoapUI. Perhaps JMeter is the only one that has most similarity.
    The only advantage of these alternative is the price (all are free); But SoapUI also offers free versions as well that still can compete with all above products.
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    HP Products, Silk, IBM Rational suite of testing tools.

    They just seemed to be overkill or mostly under the needed features. Some have made way to complex, where SoapUI manage to continue to improve the tool, but maintain the ease of use.
    Chose ReadyAPI
    We primarily explored the possiblities of using JMeter or JUnit for web services testing. However JMeter comes nowhere close to soap UI in terms of simplicity and intuitiveness of the tool.
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    Features
    JMeterReadyAPI
    Load Testing
    Comparison of Load Testing features of Apache JMeter and ReadyAPI
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    Apache JMeter
    7.2
    24 Ratings
    17% below category average
    ReadyAPI
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    Ratings
    End to end performance management9.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated performance data8.522 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility7.521 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real time monitoring6.521 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated anomaly detection4.417 Ratings00 Ratings
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    OpenText UFT One
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    LoadRunner Professional
    Score8.5 out of 10
    SoapUI Open Source
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    JMeterReadyAPI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.5
    (39 ratings)
    7.0
    (65 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.6
    (12 ratings)
    7.3
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Online Training
    1.0
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    7.0
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    Product Scalability
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    User Testimonials
    JMeterReadyAPI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apache
    JMeter is well suited for Java applications where the user can script the scenario once and make changes to accommodate for as many numbers of users for load test execution. The image and selection of any files or exporting files scenario is handled well.
    It is less appropriate to test Ajax applications where it is required to script click per use.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    As stated, we do a LOT of API testing, the swaggerhub import makes it easy to add APIs. This is very well-suited, as well as easy management of the steps/cases/suites inside of ReadyAPI. The one thing I do wish ReadyAPI was better suited for is changes to data, we have a lot of test cases in ReadyAPI and if we make a change to how the backend data is structured, one-by-one adjustments need to be made to the steps. Less appropriate, UI testing.
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    Pros
    Apache
    • Easy of use - in generate load like HTTP requests, and processing/analyzing the responses. No coding is necessary at the basic level, just need to understand load testing and the infrastructure being tested.
    • Automatic management of things like cookies to help with session state support - so you don't specifically have to worry about it or handle it
    • Lots of testing/configuration options to suit your needs in making the right load generation (sampling requests), and analyzing the results, including any pre and post processing of the results first. Things like the Beanshell/BSF pre/post processors, response assertion, regular expression extractor, XPath extractor, CSV data set config
    • There is a JMeter cloud service called BlazeMeter that I think would be useful for those that need to scale up high load without provisioning their own systems. I've not personally tried it though, but I recently attended a meetup presentation that highlighted nice useful features that BlazeMeter provides. One should evaluate the service if they are considering JMeter and need to expand beyond existing hardware resources.
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    SmartBear
    • Ease of use (ability to automatically import API definitions, Jenkins integration for running in the pipeline).
    • Detailed test reports (allow to easily identify weak spots during both functional and performance testing).
    • One platform for all tests (allows to closely couple and reuse existent tests).
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    Cons
    Apache
    • Jmeter requires many tweaks with respect to its configuration file and thread properties. users need to edit theses files themselves. There could be some interface where we can edit this fields.
    • Jmeter cannot handle more threads and hangs up when we increase the number of threads. This causes lot of inconvenience. In these situations, user can be notified that such change would be lead to slow performance so that user can do as required. The same appears when we try to view huge files on graph listener.
    • Jmeter should optimize the read and write access to output csv since it acts as overhead to the I/O performance. This affects our test results for the application which we are testing.
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    SmartBear
    • Needs good documentation
    • Need to improve the performance of the tool
    • Setup is very complex and for such [a] commercial tool, it should easy and straightforward
    • Tool says it supports security testing but in reality, it is not at an extensive level.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Apache
    Price, Wiki and user sharing. Having access to the information provided by the developers and other open source providers is key for me. The ability to share information and get answers directly is very important to success in software testing. And the price of this product currently is amazing. Too many companies charge way too much money for products that are far behind in their value and pertinence
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    SmartBear
    The only reason this isn't a '10' is because of the cost. This product is definitely meant for organizations who are serious about making sure they invest in the full ecosystem of API design, development, maintenance. But there is a significant cost associated with this investment. and because of this cost (and the non-tangible output for executives), it is a difficult line-item to justify in this post-pandemic environment.
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    Usability
    Apache
    The purpose related to performance and load testing through Apache JMeter works fine but the usability of the tool should be improved quite a lot. If someone starts with the Jmeter fresh without prior experience, they need to put more efforts in understanding the tool. The UI is not that great which is the main reason not to give high rating on usability.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    SoapUI allows us to combine multiple tests and adhere
    to the sequence that they need to run in order to complete successfully.
    It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
    good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing
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    Reliability and Availability
    Apache
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    Soap UI has managed to continuously build on it's solid foundation and keep improving by each release. It is by far the most dependable and accurate testing tool out there of its kind. Available via connecting to VM's created as SoapUI test machines give access to it anytime, anywhere practically.
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    Performance
    Apache
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
    good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing.
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    Support Rating
    Apache
    I have been using JMeter for the last year. By using this tool, you can make sure the system will work under varied loads. It helps us to simulate real time scenarios by creating required virtual users and make sure the application will work under load. Perform load, stress, and stability testing using JMeter.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    To be honest, we didnt had much issues with the support, as there is already plenty of online communities available for help. But if ever there were some minor issues with the membership or the certificates, the tech support was always quick and efficient enough to resolve the issue ASAP
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    Implementation Rating
    Apache
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    no very easy but lacks documentation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apache
    I have used LoadRunner and Silkperformer, and so far Jmeter turns out be the easiest to use of all these. While each of them have their own ROI, Jmeter can be picked by anyone in hours and start testing within a day. While with other tools, we need to get license, install them (takes a while) and setup tests and firewalls, etc.
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    SmartBear
    ReadyAPI provides intuitive GUI capabilities compared to their own open source product. When compared to Postman, ReadyAPI also supports SOAP based services, which is a saver especially when integrating with legacy or other third party systems.
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    Scalability
    Apache
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
    good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing. However, I have read that added monitoring tools have been added, which if so the 7 could possibly go to a 8 or 9.
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    Return on Investment
    Apache
    • Good ROI on improving the performance of the application.
    • Finding issues in the performance.
    • Benchmark the performance results.
    • CON: Need skillset to create and maintain the scripts in Java.
    • Scripts are reusable and it is executed by any user.
    • Need Client and Server setup to execute the scripts.
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    SmartBear
    • Very quick regression testing, hence having the testing results very soon, even the same day of deployment
    • for same above reason, it can save money for corporation (so no tedious, costly and erroneous manual testings)
    • The test reports are compatible with TestNG, so the corporation can integrate the reports in our Autamation frameworks such as Allure or Jira Zephyr
    Incentivized
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