Automation Anywhere vs ReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, & ServiceV Pro)

• Exception handling is pretty decent. WE don't have to worry about process being stuck as it moves to the next iteration on its own.
• Automation is easier to achieve as it doesn't require high coding skills or designing a specific framework.
• It can achieve PDF editing and automation, which in our case of policy documents has been valuable.

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• Ease of use and setup, particularly with SOAP services where you have the WSDL. Import and go. If your WSDL changes you can update the definition or refactor it, which is a life saver.
• Decent GUI - I feel the GUI is well thought out in most areas.
• Scripting and Plugins - Allows setting of a script repository (Pro). In general, you can script in Groovy or JavaScript throughout a project. We use Groovy and haven't run into anything we haven't been able to find a solution to through scripting. For plugins, we've written some custom ones in Java to add menu items. To use them you just have to drop the jar file in a specific directory.
• Community - The community via blogs and forums is great. If you run into issues you can normally find someone else who had a similar problem. The response on the forums from SmartBear is also good. They also recently added an 'API Dojo' which is very informational.

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• Automation Anywhere doesn't come with easy installation, We need to install Java, IDEs and Databases in an orderly fashion which we are not able to do.
• Automation Anywhere has no workflow design which is not making us to understand the process.
• Automation Anywhere has no fit to size object cloning.

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• Recently the tool has become heavy since it has integrated virtualization features. Unless provided enough heap space, the tool sometimes can crash during the execution.
• History of test execution is forgotten as new payload is executed in the same step. Will be useful to keep the history for reuse purposes.

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• Our overall business has saved numerous hours of work where individuals were freed up to perform higher level thinking tasks.
• Following a necessary reduction in workforce that was not driven by RPA, we were able to automate processes that kept the remaining workload from overwhelming the remaining workforce.
• The use of robotics process automation has inspired many workers to come up with different approaches to problems including both automation and analytics.

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• Positive impact: It has made our webservice automation faster and more reliable than manual webservice testing. ROI has definitely increased in recent months.
• Negative Impact: You need trained resources in order to implement the complete solution. Sometimes it's difficult to find trained sources.

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