BlazeMeter vs. Spirent TestCenter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
BlazeMeter
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The BlazeMeter Continuous Testing Platform is a unified, end-to-end, next-generation software test automation platform built for both Agile and COE teams, from Perforce. BlazeMeter includes complete continuous testing capabilities deeply integrated into a single, intuitive workflow.
$199
per month
Spirent TestCenter
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The vendor describes Spirent TestCenter is an end-to-end testing solution that delivers performance with deterministic answers. They state service providers, NEMs and enterprises use it to test, measure and validate their networks and deploy services with confidence—from traditional performance testing to the rigorous analysis of Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Mobile Backhaul, and High Speed Ethernet.N/A
Pricing
BlazeMeterSpirent TestCenter
Editions & Modules
Basic
$149.00
per month
Pro
$649.00
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BlazeMeterSpirent TestCenter
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
BlazeMeterSpirent TestCenter
Automation Testing
Comparison of Automation Testing features of Product A and Product B
BlazeMeter
9.0
1 Ratings
6% above category average
Spirent TestCenter
-
Ratings
CI/CD Tool Integration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated Version Control9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Data-Driven Testing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing Collaboration9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Testing Reports & Analytics9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
BlazeMeterSpirent TestCenter
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(5 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
BlazeMeterSpirent TestCenter
Likelihood to Recommend
Perforce Software
It is well suited for applications that are mission-critical or applications that can receive high traffic/transactions at unscheduled time periods. Using the load testing feature of BlazeMeter, we can test and ascertain the capacity of the application without the drawbacks of the usual Apache JMeter load testing which depends heavily on the host system from where the load testing is performed.
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Spirent Communications
Spirent solution is well suited to qualify a Lan infrastructure bandwidth capacity or a device itself capacity such as a router or a firewall for example. But this solution in our case is also well suited to test a complex and numbered mpls environment. I would not recommend it to a small business as the solution is very expensive: châssis and card cost are expensive and the solution requires to be an advanced user in system, not only on network devices
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Pros
Perforce Software
  • BlazeMeter takes the .jmx script that teams had written for JMeter. The transition from JMeter to BlazeMeter was seamless.
  • BlazeMeter offers its own cloud and hence we did not have to set it up on-premise.
  • BlazeMeter hits our application from various geographic locations that simulates real life users.
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Spirent Communications
  • Bandwidth test
  • QoS and traffic type generation
  • Software platform availability
  • Technical Support
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Cons
Perforce Software
  • Blazemeter reporting is very basic and shallow. There is no way to drill down or correlate. I can get better reports by using JMeter for free.
  • Blazemeter is very costly. Testing with volumes of more than 1K cu is expensive, and can be done for much cheaper if a company/team is willing to invest a bit of time to figure out how to use cloud instances and jmeter slaves, and to write a basic script to collect resulting xml output.
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Spirent Communications
  • QA
  • Various bugs to fix on software installation
  • Technical documentation
  • No Spirent classes available
  • Lack to fix major issues such as ntp for latency calculation
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Likelihood to Renew
Perforce Software
No answers on this topic
Spirent Communications
7 because they lack to improve some major bugs we have exchanged about with them
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Usability
Perforce Software
Easy to setup to do API Performance Testing. Dashboard to showcase results Capability to showcase runtime results
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Spirent Communications
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Perforce Software
In comparison with Blazemeter the closes competitor is JMeter but it has disadvantages like it is not a tool that can be use as a collaborative tool and works locally in a computer, Blazemeter is in the web so different people can access and run tests or collaborate do add, edit or delete the existent scripts.
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Spirent Communications
I wasn't able to specifically test other big products but I did use other free products in the past such as iperf, but free softwares don't allow the same level of support ans ease to use than Spirent
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Return on Investment
Perforce Software
  • It helped positively by helping to identify the maximum capacity needed for high traffic periods
  • Saved revenue by eliminating unwanted duplication of systems
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Spirent Communications
  • Allows to qualify a link or a project to validate end of this one
  • Allowed to detect various configuration issues that were fixed right after
  • Allow to use virtual machines for easy remote deploykents
  • Neharive: upgrade can depreciate products and newer products have sometimes better bandwidth capacity but less features
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