Akamai CloudTest vs. Visual Studio Test Professional

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
CloudTest
Score 6.7 out of 10
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Akamai now owns and supports CloudTest, a load and performance testing solution, developed by SOASTA and acquired with the company in 2017.N/A
Visual Studio Test Professional
Score 6.6 out of 10
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Microsoft's Visual Studio Test Professional is a performance testing solution.N/A
Pricing
Akamai CloudTestVisual Studio Test Professional
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudTestVisual Studio Test Professional
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Akamai CloudTestVisual Studio Test Professional
Top Pros
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Features
Akamai CloudTestVisual Studio Test Professional
Load Testing
Comparison of Load Testing features of Product A and Product B
Akamai CloudTest
7.2
1 Ratings
16% below category average
Visual Studio Test Professional
-
Ratings
End to end performance management6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrated performance data8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Real time monitoring6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated anomaly detection7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Akamai CloudTestVisual Studio Test Professional
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.3
(14 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(10 ratings)
User Testimonials
Akamai CloudTestVisual Studio Test Professional
Likelihood to Recommend
Akamai
We were designing an Airlines reservation system, where we wanted to check the maximum number if reservation our system can handle, this tool helped us to get the test results but the issue was from set up point of view, the initial set up took too much time. But we were able to achieve our Reservation system process.
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Microsoft
Visual Studio Test Professional is best for .NET and C# based development, which is what 90% of our developers and projects do. It is an integral part of the CI/CD pipeline for our custom made Enterprise resource planning tool. It also works very well with Azure providing seamless integration to way more functionality.
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Pros
Akamai
  • Integration Call's like REST
  • Integration Call's like SOAP
  • Performance Testing
  • Load Testing on Load Balancer
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Microsoft
  • Visual Studio Test Professional when paired with Azure DevOps is the best solution for Test Case Management when compared to other Testing tools we've used in the past.
  • Test Results and Artifacts are always available with full traceablility for audits.
  • Testing and Release Management are tied together as one continuous pipeline.
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Cons
Akamai
  • Report generation is difficult
  • Some graphs are not displaying accurate results
  • More information are missing with respect to load testing
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Microsoft
  • The user community of the Visual Studio Test product is weak. For instant problems with this product, it is necessary to quickly reach the source of the error.
  • Licence fees need to be more reasonable. License prices need to be reduced so that they can easily compete with free testing tools.
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Usability
Akamai
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Microsoft
Visual Studio Test Professional's overall usability is extremely high quality. It is extremely functional and like all Microsoft products has a user interface that is well designed and is extremely user friendly. Any functionality which I looked for, I was able to either understand immediately or find a user guide online.
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Support Rating
Akamai
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Microsoft
My team has always been able to troubleshoot with the help of customer support (and even schedule a virtual meeting!) in a timely manner. The support is provided immediately and with the necessary knowledge to answer/solve any questions/problems I or my team experience.
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Alternatives Considered
Akamai
The bundle of features that other tools provide is much higher when compared to the one provided by Akamai CloudTest, this is something they need to focus on Priority. Most tools comes with default setup and ends to end testing scenario that can be covered, such as Regression testing. From Akamai CloudTest this is a missing features that can be added up soon.
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Microsoft
The visual Studio Test tool is faster than other tools. Since the development and testing processes are in one tool, it is more profitable in terms of cost. It is more inconvenient to write a test case in DevOps.
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Return on Investment
Akamai
  • System Hangs as where severe load testing is required
  • Authentication is an issue when using OAUTH
  • Scalability can be improved and also an on premise tool can be of great help
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Microsoft
  • One of the positive ROIs of Visual Studios is the fact that it makes producing our work at a quick rate, things like Intellisense make our work get produced at a much higher rate which is good for our return of investment.
  • Testing by the developers has increased by 23%, we now take the time to actually test our product before we send it to our QA people.
  • I am not aware of any negative ROI aspects to our company that have been found.
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