TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Composer vs. OpenText Application Quality Management

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Composer

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AComposer is a free and open source dependency manager for PHP. It allows the user to declare the libraries a project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them. it manages packages on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside a project and by default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager.N/A

    OpenText Application Quality Management

    Score4 out of 10
    N/AReplacing the former AccuRev, OpenText™ Application Quality Management is a solution to govern application lifecycle management activities and implement rigorous, auditable lifecycle processes, offering a single pane of glass for software quality management.N/A
    Pricing
    ComposerOpenText Application Quality Management
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ComposerOpenText Application Quality Management
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details——
    More Pricing Information
    Best Alternatives
    ComposerOpenText Application Quality Management
    Small Businesses
    Docker
    Score8.9 out of 10
    Polarion ALM
    Score10 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Docker
    Score8.9 out of 10
    PTC Windchill RV&S
    Score2 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Docker
    Score8.9 out of 10
    IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management
    Score5 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    ComposerOpenText Application Quality Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (4 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.1
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ComposerOpenText Application Quality Management
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    I do highly recommend it whenever you have some PHP projects, especially if you need to have reusable modules that you want to share across teams. With a good branching an tagging strategy, you can go a long way in making your developers' life easier. They will only need to work on the modules that are of interest of them, and not have to touch the whole codebase.
    Also, it's quite necessary if you are planning to use community PHP modules, as the vast majority of them is distributed, and versionned via packagist.org, and thus via composer.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    Very slow and not intuitive; it would be my last choice for version control systems.The UI is a little confusing at times and seems a little outdated. It needs a lot of improvement. It is suited for small projects and fewer number of projects. But if there are huge projects and many projects to be maintained in a portfolio, its a little hard to manage.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    Open Source
    • Controlling dependencies
    • Fast dependency resolver
    • Easy to use dependency injection
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    • One place for most recent code with history, avoid any conflict/confusion among other team/members.
    • Stream/Workflow approach to control approval process betwen all the teams, which I couldn't find in other version control tools I worked.
    • Bundle our code in a small group (called, Issues in Accurev) to differentiate between different projects.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Open Source
    • Sometimes a bit slow, but v2 made a lot of improvements on that
    • If everything is modular, setting up a local dev environment is a bit trickier than having everything in the same repo
    • Might be hard to adopt with some frameworks which have not fully embraced it, like Wordpress
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    • Ability to zoom in/out for stream-view. We currently have many streams/substreams and unable to view the entire workflow. Zooming in/out would benefit.
    • Being a designer, I use Adobe Flash and SWF files. When updating the SWF files, Accurev does not see these files as being changed and you will be unable to promote. In order to push changes, you must totally rename the SWF file.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    OpenText
    We will renew because it is part of our build process.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    If you're familiar with npm or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some scripts that you would want to execute, like for testing, building your code ...
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    In my view, accurev ranks very low compared to other tools I have used. Microsoft TFS is the best in the industry as of today as it's a complete ALM solution. It does code version, bug tracking, user story documentation, and has easy integration with other external tools supporting many languages. So I would definitely recommend TFS to anyone.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Composer only has had positive impacts in our business. It saves a lot of time and resource in order to develop a software.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    OpenText
    • Better team coordination.
    • Avoid confusion by having one place for all documentation and code.
    • Better project management by having different work streams.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots