IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery vs. CucumberStudio, from SmartBear

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
Score 8.4 out of 10
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IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, available on IBM Cloud, allows users to provision an integrated toolchain using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties and open source. Automate builds and tests with Tekton-based delivery pipelines, and control quality with analytics.
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CucumberStudio
Score 4.9 out of 10
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CucumberStudio, now a SmartBear product since the 2019 acquisition, is a continuous testing platform replacing the former HipTest, supporting agile development with manual and automated code testing, reusable steps, feature history with living documentation, among other features.N/A
Pricing
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Editions & Modules
Lite
$0.00
Professional
$35.00
Authorized user per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryCucumberStudio
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
8.5
4 Ratings
18% above category average
CucumberStudio, from SmartBear
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Ratings
Task Management8.24 Ratings00 Ratings
Resource Management8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling8.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
Search9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Visual planning tools9.04 Ratings00 Ratings
Agile Development
Comparison of Agile Development features of Product A and Product B
IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
7.6
6 Ratings
0% above category average
CucumberStudio, from SmartBear
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Ratings
DevOps Tool Integrations8.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Review7.45 Ratings00 Ratings
Code Collaboration7.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Velocity Calculation6.84 Ratings00 Ratings
Dependencies and Blockers7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(16 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.1
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.2
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(2 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
IBM Cloud Continuous DeliveryCucumberStudio, from SmartBear
Likelihood to Recommend
IBM
It provides a cloud-based integrated development environment that integrates with other IBM Cloud services to provide a streamlined development workflow. This includes real-time collaboration and code sharing capabilities, making it easy for teams to work together on projects. This feature is very useful for our app to maintain the code
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SmartBear
HipTest is good and helpful to create and run functional regressions but it is more complicated to use this tool to create and run API testing scenarios (it does not mean it can not be done). This tool is definitively not appropriate for running performance testing scenarios.
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Pros
IBM
  • It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use.
  • This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient.
  • This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery.
  • [It] also has a much more reasonable pricing.
  • Provides space for the data storage.
  • [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools.
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SmartBear
  • Good integration with Jira
  • Includes integration with different tools for different porpuses
  • You can build your own framework to automate scenarios and make it work with Hiptest
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Cons
IBM
  • Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates.
  • Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating.
  • Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies.
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SmartBear
  • UX is not too obvious and easy (like generating a data table in a scenario or including a scenario in a test run) but you can get used to it relatively easy by playing around with the options, also the documentation is helpful.
  • To get extra functionalities you have to pay for them separately.
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Likelihood to Renew
IBM
It's a great platform to develop, run, test and deploy the applications easily. And it makes very easier and secure the implementation of continuous delivery process. For first time and experts also can use this service so easily. Great service provided by the IBM Cloud Continuous Service. There are more services that helps a lot to work on it. Thanks a lot.
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SmartBear
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Usability
IBM
Nothing special to say : the UX is clear and simple.
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SmartBear
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Support Rating
IBM
In more than a year using the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery tool, I haven't had any major complaints or problems. However, in the last month, IBM suffered from a couple of problems through several of its services, and for a short period of time, I couldn't deploy successfully my projects. The problem was brief and was quickly fixed.
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SmartBear
The tool includes a basic but complete documentation that can be very helpful to get started using the tool. The UX sometimes does not feel very easy to understand but after some use you can get familiar without reading the documentation. The webinars are not very useful for using the tool, I have seen a couple of them and they are actually focused on promoting their HipTest product to new users instead of being useful and educational for current users.
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Alternatives Considered
IBM
We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate with our current environment and applications
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SmartBear
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Return on Investment
IBM
  • This has made the configuration files much easier to access.
  • Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning.
  • Contains great AI capabilities
  • The documentation needs improvement.
  • Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand.
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SmartBear
  • It helps to have organization in our scenarios.
  • It helps to get regressions done faster than doing it manually
  • It helps to graphically see the progress and results of executions.
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ScreenShots

CucumberStudio Screenshots

Screenshot of CucumberStudio empowers the whole team to read and refine executable specifications without needing technical tools. Business and technology teams can collaborate on acceptance criteria and bridge their gap.