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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Selenium

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/ASelenium is open source software for browser automation, primarily used for functional, load, or performance testing of applications.N/A

    ReadyAPI

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/AReadyAPI (formerly SoapUI Pro, LoadUI Pro, and ServiceV Pro) is a REST and SOAP API functional testing tool that enables software developers, QA engineers, and manual testers to work together to create, maintain, and execute complex end-to-end API tests in their CI/CD pipelines without needing to code.N/A
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    SeleniumReadyAPI
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    SeleniumReadyAPI
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    SeleniumReadyAPI
    Considered Both Products
    Open Source
    Chose Selenium
    The first obvious thing is Selenium, an open-source tool, and it has a wide-open community for support. Well, on the other hand, Silk Test is a paid tool. With the combination of different tools in the market, we can build a solution for Web and Mobile based automation using …
    Incentivized
    Chose Selenium
    We were considering HP QTP against Selenium.
    but we chose Selenium because of the following reasons:
    1. Selenium is more widely used and has more online support community
    Incentivized
    Chose Selenium
    HQ UFT, it is one of the best and has more abilities but it is too much expensive while Selenium is free.
    SmartBear TestComplete, same reason as UFT.
    Watir, it is a Selenium-like open source project but has less features and limited documentation.
    Incentivized
    Chose Selenium
    HP UFT vs. Selenium - the major difference is that Selenium is free and open source. So there is a lot of money saved upfront on licensing - moreover with UFT/QTP VB scripting is a must and VB is not a very flexible language, is outdated and is a hard skill to find these days.
    Incentivized
    SmartBear
    Chose ReadyAPI
    Katalon Studio doesn't have powerful features like Data-driven testing with different sources such as Excel, GRID, Groovy, etc. Parallel testing is not available. Import API definitions which are one of the important of ReadyAPI are also not there in Katalon Studio. Reporting …
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    Each product has a different specialty. With ReadyAPI, it combines multiple specialties into one product and also allows a combination of other products within the Smartbear suite. With other products integration of multiple test, products are far more difficult and require …
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    1. Less coding.
    2. Easy to use.
    3. Even people with less experience in coding can use it.
    Incentivized
    Chose ReadyAPI
    None of the alternatives are comparable with SoapUI. Perhaps JMeter is the only one that has most similarity.
    The only advantage of these alternative is the price (all are free); But SoapUI also offers free versions as well that still can compete with all above products.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    93%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    89%
    Delivers good value for the price
    24 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    94%
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    29 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    13 Answers
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    15 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    16 Answers
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    22 Answers
    Features
    SeleniumReadyAPI
    Automation Testing
    Comparison of Automation Testing features of Selenium and ReadyAPI
    Feature
    Selenium
    10.0
    1 Ratings
    17% above category average
    ReadyAPI
    -
    Ratings
    Record and Automate10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multi-Browser Testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Test Management10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated Version Control10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Object Recognition10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data-Driven Testing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Testing Reports & Analytics10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    SeleniumReadyAPI
    Small Businesses
    BrowserStack
    Score8.5 out of 10
    TestComplete
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    BlazeMeter
    Score8 out of 10
    OpenText UFT One
    Score8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Tricentis Tosca
    Score8.8 out of 10
    SoapUI Open Source
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    SeleniumReadyAPI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (55 ratings)
    7.0
    (65 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.2
    (6 ratings)
    7.3
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    9.9
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.3
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SeleniumReadyAPI
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    When you have to test the UI and how it behaves when certain actions are performed, you need something that can automate the browsers. This is where Selenium comes to the rescue. If you have to test APIs and not the frontend (UI), I would recommend going with other libraries that support HTTP Requests. Selenium is good only when you have no choice but to run the steps on a browser.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    As stated, we do a LOT of API testing, the swaggerhub import makes it easy to add APIs. This is very well-suited, as well as easy management of the steps/cases/suites inside of ReadyAPI. The one thing I do wish ReadyAPI was better suited for is changes to data, we have a lot of test cases in ReadyAPI and if we make a change to how the backend data is structured, one-by-one adjustments need to be made to the steps. Less appropriate, UI testing.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • For any web based UI automation, Selenium is the best tool out there to automate your tests.
    • It supports multiple coding languages like Java, Python, Ruby, C# etc.. to choose from.
    • There is a huge community of users and can get many answers on StackOverFlow.
    • It has lot of other plugins to make your tests even more efficient.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    • Ease of use (ability to automatically import API definitions, Jenkins integration for running in the pipeline).
    • Detailed test reports (allow to easily identify weak spots during both functional and performance testing).
    • One platform for all tests (allows to closely couple and reuse existent tests).
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Selenium is pretty user-friendly but sometimes tests tend to flake out. I'd say roughly one out of twenty tests yields a false positive.
    • Selenium software cannot read images. This is a minor negative because a free plug-in is available from alternate sources.
    • Slowness may be a minor factor with Selenium, though this is an issue with basically any testing software since waiting on a site to execute JavaScript requires the browser to wait for a particular action.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    • Needs good documentation
    • Need to improve the performance of the tool
    • Setup is very complex and for such [a] commercial tool, it should easy and straightforward
    • Tool says it supports security testing but in reality, it is not at an extensive level.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    We love this product mainly because of its high customization abilities and the ease of use. Moreover, its free and can be learned easily through online communities and videos. The tests are more consistent and reliable as compared to Manual tests. It has enabled us to test a large number of features all in one go, which would have impossible through manual tests. The reports generated at the end of the tests are really helpful for the QA and the development teams to get a fair view of the application.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    The only reason this isn't a '10' is because of the cost. This product is definitely meant for organizations who are serious about making sure they invest in the full ecosystem of API design, development, maintenance. But there is a significant cost associated with this investment. and because of this cost (and the non-tangible output for executives), it is a difficult line-item to justify in this post-pandemic environment.
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Open Source
    For those who are unfamiliar with coding, there is a bit of a learning curve. There is plenty of helpful documentation and resources but it can take a little time to get the software up and running. Once you get the hang of how Selenium works, and what it can do, you realize how many things you can use it for, and how many processes you can automate.
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    SmartBear
    SoapUI allows us to combine multiple tests and adhere
    to the sequence that they need to run in order to complete successfully.
    It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
    good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing
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    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    Soap UI has managed to continuously build on it's solid foundation and keep improving by each release. It is by far the most dependable and accurate testing tool out there of its kind. Available via connecting to VM's created as SoapUI test machines give access to it anytime, anywhere practically.
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    Performance
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
    good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing.
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    Support Rating
    Open Source
    The Selenium app has a pretty fat community of users. For the problems we are experiencing, we are primarily receiving support from these communities. In addition, there is widespread service support. Instant support is given to the problems we experience when we need Online support. We and our team are happy to provide this support, especially before important deployment processes
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    SmartBear
    To be honest, we didnt had much issues with the support, as there is already plenty of online communities available for help. But if ever there were some minor issues with the membership or the certificates, the tech support was always quick and efficient enough to resolve the issue ASAP
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    We did everything we needed to use it. Now we can execute our tests on different operational systems and browsers running few tests simultaneously. We also implemented Appium framework to execute our tests on mobile devices, such as iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets. We use SauceLabs for our test execution and Jenkins for continuous integration.
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    SmartBear
    no very easy but lacks documentation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    At the time of adoption, there were not many other alternatives that were even close to being competitive when it comes to browser testing. As far as I know now to this day, there is still little competition to Selenium for what it does. Any other browser-based testing still utilises Selenium to interact with the browser.
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    ReadyAPI provides intuitive GUI capabilities compared to their own open source product. When compared to Postman, ReadyAPI also supports SOAP based services, which is a saver especially when integrating with legacy or other third party systems.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    SmartBear
    It has an excellent GUI design and the reporting mechanism is also very
    good. It does consume a lot of memory though during concurrent testing. However, I have read that added monitoring tools have been added, which if so the 7 could possibly go to a 8 or 9.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • There hasn’t been a downside to using it yet other than we’ve got to update the programs we create for each change.
    • This has saved us hundreds of hours of manpower by allowing our automation engineer to rapid fire tests.
    • We are able to screenshot and save entire sites before and after launch with a program the automation engineer created
    • We can compare large volumes of data against data in excel docs with a program created using Selenium
    Incentivized
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    SmartBear
    • Very quick regression testing, hence having the testing results very soon, even the same day of deployment
    • for same above reason, it can save money for corporation (so no tedious, costly and erroneous manual testings)
    • The test reports are compatible with TestNG, so the corporation can integrate the reports in our Autamation frameworks such as Allure or Jira Zephyr
    Incentivized
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