SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear vs. Spirent TestCenter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SoapUI Open Source
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
SoapUI is an open source API testing tool supported by SmartBear's community, supporting functional and performance testing of APIs.N/A
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
SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBearSpirent TestCenter
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SoapUI Open SourceSpirent TestCenter
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
SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBearSpirent TestCenter
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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User Ratings
SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBearSpirent TestCenter
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(6 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBearSpirent TestCenter
Likelihood to Recommend
SmartBear
Good for simple requests, simple scripts, assertions, and small workflows. Also not bad with the Open Source version if savvy with code as you can do a lot with custom functionality.Free version has limited compatibility with scripts/projects created from the Pro version, but functionality-wise can probably be made up with coding. As such, the free version may not be too suitable for complex scripts or for those who are not familiar with coding as functionality/usability may be limited.
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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
SmartBear
  • Ease of implementation
  • Ease of use
  • User friendly interface
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Spirent Communications
  • Bandwidth test
  • QoS and traffic type generation
  • Software platform availability
  • Technical Support
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Cons
SmartBear
  • I actually like SoapUI as it is, I have not found things to improve, except for the speed of response is very complex services.
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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
SmartBear
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Spirent Communications
7 because they lack to improve some major bugs we have exchanged about with them
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Alternatives Considered
SmartBear
Compared to SoapUI, we have been using "light" tools like RestClient extension in Firefox, or Postman. Compared to Postman, SoapUI is more simple for WSDL / SOAP webservices, as SoapUI generate all envelop, but Postman does not. For Rest API, I think that Postman is a little above SoapUI, but not too far away.
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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
SmartBear
  • Testing resolves most of the issues in the development phases.
  • User friendliness of the app makes it good.
  • Overall client happiness depends on the clean project, which is possible by testing.
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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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