Spirent TestCenter vs. Visual Studio Test Professional

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Spirent TestCenter
Score 8.0 out of 10
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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
Visual Studio Test Professional
Score 6.9 out of 10
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Microsoft's Visual Studio Test Professional is a performance testing solution.N/A
Pricing
Spirent TestCenterVisual Studio Test Professional
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Spirent TestCenterVisual Studio Test Professional
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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User Ratings
Spirent TestCenterVisual Studio Test Professional
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
7.0
(15 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(10 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(10 ratings)
User Testimonials
Spirent TestCenterVisual Studio Test Professional
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Microsoft
It would be well suited if we used it with Azure DevOps as we can effortlessly integrate the test cases and even stories or tasks to stay on track with our work. Those test cases can even be reused across multiple projects. Using any other third-party tools, such as Jira, can be less appropriate, as it's not a Microsoft tool, and its capabilities will be limited.
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Pros
Spirent Communications
  • Bandwidth test
  • QoS and traffic type generation
  • Software platform availability
  • Technical Support
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Microsoft
  • Availability of the desktop client or the web interface. The web interface being the favorite and providing a better experience.
  • It enables you to write unit tests with so much ease.
  • Allows the recording and repeating of manual tests
  • It can be set up for collaboration.
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Cons
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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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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Likelihood to Renew
Spirent Communications
7 because they lack to improve some major bugs we have exchanged about with them
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Microsoft
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Usability
Spirent Communications
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Microsoft
It is very usable if you are familiar with Visual Studio to begin with. If you are new to the interface, it can be a long ramp up period for Testers not used to the GUI. There is always the web option which seems to be more intuitive for many Testers.
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Support Rating
Spirent Communications
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Microsoft
Visual Studio Test Professional is backed up by the full support of the Microsoft Corporation. That means twenty-four/seven customer support by quality, highly-trained professionals who understand every possible issue that you have experienced before. They are nice, efficient, and highly professional. I recommend them.
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Alternatives Considered
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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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
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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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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