Parasoft SOAtest vs ReadyAPI comparison

Parasoft SOAtest

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Parasoft SOAtest

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We performed a comparison between Parasoft SOAtest and ReadyAPI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Functional Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Parasoft SOAtest vs. ReadyAPI Report (Updated: June 2024).

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Parasoft SOAtest vs. ReadyAPI

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Categories and Ranking

Parasoft SOAtest

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

24th

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (29th), API Testing Tools (9th), Test Automation Tools (21st)

ReadyAPI

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

7th

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Parasoft SOAtest is 0.5%, down from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ReadyAPI is 0.9%, down from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Functional Testing Tools

Unique Categories:

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

0.4%

API Testing Tools

2.4%

Performance Testing Tools

2.8%

Featured Reviews

Milind Parab

Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Cadence Design Systems

Jan 3, 2023

Useful for automated SQA, certifications, but the summary reports could improve

The summary reports could be improved because sometimes it is not very concise. The waiver process can also be improved because Parasoft SQAtest doesn't have a method to waive off one rule. Additionally, adding some guidance on providing standard templates could be helpful for new engineers or in complexity reduction. It could be sustained in a better way because it currently just gives the number that is a level of looping or callings. Hence, if something can be improved to refactor the code, then it should be code restructuring and all the information that can be provided to look at the complexity of the code.

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SandeepSingh9

Sr. QA Engineer at Arizona Department of Education

Sep 23, 2022

Allows you to parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere and lets you customize the environment, but its load testing feature needs improvement, and costs need to be cheaper

One of the features of ReadyAPI that's worth mentioning is that it allows you to parameterize. I'm working with more than two hundred resources, so I don't have to go and make a small change at each point every time. I have the option to just parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere. Another valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it provides a customized environment. In my company, you work in different environments, such as QA, UAT, and LT, so the URLs for every environment are different. In ReadyAPI, you can customize your environment, set it up, then start working on it. Another feature worth mentioning that's offered in ReadyAPI is automating your test value as the tool allows Groovy scripting. In your test case, you can use a Groovy script that says that in a particular test case, you have ten resources, but you just want to exhibit five and that you don't want to exhibit the remaining five. You can write a small Groovy script that lets you execute just five resources out of the ten resources. I also like that ReadyAPI allows you to read the data from CFC and Excel. It also allows you to create or customize your data, but that only works at a certain point because every application has its specific data. ReadyAPI cannot generate every data, but when I'm posting and I want to generate a random name, such as a first name, I can do it in ReadyAPI. The tool also has many different features which I find valuable, including Git integration.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"We do a lot of web services testing and REST services testing. That is the focus of this product."

"We have seen a return on investment."

"We can automate our scenarios in a data driven format, which shows there is no rework on scripts. We only need to update the test data and run for a number of scenarios."

"Since the solution has both command line and automation options, it generates good reports."

"If you want something that’s not provided out of the box, then you can write it yourself and integrate it with SOAtest."

"Automatic testing is the most valuable feature."

"Good write and read files which save execution inputs and outputs and can be stored locally."

"The solution is scalable."

More Parasoft SOAtest pros

"ReadyAPI's best features are user-friendliness, smooth integration with Postman, the speed of creating test cases, and integration with customer data."

"This solution is very intuitive. Once you finish your first few testing cases, you can change several parameters and create lots of testing cases. You could use the same testing cases for different purposes such as automation, performance and screen testing."

"The performance testing capabilities are very good."

"A single platform for functional testing, load testing security, and service actualization."

"The interface is ok and they have the ability to re-load tests so that you can reuse them."

"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are the scripting tools and the connectivity to external data sources, such as Excel and PDF files. There are plenty of useful features that are useful, such as automating flexibility and usability. Overall, the solution is easy to use."

"It has the ability to combine it with different CI/CD tools."

"It's easy to learn how to use it."

Cons

"Compatibility with HTTP 1.1 and TLS 1.2 needs to be improved."

"The summary reports could be improved."

"The feedback that we received from the DevOps of our organization was that the tool was a little heavy from the transformation perspective."

"Reports could be customized and more descriptive according to the user's or company's requirements."

"Reporting facilities can be better."

"The product is very slow to start up, and that is a bit of a problem, actually."

"Enabling/disabling an optional element of an XML request is only possible if a data source (e.g., Excel sheet) is connected to the test. Otherwise, the option is not available at all in the drop-down menu."

"UI testing should be more in-depth."

More Parasoft SOAtest cons

"The reporting is not very robust and needs to be improved."

"The Property Transfer capability could be more user friendly because it is a bit difficult to understand."

"To generate a test suite in API, I had to create a separate one each time because otherwise it was just override the test. Each API had to be added separately. I thought I could just have one and then create different methods, but I had to add each API separately to create the test for that. That is an area that could be improved."

"They have performance testing also. However, it's not that great."

"ReadyAPI's customer support isn't that great, particularly their response time."

"Version control does not work well."

"There are lots of options within the solution, however they are not upfront or user-friendly."

"Sometimes, if I changed something in ReadyAPI, it would not quickly pick up the change. It used to give me the same error repeatedly, and when I closed the application completely and restarted it, it would pick up that change."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"They do have a confusing licensing structure."

"It is an expensive product, so think carefully about whether it fits your purposes and is the right tool for you."

"The price is around $5,000 USD."

"We are completed satisfied with Parasoft SOAtest. The ROI is more than 95%."

"I think it would be a great step to decrease the price of the licenses."

"The license price is a little expensive, but it provides a better outcome in terms of the end-to-end automation process."

"From what I understand, Parasoft SOAtest isn't the cheapest option. But it has a lot to offer."

"The cost of Parasoft seems to have gotten higher with a projection that wasn't really stipulated for our company. They've done a tremendous job at negotiating those deals."

"If I remember correctly, ReadyAPI costs between $5,000 to $7,000 for five thousand virtual users running it at a given point in time. Other tools, for example, Apache JMeter, can run millions of users at a given time. ReadyAPI is a tool that requires you to pay more money if you want more users to run it for performance testing. For functional testing, each ReadyAPI license costs $1,000, and you do get basic testing, and it's inclusive of one hundred users. In my company, if there's a need for more than one hundred users, my team uses Apache JMeter because it's futile to end up paying $5,000 or $6,000 annually just for performance testing, which can be done in Apache JMeter as well. Given the circumstances, my team does performance testing only towards the end of the fiscal year when the regulatory testing of applications takes place. If I have to run ReadyAPI just for two days or just for ten or fifteen odd days, then it's not worth paying $5,000 for the license with the small number of users provided by ReadyAPI."

"For each license, they charge the same amount, which is less than $1,000 for each desktop license."

"It costs approximately $200 000 Taiwan Dollars for three years."

"We have approximately 12 licenses in place. There are other solutions that are more expensive than ReadyAPI that have more features, but if the scope of the project is limited to SOAP and REST service, then this is the best option."

"We use fixed licenses, and the last time I checked, I want to say it's around $680 per seat per year."

"It is expensive. Each user needs to be licensed, and there are different licenses within the product. It starts with 750 euros for a single user per year, but for the full product features, you need to pay a lot more. There are three versions. This cost is for functional testing, and then there is a cost for load testing and virtual services. If you want to use these areas with the functional test license, you are limited. You hit some limits in these functions. If you have all three licenses, then you have full functionality for the API."

"The thing with ReadyAPI is that you have to buy different licenses for different purposes."

"The solution is dynamically priced so you only pay for what you use."

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

30%

Manufacturing Company

16%

Computer Software Company

13%

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

17%

Insurance Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Parasoft SOAtest?

Since the solution has both command line and automation options, it generates good reports.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Parasoft SOAtest?

The price is average. It isn't overly expensive.

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What needs improvement with Parasoft SOAtest?

Tuning the tool takes time because it gives quite a long list of warnings. Going through that is a challenge. It only happens in the initial stage when we are setting up the tool, but it can be imp...

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What do you like most about ReadyAPI?

The performance testing capabilities are very good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ReadyAPI?

The pricing is very competitive. It has a good impact on our time-to-market metrics. We have the complete SmartBear environment. The single cost for all the services makes it easier.

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What needs improvement with ReadyAPI?

The vendor conducts webinars. They must do it more, though. The solution must update SmartBear Academy. The content on ReadyAPI in SmartBear Academy is outdated.

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Also Known As

SOAtest

Ready API

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Overview

Parasoft SOAtest delivers fully integrated API and web service testing capabilities that automate end-to-end functional API testing. Streamline automated testing with advanced codeless test creation for applications with multiple interfaces (REST & SOAP APIs, microservices, databases, and more).

SOAtest reduces the risk of security breaches and performance outages by transforming functional testing artifacts into security and load equivalents. Such reuse, along with continuous monitoring of APIs for change, allows faster and more efficient testing.

ReadyAPI is an all-in-one automated testing platform that allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface.

ReadyAPI Features

Some of ReadyAPI’s key features include:

Continuous integration
Comprehensive dashboard
API discovery
Central, standardized reporting function
Plugin architecture
ReadyAPI Projects
Multiple options for scripting to create functional, load, or security tests

ReadyAPI Benefits

Some of the benefits of using ReadyAPI include:

Easy and flexible test creation and execution: ReadyAPI has visual editors and wizards that make testing easy, saving time and simplifying onboarding.
Test APIs continuously: With ReadyAPI you can run consistent tests on local environments, Docker containers, or other distributed staging environments.
Team friendly: ReadyAPI enables software teams with the ability to easily share testing projects and artifacts, share licenses between team members, and report issues directly from the testing IDE.
Powerful, data-driven testing capabilities: With ReadyAPI, you can save time by checking for numerous real world conditions.
Supports multiple specifications, schemas, and protocols: ReadyAPI includes legacy SOAP services, microservices powered by Apache Kafka, and mainstream REST services, as well as IoT use cases leveraging MQTT. It allows you to test and virtualize the most popular API protocols and also to import APIs from specifications and schemas instantly.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Dell EMC Unity users.

PeerSpot user Vallalarasu P., Test Architect at a tech services company, states, “ReadyAPI is one of the best tools for API testing because they have made a single platform for functional testing, load testing security, and also service actualization. We also have virtual work that can be an add-in within ReadyAPI. For integration for CACD, they have something called TestEngine, which can also be an add-on for ReadyAPI. We use Python request library and things like that but if you're a bigger organization with hundreds of APIs, then ReadyAPI is a one-stop solution for complete API testing. If you consider TestComplete and other products for an equivalent outcome, you might get something nearly comparable, butReadyAPI is the outstanding product.”

An IT Manager at an insurance company says the solution has “Fast automation, less coding, and is pretty lightweight. When you are working in sprints, you need to have continuous feedback. ReadyAPI definitely helps in automating very fast and rapidly. We have less coding, and we can more easily define our assertions. We don't use it for full-blown performance testing, but normally if you are doing your functional testing, it gives you the request and response time. Anybody who is doing functional testing can see what the request and response times are and raise a flag based upon their business affiliates, that is, whether it is meeting their affiliates. You can identify this during functional testing."

Balamurugan A., Manager at a financial services firm, comments, “We like the user interface. The most valuable features are the integration with Jira and the test management tools.

They have interfaces with our performance tools, so we were able to leverage all of these integrations and plugins. It is very good from an integrative solution standpoint.”

Sample Customers

Charter Communications, Sabre, Caesars Entertainment, Charles Schwab, ING, Intel, Northbridge Financial, Capital Services, WoodmenLife

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