ReadyAPI Reviews

Name: ReadyAPI
Brand: SmartBear
Rating: 4 (33 reviews)

3.8 out of 5

33 reviews
85% willing to recommend

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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.

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ReadyAPI is the #7 ranked solution in top Performance Testing Tools and #8 ranked solution in top Functional Testing Tools. PeerSpot users give ReadyAPI an average rating of 7.6 out of 10. ReadyAPI is most commonly compared to Tricentis Tosca: ReadyAPI vs Tricentis Tosca. ReadyAPI is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 68% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 18% of all views.

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SandeepSingh9

Sr. QA Engineer at Arizona Department of Education

Sep 23, 2022

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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Luis Sanchez

Senior Quality Assurance Test Engineer at Dormakaba

Jan 12, 2024

I use ReadyAPI for all things API testing – functional, migration, and security testing. It helps me automate tests, ensure reliability, and spot performance issues. The tool offers versatility, especially in virtualizing APIs and integrating with CI/CD The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are…

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RolandCastelino

QA lead at Bank of Montreal

Sep 26, 2022

There is a lot of room for improvement, mainly from the point of view of integrating ReadyAPI into the CI pipelines, and also the scripting aspect into Bitbucket. ReadyAPI is an extremely good and efficient standalone tool, but if you're collaborating on a project, it kind of becomes like a bottleneck. For use as a tool for group collaboration, there is some room for improvement. I would like to see two new features. Number one is version control with Bitbucket or Git, where we can actually see the scripts and have meaningful pull requests. Right now, everything sits inside an XML file, so it's very hard to review the code that anybody writes. If I have a ReadyAPI project, I want to not only have it on my local machine, but also in a version control system like Git or Bitbucket. At this time I can put the project there, but it's very hard to decipher the files that ReadyAPI exposes. It would be nice for them to have it more like a .gui file where the formatting of the file and the readability of the code is easier for other individuals. Second, is integration into a continuous integration pipeline, like a CI pipeline, where we can easily trigger, via Bamboo or Jenkins, and execute the scripts and maybe get the response of the results via an email or notification. Maybe it also needs integration into tools like Microsoft Teams or Slack, to get immediate feedback about the results of our execution. Those would be the new improvements I would like to see in their upcoming versions.

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ReadyAPI market share

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As of March 2024, the market share of ReadyAPI in the Performance Testing Tools category stands at 2.8%, marking a decrease of 40.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are its robust functionality and collaboration capabilities."
"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's easy to automate for more data-driven testing."

Room for Improvement

"There is room for improvement in ReadyAPI, particularly in the user interface."
"The reporting in ReadyAPI could be better. It can become sloppy, sometimes it works and other times it does not."
"The UI is not user-friendly."

Pricing

"The solution is dynamically priced so you only pay for what you use."
"It costs approximately $200 000 Taiwan Dollars for three years."
"We use fixed licenses, and the last time I checked, I want to say it's around $680 per seat per year."

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

17%

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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.”

ReadyAPI was previously known as Ready API.