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3SL Cradle vs Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer comparison

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Categories and Ranking

3SL Cradle
Ranking in Application Requirements Management
9th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
9.2
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Broadcom Agile Requirements...
Ranking in Application Requirements Management
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
6.2
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
Test Management Tools (8th), Test Design Automation (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Requirements Management category, the mindshare of 3SL Cradle is 2.4%, up from 1.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is 3.3%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Requirements Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer3.3%
3SL Cradle2.4%
Other94.3%
Application Requirements Management
 

Featured Reviews

Siegmar-Schuenke - PeerSpot reviewer
Operation manager at OpenCage
Flexible solution that manages all your needs
I mainly use 3SL Cradle to manage the requirements from service projects 3SL Cradle's most valuable feature is its flexibility in managing all your needs immediately.  3SL Cradle could be improved with better support for SysML functionalities. In the next release, I would like 3SL Cradle to be…
Hosney Osman - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solution Architect at Vodafone
Integration capabilities enhance testing and workflow automation
I rate Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer as 8 out of 10. It will be very nice if Broadcom has questions or comments related to my review and can reach me via email to clarify something. I want to be a reference for Broadcom. I don't have any information regarding the visual modeling function specifically. I'm not dealing with modeling requirements or generating optimized test cases in Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer. Broadcom takes a lot of information from us as end-users, and they provide fixes within two to five days maximum. My team has raised many enhancement requests and discussed them with Broadcom, and they are adding some of these features to the product itself. I look forward to receiving an email regarding these reviews, and I can add anything later if I forgot something, earning some points for this contribution on the website.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"3SL Cradle's most valuable feature is its flexibility in managing all your needs immediately."
"3SL Cradle enabled my current and former organizations to be champions of requiring and providing bi-directional traceability to all relevant data, from cradle to grave -- the entire project lifecycle -- due to the tool’s ability to be customized with ease and ability to produce products that builds confidence in project stakeholders."
"In terms of meeting business challenges, it helped to shorten the dev/testing cycle by identifying requirements gaps early in the process, by having models shared within the development team, and it helped increase test coverage and reduce the number of issues experienced by clients/customers."
"Because we have a lot of applications, we test ARD on three use cases at the same time."
"By using ARD it allowed junior developers to write code because they had all of the requirements in the business flow."
"We deliver test cases ten times faster and automate in hours vs. days or weeks."
"The most valuable features of this solution are the ease for creating test cases and the automation of the test cases from the user workflows."
"Integration with TDM, test data management tool, provides the ability to generate data or use identified (preset or parametrized) test data. It allows significant expansion of test coverage and flexibility, without creating new tests and needing to maintain them."
"It reduced the effort required for test case creation, test case review, automation script generation, and maintenance of test cases and automation scripts, enabling us to reduce our QA team size by 50 percent while helping resources without programming knowledge to create automation scripts and move from manual testing to automation testing."
"None came near to this solution."
 

Cons

"3SL Cradle could be improved with better support for SysML functionalities."
"Cradle provides around 15 modeling notations (e.g. Data Flow Diagrams, State Transition Diagrams, Use Case Diagram, etc.); however, SysML and DoDAF are not included."
"The solution could improve security and authentication."
"When you have long flows or models, the display can be problematic, as it necessitates zooming in on the GUI and you lose the full display."
"Adding more connectivity to outside applications and the amount of detail we can export to systems of record could be improved."
"We struggled a bit with the initial setup. It could be easier."
"Integration with Agile management tools can be improved, i.e., mainly test case maintenance and linking test cases to the automation script."
"The solution could be more user-friendly. For example, attachments could be icon-based to make it easier for the user to notice them."
"It could be quicker to use. Because we do so many things with it, sometimes it takes a long time to create a flow."
"Everything but the licensing was straightforward. The licensing is extremely complex."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Recommendation is to go with concurrent licenses as oppose to seat license; this gives more flexibility."
"It is less costly when compared to other tools on the market."
"At present, Broadcom works through partners rather than dealing directly with the consumer. When there are discounts given, it's up to the partner as to whether they want to give that discount to the customer. Sometimes, the partners decide to take the discount themselves. Pricewise, I would give ARD's price a rating of three out of five."
"We were able to scale down some resources to basically self-fund our ability to purchase the tool."
"​The cost of the tool was well worth the benefit that we saw on the back-end."
"The pricing model is based on how many people are using it. We have an annual license. There are not any additional costs."
"This tool reduces the cost associated with test cases, automation script generation, and maintenance costs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
21%
University
13%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Outsourcing Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Construction Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise21
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?
It's not affordable; it's very expensive. It would be suitable only for large customers, and a large customer will think twice before making a deal with Broadcom.
What needs improvement with Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?
Integration with AI is an area that needs to be improved quickly. To be clear, this relates to how to use AI to improve use cases, break down applications, and review designs, as this area needs to...
What is your primary use case for Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?
This solution saves a lot of time in the software testing cycle because, with Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer specifically, I am doing a flowchart, and I can extract test cases and use cases t...
 

Also Known As

Cradle
Grid Tools Agile Designer, CA ARD, CA Agile Requirements Designer
 

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Sample Customers

NASA, In-Depth Engineering Corporation, Avibras
Williams, Rabobank
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