3SL Cradle vs Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer comparison

3SL and Broadcom are both solutions in the Application Requirements Management category. 3SL is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.0, while Broadcom is ranked #6 with an average rating of 8.0. 3SL holds a 2.1% mindshare in ARM, compared to Broadcom’s 2.1% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of 3SL users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Broadcom users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 6, 2025

3SL Cradle and Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer compete in requirements management and design. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer has a slight edge due to its robust features and high value for the price.

Features:3SL Cradle offers requirement management, traceability, and integration with other tools, enhancing project oversight. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer includes test case generation, modeling features, and a comprehensive solution for complex projects.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:3SL Cradle facilitates straightforward deployment and fast implementation, backed by responsive customer service. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer involves a more extensive setup but provides thorough documentation and robust support, suitable for large-scale implementations.

Pricing and ROI:3SL Cradle is cost-effective, with significant ROI through affordable setup costs. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer involves higher initial costs but yields long-term ROI with its advanced features and project capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

3SL Cradle

Ranking in Application Requirements Management

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

9.2

Number of Reviews

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

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (8th), Test Design Automation (4th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Application Requirements Management category, the mindshare of 3SL Cradle is 2.1%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is 2.1%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Requirements Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer	2.1%
3SL Cradle	2.1%
Other	95.8%

Application Requirements Management

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Siegmar-Schuenke

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…

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Hosney Osman

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.

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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

"3SL Cradle's most valuable feature is its flexibility in managing all your needs immediately."

"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. It helped increase test coverage and reduce the number of issues experienced by clients/customers."

"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."

"The scale possibilities are endless, especially when combined with all the other products that CA has to offer."

"It gives us an idea of creating the visual diagrams, which are quite easy to use. It is helpful in creating our business processes."

"Integration with automation is one of the reasons we started to consider moving to this tool from our original tool for implementing test modeling. ARD appears to have better integration with Selenium. It also has the ability to record scripts/flows using Selenium Builder and import them into ARD, which will then create and optimize a model based on that."

"The most valuable features of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer are ease of use, saving time for the team who builds test cases, and visibility of test cases."

"It helped us to move from manual testing to automation testing."

"The ability to create models/diagrams at multiple levels (nest/embed them) helps in taking models from high-level business requirements and building them into detailed requirements models and test models. Plus, it helps reuse lower level models. It also allows maintaining models at appropriate levels, even for very complex systems/solutions."

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Cons

"3SL Cradle could be improved with better support for SysML functionalities."

"CA ARD doesn't provide integration with Tosca. The possibility of creating a test case and exporting it into Tosca is not available. Integration with end-to-end automation tools, like Worksoft or Tosca, is not provided by CA ARD as of now."

"Needs improvement in aligning models so they look clear and readable without having to move boxes around."

"It is not scalable anymore. It's not scalable because it doesn't support Kubernetes for making scalability, so I'm just going to increase memory and storage on the same machine."

"Data flexibility is something which I would like to see, along with more integration with App Test."

"A template in App Test should be created in advance. This has proven to be time consuming. The process is not fully automated, because there is a lot of manual intervention is required."

"At present, there is no option for test data parameters from ARD for virtual databases. We have to create them in TDM and push them as well. Virtual database connectivity needs to be improved. They need to come up with some areas where they can create synthetic data parameters easily from the test cases that have been designed."

"It would help if it would save different subsets of test cases, use cases, etc., of a given diagram, for different purposes and provide an easy way to name those subsets."

"I think it's already coming, but it needs more automation aspects. There is a tab for Automation, but I think it's not robust. I think that it's going to be a crucial element of the tool."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Recommendation is to go with concurrent licenses as oppose to seat license; this gives more flexibility."

"This tool reduces the cost associated with test cases, automation script generation, and maintenance costs."

"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."

"It is less costly when compared to other tools on the market."

"The pricing model is based on how many people are using it. We have an annual license. There are not any additional costs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

29%

Aerospace/Defense Firm

23%

Energy/Utilities Company

Educational Organization

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

Retailer

11%

Transportation Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with 3SL Cradle?

The support is consistent globally. However, heavier support is provided in certain locations. Improvement in support is necessary. Assistance is available to acquire information and utilize userna...

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What advice do you have for others considering 3SL Cradle?

If you have time to take some courses about 3SL Cradle, it will give you more time in the project to familiarize yourself with Cradle. I recommend it, but you need to do it within a very short time...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for 3SL Cradle?

The price is similar to IBM RATIONAL DOORS.

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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.

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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...

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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...

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Also Known As

Cradle

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

Overview

Cradle is a requirements management and systems engineering tool that integrates your entire project lifecycle in one, massively scalable, integrated, multi-user product.

3SL

CA Agile Requirements Designer is an end-to-end requirements gathering, test automation and test case design tool which drastically reduces manual testing effort and enables organizations to deliver quality software to market earlier and at less cost. The optimal set of manual or automated tests can be derived automatically from requirements modeled as unambiguous flowcharts and are linked to the right data and expected results. These tests are updated automatically when the requirements change, allowing organizations to deliver quality software which reflects changing user needs.

Broadcom

Sample Customers

NASA, In-Depth Engineering Corporation, Avibras

Williams, Rabobank

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