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 #7 with an average rating of 8.0. 3SL holds a 1.6% mindshare in ARM, compared to Broadcom’s 0.8% 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

7th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (8th), Test Design Automation (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Application Requirements Management category, the mindshare of 3SL Cradle is 1.6%, up from 1.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is 0.8%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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

Senior Operation Engineer 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."

"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."

"Helps the communication between the testing organization and the requirements group. It helps us to simplify the work. Instead of dealing with individual test cases, you're working with a model."

"It takes away all the time to construct test cases, so it is all automatic now, but it also levels the playing field."

"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."

"Measuring test coverage helps in one of the most challenging tasks. It has logic that can help to select the right set of scenarios and know what coverage it will provide."

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

"I like the way Broadcom ARD inserts test cases in execution mode. Also, ARD can be used apart from Broadcom TDM. It's an add-on through which you supply data through ARD test cases when there is a need for extra data."

"CA ARD has some beautiful features which I haven't found anywhere else. For example, when designing or creating our test cases and doing scenarios, we are able to restrict our flows. If we take a data link between two processes, we can actually restrict it, so that, in production, if our functionality breaks down, we can restrict that and all the flows related to it will be removed from the test data set."

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Cons

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could improve the UI. Other solutions have a much better UI. The new UI should have a new modern framework."

"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."

"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."

"The solution could improve security and authentication."

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"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."

"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."

"The cost of the tool was well worth the benefit that we saw on the back-end."

"We were able to scale down some resources to basically self-fund our ability to purchase the tool."

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

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

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Top Industries

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Aerospace/Defense Firm

23%

Manufacturing Company

20%

Energy/Utilities Company

13%

Educational Organization

Energy/Utilities Company

27%

Computer Software Company

16%

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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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