Akamai CloudTest vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

The compared Akamai and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Akamai is ranked #8 in LTT , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 3.6% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #11 in FT , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 1.6% mindshare. Additionally, 85% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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96% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai CloudTest

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (8th), Load Testing Tools (8th)

Visual Studio Test Professi...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (11th), Test Management Tools (6th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. Akamai CloudTest is designed for Load Testing Tools and holds a mindshare of 3.6%, up 2.4% compared to last year.
Visual Studio Test Professional, on the other hand, focuses on Functional Testing Tools, holds 1.6% mindshare, up 0.6% since last year.

Load Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Akamai CloudTest	3.6%
Tricentis NeoLoad	11.7%
OpenText Professional Performance Engineering (LoadRunner Professional)	11.7%
Other	73.0%

Load Testing Tools

Functional Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Visual Studio Test Professional	1.6%
Tricentis Tosca	12.0%
BrowserStack	6.8%
Other	79.6%

Functional Testing Tools

Featured Reviews

Vinod Patil

Senior Manager - Performance Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Is user-friendly and offers live monitoring

Extending the same cloud tool to make it app native so that it can help with device performance testing towards HTTP requests and responses. If you can have a front-end tool like Google's Core Web Vitals, it would be great. If you have some integration with Google's Core Web Vitals, it would be great. I want the tool to have IP spoofing because whenever you do load testing, you will have a little bit of static IP based on a particular load generator. If we have an option of just making the real-time scenario, like having IP spoofing, and the range of IPs dynamically gets changed with the request just to mimic the real-time user behavior, then it would be a good improvement. Having integration to APM tools, like Dynatrace or AppDynamics, the way we have in the load tools, would be good.

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Payel Saha

Test Automation Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Integrated collaboration with automated test management has improved our agile workflows and continuously supports quality reporting

Visual Studio Test Professional could be improved as earlier we had flexibility in automation testing with TFS, which became a bit difficult moving to Azure DevOps. Additionally, in Visual Studio Code, we have an agent mode for GitHub Copilot, which is very helpful in testing or development phases, while Visual Studio's GitHub Copilot is a bit tricky and sometimes does not provide my desired output.For future improvements, I would like to see prompt fixing, as currently, if something goes wrong in Visual Studio, the fixing options are not always correct. If that intelligence is embedded, it would be very helpful.

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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

"The solution was easy to set-up and much more easy and intuitive to build performance tests."

"The solution is very stable."

"From my own experience, if you're talking about load testing and performance testing then definitely you should go for CloudTest."

"This is an awesome performance testing tool for web based applications, able to generate load multiple geographies, dynamic ramp-up to any levels of virtual users."

"The tool is very user-friendly, so you can save a lot of time in terms of your preparation activities."

"Customer service is great; quick to act on everything."

"From my own experience, if you're talking about load testing and performance testing then definitely you should go for CloudTest. Because when we compared CloudTest with Performance Center, cost wise it was a better solution. It is easy to use as well, and you can definitely get an automation engineer or a performance engineer with very little exposure to any programming or scripting language such as JavaScript. I would definitely recommend this solution and would rate it at eight on a scale from one to ten."

"Soasta CloudTest is an integral part of our performance testing strategy and key in generating load across geography."

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"The most valuable features are the SSIS reports, the deployment models, and the ability to interact with other Microsoft tools."

"The tool is free, resulting in no costs associated with its use. The absence of price makes it cost-effective."

"The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects."

"One of the best documentation in the world."

"Visual Studio Test Pro is super helpful for my Microsoft app work."

"The ability to quickly make your own components has been valuable."

"The most valuable feature has been to store all our packages in one place including SSIS packages, SQL tables, TFS and SSR."

"The setup is easy and straightforward."

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Cons

"The test clip should be more user-friendly."

"The UI gets stuck sometimes; pulling huge load test data takes time and the UI often gets stuck."

"It's a manual process to whitelist respective internal IPs in coordination with web operations team to access Soasta. Availability of any standardized tool from Soasta will make setup process easy."

"Akamai cloud test integration into our current CI/CD pipelines (i.e.) identify and resolve the issues during the sprint phase which helps in delivering an absolute product and reduces time to market/release."

"Out of five, I would rate the technical support of the solution at two or three. Sometimes it's a challenge because we face delays."

"I couldn't say, as I haven't used it outside the training or applied it to any project yet."

"In terms of improvement, I think integration of these tools with the leading EPM tools would be good. It would help to seamlessly integrate to Dynatrace or AppDynamics to understand what the profiling looks like when generating a load."

"Resource consumption also needs to be worked on. When we generate a thousand or two thousand concurrent users, we need to optimize the load generator resource utilization."

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"The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user."

"It needs more integration with other tools for monitoring. Microsoft also needs to make it more modern to make it work with microservices and the cloud."

"It is not good in terms of performance. When you open Visual Studio, you have to wait for a while to process your code."

"The Git extensions are very basic and can be more extensive compared to other software focused on Git, like GitTower or SmartGit."

"The solution should be cheaper."

"The price could be improved."

"There are some bugs, and sometimes it runs very slowly, but nothing that is major."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The tool's price is at an intermediate level. When you compare it with other enterprise load testing tools, it falls under the average category."

"We have a yearly license, and I would give it a rating of three out of five."

"Running cost is very low."

"There are two versions of Visual Studio Test Professional: Community and Professional. We are currently using the Community version, but if we start working on a commercial product, we will consider upgrading to the Professional version. We need to identify how we will proceed with our projects, and based on that, we will decide on our licensing."

"We have licensing for Visual Studio Community edition."

"There is a paid version of the solution as well as a community version that is free."

"We pay for the solution annually and the price could be reduced."

"It is a price-effective solution"

"The product is very expensive."

"For the cloud services option, you buy a subscription per account or per user. This costs around $52 a month per person."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very expensive solution."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

11%

Retailer

11%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

17%

Marketing Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	24

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Akamai CloudTest?

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What is your primary use case for Akamai CloudTest?

I use the solution in my company for load testing. You can say that it is used on the API and then for web page-level load testing.

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What advice do you have for others considering Akamai CloudTest?

The tool's very first benefit is zero maintenance. You need not take care of your controller or load generator, so there is zero maintenance. The second benefit of the tool would be in the area of ...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Visual Studio Test Professional?

The tool is free, resulting in no costs associated with its use. The absence of price makes it cost-effective.

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What needs improvement with Visual Studio Test Professional?

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What is your primary use case for Visual Studio Test Professional?

We are using Microsoft Visual Studio for automation testing, specifically using C# Selenium.Visual Studio Test Case Management, which is embedded in Azure DevOps itself, is part of our process. We ...

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Comparisons

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Compared 15% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

Tricentis NeoLoad vs Akamai CloudTest

Compared 11% of the time

Apache JMeter vs Akamai CloudTest

Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

OpenText Functional Testing for Developers vs Visual Studio Test Professional

Compared 5% of the time

OpenText Application Quality Management vs Visual Studio Test Professional

Compared 4% of the time

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Also Known As

SOASTA CloudTest

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Overview

Soasta's CloudTest rapidly builds realistic test scenarios using real user data, then tests, analyzes and repairs faster. CloudTest's visual test environment and real-time analytics test your website, mobile app and api backend to give you a streaming view of all your performance data while tests run from back-end systems to front end performance.

Akamai

Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft

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