Akamai CloudTest vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

The compared Akamai and Microsoft solutions aren't in the same category. Akamai is ranked #9 in LTT , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 2.7% mindshare in the category. Microsoft is ranked #7 in FT , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 0.8% 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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Review summaries and opinions

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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 (9th), Load Testing Tools (9th)

Visual Studio Test Professi...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (7th), Test Management Tools (5th)

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 2.7%, up 1.8% compared to last year.
Visual Studio Test Professional, on the other hand, focuses on Functional Testing Tools, holds 0.8% mindshare, up 0.6% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

Vinod Patil

Senior Manager - Performance Architect at Publicis Sapient

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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CharlesChang

Department Manager, Certification Project Management at Institute for Information Industry

Valuable performance and libraries but needs compatibility improvements

We use Visual Studio Test Professional to develop our internal applications for our company The performance of Visual Studio Test Professional is valuable. Additionally, there are many libraries that I can use, and it supports cross-platform functionality. Visual Studio Test Professional is…

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

"The level of support is quite good and the integration is also very flexible."

"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. 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."

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

"The most valuable feature of Visual Studio Test Professional is its ease of use."

"It is a very common and strong product. A lot of support is available for this product."

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

"The performance of Visual Studio Test Professional is valuable."

"Visual Studio Test Professional is a scalable solution."

"We are satisfied with technical support. Communicating with them is very simple. We also have a lot of online resources to check and to study and to train our team with. The documentation is very clear and readily available."

"One of the best documentation in the world."

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Cons

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Sometimes, the product is too complex to use."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"The pricing of this solution should be lowered."

"The database administration could be better; you should be able to choose new tools with the development environment in Visual Studio. It could be easier to use."

"It could be available for multiple platforms and other operating systems like Mac with a native port."

"The server that we use is very slow so that is concerning for us."

"Visual Studio Test Professional should include more automation."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Running cost is very low."

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

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

"I positioned it at a mid-range level. It isn't an inexpensive solution, but considering its capabilities, it represents excellent value for the functionalities it offers."

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

"It is a price-effective solution"

"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."

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

"Users have to pay a licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional."

"We pay a yearly licensing fee for Visual Studio Test Professional, which is expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Retailer

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Manufacturing Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 do you like most about Visual Studio Test Professional?

The most valuable features of the solution are its ease of use and availability.

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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?

The product needs contextual help integrated within its interface. Currently, I need to search online to find out how to use certain functions. This feature would save time by providing direct assi...

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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.

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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.

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Sample Customers

Chester Zoo

Transport for Greater Manchester, Ordina, Bluegarden A/S, CLEAResult, Jet.com, OSIsoft, Australian Taxation Office, BookedOut, Tracasa

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