IBM Engineering Test Management and BlazeMeter compete in the software testing domain. IBM Test Management is strong in structured test management, while BlazeMeter excels in speed and real-time load testing.
Features: IBM Engineering Test Management offers comprehensive test planning, execution, and reporting, a valuable asset for complex project environments. It also provides integration with automation tools and maintains different versions of artifacts with Global Configuration. BlazeMeter provides rapid load testing, real-time monitoring, and seamless CI/CD pipeline integration. It allows easy JMeter test scaling and supports cloud load generation, ideal for performance testing.
Room for Improvement: IBM Engineering Test Management can benefit from improved deployment speed and more intuitive user interfaces. It could enhance integration capabilities with third-party tools and offer simplified test automation features. BlazeMeter may improve its customer support quality and documentation. Enhancements in API testing capabilities and expanding its open-source tool integration could benefit users. The pricing model could also be made clearer to avoid unexpected costs.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: IBM Engineering Test Management requires extensive initial setup but is backed by comprehensive support to ensure successful deployment. BlazeMeter features a cloud-based model that facilitates rapid deployment and ease of use but has less comprehensive customer support compared to IBM. IBM focuses on structured deployment guidance while BlazeMeter emphasizes accessibility and deployment speed.
Pricing and ROI: IBM Engineering Test Management involves higher setup costs, reflecting its extensive capabilities for large enterprises, leading to notable ROI in structured environments. BlazeMeter offers a more economical entry point with scalable pricing suitable for fast-paced Agile environments. The ROI with BlazeMeter is significant due to its rapid deployment, ease of use, and high scalability.
The customer service is not available 24/7, which affects its rating.
BlazeMeter has the capability to simulate a higher number of users compared to JMeter standalone.
BlazeMeter is quite scalable, and I rate its scalability as nine out of ten.
I would rate the stability of BlazeMeter as eight out of ten, indicating that it is a stable and reliable solution.
The extra CSV random dataset plugin could be integrated with a simple checkbox in the existing CSV dataset plugin to read files randomly.
The licensing cost is also a concern since BlazeMeter is not free like JMeter, which limits its use.
BlazeMeter requires licensing, which means it is not free like JMeter, adding to the setup cost considerations.
BlazeMeter integrates with JMeter via multiple plugins, which streamlines performance testing, test monitoring, and report sharing.
BlazeMeter offers a higher limit on load simulation compared to standalone JMeter.
BlazeMeter ensures delivery of high-performance software by enabling DevOps teams to quickly and easily run open-source-based performance tests against any mobile app, website or API at massive scale to validate performance at every stage of software delivery.
The rapidly growing BlazeMeter community has more than 100,000 developers and includes prominent global brands such as Adobe, Atlassian, Gap, NBC Universal, Pfizer and Walmart as customers. Founded in 2011, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif., with its research and development in Tel Aviv.
IBM Engineering Test Management (ETM), formerly known as IBM Rational® Quality Manager (RQM), is a business-driven software quality environment designed for collaborative and customizable test planning, workflow control, tracking, and metrics reporting. When integrated with IBM DevOps Test Embedded (Test Embedded), ETM allows users to create test environments and scripts, deploy and run tests, and view HTML reports. This integration enables the creation of ETM test environments linked to Test Embedded target deployment ports, the deployment and execution of Test Embedded tests through the ETM interface, and the mapping of ETM test scripts to Test Embedded test suites. Additionally, users can import test suites as ETM test scripts, build new ETM test cases, and view test results as HTML reports within ETM. The integration requires the Test Embedded adapter service to be running on the user's computer.
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