Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs Zephyr Enterprise comparison

Broadcom and SmartBear are both solutions in the Test Management Tools category. Broadcom is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0, while SmartBear is ranked #7 with an average rating of 7.0. Broadcom holds a 3.2% mindshare in TMT, compared to SmartBear’s 6.7% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of SmartBear users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Zephyr Enterprise and Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer are two leading tools in the test management category. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features that many users find justify the higher cost.

Features: Zephyr Enterprise offers robust test management and reporting capabilities, integration with various CI/CD tools, and customization options. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer focuses on requirements modeling, test case automation, and advanced analytics, with standout features in automation and integration.

Room for Improvement: Zephyr Enterprise could improve in performance, collaboration features, and the integration process. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could enhance its visual design, offer a more intuitive workflow, and refine certain aspects of user interaction.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zephyr Enterprise has a relatively smooth deployment process and adequate customer support, though initial setup could be simpler. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer stands out for its straightforward deployment and exceptional customer service, with substantial documentation and responsive support.

Pricing and ROI: Zephyr Enterprise is known for cost-effectiveness and quicker ROI due to lower setup costs. Despite higher pricing, Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer offers good ROI because of its advanced features and efficiency gains, making it worth the investment for users seeking advanced functionalities.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Agile Requirements...

Ranking in Test Management Tools

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Requirements Management (7th), Test Design Automation (3rd)

Zephyr Enterprise

Ranking in Test Management Tools

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is 3.2%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zephyr Enterprise is 6.7%, down from 10.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Test Management Tools Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Zephyr Enterprise	6.7%
Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer	3.2%
Other	90.1%

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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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PraveenKumar27

QA Lead at Paytm

Useful for test case management, but we faced some errors while uploading the test cases

We have used the product well. We use it for test case uploading. We created an Excel file and aligned the columns of the Excel file with the columns on the solution. It was a minimum guidance process. We can meet our requirements using the solution. We are able to do tasks without many errors. Overall, I rate the product a six or seven out of ten.

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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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The modeling is a game-changer."

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

"Defects can be traced in the solution."

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"The solution does its job well."

"We use the solution for test case management."

"It has a very intuitive user experience."

"If anyone is looking for a good, lightweight, flexible and agile test management product, I think they would do very well with Zephyr Enterprise."

"It has a very intuitive user experience."

"It has many features, but the main things that we need are the test cycles and integration with automation because we have automation for the web and mobile applications. We use it for test case management to run the test cases and get the results. At this moment, it is fulfilling our requirements. We are able to get the test execution report and the test pass and fail report. This summary is delivered to our management."

"It has integration with test automation tools."

"Zephyr Enterprise is a stable solution."

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Cons

"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."

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

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

"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."

"The solution could improve security and authentication."

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

"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."

"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."

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"The solution is not really stable. Sometimes in the past, some pages wouldn't load due to issues."

"Zephyr Enterprise needs to redesign the reporting."

"We would like support for the agile and behavior-driven development (BDD) approaches."

"We faced some errors while uploading the test cases."

"The reporting, and the ability to reorganize the test repository, which are a little stifling. There is definitely room for improvement there."

"Creating better default varieties of reporting would make the product much better and more popular."

"The reporting, and the ability to reorganize the test repository, which are a little stifling. There is definitely room for improvement there."

"Security needs improvement to protect customer information better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"DFS is more expensive than Zephyr. DFS is around $32 per person, whereas Zephyr is $10 per person. There is a major difference in the price, which is the main reason why we are trying to shift to Zephyr."

"It costs a couple of thousand dollars for a little more than 125 users, per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

22%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Retailer

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

13%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Large Enterprise	21

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

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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What do you like most about Zephyr Enterprise?

The solution does its job well.

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What needs improvement with Zephyr Enterprise?

Some areas for improvement, include its export capabilities. Exporting test cases, especially those with screenshots or attachments, can be cumbersome, hindering easy sharing and scalability.

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What is your primary use case for Zephyr Enterprise?

I use it for test management within Jira.

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Also Known As

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

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Overview

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

Zephyr Enterprise is a robust enterprise test management platform that manages all aspects of the testing lifecycle. The solution is provided as an on-premise installation as well as a SaaS-based installation. Zephyr Enterprise enables you to make a rigid process flow flexible enough to accommodate changes. In addition, it provides all the functionality QA teams and testers need in order to create and execute test cases with less effort, allowing more time to do actual testing by alleviating significant time-wasting steps.

Zephyr Enterprise Features

Zephyr Enterprise has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Visual dashboards
One-click integration
Multi Jira instance
Scalability
Third-Party Integrations
Reporting & Statistics
Data Import/Export
Data Visualization
User Management
Move & Copy
Software Testing Management
Requirements-Based Testing
Industry-strength scalability
Documented APIs
Regular maintenance and upgrades

Zephyr Enterprise Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Zephyr Enterprise. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Ready-to-use reports and customizable dashboards: With Zephyr Enterprise, reports and dashboards are updated in real time and you can share test results and link with your team in Jira to connect any known issues. In addition, the solution helps you increase workflow efficiency because it improves info sharing during standup meetings.

Supports bi-directional and multi-instance Jira integration: Not only does Zephyr Enterprise support bi-directional and multi-instance Jira integration, but it also gives you the ability to support multiple projects simultaneously – up to 200,000 test cases.

Global repository for test cases: Zephyr Enterprise helps you create, categorize, and store your test cases via a global repository that can be shared across your entire organization. You can also quickly reuse test cases using the structured folder management.

Test execution: Zephyr Enterprise makes it possible for you to execute tests step by step, manage pass/fail status, and launch automated execution, then file those defects into Jira. Zephyr Enterprise test executions allow teams to operate in a more efficient way.
Universal test automation: Zephyr Enterprise supports a wide range of automation frameworks, helping you decrease operational costs and increase test coverage.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Zephyr Enterprise solution.

A Manager of Enterprise Applications at a retailer says what’s most valuable is that “It's very easy and simple to use, which is beneficial. It has 90% of the basic features you need without having to pay a lot of extra money.” He also adds, “Zephyr Enterprise is very stable and the initial setup is straightforward.”

Jawaad A., Test Automation Lead at Trapeze, explains, "It has many features, but the main things that we need are the test cycles and integration with automation because we have automation for the web and mobile applications. We use it for test case management to run the test cases and get the results. At this moment, it is fulfilling our requirements. We are able to get the test execution report and the test pass and fail report. This summary is delivered to our management."

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Sample Customers

Williams, Rabobank

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