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Broadcom Service Virtualization vs IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Service Virtualiza...
Ranking in Service Virtualization
1st
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
97
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Rational Test Virtualiz...
Ranking in Service Virtualization
5th
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Service Virtualization category, the mindshare of Broadcom Service Virtualization is 32.0%, down from 34.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server is 5.7%, down from 10.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Q&A Highlights

it_user189042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 13, 2015
 

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DM
Can be used for the virtualization of TCP/IP protocols for third-party terminal insurance
We use it for the virtualization of third-party APIs for performance testing. Our second use case is related to the virtualization of TCP/IP protocols for third-party terminal insurance, which is used for insurance clients In the case of the virtualization of TCP/IP protocols for third-party…
RC
Using service virtualization, we are able to accelerate the testing and development activity
As per my working experience over the last three and half years with RIT/RTVS, I would consider the two following areas of improvement: * Reporting: In the recent release of RCPT, the "Usage graph" feature is included, but that still needs improvements in terms of UI and timeline filtering criteria. * Implementing custom functions is a bit of a tedious job, as ECMAscript does not support some of the standard JavaScript functions. Also, the Script editor window is not user-friendly .

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The innovation is amazing. CA has continued to add to services that it supports, the transports that it supports, and has built all of the enterprise capabilities into the product as well."
"The ability to do parallel development and testing reduces our costs for duplicating environments, improving the productivity of our developers, and bringing products faster to market."
"Unit testing or early life testing did not have to be stopped or delayed because those services were not available."
"We have been using it extensively for the shift left process and testing. It helps us to accelerate and virtualize services and assets that we don't have. It enables to test faster."
"We have had developers produce code later than we wanted to, but we've had some other stuff that was dependent on that. So what we were able to do was virtualize these assets and then go forward with our developer and not have to wait for these additional services to be available."
"You can create virtual services from a live recording or convert raw traffic into request/response pairs."
"Easy to understand ways of creating stubs."
"The most valuable feature is that it supports so many protocols. We, being a large bank, have almost all the protocols, and it supports all of them, so that's one good thing."
"As we have used most of the MQ stub, "MQ recording" is the most useful feature."
"It has very easy and good validation techniques used for SWIFT, XSD, and WSDL validations."
 

Cons

"​From a reporting perspective I think we would like to have a more user-friendly approach."
"We had to implement an external service catalog. We put it in ServiceNow. I would like to see an integrated service catalog."
"It is not a stable solution."
"They can always work on usability and making simple things simple to do. This is true of every product that deals with complexity."
"The cost is an area that needs improvement. There are a couple of other tools which provide support for performance testing with the base version itself, but Broadcom needs a separate component to support virtualization for performance testing. This is a costly component."
"UI should be more user friendly: better usability, more testing oriented."
"More examples of portal-based virtualization."
"I'd like to see more of the newer technologies included in there, looking mainly from a mobile perspective, possibly, so you can virtualize some of the aspects that we're going to be doing for mobile testing."
"Reporting: In the recent release of RCPT, the "Usage graph" feature is included, but that still needs improvements in terms of UI and timeline filtering criteria."
"User friendliness: I would rate it somewhere around 5/10 in terms of user-friendliness. It can be simpler to build stubs and middle-ware based test cases compared to the solution given by RTVS."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable."
"There is a yearly licensing cost, and I would give it a four out of five."
"There are additional fees for advanced-level technical support."
"I don't have the exact dollar amount, but we have spent close to $1,000,000 for a three-year agreement, for an enterprise level."
"The product has a free trial available, which has saves on the initial investment costs."
"IBM RTVS is not that expensive compare to other giants, but it is still much ahead of some other tool having less features."
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Answers from the Community

it_user189042 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 13, 2015
Feb 13, 2015
if you look for service virtualization tools you should check out Tricentis Orchestrated Service Virtualization Suite too. it supports following techniques without programming a single line of code: -) model based business flow definition to enable functional testers for test automation (with a technical single point of maintenance of XSDs, WSDLs...) -) stateful behaviour -) asynchronous busin...
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it_user190035 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 12, 2015
Hi, I am looking for similar information as well. If you have any content, please could you let me know where to find it please? Thanks very much Regards Anish
it_user174312 - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 12, 2015
I unfortunately have not used the IBM software. I do have experience with CA LISA and some with Parasoft but I don't know the IBM product well enough to vote. However there is a company called Voke that does studies and comparisons of them. You could do a google search for Voke and Lisa and IBm and service virtualizaton and likely find that study on white paper. I will check as well.
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
30%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Retailer
7%
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Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Also Known As

ITKO LISA, CA LISA, CA Service Virtualization
Green Hat, IBM RTVS
 

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Sample Customers

Union Bank, Swisscom, Autotrader, KPN, ING Bank, Best Buy, American Family Insurance, TESCO, Telefonica, Molina Healthcare, California DMV, Aktia, City Index, Con-way, DirecTV, GRU Airport, Liquidnet, NAB, Nordstrom, T-Mobile, TIM Brasil, 
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