We performed a comparison between Broadcom Service Virtualization and Selenium HQ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom, OpenText, SmartBear and others in Service Virtualization."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 most valuable features are the recording and creating of virtual services."
"Ability to vary the responses very easily (randomize, pick-lists, etc.)."
"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."
"The most valuable features include the capability to use other program languages such as PLSQR, JAVA, .NET."
"Unit testing or early life testing did not have to be stopped or delayed because those services were not available."
"The ability to create virtual services and deploy them as Docker containers, and include them in our Jenkins build pipelines, is a valuable feature."
"In general, I would say that the API set is the most valuable feature."
"It's available open-source and free. To install it, I just have to download it. It also doesn't require too many hardware resources compared to Micro Focus."
"The most valuable features of this solution are its flexibility, being open source, and it has close to no limits when it comes to integrating with any language, or browser you are using."
"For me, the most valuable feature of Selenium lies in its ability to help us find elements quickly. Apart from that, the driver interface is really useful, too. When we implement the Selenium driver interface, we can easily navigate through all of the pages and sections of an app, including performing things like clicking, putting through SendKeys, scrolling down, tagging, and all the other actions we need to test for in an application."
"The main characteristic that is useful is that the tool is completely free."
"Selenium's open-source nature is a key advantage. Its extensive support for diverse web technologies."
"Selenium web driver - Java."
"The most valuable aspect of Selenium is that it gives you the flexibility to customize or write your own code, your own features, etc. It's not restricted by licensing."
"DevTest is pretty massive. It's hard to tell what different parts of it can be used to do different things. They should modulize it more."
"It is not a stable solution."
"From a reporting perspective I think we would like to have a more user-friendly approach."
"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."
"UI should be more user friendly: better usability, more testing oriented."
"I would rate the tech support a nine out of ten. They need more knowledge about the connectivity to DevOps orchestration."
"More examples of portal-based virtualization."
"CA actually releases a new version every year. We had issues with the upgrade prior to the latest one."
"The latest versions are often unstable."
"Handling frames and windows needs to be improved."
"The solution is open-source, so everyone relies on the community to assist with troubleshooting and information sharing. If there's a complex issue no one has faced, it may take a while to solve the problem."
"They should add more functionality to the solution."
"There are some tiny issues with SeleniumHQ. For example, with respect to the scraping tests. Sometimes, a website will have some hidden items or blockages that inhibit us from extracting data directly. It would be beneficial if Selenium could extract that information."
"Selenium HQ doesn't have any self-healing capabilities."
"One limitation of Selenium is that it is purely focused on web application testing."
"For email-based applications, we can't automate as we would like to, making it necessary to bring in a third-party product to do so."
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Broadcom Service Virtualization is ranked 1st in Service Virtualization with 97 reviews while Selenium HQ is ranked 4th in Functional Testing Tools with 102 reviews. Broadcom Service Virtualization is rated 8.2, while Selenium HQ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Broadcom Service Virtualization writes "Feature-rich, easy to configure and set up, and the support is good". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Selenium HQ writes "Continuously being developed and large community makes it easy to find solutions". Broadcom Service Virtualization is most compared with ReadyAPI Test, Parasoft Virtualize, IBM Rational Test Virtualization Server, OpenText Service Virtualization and Tricentis Tosca, whereas Selenium HQ is most compared with Eggplant Test, Tricentis Tosca, Worksoft Certify, Telerik Test Studio and OpenText Silk Test.
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