We performed a comparison between Helix ALM and SmartBear TestComplete based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about IBM, Atlassian, Siemens and others in Application Requirements Management."Helix ALM enables users to build, make efficient and effective decisions, and use least-cost methods for maximum benefit, as fast as possible. They allow you to see and visualize your configuration."
"The most valuable features of Helix ALM are traceability and flexibility."
"The tool offers high stability."
"The reporting is ready to use and doesn't require any setup."
"Recording and playback of tests were easier with SmartBear TestComplete...It is a scalable solution."
"Test items, project variables helps in managing automation suite and scheduling execution."
"The solution helps improve the stability of our product. It also decreases the work of our manual quality assurance engineers."
"The product has many features."
"You can record your actions and play them back later."
"The ability to run a whole suite of tests automatically (which we did overnight)."
"I like the cross browser compatibility. It saves a lot of time re-writing scripts to accommodate different browsers."
"The accountability and the equivalent to using, acting, editing, working with Word, and also importing and exporting from Word needs improvement."
"Helix ALM should be able to integrate with other systems better. Helix ALM should also have an easier user interface, and the solution needs to have drag-and-drop tools included in it."
"It would be great to see Perforce's strategy is for implementing intelligence into the process via AI or ML. It's not clearly defined, at least not to my knowledge."
"What is currently missing from this solution is better support for mobile testing."
"The way objects are added and used when utilizing descriptive programming could be improved. It is a little unwieldy, compared to UFT."
"The solution needs Mac OS support. Right now, the solution has only been developed to accommodate Windows OS."
"There could be API interfaces with this tool."
"Stability issues occurred only when connecting to the SourceSafe. Sometimes, after getting the latest version, the tool hangs and it should be reopened in order to recover."
"In the cross-browser domain, it has a few snags with Microsoft Edge and Chrome; although, these problems are not critical."
"Right now, the product only supports Windows."
"The licensing costs are a little bit high and should be reduced."
Helix ALM is ranked 7th in Application Requirements Management with 7 reviews while SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 8th in Test Automation Tools with 70 reviews. Helix ALM is rated 6.4, while SmartBear TestComplete is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Helix ALM writes "Helix ALM is insanely configurable, with great traceability, and flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SmartBear TestComplete writes "A stable product that needs to improve its integration capabilities with other test management tools". Helix ALM is most compared with IBM Rational DOORS, Jira, IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, Polarion Requirements and Jama Connect, whereas SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio, Ranorex Studio, OpenText UFT One and froglogic Squish.
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