IBM Rational Service Tester vs Visual Studio Test Professional comparison

IBM and Microsoft are both solutions in the Functional Testing Tools category. IBM is ranked #44, while Microsoft is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.4. IBM holds a 0.4% mindshare in FT, compared to Microsoft’s 1.9% mindshare. Additionally, 96% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution.

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Categories and Ranking

IBM Rational Service Tester

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

44th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Visual Studio Test Professi...

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

11th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of IBM Rational Service Tester is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Visual Studio Test Professional is 1.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Functional Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Visual Studio Test Professional	1.9%
IBM Rational Service Tester	0.4%
Other	97.7%

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Payel Saha

Test Automation Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

Integrated collaboration with automated test management has improved our agile workflows and continuously supports quality reporting

Visual Studio Test Professional could be improved as earlier we had flexibility in automation testing with TFS, which became a bit difficult moving to Azure DevOps. Additionally, in Visual Studio Code, we have an agent mode for GitHub Copilot, which is very helpful in testing or development phases, while Visual Studio's GitHub Copilot is a bit tricky and sometimes does not provide my desired output.For future improvements, I would like to see prompt fixing, as currently, if something goes wrong in Visual Studio, the fixing options are not always correct. If that intelligence is embedded, it would be very helpful.

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Financial Services Firm

16%

Construction Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Marketing Services Firm

10%

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Small Business	15
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	24

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The tool is free, resulting in no costs associated with its use. The absence of price makes it cost-effective.

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Overview

IBM Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality is a functional and regression testing tool that enables code-free testing of non-GUI services. Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality helps software delivery teams ensure the functionality, interoperability and performance of service-oriented architecture (SOA) software and web services. Rational Service Tester for SOA Quality helps software teams perform and deliver quality assurance.

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Visual Studio Professional Edition provides an IDE for all supported development languages. As of Visual Studio 2010, the Standard edition was dropped. MSDN support is available as MSDN Essentials or the full MSDN library depending on licensing. It supports XML and XSLT editing, and can create deployment packages that only use ClickOnce and MSI. It includes tools like Server Explorer and integration with Microsoft SQL Server also. Windows Mobile development support was included in Visual Studio 2005 Standard, however, with Visual Studio 2008, it is only available in Professional and higher editions. Windows Phone 7 development support was added to all editions in Visual Studio 2010. Development for Windows Mobile is no longer supported in Visual Studio 2010; it is superseded by Windows Phone 7.

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Sample Customers

IMM, ADP, Bangkok Hospital, Nice Céte d'Azur, Durham Police Department, Whogohost Ltd., Skypicker, Infinity Computers and Communications Company, Getin Noble Bank S.A., KPJ Healthcare Berhad

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