We performed a comparison between OpenText Silk Central and SmartBear TestComplete based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about OpenText, Microsoft, IDERA and others in Test Management Tools."The stability of this solution is very good. In our experience it is approximately ninety-nine percent."
"Recording and playback of tests were easier with SmartBear TestComplete...It is a scalable solution."
"It is a strong automation tool for desktop, browser, and API testing."
"Test items, project variables helps in managing automation suite and scheduling execution."
"The database checkpoints detect problems which are difficult for a human resource to find."
"I like the cross browser compatibility. It saves a lot of time re-writing scripts to accommodate different browsers."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with Azure DevOps."
"The solution is mainly stable."
"Runs in different remote machines. We have multiple versions of the software being tested."
"We would also like to manage the integration testing end-to-end."
"It is very hard to read the test log generated by TestComplete Executor if the log file is very big. TestComplete Executor is a small tool for just running the TestComplete test framework (not for developing)."
"During the distribution of our regression test cases, the control IDs are not always recognized correctly."
"In the cross-browser domain, it has a few snags with Microsoft Edge and Chrome; although, these problems are not critical."
"If that engine could better identify more XPaths automatically and make the process more flexible, that would be better."
"At times, identifying or locating an element can be somewhat challenging. However, in a recent test update, they introduced Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capability. This introduction has reduced the challenges to some extent, as we can now utilize OCR if the normal method doesn't work. Nevertheless, there is still significant potential for improvement in TestComplete's ability to identify various object elements. I don't have any specific concerns to mention. I have observed significant improvements in TestComplete over the past few years, especially in its support for highly dynamic object elements used in products like Salesforce Dynamics 365. In earlier versions, there were numerous challenges, but the current version is far superior to its predecessors."
"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."
"Right now, when you buy the solution, you need to pay for one solution. You receive one set up and you install it and it's just in that one machine. It would be ideal if they could offer one subscription where you can connect to different machines with a group subscription."
"There could be API interfaces with this tool."
Earn 20 points
OpenText Silk Central is ranked 20th in Test Management Tools while SmartBear TestComplete is ranked 8th in Test Automation Tools with 70 reviews. OpenText Silk Central is rated 7.8, while SmartBear TestComplete is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of OpenText Silk Central writes "We have many possibilities to customize the utilization and we can also work easily at database level for custom reporting and to manage additional information and integration". 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". OpenText Silk Central is most compared with OpenText ALM / Quality Center and Zephyr Enterprise, whereas SmartBear TestComplete is most compared with Tricentis Tosca, Katalon Studio, Ranorex Studio, OpenText UFT One and froglogic Squish.
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