Testim vs Zeenyx AscentialTest comparison

Testim and Zeenyx are both solutions in the Functional Testing Tools category. Testim is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.5, while Zeenyx is ranked #17 with an average rating of 10.0. Testim holds a 2.8% mindshare in FT, compared to Zeenyx’s 1.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Testim users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Zeenyx users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 18, 2024

Zeenyx AscentialTest and Testim compete in the domain of automated testing solutions. Data shows Zeenyx AscentialTest's pricing and customer support are favorably perceived, while Testim's advanced features are considered to justify its investment.

Features: Zeenyx AscentialTest offers detailed test case management, seamless integration, and strong PowerBuilder support, appealing to enterprises requiring thorough testing capabilities. Testim focuses on AI-driven test creation, efficient test maintenance, and record-playback capabilities, benefiting organizations that prioritize speed and innovation.

Room for Improvement: Zeenyx AscentialTest could enhance its user interface and improve support for emerging frameworks and technologies. Better mobile testing capabilities might also broaden its appeal. Testim might strengthen its integration with legacy systems, provide more detailed reporting options, and improve the flexibility of custom test parameters.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zeenyx AscentialTest offers flexible on-premise deployment with responsive support, ideal for enterprises preferring environmental control. Testim's cloud-based deployment facilitates quick setup supported by comprehensive online resources, perfect for agile businesses seeking streamlined rollouts.

Pricing and ROI: Zeenyx AscentialTest is known for competitive pricing and high ROI due to low initial costs and strong support. Testim's potentially higher cost is offset by long-term savings through AI-powered automation, which enhances ROI for organizations focused on efficiency.

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Categories and Ranking

Testim

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

13th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Automation Tools (10th)

Zeenyx AscentialTest

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

17th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Test Management Tools (12th)

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Functional Testing Tools category, the mindshare of Testim is 2.8%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zeenyx AscentialTest is 1.4%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Functional Testing Tools Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Testim	2.8%
Zeenyx AscentialTest	1.4%
Other	95.8%

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Jyoti Mittal

Director - Quality Engineering at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

Smart locators and small learning curve streamline test automation, minimizing maintenance and boosting efficiency.

Testim has a specific feature called a smart locator. Anyone experienced in test automation knows this is one of the most complex parts of developing automated scripts. The Testim feature automatically finds the locators, which helps us build stable test scripts. Stable scripts are crucial for receiving faster and more reliable feedback. I have also seen reduced maintenance due to smart locators, as it automatically finds locators for us even with minor application changes.

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Tobias Roth

Software developer at Weiss GmbH Softwarelösungen

Robust automation with reusable steps and seamless integration

The concept of reusable steps in Zeenyx AscentialTest has significantly enhanced our test automation efficiency. Encapsulating common actions into modular steps reduces redundancy in test scripts and ensures consistency across scenarios. This approach streamlines maintenance efforts, allowing updates to be applied universally, making our test suite more agile and adaptable to evolving project requirements. The concept of reusable steps is a key factor in maximizing reusability and maintainability in our test automation strategy. AscentialTest's object recognition in snapshots is a robust feature that goes beyond standard elements, even accurately identifying objects within Datawindows. This capability ensures precise interaction with various components of an application's interface, further enhancing the reliability and effectiveness of our automated tests.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The pre-defined tests are a great help, specifically the custom JS test that allows us to be able to use custom code to test complicated elements or scenarios."

"The tool's most valuable feature is the recently added AI feature."

"The stability has been great; we can add stable tests very easily and improve our automation coverage, which allows us to deploy a new version into production every few days with minimum manual labor."

"I have seen reduced maintenance due to smart locators, as it automatically finds locators for us even with minor application changes."

"The Testim technical support is very responsive and worked with a specific team member on the First Databank side to answer hard technical questions and took enhancement requests as needed."

"The ease of learning and the small learning curve allowed us to scale the test scripts and the test suite quickly."

"Testim introduces three services covering validation steps, eliminating the necessity to write complex code."

"The feature I like most about Testim is the record and playback capability, which does not require writing a lot of code."

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"Customer service is excellent; very helpful in addressing the issues and never hesitant in accepting the issues from their end; very responsive and quick to provide assistance."

"If you use the PowerBuilder application, do choose AscentialTest without thinking twice."

"Productivity increased by almost 10 times after using AT for test automation as manually it was taking almost a day or three days (sometimes a week) effort to do data verification of expected and actual excel files with huge number of columns and rows (approximately 50 columns and thousands of rows)."

"Great support, powerful tool, easy enough for entry-level staff to use."

"I have been working with different vendors in my role, I can say without hesitation that the Zeenyx Support Staff are the best group I've worked with."

"The most valuable feature of AscentialTest for us is that it fully supports PowerBuilder."

"Zeenyx AscentialTest provides excellent support for PowerBuilder applications, with very powerful and flexible object recognition, a highly visual drag and drop environment for creating application objects from snapshots, and tests that are easy and quick to manage and maintain."

"As a platform corporation a primary strategic goal is to develop coherent tests across platforms, and this is where Ascential Test shines."

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Cons

"The accessibility reporting features could be more robust to be reported at the script level and allow users to map down to the step level."

"Testim sometimes fails due to stability issues. It doesn't always work consistently, especially after running multiple tests."

"There were some issues in the product's initial setup phase in regard to the area of documentation since it wasn't very easy to understand everything mentioned in it."

"There are common properties between multiple elements that we should be able to edit - such as 'when this step fails,' 'when to run this step,' and 'override timeout'. I should be able to update these properties if I select multiple elements."

"The UI could use a better design with a better user experience in mind, for instance - instead of going in and out of the editor every time I want to view test data for a test, I could just view the test data in the table, or the ability to copy steps through tests."

"Faster scripting would be beneficial, as test creation is faster now."

"In the last couple of months, I have experienced some downtime where it wasn't working."

"The accessibility reporting features could be more robust to be reported at the script level and allow users to map down to the step level."

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"I would like to see an improvement in the user interface."

"The product does have limitations on how certain project files are locked (checked-out)."

"Classes are not as object-oriented as I would like, but I am a programmer and not QA so I expect a lot."

"We did observe that aborting the test run of a test set in the middle of execution was taking a long time."

"Streamlining the retrieval of results from individual test set runs would be beneficial."

"Limitations are found to be primarily in the ux of the tool; for example when in doubt one often right clicks in an unfamiliar product to get unstuck, and AscentialTest lacks some of these fineries."

"I would like to see an improvement in the User Interface."

"It would be better if the support for Web Tables and Siebel Tables are readily available and made more simpler as they are encountered quite often while automating the apps."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate the product’s pricing an eight out of ten compared to other tools."

"The solution is not expensive."

"The tool offers a fixed pricing model for our company."

"Once it starts generating ROI, which for us took between three and six months, one will not even think about the investment."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

17%

University

11%

Construction Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Testim?

The tool's most valuable feature is the recently added AI feature.

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What needs improvement with Testim?

More advanced AI-based features and features on the API side would help us create better end-to-end test suites.

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What is your primary use case for Testim?

As a Quality Engineering leader, I'm responsible for testing our 20-25 applications. Manual testing is becoming increasingly challenging due to their growing scope and complexity. We've been automa...

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What do you like most about Zeenyx AscentialTest?

AscentialTest's object recognition in snapshots is a robust feature that goes beyond standard elements, even accurately identifying objects within Datawindows.

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What needs improvement with Zeenyx AscentialTest?

While Zeenyx AscentialTest has proven to be a valuable asset in our testing processes, there are areas where improvements could enhance the overall user experience. One notable aspect is the user i...

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What is your primary use case for Zeenyx AscentialTest?

We use AscentialTest for automated testing of Powerbuilder applications via CI/CD pipeline with GitLab. We have fully integrated all tests in our CI/CD pipeline. Thanks to the integration, much wor...

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Overview

Testim is an end-to-end agile testing automation solution which utilizes machine learning for test authoring, execution, and maintenance. Users can create tests in minutes, run thousands of tests in parallel across different browsers, integrate with their existing CI/CD and collaboration tools, and more.

Testim

AscentialTest™ by Zeenyx Software is an enterprise level Test Management System that encompasses Test Planning, Development, Data Management, Execution and Defect Tracking for applications running on Windows, the web, java, dotNet, terminals and PowerBuilder. This “next generation” testing solution allows users to build robust automated and manual tests from reusable components created by its powerful object recognition engine without recording or scripting. Our patented ‘snapshot’ technology generates graphical representations of the application under test which allows users to build ‘Steps’ by dragging and dropping objects in a visual test editor. Reusable Steps are combined to form a multitude of automated and manual tests that are easy to create and maintain. With AscentialTest, companies realize a dramatic reduction in test creation and maintenance times, resulting in increased productivity and lower costs.

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Microsoft, salesforce, JFrog, USA Today, Globality

TJX Companies, Nuance Communications, Ericsson Inc., Transatlantic Reinsurance Company, Accenture, Nutrition Coordinating Center, Univ. of MN, iConectiv, Fortress Software, and LMP Corp.

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