ReadyAPI Reviews

Name: ReadyAPI
Brand: SmartBear
Rating: 3.9 (34 reviews)

3.9 out of 5

34 reviews
86% willing to recommend

178 followers

What is ReadyAPI?

ReadyAPI is an all-in-one automated testing platform that allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface.

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ReadyAPI is the #7 ranked solution in top Performance Testing Tools and #9 ranked solution in top Functional Testing Tools. PeerSpot users give ReadyAPI an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 34 most recent ReadyAPI reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.4. (Among the highest in the category). ReadyAPI is most commonly compared to Apache JMeter: ReadyAPI vs Apache JMeter. ReadyAPI is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 69% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 19% of all views.

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Featured reviews

SandeepSingh9

Sr. QA Engineer at Arizona Department of Education

One of the features of ReadyAPI that's worth mentioning is that it allows you to parameterize. I'm working with more than two hundred resources, so I don't have to go and make a small change at each point every time. I have the option to just parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere. Another valuable feature of ReadyAPI is that it provides a customized environment. In my company, you work in different environments, such as QA, UAT, and LT, so the URLs for every environment are different. In ReadyAPI, you can customize your environment, set it up, then start working on it. Another feature worth mentioning that's offered in ReadyAPI is automating your test value as the tool allows Groovy scripting. In your test case, you can use a Groovy script that says that in a particular test case, you have ten resources, but you just want to exhibit five and that you don't want to exhibit the remaining five. You can write a small Groovy script that lets you execute just five resources out of the ten resources. I also like that ReadyAPI allows you to read the data from CFC and Excel. It also allows you to create or customize your data, but that only works at a certain point because every application has its specific data. ReadyAPI cannot generate every data, but when I'm posting and I want to generate a random name, such as a first name, I can do it in ReadyAPI. The tool also has many different features which I find valuable, including Git integration.

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Srivishnuteja Akella

Automation Analyst at Tata Consultancy

The solution offers a wide range of API testing capabilities. The built-in Smart Assertion capability allows us to validate API responses quite easily without additional data inputs. You can easily add a table with unlimited rows and columns to pass line input. In contrast, Parasoft SOAtest sometimes requires an Excel document as input. Reporting is more robust than other products because test reports can be exported in multiple ways such as JUnit, Excel, or Azure. The most surprising thing is the built-in Azure capabilities because Azure uses a different framework. Previously when we worked on Java or Selenium projects, we used Azure as a dependency and imported that utility. Now, we can complete these projects within the solution's built in functionality. The integration with GitHup and HTML is very good. The backward capability ensures scripts developed in very old versions also run on new versions.

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Luis Sanchez

Senior Quality Assurance Test Engineer at Dormakaba

I have encountered numerous issues, and reaching out for support for resolution takes considerable time, sometimes more than a month. Considering the high cost of the license, it is frustrating not to receive the expected support. At times, I find myself turning to SoapUI tools because they provide quicker solutions.

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ReadyAPI mindshare

Product category:

As of November 2024, the mindshare of ReadyAPI in the Performance Testing Tools category stands at 2.8%, down from 3.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Nov 21, 2024

Valuable Features

"The performance testing capabilities are very good."
"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are its robust functionality and collaboration capabilities."
"The most valuable features of ReadyAPI are the scripting tools and the connectivity to external data sources, such as Excel and PDF files. There are plenty of useful features that are useful, such as automating flexibility and usability. Overall, the solution is easy to use."

Room for Improvement

"The content on ReadyAPI in SmartBear Academy is outdated."
"There is room for improvement in ReadyAPI, particularly in the user interface."
"The reporting in ReadyAPI could be better. It can become sloppy, sometimes it works and other times it does not."

ROI

Pricing

"The pricing is very competitive."
"The solution is dynamically priced so you only pay for what you use."
"It costs approximately $200 000 Taiwan Dollars for three years."

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

16%

Insurance Company

Government

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Healthcare Company

Real Estate/Law Firm

Retailer

Educational Organization

Transportation Company

Energy/Utilities Company

University

Media Company

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Logistics Company

Hospitality Company

Aerospace/Defense Firm

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Wholesaler/Distributor

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Consumer Goods Company

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ReadyAPI Features

Some of ReadyAPI’s key features include:

Continuous integration
Comprehensive dashboard
API discovery
Central, standardized reporting function
Plugin architecture
ReadyAPI Projects
Multiple options for scripting to create functional, load, or security tests

ReadyAPI Benefits

Some of the benefits of using ReadyAPI include:

Easy and flexible test creation and execution: ReadyAPI has visual editors and wizards that make testing easy, saving time and simplifying onboarding.
Test APIs continuously: With ReadyAPI you can run consistent tests on local environments, Docker containers, or other distributed staging environments.
Team friendly: ReadyAPI enables software teams with the ability to easily share testing projects and artifacts, share licenses between team members, and report issues directly from the testing IDE.
Powerful, data-driven testing capabilities: With ReadyAPI, you can save time by checking for numerous real world conditions.
Supports multiple specifications, schemas, and protocols: ReadyAPI includes legacy SOAP services, microservices powered by Apache Kafka, and mainstream REST services, as well as IoT use cases leveraging MQTT. It allows you to test and virtualize the most popular API protocols and also to import APIs from specifications and schemas instantly.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Dell EMC Unity users.

PeerSpot user Vallalarasu P., Test Architect at a tech services company, states, “ReadyAPI is one of the best tools for API testing because they have made a single platform for functional testing, load testing security, and also service actualization. We also have virtual work that can be an add-in within ReadyAPI. For integration for CACD, they have something called TestEngine, which can also be an add-on for ReadyAPI. We use Python request library and things like that but if you're a bigger organization with hundreds of APIs, then ReadyAPI is a one-stop solution for complete API testing. If you consider TestComplete and other products for an equivalent outcome, you might get something nearly comparable, butReadyAPI is the outstanding product.”

An IT Manager at an insurance company says the solution has “Fast automation, less coding, and is pretty lightweight. When you are working in sprints, you need to have continuous feedback. ReadyAPI definitely helps in automating very fast and rapidly. We have less coding, and we can more easily define our assertions. We don't use it for full-blown performance testing, but normally if you are doing your functional testing, it gives you the request and response time. Anybody who is doing functional testing can see what the request and response times are and raise a flag based upon their business affiliates, that is, whether it is meeting their affiliates. You can identify this during functional testing."

Balamurugan A., Manager at a financial services firm, comments, “We like the user interface. The most valuable features are the integration with Jira and the test management tools.

They have interfaces with our performance tools, so we were able to leverage all of these integrations and plugins. It is very good from an integrative solution standpoint.”

ReadyAPI was previously known as Ready API.