Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer Reviews

Because we have a lot of applications, we test ARD on three use cases at the same time. I don't remember exactly, it was a Java-oriented application for our agency in Africa.

The added value is testing design. Also, it's very useful when you're working with the Agile methodology. It's a great tool within the CA catalog. 

Modeling how the application works, and then getting every use case we can test. Designing the right tests, what are the most critical tests we must do.

We are waiting for new features that we know that CA is working on. For example, to be able to deliver scripts directly from ARD, and then provide automatic testing. After that, with other tools we have, we could have a complete chain to test our application, beginning with ARD and then to Micro Focus UFT, for example. And without manual design.

There are another two issues, I don't remember them exactly, but CA is working on them, so it's okay.

We have just started using it. It's simple, but we don't see any issue at this time.

We are very satisfied with technical support.

Technically, it was very simple. But the difficulty in starting to use it was more inside our company than a CA or a technical issue.

Start using it now.

I think it helps the communication between the testing organization and the requirements group. It helps us to simplify the work. Instead of dealing with individual test cases, you're working with a model. And a lot of people - and I agree with that - like the visual aspect of the modeling.

The modeling, without question. The modeling is a game-changer.

I think it's already coming, but more automation aspects involved with it. There is a tab for Automation, but I think it's not robust. I think that it's going to be a crucial element of the tool.

I have been playing with the solution for a short timeframe, two weeks. So far very good. I haven't tested the scalability of the solution, but so far, I would say very good.

I have not engaged technical support. As far as I have heard from other customers, the technical support is great.

We're using BPT from HPE ALM. It was not from me, the direction, but I think my leadership saw the opportunity of shifting to the model-based testing, and to have a more connected way to work the requirements. So that was the driving force to the shift.

It's a client install and we got it packaged very well within our company. So, I didn't have any problems at all with installing the client.

I would say it's an eight out of 10. It's a great solution for its purpose, but I think there are going to be more things which need to be added to it to make it a full-scale solution for the problem that we're dealing with. So, I give it an eight, but a strong eight.

The ability to provide developers information on how to design the request.

By using ARD it allowed junior developers to write code because they had all of the requirements in the business flow.

It could be quicker to use. Because we do so many things with it, sometimes it takes a long time to create a flow.

Two years.

At the beginning. I believe the stability issues have been addressed.

At the beginning they did not have a cost effective way to get a viewer in front of our developers without giving them a copy. Now there is a viewer that addresses that issue.

Techinical support is the best! Would give technical 10 out of 10.

It was just user stories in an agile environment. Not very good.

Moving the software between computers is challenging. We tend to get new PCs, or people leave our company and the migration to a new PC is not easy.

If you can speed up productivity the price is good. If not, it is pricey.

Just manual processes, like Visio. Not a good solution when compared to ARD.

Take a piece at a time. It can do a lot.

This tool improves our speed and automates our processes.

We can deliver software better and faster.

Most of our requests have been met, but I would like to see connection with RSS or maybe with Confluence.

It is pretty new, so together with CA, we improved it over the first half of the year. It was a partner deal, mostly to help them out.

The scalability is okay.

We worked with technical support in the development process. It has worked out very well.

Previous to this solution, we just used manual processes.

I was involved in the installation, which wasn’t so complex. Educating people is more of the problem. The education process is complex.

We were looking at HPE and we looked at homemade products. None came near to this solution. In this case, we didn't have any other alternatives. There was no other vendor which had these solutions, so there was no option to compare.

I would suggest buying this solution.