Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs SpecFlow comparison

Broadcom and Tricentis are both solutions in the Test Management Tools category. Broadcom is ranked #11 with an average rating of 8.0, while Tricentis is ranked #12 with an average rating of 7.5. Broadcom holds a 3.0% mindshare in TMT, compared to Tricentis’s 1.8% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 75% of Tricentis users who would recommend it.

Broadcom Agile Requirements...

Read 20 Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer reviews

325 Views
163 Comparison Views

90% willing to recommend

SpecFlow

Read 4 SpecFlow reviews

272 Views
115 Comparison Views

75% willing to recommend

Broadcom Agile Requirements...

SpecFlow

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

The comparison between Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer and SpecFlow in requirements management tools shows distinct strengths in various areas. SpecFlow appears to have the upper hand in most categories according to user reviews.

Features: Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is recognized for detailed modeling, extensive requirements automation capabilities, and support for complex requirement scenarios. SpecFlow garners value for its seamless integration with .NET development, Gherkin syntax support, and effective support for BDD practices. Users find SpecFlow's features more aligned with their development needs.

Room for Improvement: Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could enhance its flexibility, simplify its setup process, and improve its user interface. SpecFlow needs improved documentation, better community support, and enhancements to the integration process. Feedback indicates fewer improvement areas for SpecFlow, giving it an edge.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer has a steeper learning curve, can be complicated to deploy, but benefits from responsive customer service. SpecFlow offers quicker deployment, straightforward usage, and strong community support, making it easier for new users to adapt.

Pricing and ROI: Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer's setup costs can be prohibitive for some users, yet provides value for complex requirement management. SpecFlow offers better ROI with lower setup costs and satisfactory performance in agile development environments.

To learn more, read our detailed Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs. SpecFlow Report (Updated: April 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs. SpecFlow

April 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 847,862 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Agile Requirements...

Ranking in Test Management Tools

11th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Requirements Management (8th), Test Design Automation (1st)

SpecFlow

Ranking in Test Management Tools

12th

Average Rating

7.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is 3.0%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SpecFlow is 1.8%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Test Management Tools

Featured Reviews

Gireesh Subramonian

Assistant Director at Ernst & Young

Helps the development team to finish tasks within the required timeframe

The team I am working with was never into Agile before. We have a daily scrum-call and before that, we have to define all the tasks that we are going to work on for a number of sprints. For example, there is a Product Increment Planning meeting where we put all the user requirements into the product backlog. Then we put them back to the respective sprints. A product increment consists of about five iterations, or five sprints. And we pull each of these backlog items to these particular sprints or iterations, so that it is easy for the development team to pick up, based on the priority. The backlog is set, and it is pulled into particular sprints, based on business priority. So it helps the development team to take up and finish tasks within the required timeframe. It helps in productivity, traceability, and saves time.

Read full review

KreshenAmourdon

Software Automation Test Engineer at I2era

An automation solution with good integration capabilities that needs to focus on providing an option for chain testing to its users

In our company, we need to maintain the scripts of the product daily, and in case of failures, we need to check out the scripts. I would recommend the product to those planning to use it based on both they are planning to build. If you are going for unit testing or small scripts, then you can go with SpecFlow. I don't have much experience with the solution. It is a good and straightforward product. It is also an easy-to-use and user-friendly product that can easily adapt to any framework. I rate the overall solution a seven out of ten.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"In terms of meeting business challenges, it helped to shorten the dev/testing cycle by identifying requirements gaps early in the process, by having models shared within the development team. It helped increase test coverage and reduce the number of issues experienced by clients/customers."

"Integration with automation is one of the reasons we started to consider moving to this tool from our original tool for implementing test modeling. ARD appears to have better integration with Selenium. It also has the ability to record scripts/flows using Selenium Builder and import them into ARD, which will then create and optimize a model based on that."

"The modeling is a game-changer."

"The support that we get from Broadcom is great."

"It takes away all the time to construct test cases, so it is all automatic now, but it also levels the playing field."

"Defects can be traced in the solution."

"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."

"The optimization technique helps in giving us the minimum number of test cases with maximum coverage."

More Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer pros

"SpecFlow's best feature is the ability to add additional layers to the programming."

"The initial setup is easy."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is unit testing...It is also an easy-to-use and user-friendly product that can easily adapt to any framework."

"One of the most valuable features of SpecFlow for us is its risk identification capabilities."

Cons

"It would help if it would save different subsets of test cases, use cases, etc., of a given diagram, for different purposes and provide an easy way to name those subsets."

"A template in App Test should be created in advance. This has proven to be time consuming. The process is not fully automated, because there is a lot of manual intervention is required."

"Integration with Agile management tools can be improved, i.e., mainly test case maintenance and linking test cases to the automation script."

"The solution could improve security and authentication."

"The solution could be more user-friendly. For example, attachments could be icon-based to make it easier for the user to notice them."

"At present, there is no option for test data parameters from ARD for virtual databases. We have to create them in TDM and push them as well. Virtual database connectivity needs to be improved. They need to come up with some areas where they can create synthetic data parameters easily from the test cases that have been designed."

"Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could improve the UI. Other solutions have a much better UI. The new UI should have a new modern framework."

"Data flexibility is something which I would like to see, along with more integration with App Test."

More Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer cons

"SpecFlow would be improved with the addition of functionality reporting, which would be really helpful for automation testing."

"SpecFlow's installation and configuration can be a bit challenging due to its flexibility as an open-source tool."

"Regarding improvement, it would be good if SpecFlow could provide chain testing, which it currently doesn't allow."

"I'd prefer in TFS if we could be writing test cases, not in the old classical version. We should be writing in Gherkin and then automatically have it convert that Gherkin test case into SpecFlow feature files."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"At present, Broadcom works through partners rather than dealing directly with the consumer. When there are discounts given, it's up to the partner as to whether they want to give that discount to the customer. Sometimes, the partners decide to take the discount themselves. Pricewise, I would give ARD's price a rating of three out of five."

"The cost of the tool was well worth the benefit that we saw on the back-end."

"The pricing model is based on how many people are using it. We have an annual license. There are not any additional costs."

"We were able to scale down some resources to basically self-fund our ability to purchase the tool."

"It is less costly when compared to other tools on the market."

"Recommendation is to go with concurrent licenses as oppose to seat license; this gives more flexibility."

"This tool reduces the cost associated with test cases, automation script generation, and maintenance costs."

"SpecFlow is open-source and free of charge."

"SpecFlow is an open-source product."

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Test Management Tools solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

847,862 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

25%

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

14%

Healthcare Company

14%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?

The most valuable features of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer are ease of use, saving time for the team who builds test cases, and visibility of test cases.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?

The pricing model is based on how many people are using it. We have an annual license. There are not any additional costs.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer?

Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could improve the UI. Other solutions have a much better UI. The new UI should have a new modern framework.

See all answers

What do you like most about SpecFlow?

One of the most valuable features of SpecFlow for us is its risk identification capabilities.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SpecFlow?

SpecFlow is an open-source product. You just use SpecFlow's plugin capabilities or add it to your existing framework.

See all answers

What needs improvement with SpecFlow?

In terms of improvement, SpecFlow's installation and configuration can be a bit challenging due to its flexibility as an open-source tool. While it offers a balanced flexibility, setting it up migh...

See all answers

Comparisons

Tricentis Tosca vs Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer

Compared 43% of the time

Adaptavist Test Management for Jira vs Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer

Compared 35% of the time

IBM DOORS vs Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer

Compared 23% of the time

More Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer Competitors

Tricentis Tosca vs SpecFlow

Compared 76% of the time

Tricentis qTest vs SpecFlow

Compared 24% of the time

More SpecFlow Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer

April 2025

Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer report

Download Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer product report

Buyer's Guide

SpecFlow

March 2025

Download SpecFlow product report

Also Known As

Grid Tools Agile Designer, CA ARD, CA Agile Requirements Designer

SpecFlow+

Overview

CA Agile Requirements Designer is an end-to-end requirements gathering, test automation and test case design tool which drastically reduces manual testing effort and enables organizations to deliver quality software to market earlier and at less cost. The optimal set of manual or automated tests can be derived automatically from requirements modeled as unambiguous flowcharts and are linked to the right data and expected results. These tests are updated automatically when the requirements change, allowing organizations to deliver quality software which reflects changing user needs.

Broadcom

SpecFlow is a testing framework that supports Behaviour Driven Development (BDD). It lets us define application behavior in plain meaningful English text using a simple grammar defined by a language called Gherkin.

Tricentis

Sample Customers

Williams, Rabobank

Microsoft, Caterpillar, Siemens, Charles Schwab, IBM, Deloitte, Accenture, Philips, Dell, Deutsche Bank

Buyer's Guide

Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs. SpecFlow

April 2025

Free Report: Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs. SpecFlow

Find out what your peers are saying about Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs. SpecFlow and other solutions. Updated: April 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

847,862 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs. SpecFlow report.

See our list of best Test Management Tools vendors.

We monitor all Test Management Tools reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.