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Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer vs Zephyr Enterprise comparison

Broadcom and SmartBear are both solutions in the Test Management Tools category. Broadcom is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.0, while SmartBear is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.8. Broadcom holds a 2.9% mindshare in TMT, compared to SmartBear’s 8.7% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of SmartBear users who would recommend it.
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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

Zephyr Enterprise and Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer are two leading tools in the test management category. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer appears to have the upper hand due to its comprehensive features that many users find justify the higher cost.

Features: Zephyr Enterprise offers robust test management and reporting capabilities, integration with various CI/CD tools, and customization options. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer focuses on requirements modeling, test case automation, and advanced analytics, with standout features in automation and integration.

Room for Improvement: Zephyr Enterprise could improve in performance, collaboration features, and the integration process. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could enhance its visual design, offer a more intuitive workflow, and refine certain aspects of user interaction.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Zephyr Enterprise has a relatively smooth deployment process and adequate customer support, though initial setup could be simpler. Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer stands out for its straightforward deployment and exceptional customer service, with substantial documentation and responsive support.

Pricing and ROI: Zephyr Enterprise is known for cost-effectiveness and quicker ROI due to lower setup costs. Despite higher pricing, Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer offers good ROI because of its advanced features and efficiency gains, making it worth the investment for users seeking advanced functionalities.

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Agile Requirements...
Ranking in Test Management Tools
10th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Application Requirements Management (8th), Test Design Automation (1st)
Zephyr Enterprise
Ranking in Test Management Tools
6th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.6
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of February 2025, in the Test Management Tools category, the mindshare of Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer is 2.9%, up from 1.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zephyr Enterprise is 8.7%, down from 13.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Gireesh Subramonian - PeerSpot reviewer
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.
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Tin Bùi - PeerSpot reviewer
Highly stable solution and meets users' needs
It's mostly used for sales and customer verification. We gather customer information and verify that it's a real person Security is always a top priority in the IT business. We would like to see improvements in the security measures to ensure that customer information is protected. I have been…
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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

"Measuring test coverage helps in one of the most challenging tasks. It has logic that can help to select the right set of scenarios and know what coverage it will provide."
"The support that we get from Broadcom is great."
"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 ability to create models/diagrams at multiple levels (nest/embed them) helps in taking models from high-level business requirements and building them into detailed requirements models and test models. Plus, it helps reuse lower level models. It also allows maintaining models at appropriate levels, even for very complex systems/solutions."
"CA ARD has some beautiful features which I haven't found anywhere else. For example, when designing or creating our test cases and doing scenarios, we are able to restrict our flows. If we take a data link between two processes, we can actually restrict it, so that, in production, if our functionality breaks down, we can restrict that and all the flows related to it will be removed from the test data set."
"Defects can be traced in the solution."
"Integration with TDM, test data management tool, provides the ability to generate data or use identified (preset or parametrized) test data. It allows significant expansion of test coverage and flexibility, without creating new tests and needing to maintain them."
"Technical support is excellent. They provide solutions quickly for issues encountered."
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"It has integration with test automation tools."
"It has 90% of the basic features you need without having to pay a lot of extra money."
"Zephyr Enterprise is a stable solution."
"The solution does its job well."
"It has many features, but the main things that we need are the test cycles and integration with automation because we have automation for the web and mobile applications. We use it for test case management to run the test cases and get the results. At this moment, it is fulfilling our requirements. We are able to get the test execution report and the test pass and fail report. This summary is delivered to our management."
"We use the solution for test case management."
"If anyone is looking for a good, lightweight, flexible and agile test management product, I think they would do very well with Zephyr Enterprise."
"It has a very intuitive user experience."
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Cons

"They do not have an engine to house test scripts to really pull together the testing pieces of it."
"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."
"Needs improvement in aligning models so they look clear and readable without having to move boxes around."
"Broadcom Agile Requirements Designer could improve the UI. Other solutions have a much better UI. The new UI should have a new modern framework."
"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."
"The solution could improve security and authentication."
"I think it's already coming, but it needs more automation aspects. 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."
"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."
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"The reporting, and the ability to reorganize the test repository, which are a little stifling. There is definitely room for improvement there."
"We have a lot of automation for our products, and we require a utility for its integration with automation. Currently, we have to write this utility ourselves. It would be great if they can provide such a utility."
"The reporting, and the ability to reorganize the test repository, which are a little stifling. There is definitely room for improvement there."
"It's difficult to export the test cases in Zephyr, especially with screenshots or attachments, making sharing test cases not very easy."
"Creating better default varieties of reporting would make the product much better and more popular."
"Security needs improvement to protect customer information better."
"We faced some errors while uploading the test cases."
"We would like support for the agile and behavior-driven development (BDD) approaches."
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Pricing and Cost Advice

"​The cost of the tool was well worth the benefit that we saw on the back-end."
"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."
"Recommendation is to go with concurrent licenses as oppose to seat license; this gives more flexibility."
"We were able to scale down some resources to basically self-fund our ability to purchase the tool."
"This tool reduces the cost associated with test cases, automation script generation, and maintenance costs."
"The pricing model is based on how many people are using it. We have an annual license. There are not any additional costs."
"It is less costly when compared to other tools on the market."
"DFS is more expensive than Zephyr. DFS is around $32 per person, whereas Zephyr is $10 per person. There is a major difference in the price, which is the main reason why we are trying to shift to Zephyr."
"It costs a couple of thousand dollars for a little more than 125 users, per month."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Energy/Utilities Company
24%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

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.
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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.
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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.
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What do you like most about Zephyr Enterprise?
The solution does its job well.
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What needs improvement with Zephyr Enterprise?
Some areas for improvement, include its export capabilities. Exporting test cases, especially those with screenshots or attachments, can be cumbersome, hindering easy sharing and scalability.
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What is your primary use case for Zephyr Enterprise?
I use it for test management within Jira.
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Also Known As

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

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.
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Zephyr Enterprise is a robust enterprise test management platform that manages all aspects of the testing lifecycle. The solution is provided as an on-premise installation as well as a SaaS-based installation. Zephyr Enterprise enables you to make a rigid process flow flexible enough to accommodate changes. In addition, it provides all the functionality QA teams and testers need in order to create and execute test cases with less effort, allowing more time to do actual testing by alleviating significant time-wasting steps.

Zephyr Enterprise Features

Zephyr Enterprise has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

  • Visual dashboards
  • One-click integration
  • Multi Jira instance
  • Scalability
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Visualization
  • User Management
  • Move & Copy
  • Software Testing Management
  • Requirements-Based Testing
  • Industry-strength scalability
  • Documented APIs
  • Regular maintenance and upgrades

Zephyr Enterprise Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Zephyr Enterprise. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

  • Ready-to-use reports and customizable dashboards: With Zephyr Enterprise, reports and dashboards are updated in real time and you can share test results and link with your team in Jira to connect any known issues. In addition, the solution helps you increase workflow efficiency because it improves info sharing during standup meetings.
  • Supports bi-directional and multi-instance Jira integration: Not only does Zephyr Enterprise support bi-directional and multi-instance Jira integration, but it also gives you the ability to support multiple projects simultaneously – up to 200,000 test cases.
  • Global repository for test cases: Zephyr Enterprise helps you create, categorize, and store your test cases via a global repository that can be shared across your entire organization. You can also quickly reuse test cases using the structured folder management.
  • Test execution: Zephyr Enterprise makes it possible for you to execute tests step by step, manage pass/fail status, and launch automated execution, then file those defects into Jira. Zephyr Enterprise test executions allow teams to operate in a more efficient way.

  • Universal test automation: Zephyr Enterprise supports a wide range of automation frameworks, helping you decrease operational costs and increase test coverage.

    Reviews from Real Users

    Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the Zephyr Enterprise solution.

    A Manager of Enterprise Applications at a retailer says what’s most valuable is that “It's very easy and simple to use, which is beneficial. It has 90% of the basic features you need without having to pay a lot of extra money.” He also adds, “Zephyr Enterprise is very stable and the initial setup is straightforward.”

    Jawaad A., Test Automation Lead at Trapeze, explains, "It has many features, but the main things that we need are the test cycles and integration with automation because we have automation for the web and mobile applications. We use it for test case management to run the test cases and get the results. At this moment, it is fulfilling our requirements. We are able to get the test execution report and the test pass and fail report. This summary is delivered to our management."
SmartBear
 

Sample Customers

Williams, Rabobank
Hyundai, Fujitsu, Google, David Jones, Burger King, Ingenico, Websense, Dow Jones, Harris, Saab
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