Broadcom Service Virtualization vs OpenText UFT One comparison

The compared Broadcom and OpenText solutions aren't in the same category. Broadcom is ranked #1 in SV , and holds a 36.3% mindshare in the category. OpenText is ranked #2 in FT , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 9.5% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Broadcom users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of OpenText users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

Broadcom Service Virtualiza...

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Service Virtualization (1st)

OpenText UFT One

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (2nd), Mobile App Testing Tools (2nd), Regression Testing Tools (2nd), API Testing Tools (4th), Test Automation Tools (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. Broadcom Service Virtualization is designed for Service Virtualization and holds a mindshare of 36.3%, up 33.4% compared to last year.
OpenText UFT One, on the other hand, focuses on Functional Testing Tools, holds 9.5% mindshare, down 9.8% since last year.

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reviewer1247823

Service Virtualization Architect at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees

Oct 22, 2020

Feature-rich, easy to configure and set up, and the support is good

We have great support, even though we do not have an enterprise agreement. In terms of stability and scalability, if we have had any issues, we have great support. With support, it depends on the level. If it is level one, you can call. If it is level two, they will issue a support ticket and it will be addressed within 8 to 12 hours. Tier three and tier four is knowledge-based, and you are referred to their portal, and also communities. We can look into it and search for customers with similar issues, and they have detailed solutions. If you are not able to resolve your issue then the support team will assist you with your issue.

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Don Ingerson

QA Automation Engineer at Global Fortune 500 Company

Sep 29, 2022

With regularly occurring releases, a QA team member can schedule tests, let the tests run unattended, and then examine the results

With certainty, the best feature of UFT is its compatibility with so many products, tools and technologies. It is a challenge currently to find a single tool on the market besides UFT that will successfully work for so many projects and environments. For example, UFT supports GUI testing of Oracle, PeopleSoft, PowerBuilder, SAP (v7.20), Siebel, Stingray, Terminal Emulator, Putty, and Windows Objects (particularly Dialog Boxes). Furthermore, UFT has the built-in functionality to import Excel input files. For Web browsers, UFT 12.54 supports IE9, IE10, IE11, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome (versions 31.0 to 54.9), Firefox (versions 27.0 to 49.0). Besides GUI testing, UFT supports database testing and API testing (Docker, WSDL, and SOAP). For the first time ever, HP started to expand the testing capabilities of UFT (QTP) beyond Windows beginning with UFT 12.00. A UFT user can now run tests on Web applications on a Safari browser that is running on a remote Mac computer.

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Pros

"Ability to vary the responses very easily (randomize, pick-lists, etc.)."

"You can have a lot of different people with different technologies use the tool, without any programming experience at all, all the way up to people who can program. And then, the more technical that you are, the more programming you have, the more you're able to customize the tool."

"CA Service Virtualization has helped us advance the development cycle when third-party interfaces are not available to us."

"There are several areas that are easily configurable."

"It is definitely scalable."

"We have had developers produce code later than we wanted to, but we've had some other stuff that was dependent on that. So what we were able to do was virtualize these assets and then go forward with our developer and not have to wait for these additional services to be available."

"I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable."

"The ability to create virtual services and deploy them as Docker containers, and include them in our Jenkins build pipelines, is a valuable feature."

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"With frequent releases, using automation to perform regression testing can save us huge amount of time and resources."

"Has improved our organization by allowing us to obtain fast, detailed information about the behavior of our products and to supply this to the customer, enabling us to work together without the need for special programming knowledge."

"For traditional automation, approximately half of our tests end up automated. Therefore, we are saving half the testing time by pushing it off to automation. That gives it an intrinsic benefit of more time for manual testers and business testers to work on possibly more important and interesting things. For some of our applications, they don't just have to do happy path testing anymore, they can go more in-depth and breadth into the process."

"The solution has good out-of-the-box protocols."

"UFT is very strongly built. It's widely used, so there's a lot of support."

"Hidden among the kitchen sink of features is a new Data Generation tool called the Test Combinations Generator."

"The most valuable feature is that it is fast during test execution, unlike LoadRunner."

"The production and the efficiency of making your test cases can be very high."

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Cons

"Needs some additional lightweight, portable elements."

"UI should be more user friendly: better usability, more testing oriented."

"The workstation component has a very out-dated UI and is in dire need of a facelift."

"The cost is an area that needs improvement. There are a couple of other tools which provide support for performance testing with the base version itself, but Broadcom needs a separate component to support virtualization for performance testing. This is a costly component."

"DevTest is pretty massive. It's hard to tell what different parts of it can be used to do different things. They should modulize it more."

"They can always work on usability and making simple things simple to do. This is true of every product that deals with complexity."

"I really want to see more of the "express" kind of model, where you get a little bit for free. I'd love to be able to see you be able to edit and author tests without having to be connected to a licensed server. And then, if you want to go and execute tests, then you go and connect to the server... I think it would unblock people to be able to do a lot more work from home or from remote places, where they can't really connect to the server."

"From a reporting perspective I think we would like to have a more user-friendly approach."

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"We have had some issues with stability, where it crashes sometimes."

"Micro Focus UFT One could improve by having more maintenance. Every time when we run the solution and develop something, the next time when we run it it doesn't recognize the object. I have to redesign the object again and then run the solution. It's really a headache, it's not consistent."

"UFT has a recording feature. They could make the recording feature window bigger for whatever activities that I am recording. It would improve the user experience if they could create a separate floating panel (or have it automatically show on the side) once the recording starts."

"The product wasn't easy for developers to learn and pick up in the area revolving around scripting for automation, and there was a lot of resistance from developers, causing my company to rely on specialist resources."

"There is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to friction-free continuous testing across the software life cycle, as a local installation is required to run UFT."

"I would want to see a significant improvement in the tool's features. The most significant enhancements are support for panel execution and integration with DevSecOps."

"They need to reduce the cost because it is pretty high. It's approximately $3,000 per user."

"Perhaps more coverage as far as different languages go. I'm talking more about object identification."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think the pricing is quite fair because this solution provides a lot of functionalities, and is quite stable."

"There are additional fees for advanced-level technical support."

"I don't have the exact dollar amount, but we have spent close to $1,000,000 for a three-year agreement, for an enterprise level."

"There is a yearly licensing cost, and I would give it a four out of five."

"The price is only $3,000. I don't know how many QA analysts you would have in any given company. Probably no more than five or 10. So if it's a large corporation, it can easily afford $15,000 to $25,000. I don't see that being an issue."

"Its price is reasonable compared to other vendors."

"For the price of five automation licenses, you simply would not be able to hire five manual testers for two years worth of 24/7 manual testing work on demand."

"We have ALM licensing, and the tool is free of cost."

"It took about five years to break even. UFT is costly."

"The price is reasonable."

"The solution is priced reasonably for what features it is providing. However, it might be expensive for some."

"The price is one aspect that could be improved."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

38%

Computer Software Company

14%

Retailer

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

14%

Energy/Utilities Company

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How does Micro Focus UFT One compare to Tricentis Tosca?

We reviewed MicroFocus UFT One but ultimately chose to use Tricentis Tosca because we needed API testing. MicroFocus UFT is a performance and functional testing tool. We tested it, and it was well...

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What do you like most about Micro Focus UFT One?

My company has not had an issue with OpenText UFT One since we have been using it for the past three to four years.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus UFT One?

The solution should have additional features, but not much. It already has some sort of artificial intelligence that must be developed. It needs to be in trend. The solution needs better marketing,...

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Also Known As

ITKO LISA, CA LISA, CA Service Virtualization

Micro Focus UFT One, UFT (QTP), Micro Focus UFT (QTP), QTP, Quick Test Pro, QuickTest Professional, HPE UFT (QTP)

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Overview

Broadcom Service Virtualization offers a robust platform for isolating test environments by virtualizing dependent services, including fragile or in-development services. It’s a versatile tool widely used for API testing, virtual data creation, API marking from web servers, and supporting performance testing.

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Users find Broadcom Service Virtualization incredibly efficient for creating and deploying virtual services as Docker containers that integrate seamlessly within Jenkins build pipelines, allowing isolated testing to occur without disturbing unrelated services. Features like IBM MQ service creation through recording simplify usage, even for those with limited development experience. Its support for TCP/IP protocol virtualization broadens its applicability, especially in specialized scenarios like terminal insurance. However, the solution does come with areas needing updates, such as outdated workstation components, integration of fragmented web applications, and a steep learning curve. Challenges also exist in stability, performance, and cost-related factors, particularly for performance testing. Users have called for improved flexibility in mainframe and JDBC virtualization, with a preference for enhancing existing functionalities over developing new features.

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**What are the most important features?**\n
- **API Testing and Virtual Data Creation:** Helps users perform comprehensive API tests and create virtual test data efficiently.\n
- **Docker Container Deployment:** Enables users to deploy virtual services as Docker containers, ensuring easy integration within CI/CD pipelines like Jenkins.\n
- **TCP/IP Protocol Virtualization:** Provides unique capabilities in virtualizing TCP/IP protocols, essential for specialized industries.\n
- **IBM MQ Service Recording:** Simplifies the creation of MQ services, making it accessible even to those with limited coding experience.\n
- **Performance Testing Support:** Handles heavy performance loads, critical for high-demand environments.

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**What benefits should users look for in reviews?**\n
- **Cost Efficiency:** Reduces costs by minimizing delays and expenses related to dependent service development.\n
- **Scalability and Performance:** Capable of handling performance loads up to 2000 to 3000 GPS.\n
- **Flexibility in Testing:** Offers flexibility in performing isolated tests without disrupting unrelated services.\n
- **Ease of Integration:** Simple integration within CI/CD pipelines, enhancing workflow efficiency.\n
- **Comprehensive Support:** Includes various tools for virtual service creation, even for those with limited technical skills.

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Broadcom Service Virtualization finds significant usage in industries necessitating complex testing environments, such as insurance, where it aids in third-party API virtualization and TCP/IP protocol virtualization. By creating isolated test environments, companies can reduce costs and delays and efficiently manage high-performance loads, ensuring a streamlined development process.

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Sample Customers

Union Bank, Swisscom, Autotrader, KPN, ING Bank, Best Buy, American Family Insurance, TESCO, Telefonica, Molina Healthcare, California DMV, Aktia, City Index, Con-way, DirecTV, GRU Airport, Liquidnet, NAB, Nordstrom, T-Mobile, TIM Brasil,

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