SmartBear TestComplete vs Worksoft Certify comparison

SmartBear and Worksoft are both solutions in the Test Automation Tools category. SmartBear is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.6, while Worksoft is ranked #8 with an average rating of 7.7. SmartBear holds a 6.5% mindshare in TAt, compared to Worksoft’s 4.3% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of SmartBear users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Worksoft users who would recommend it.

SmartBear TestComplete

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87% willing to recommend

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between SmartBear TestComplete and Worksoft Certify based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Test Automation Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Categories and Ranking

SmartBear TestComplete

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

7th

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

6th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Regression Testing Tools (5th)

Worksoft Certify

Ranking in Functional Testing Tools

8th

Ranking in Test Automation Tools

8th

Average Rating

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

API Testing Tools (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Test Automation Tools category, the mindshare of SmartBear TestComplete is 6.5%, down from 7.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Worksoft Certify is 4.3%, up from 4.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Prakhar Goel

Sr Test Lead at Emerson

Jun 25, 2024

Used for integration automation, user-based automation, and web automation

We have applications related to power plants, and we use the solution to do integration automation, user-based automation, and web automation The solution's most valuable features are the drag-and-drop feature, keyword-driven approach, and reusability of the scripts. The solution has introduced a…

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Shailesh-Parkhe

Manager-Projects at Cognizant

Nov 16, 2023

Powerful automation tool with a user-friendly interface, codeless automation, and adaptability to complex business processes, particularly in SAP environments

The tool itself is highly effective, especially when it comes to comprehensibility for newcomers. Even during the initial learning phase, I found it remarkably user-friendly. It facilitates quick onboarding and training of new resources. It offers features for building automation scripts, such as search and certify capture. A notable advantage is that it doesn't rely on other tools like Micro Focus UFT or Micro Focus ALM for script execution. Worksoft can run independently without the need for support from Microsoft Office, although the option to use it for maintaining data exists. The tool also includes debugging features and comprehensive reporting capabilities, generating PDF reports for easy analysis.

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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

"Complete works perfectly with CUTE. That includes all dialogues, right-click menus, or system dialogues, etc., which are handled well."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is regression testing tools."

"The reporting is ready to use and doesn't require any setup."

"TestComplete has strong reporting capabilities. The reports they generate are really good."

"The product is stable for what we are currently using it for, and it is sufficient for us."

"The solution helps improve the stability of our product. It also decreases the work of our manual quality assurance engineers."

"The solution is mainly stable."

"The solution is great as a record and playback tool. It also has valuable regression testing."

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"The scripting methodology is easy to learn. It is easy to maintain because it is presented in a simple, narrative way. You don't need to know programming." "It has reduced our test maintenance time by more than 50 percent because we don't have to do manual test processes. We have saved over 150 man-hours monthly. It has increased our delivery times. We went from 200 man-hours down (three weeks work time frame) to approximately 40 man-hours (three days work time frame)."

"People who don't have coding knowledge are capable of doing automation with Certify. It reduces coding and scripting dependencies."

"For this SAP upgrade or implementation, the business users are creating building blocks in their areas, then they're changing the building blocks into long end-to-end scripts to do a complete end-to-end testing to speed up the UAT. It definitely has a bigger coverage of UAT testing."

"The turn around time for getting the automation tester familiarized with the tool is very quick, as it doesn't have any coding. It is fairly simple to understand."

"It does allow for good reusability. When it's designed properly and utilized properly, we can put things in a way that allows for reusability, meaning a lot of reuse of VA01, if they're very similar flows, to keep it simple."

"A specific feature that I found to be the most valuable in the solution for our company's work processes stems from the fact that it is useful as a low-code automation tool."

"During our yearly upgrades, we have now gotten them down to ten days or less. We have Worksoft run all our integration tests, where it used to take probably six weeks to do that manually."

"It's script-free, which is really important for our end users because we are usually dealing with colleagues who are not developers and who do not always have the technical background of developing and scripting. It's very useful that there is a nice UI and the tool is script-free."

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Cons

"Product is not stable enough and it crashes often."

"The learning curve of the solution's user interface is a little high for new users."

"The way objects are added and used when utilizing descriptive programming could be improved. It is a little unwieldy, compared to UFT."

"The code editor, though following eclipse-style, is still a work in progress and gives a very poorly formatted code once viewed via other editing tools."

"In SmartBear TestComplete the integration with Jenkins could be easier. Additionally, some of the controls could have better customization options. For example, if a grid is used and it contains multiple controls within it, it can be a checkbox, radio button, or any kind of control, the way the Object Spy is operating currently there is a lot of room for improvement."

"The solution needs Mac OS support. Right now, the solution has only been developed to accommodate Windows OS."

"The solution needs more training manuals or some form of online forum for learning. It needs more documentation."

"The licensing costs are a little bit high and should be reduced."

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"Worksoft Certify's tech support's response time could be improved."

"The primary area for improvement is the support service."

"When it comes to mobile testing, we have a small bottleneck there. You have to buy third-party separate licenses if you want to test on a mobile. Business wise we see room for improvement there, although it's that really critical for us."

"One feature that we have been asking for has been to treat tests as code and store the source code for tests in a configuration management tool. Right now, for version control of testing, it's all internally within the tool. If we have a test of a business process and want to revive that test, our methodology now is purely manual work. We go into the tool, create a copy of the existing test, and call the next one: v2. Now, we have two of them and the only way you can tell them apart is by its naming convention."

"The overall speed and performance of this solution could be improved. In a future release, it would be useful to be able to do API testing."

"The updates for SAP Fiori have been great, where previously we saw a lot of issues. A year ago, it used to fail miserably."

"We can use it for the web application, but we are facing stability-related challenges. The properties are getting changed. For example, when I am performing any operation on the text box but the development team has done some changes, our Worksoft scripts are getting changed. This is the main challenge that we are facing while developing tests for the web application in Worksoft Certify, where any changes in the backend are indirectly impacting our scripts. For the web application, there is a scarcity of resources. Unlike an SAP application that doesn't require much experience, for the web application, you require experienced people."

"I would like BPP to have more filtering options during the report creation. This would make our customers happy."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's pricing is too high."

"The pricing is pretty reasonable."

"The solution is around $1500. Some are perpetual licenses, and some get a yearly report card."

"SmartBear TestComplete is an expensive tool."

"It costs a few hundred per year, but I am not sure. It is not at all expensive as compared to other tools."

"Our ROI is about $10,000 a year."

"The option we chose was around $2,000 USD."

"The license price for a physical machine is cheap, and for virtual machine, it is very expensive."

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"On our last big SAP implementation project, we inserted an automation resource into the beginning of the project. Between automating regression processes, data staging, and using our automation to help repair cutover and conversion issues. We saved the project about $1,700,000."

"This solution has enabled our clients to automate and save time (approximately 40 to 50 percent)."

"I don't have much idea about the pricing, but it is a licensed tool, and it is somewhat costly."

"We have seen that the initial Worksoft implementation has helped our customers reduce their testing cycle time by 50 percent. With further continuous improvement, we have seen cycle time reduced up to 75 percent. That is the level of productivity achieved using Worksoft Certify."

"Saving money and better quality, these are the benefits of Certify."

"I think they came out with a different type of licensing specifically for testing. Therefore, you don't have to use a more expensive user license, you can use an automation license. So potentially, if we had 100 use cases, we could spin up a 100 different machines, have them all run and be done in five minutes. That would be the goal, but I don't know if that would actually succeed or not."

"This solution has enabled us to automate in order to tremendously save time. Only first time when you are recording and creating the script will you spend some time with it, the rest of the time, you are just executing."

"We saved $1.3 million using Worksoft Certify in 2017."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

19%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

18%

Computer Software Company

12%

Retailer

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about SmartBear TestComplete?

TestComplete has strong reporting capabilities. The reports they generate are really good.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SmartBear TestComplete?

The solution's pricing is too high. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing nine and a half out of ten.

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What needs improvement with SmartBear TestComplete?

The learning curve of the solution's user interface is a little high for new users.

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How does Tricentis Tosca compare with Worksoft Certify?

Tosca fulfills our business needs better because it is an end-to-end solution across technologies. We like that it is scriptless, so even non-experienced staff can use it. To put it simply, with To...

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What do you like most about Worksoft Certify?

A specific feature that I found to be the most valuable in the solution for our company's work processes stems from the fact that it is useful as a low-code automation tool.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Worksoft Certify?

The tool is worth the money.

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Overview

What is SmartBear TestComplete?

TestComplete is a reliable, sturdy automated testing platform created by SmartBear Software. SmartBear Software is a worldwide technological leader known for developing quality enterprise-class development and testing solutions.

TestComplete simplifies the process of creating tests for numerous applications, including, but not limited to; Desktop, Android, IOS, Web browsers, and Windows. Application tests can be manual, scripted, and even recorded by using keyword-driven or data-driven functionality. There are even additional options for error reporting and automated playback. The object repository is extremely accurate and is fully customizable. TestComplete can easily be used by experienced developers and even by manual novice testers to develop quality automated UI tests quickly.

TestComplete offers three different testing scenarios:

Desktop: Users can easily and quickly automate UI tests using today’s most popular desktop applications, such as; Windows, Java, Python,.Net, VBScript, and more.
Web: Users can effortlessly create renewable tests for all of today’s popular web applications, including JavaScript frameworks on 2000+ trusted browser and platform integrations.
Mobile: Users can safely build and automate serviceable UI tests on actual or virtual android or IOS devices, locally or in the cloud. Users can create code or codeless tests. TestComplete seamlessly integrates with many of today’s popular frameworks.

Key Features

Easily create automated UI tests: TestComplete offers scriptless Record and Replay or simple keyword-driven tests to quickly develop any type of UI test users may require. Tests can be recorded once, then replayed when needed across various applications on mobile, web, or desktop environments. TestComplete integrates with many different languages, such as Java, Python, C+, and more.
Keyword driven tests: Users can easily divide testing steps, actions, objects, and data with an integrated keyword-driven test structure. This makes it easy for every user to participate in the test automation process; there is no programming experience needed. Everything is made simple with easy-to-use point-and-click options.
Data driven tests: Easily distinguish data from test commands to keep administrative efforts simple. Users can improve overall coverage by running various automated mobile, desktop, or web UI tests.
Record and Replay: Users can reuse created automated tests across every environment as often as desired. This helps to expand overall test coverage and represents a huge cost and time savings.

Reviews from Real Users

Sandhiya T S., Sr Solutions Engineer at Lexington Soft, relates, “The record and replay aspects of the solution are quite useful for people. With them, you don't have to write any scripts. Basically, you can record your actions and play them back later. The initial setup is also very easy.”

Sai S R., Staff Test Architect at a tech services company, says, "The most valuable features of the SmartBear TestComplete are self-healing, they reduce the maintenance required. The different languages SmartBear TestComplete supports are good because some of our libraries are written in Python, JavaScript, and C#. It's very easy to put them all under one project and use them."

Worksoft Certify is the industry's first codeless automated testing system, created for non-technical people to test end-to-end business processes at an enterprise scale.

It was designed to test complicated processes spanning numerous apps and integrating into contemporary DevOps tool chains. Worksoft Certify manages dynamic input, process flows, and frequent variances in business processes with ease.

Worksoft Certify automates the testing of your exact business processes across all of your enterprise applications. This solution makes it simple for customers and suppliers to package a process with all of its related dependencies, sub-processes, record sets, record filters, layouts, and variables.

Worksoft Certify automates tests as effortlessly and quickly as the underlying applications permit, allowing you to evaluate business processes in record time with flawless dependability and consistency. Worksoft Certify speeds up test automation by utilizing a patented Object Action Framework, which effectively models the application under test as a set of pages containing GUI objects and test steps that perform actions on those objects.

Worksoft Certify Features

Worksoft Certify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

LiveTouch: Without coding, graphically edit and update tests.

No "fail" tests: See fail validations flagged when the end-to-end test continues.

Process comparison: Visually compare tests side by side and eliminate unnecessary tests to reduce maintenance

Magic search: AI-driven process search can find duplicate processes and keep automation libraries clean.

Exploratory testing: Real-time automated exploratory tests.

API testing: Utilize the virtual services and current SoapUI tests.

Test data generator: Obtain data from SAP for testing.

Create content: Make use of the more than 300 prebuilt SAP end-to-end testing scenarios.

Visual capture: Support agile testing by using automation artifacts from process discovery.

Full compatibility: Web, Java, .Net, client/server applications, SAP GUI, FIORI, web portal Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Ariba, SuccessFactors, Hybris, AJAX, and more.

Worksoft Certify Benefits

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

Speed: Automate at least 80% of testing to accelerate innovation.

Savings: Reduce overall testing and maintenance expenditures by 60% to 80%.

Confidence: Identify defects faster and reduce production defects by 60%.

DevOps-ready: Run tests as part of continuous integration, testing, or delivery cycle.

Support for RPA: Convert test scripts into robotic process automation.

Reviews from Real Users

Jens N., Enterprise Architect SAP Solutions at a computer software company, writes, “As compared to other tools for test automation, what is very good in this tool is the ability to implement logic into the scripts without coding and learning a complex script language. It is comparable to defining formulas in Excel. It is pretty easy to learn how to make your scripts more intelligent and more flexible as per the situation.”

Aditya C., Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features of Worksoft Certify are the way we can maintain the processes and sub-processes inside. We can immediately identify and replicate multiple objects in the application without having a major issue with it.”

Sample Customers

Cisco, J.P. Morgan, Boeing, McAfee, EMC, Intuit, and Thomson Reuters.

Kraft, Reliant Energy, Richemont, Applied Materials, Siemens PLM, Mosaic, Dow Corning, ebay, IBM, Accenture, Fortis BC, US Government, Southwest Airlines

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