We performed a comparison between Visual Studio Test Professional and Zeenyx AscentialTest based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Functional Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Visual Studio Test Professional are the IntelliSense and the ease of adding the NuGet packages."
"Performance-wise, it is a great tool."
"The interface is easy to use."
"The debugging feature is valuable."
"You can easily write code, test, and deploy within the same environment. It is a mature tool. It regularly receives new updates and versions. In my opinion, it's one of the best products by Microsoft for developers."
"The most valuable feature has been to store all our packages in one place including SSIS packages, SQL tables, TFS and SSR."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a very scalable solution."
"Customization is the most powerful feature of this product."
"The most valuable feature of AscentialTest for us is that it fully supports PowerBuilder."
"It’s been really easy to automate the same application TestComplete struggled with. I have been able to automate two of our key applications in just a few months. I haven’t even taken their training."
"If you use the PowerBuilder application, do choose AscentialTest without thinking twice."
"AscentialTest's object recognition in snapshots is a robust feature that goes beyond standard elements, even accurately identifying objects within Datawindows."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its scalability."
"The product must provide more integration."
"The solution's documentation could be improved because it keeps disappearing from the solution."
"The solution should be cheaper."
"The price is reasonable, but it's not the best."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"The only thing I can't wait for is for Zeenyx to add automating Mobile apps."
"Classes are not as object-oriented as I would like, but I am a programmer and not QA so I expect a lot."
"I would like to see an improvement in the User Interface."
"Streamlining the retrieval of results from individual test set runs would be beneficial."
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Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 7th in Functional Testing Tools with 47 reviews while Zeenyx AscentialTest is ranked 19th in Functional Testing Tools with 13 reviews. Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6, while Zeenyx AscentialTest is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zeenyx AscentialTest writes "Robust automation with reusable steps and seamless integration". Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and TestRail, whereas Zeenyx AscentialTest is most compared with Tricentis Tosca and SmartBear TestComplete. See our Visual Studio Test Professional vs. Zeenyx AscentialTest report.
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