We performed a comparison between Apache JMeter and HCL AppScan based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."We find the load testing feature valuable."
"It's open source, so I like that about the product. And there's a lot of community support for it."
"We appreciate that the solution is free to use, as an open-source tool."
"It's a free tool."
"What I like best about Apache JMeter is its user-friendly GUI because even if you don't have very good coding knowledge or understanding, or even if you don't come from a development background, you can still use the solution with just a few clicks. This is what's unique about Apache JMeter, in comparison with other tools in the market. As Apache JMeter is open source, when there's a missing feature, you can search in several community blogs for plugins that you can use to modify Apache JMeter to meet your requirements, and this is another advantage."
"The most valuable feature in JMeter is the Thread Group, which helps us to see whether the performance is good."
"It gives accurate results and recommendations that we can implement to enhance the performance of websites."
"The product helps me get the expected performance from applications or servers and reduces costs. It also enhances the performance of the services and helped them reach their ultimate capacity."
"It highlights, with several grades of severity, the types of vulnerabilities, so we can focus on the most severe security vulnerabilities in the code."
"It was easy to set up."
"The solution is easy to use."
"You can easily find particular features and functions through the UI."
"This is a stable solution."
"AppScan is stable."
"For me, as a manager, it was the ease of use. Inserting security into the development process is not normally an easy project to do. The ability for the developer to actually use it and get results and focuses, that's what counted."
"We are now deploying less defects to production."
"One of the drawbacks of JMeter is that it can't handle a large amount of load, which forces us to switch to other tools when we need to load more than a 5,000 or 10,000 user load."
"The reporting is not very good."
"The UI could be better."
"The memory utilization in JMeter is very poor."
"The solution could use some sort of educational features to offer tips and hints to help users navigate it better. They should improve the manuals and help files."
"JMeter is lagging when it comes to GUI performance testing because we need to install some third-party plugins for recording the GUI script, and the performance isn't very reliable."
"In future releases, it would be helpful if there was an integration with ALM Octane."
"The reporting section of the solution can be better."
"IBM Security AppScan needs to add performance optimization for quickly scanning the target web applications."
"They could add a software component analysis tool."
"There is not a central management for static and dynamic."
"A desktop version should be added."
"The solution needs to improve in some areas. The tool needs to add more languages. It also needs to improve its speed."
"The databases for HCL are small and have room for improvement."
"Scans become slow on large websites."
"HCL AppScan needs to improve security."
Apache JMeter is ranked 1st in Performance Testing Tools with 82 reviews while HCL AppScan is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 41 reviews. Apache JMeter is rated 7.8, while HCL AppScan is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Apache JMeter writes "It's a free tool with a vast knowledge base, but the reporting is lackluster, and it has a steep learning curve". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HCL AppScan writes " A stable and scalable product useful for application security scanning". Apache JMeter is most compared with BlazeMeter, Postman, Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Katalon Studio, whereas HCL AppScan is most compared with SonarQube, Veracode, Acunetix, PortSwigger Burp Suite Professional and OWASP Zap.
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