Oracle Application Testing Suite (legacy) vs. Spirent TestCenter

The Oracle Application [Testing Suite] is used heavily in our organization for independent regions to perform Oracle upgrades. Baseline performance can be monitored before the upgrade and compared to a production query load, we are able to easily monitor server performance and make an accurate prediction of upgrade performance. DBA's are able to use the testing suite for ongoing validation of database performance during peak times.

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Spirent solution is well suited to qualify a Lan infrastructure bandwidth capacity or a device itself capacity such as a router or a firewall for example. But this solution in our case is also well suited to test a complex and numbered mpls environment. I would not recommend it to a small business as the solution is very expensive: châssis and card cost are expensive and the solution requires to be an advanced user in system, not only on network devices

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• It was easy to configure selenium test scripts for executing automated tests for our client front end applications.
• Load and stress testing our payroll processing engine that experienced the highest traffic volumes became a breeze.

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• Bandwidth test
• QoS and traffic type generation
• Software platform availability
• Technical Support

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• The application is ideal for places that have already contracted with Oracle, however, OATS is much more expensive than other software available on the market.
• The setup and configuration for OATS requires a lot of technical expertise and in depth knowledge.

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• QA
• Various bugs to fix on software installation
• Technical documentation
• No Spirent classes available
• Lack to fix major issues such as ntp for latency calculation

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7 because they lack to improve some major bugs we have exchanged about with them

Incentivized

We buy all things ORACLE in order to have a consistent experience and reduce the training and learning curve. We believe in ORACLE Corporation's commitment to quality and innovation and would not consider any other products. We are a large company and saving a few dollars on licensing is penny wise but pound foolish as we cannot afford unplanned downtime.

Incentivized

I wasn't able to specifically test other big products but I did use other free products in the past such as iperf, but free softwares don't allow the same level of support ans ease to use than Spirent

Incentivized

• Oracle testing suite had a positive ROI immediately, as our web application downtimes were reduced dramatically after we could do automated regression and load testing.
• The learning curve for OpenScript was steep for our team, and we had to spend a lot of work hours training staff and learning the product.
• After users were trained properly, we were able to leverage the benefits of the suite immediately.

Incentivized

• Allows to qualify a link or a project to validate end of this one
• Allowed to detect various configuration issues that were fixed right after
• Allow to use virtual machines for easy remote deploykents
• Neharive: upgrade can depreciate products and newer products have sometimes better bandwidth capacity but less features

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