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SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBear vs. Spirent TestCenter

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
SoapUI Open Source
Score 8.6 out of 10
N/A
SoapUI is an open source API testing tool supported by SmartBear's community, supporting functional and performance testing of APIs.N/A
Spirent TestCenter
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The vendor describes Spirent TestCenter is an end-to-end testing solution that delivers performance with deterministic answers. They state service providers, NEMs and enterprises use it to test, measure and validate their networks and deploy services with confidence—from traditional performance testing to the rigorous analysis of Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Mobile Backhaul, and High Speed Ethernet.N/A
Pricing
SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBearSpirent TestCenter
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
SoapUI Open SourceSpirent TestCenter
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBearSpirent TestCenter
Considered Both Products
SoapUI Open Source
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose SoapUI Open Source
SoapUI Open Source is free, which is good for light use or simple things here and there. There is a Pro version that makes things more user-friendly. I also like that custom code can also be used for doing more complicated tasks.
I like that SoapUI can have a process/flow …
Chose SoapUI Open Source
Compared to SoapUI, we have been using "light" tools like RestClient extension in Firefox, or Postman.

Compared to Postman, SoapUI is more simple for WSDL / SOAP webservices, as SoapUI generate all envelop, but Postman does not.
Ajay Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ajay Kumar
Software Developer
Chose SoapUI Open Source
Every application has its own features and UI design but SoapUI is also very good at testing. All features are awesome.
Spirent TestCenter
GL
Guillaume Lopes
Network Engineer
Chose Spirent TestCenter
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
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User Ratings
SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBearSpirent TestCenter
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
SoapUI Open Source, supported by SmartBearSpirent TestCenter
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are making system upgrade project and you have existing system working and you want to imitate messages that are going in production but without making any data loads or switch it’s very suitable and convenient software. It serves well in manual test scenarios but wouldn’t be as good in case of mass tests.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
GL
Guillaume Lopes
Network Engineer
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Pros
  • SOAP
  • REST
  • Authentication
JD
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  • Bandwidth test
  • QoS and traffic type generation
  • Software platform availability
  • Technical Support
GL
Guillaume Lopes
Network Engineer
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Cons
  • I actually like SoapUI as it is, I have not found things to improve, except for the speed of response is very complex services.
Abraham García | TrustRadius Reviewer
Abraham García
Web Development Manager
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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
GL
Guillaume Lopes
Network Engineer
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
7 because they lack to improve some major bugs we have exchanged about with them
GL
Guillaume Lopes
Network Engineer
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Alternatives Considered
SoapUI Open Source is free, which is good for light use or simple things here and there. There is a Pro version that makes things more user-friendly. I also like that custom code can also be used for doing more complicated tasks. I like that SoapUI can have a process/flow (conditional/loop/waits/etc.) set up for scripting purposes, which is good for beginners and light users. However, I think the user interface has room for improvement.
Verified User
Anonymous
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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
GL
Guillaume Lopes
Network Engineer
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Return on Investment
  • Testing resolves most of the issues in the development phases.
  • User friendliness of the app makes it good.
  • Overall client happiness depends on the clean project, which is possible by testing.
Ajay Kumar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ajay Kumar
Software Developer
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  • 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
GL
Guillaume Lopes
Network Engineer
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