Spirent TestCenter vs. Visual Studio Test Professional

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

Incentivized

Visual Studio Test Professional is best for .NET and C# based development, which is what 90% of our developers and projects do. It is an integral part of the CI/CD pipeline for our custom made Enterprise resource planning tool. It also works very well with Azure providing seamless integration to way more functionality.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

• Test scenarios in the SDLC process can be easily applied to the Visual Studio Test tool.
• It works compatible with Microsoft Windows Server and database.
• The debug screen of the Visual Studio Test product is quite successful. It allows you to quickly access the details of the error received.

Incentivized

• 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

Incentivized

• The solution needs more reports and more dashboards, as well as more details for each originated spare test case or best guess in test cases.
• The service right now is far too expensive. You need to pay per user.
• The tools for unit testing can be improved, giving a better ability to manage tests.

Incentivized

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

Incentivized

Visual Studio Test Professional's overall usability is extremely high quality. It is extremely functional and like all Microsoft products has a user interface that is well designed and is extremely user friendly. Any functionality which I looked for, I was able to either understand immediately or find a user guide online.

Incentivized

My team has always been able to troubleshoot with the help of customer support (and even schedule a virtual meeting!) in a timely manner. The support is provided immediately and with the necessary knowledge to answer/solve any questions/problems I or my team experience.

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

When using Azure Devops, it only has a basic test plan while using the extension, and it is better suited if you only use Azure Devops, but VS test professional provides comprehended test execution and management as most of the developers and testers use Visual Studio to develop their apps and publish their builds.

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

Incentivized

• Visual Studio Test professional fits right in with the other Microsoft Lifecycle Management tools.
• End to end, Development, Test, Deployment and Delivery assures the pipeline is continuous. Visual Studio Test Professional is an integral part of that pipeline.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Tools makes usability intuitive, makes it easy to ramp up our Testers.

Incentivized