Redwood vs Applitools

"Best Automation tool for scheduling and monitoring jobs." What do you like best about Redwood Software? This tool helps us to schedule and monitor the jobs related to SAP modules like FI, MM, SD, HR etc. It also provides the cancellation, start, and restart of the process for the running jobs at the same time as per the business requirements. As per the monitoring perspective, we can easily track the status of the job and if any error is countered we can easily solve that issue by the given familiar functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Redwood Software? According to me, there is no dislike point or comment because redwood is already doing a great job in the automation tool sector. For the first-time installation, we need a good amount to install the redwood in our organisation. Apart from this, I don't have any dislike point as of now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Redwood Software: Very Good software tool for scheduling and monitoring the jobs for every organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Redwood Software solving and how is that benefiting you? The best key point about redwood is that we can keep multiple module jobs in a single platform i.e. APPLICATION TAB. It is very familiar and easy to use for everyone whether it is an expert consultant or a fresher. In Redwood, we can easily check/track all the running jobs in the system at the same time if there is any failure/ error found we can resolve that with the help of their related SAP module functional member as well as also able to check the status of completed jobs on time.

- Shivam K.

"Web based Redwood software to manage processes" What do you like best about Redwood Software? Redwood's interface is user-friendly. Renewal of the redwood license can be done using the script by just copying text from the .text file from begin license to end license. We can set auto-refresh timing in redwood, which refreshes the current page as well as the job status during time interval. clicking on "I" button at the top right corner provides the information of the version we are using, online help through documentation as well as help support are the eye catching of redwood software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Redwood Software? There might be some actions which we cant perform in redwood which is actually negotiable like performing some of the actions on jobs/objects is restricted due to security policy or the duplication of job definition/process is not possble. Redwood only allows us to write SQL queries/ scripts which might sometimes lack in fulfilling user requirement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Redwood Software: My suggestion if your looking for automation software just go for redwood. Definetly no turning back or no regrets on making the decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Redwood Software solving and how is that benefiting you? It is easy to edit the scheduled job, but should be careful in selecting edit the recurrance or edit the current process. we can add as many queue of our choice to distinguish the connection between different objects like we have HCM queue, GTG queue, CRM queues etc which makes life easier for redwood user. for Jsox audit purpose every month we retrive failed job report through xml file and also can download any report of our choice. Most important feature is we can download joblog.log file which contains data information of a particular job run wheather it is for completed or killed job. So it will be easy for functional team to analyse the issue and work on it.

- Sandeep P.

"Redwood software fulfills top level management functions." What do you like best about Redwood Software? Redwood tool does organising, monitoring, controlling, and scheduling all jobs and activities. Redwood software holds the overall control of work performance. In Redwood, we can configure all types of functional application jobs like PI, FI, MFG, SC, BW, BODS etc. Redwood also contains documentation of each job and its history and statistics. where all of these are limited in some other automation tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Redwood Software? Redwood has all new features and advanced technology. In redwood, we can run a job on an Adhoc basis or we can schedule a job for future dated runs. But we can't write a logic to run a job with past dates. As far as my opinion apart from this every other option in redwood works very well and runs our business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Redwood Software: Redwood automation can be your fixed asset, good resource to run your finance & business etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Redwood Software solving and how is that benefiting you? we do retain job and its statistics for certain period of time by choosing the retention period. Whenever we want to configure and schedule a job in redwood and its run should not happen currently or in future , we choose hold on submit which is an option to hold the jobs until all the parameters are entered properly and all user requirements are satisfied.

- Varun K.

"Great support and quick resolving for any problems we have" What do you like best about Applitools? First place: amazing support and commitment from the Applitools guys. The visual testing part of Applitools is very easy and natural to use and you don't need to be a technical expert in order to use it. There are new features which are very usefull - UFG and Visual locators are something we are exploring right now and they could resolve some of our issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Applitools? I would like to see more examples in the documentation - for example the visual locators was not extensive enough IMO and we needed more support from Applitools side. I would like to see password expiration for the site so we ensure that the people don't use the same password everywhere and it stays years. Same would help us ensure that people who are not in the company will lost their access if they were not removed from the dashboard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Applitools solving and how is that benefiting you? We have two main issues - one related to normal visual testing, where Applitools is doing grate job, and now it gives even more with UFG where we can have cross browser/platform check as well. The other problem we have is not web native applications which can't use Selenium or any other web testing framework just because we don't have DOM tree and it is just canvas hiding everything. Here Applitools is replacing our current implementation which is with sikulix and it is much easier for usage and maintenance.

- Milen S.

"A must have tool for intelligent visual testing!" What do you like best about Applitools? once you have applitools set up, it's invaluable for reliable visual testing across browsers. we use cypress, so being able to fill the cross-browser gap left for safari; applitools gives us a lot more confidence for releasing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Applitools? as a tool, it's pretty complex, so it requires a lot of initial set-up, adjusting tests and learning how to use applitools to the fullest. it is also pretty slow, taking around 100 seconds for a simple test because of the amount of work going on in the background. A lot of this can be fixed with more tests and more parallel tests, but this costs more money; and the applitools is NOT cheap, making it very difficult to use it in its most efficient without paying a lot of money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Applitools: It's the best tool I've ever used for visual automation testing! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Applitools solving and how is that benefiting you? being able to test our applications visually, across all browsers and versions, all within our current testing tool; which is really impressive! it allows us to use the same pipelines and release knowing that we have covered functionality in all browsers.

- Jay O.

"Innovative testing requires innovative tools" What do you like best about Applitools? The simplicity of use, in addition to the number of features they support is also a big plus, along with the huge number of frameworks they offer and the fast support from their side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Applitools? The documentation is a little bit hard to read and use, maybe more structured and detailed one, as are the rest of the tools will be very helpful because for a new starter, lacking of tutorials in combination with that is not a good option Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Applitools solving and how is that benefiting you? In my company Applitools is not used only as a Visual testing tool, it is also used for navigating through the screen via the pictures(or locators). The last can be quite handy if there is no other way to move the cursor around the screen via the automation

- Delcho D.