Provar

Pros: Ability to run in ANT mode, metadata recognition, access to new releases, support response if contact direct is decent, help is much better and continues to improve. We used to have biweekly calls, which were helpful.

Cons: Releases often break our mappings etc, for a long time no support was available in the US. Even now, contacts change very often, early mac support was bad, support site ticket response is poor.

Pros: Simplicity. Provar simplifies the ability to automate an application. The Test APIs come in extremely handy.

Cons: Inconsistent failure of test cases or test steps. Some test steps just keep failing for no reason. Once I rerun the step without making changes, it then runs successfully.

Pros: Customer Support part is very strong. I have been working with rep for last one year and he is very helpful. Provar is easier to learn than Selenium coding.

Cons: This is desktop application. It wold be better if we could use it in a cloud platform. Also, this not always work as expected.

Pros: 1. Ease of drag and drop to build our logic
2. No coding is required to do basic validation
3. Awesome customer support
4. Ant lib: Easy CI integration
5. Enable us to write custom logic to build our own custom Provar api

Cons: This tool should work without admin access, the tool should not be expecting the users have Admin access (Modify all) to run their automation script or build scripts

Pros: Usability.day one you can start automation without coding. Very good provar support team to help you out.

Cons: Page object when field is not identified . Maintenance after few iteration in the sandbox . Support from India team bit delay due to time difference.

Overall: Easy automation

Pros: The most liked feature is just do configuration rather than coding. This tool provides lot of features which are integrated and as a automation engineer we need not to go for other integrations.

Cons: There are not enough built-in functions. Provar should provide 'Maven' as another build tool along with Ant.

Pros: I have been working in Provar last couple of months, able to automate salesforce in very less time!! Not only salesforce, any URL that needs to be UI tested. Had great support from the Provar Technical Team!!

Cons: Some of the loops like for..each is not properly working.
The rename shortcut (F2) will not work for test step level.
Trial Licenses should be available in the online to get used by the normal users.

Pros: SInce its code free, easily it cab learned, only the xpath concept we need to understand to work on this tool. Salesforce is grooming in market now, so an automation tool specifically build for Salesforce is an add on advantage for non automation engineers.

Cons: The tool hangs a lot of times, that needs to be stabilized. Frequently we get license issue errors.

Overall: Learned Automation being an non Automation engineer.
Reduced the Regression Testing effort & time..

Pros: - Ease of use - Once you learn the basics its quite easy to use
- Great customer support - very helpful and friendly customer support
- Lots of feature - you can automate most of the scenarios that you can think of
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Cons: It still has some work to do in making the scripts run smoothly from environment to environment - specially for orgs that is metadata heavy.

Pros: Salesforce object recognition is one of the powerful feature of this product. Its intelligent enough to identify and intimate on a possible conflict and test failure beforehand due to object model changes. It enables to adapt to agile implementation there by enabling to go for in-sprint automation. On time support is the other aspect I liked about it. The team was energetic and able to provide quick solutions to the problem helping us to meet our customer commitment

Cons: We were implementing for the first time and that too in a very challenging environment. The reason we choose this product was also due to the nature of the project. During the implementation we observed several product bugs, some of them were taking good amount of time in spite of tireless effort from the technical team. Also the license was popping up multiple times. My expectation is if we get the license for one year, it should work throughout the time. However it was having this issue and team had to reach out to support team to get another license key to start working.

Overall: Expedited automation in an agile implementation