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IBM Test Accelerator for Z comparisons

Paid#1 of 7 in Mainframe Testing Tools

IBM Test Accelerator for Z is compared head-to-head with IBM Z Unit Test, Rocket SmartTest and IBM Workload Simulator for z/OS and OS/390 and more: 6 head-to-heads in Mainframe Testing Tools, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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IBM Test Accelerator for Z vs each of them

#	Tool	Paid from	Test types	Mainframe platforms	Automation level	Test data support	Score
1	IBM Test Accelerator for Z		Unit testing; early integration testing; component testing; functional testing; integration testing	IBM z/OS; z/OS instances on Linux x86-64 or s390x	Automated	Yes	9.1
2	IBM Z Unit Test		Unit testing; early integration testing; component testing	z/OS; IBM Z	Automated	Yes	8.8
3	Rocket SmartTest		interactive program, application and system testing; CICS transaction testing; IMS/DC testing; batch testing; test coverage analysis; DB2 stored-procedure testing	IBM z/OS; MVS TSO/ISPF; CICS; IMS/DC	Automated	Yes	8.5
4	IBM Workload Simulator for z/OS and OS/390		workload simulation	z/OS, OS/390			7.8
5	Galasa	Free	integration, regression, application, system verification, Gherkin behavior-driven, performance, web UI	z/OS; CICS Transaction Server; Db2; Kubernetes	Automated	Yes	7.8
6	Infotel Application Parallel Testing						6.7
7	ACCELQ						6.4

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