IBM Z Unit Test comparisons
IBM Z Unit Test is compared head-to-head with IBM Test Accelerator for Z, 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.
IBM Z Unit Test head-to-head
- IBM Z Unit Test vs IBM Test Accelerator for Z
- IBM Z Unit Test vs Rocket SmartTest
- IBM Z Unit Test vs IBM Workload Simulator for z/OS and OS/390
- IBM Z Unit Test vs Galasa
- IBM Z Unit Test vs Infotel Application Parallel Testing
- IBM Z Unit Test vs ACCELQ
IBM Z Unit Test vs each of them
| # | Tool | Paid from | Test types | Mainframe platforms | Automation level | Test data support | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | IBM Z Unit Test | Unit testing; early integration testing; component testing | z/OS; IBM Z | Automated | Yes | 8.8 | |
| 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 | |
| 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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