Azure Load Testing vs. OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Load Testing
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Azure Load Testing is a fully managed load-testing service built for Azure that makes it easier to generate high-scale load and identify app performance bottlenecks. The service enables developers and testers to generate high-scale load and run simulations that reveal actionable insights into app performance, scalability, and capacity with a fully managed load-testing service. Create tests quickly without prior knowledge of load testing tools, or upload existing Apache JMeter scripts. Users can…
$10
per month
LoadRunner Professional
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
A solution simplifies performance load testing for colocated teams. With project-based capabilities, so teams can quickly identify abnormal application behavior.N/A
Pricing
Azure Load TestingOpenText LoadRunner Professional
Editions & Modules
Virtual User Hour (VUH) additional usage - 9,950+ Virtual User Hours
$0.075
additional VUH
Virtual User Hour (VUH) additional usage - 0 - 9,950 Virtual User Hours
$0.15
per additional VUH
Load Testing Resource
$10
per month includes 50 Virtual User Hours (VUH) per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Azure Load TestingLoadRunner Professional
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Azure Load TestingOpenText LoadRunner Professional
Features
Azure Load TestingOpenText LoadRunner Professional
Load Testing
Comparison of Load Testing features of Product A and Product B
Azure Load Testing
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Ratings
OpenText LoadRunner Professional
8.4
6 Ratings
1% below category average
End to end performance management00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Integrated performance data00 Ratings10.06 Ratings
Deployment model flexibility00 Ratings9.06 Ratings
Real time monitoring00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
Automated anomaly detection00 Ratings8.05 Ratings
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Score 6.5 out of 10
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Score 6.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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User Ratings
Azure Load TestingOpenText LoadRunner Professional
Likelihood to Recommend
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(0 ratings)
9.0
(7 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Load TestingOpenText LoadRunner Professional
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
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OpenText
Micro Focus LoadRunner and its suite of tools, specifically VuGen works wonderfully for us for all web, http/https and web service calls. We've been able to build tests for near any scenario we need with relative ease. As long as we have crafted up requirements for our scenarios / scripts to managed scope, we've had high success working with scripting and data driving. Our main tests are web service calls - typically chained together to form a full scenario with transactions measuring the journey or a similar (measure along the way) journey through a browser. For web services we will use VuGen and browser we've shifted to Tru Client I have had little-to-no experience scripting against a thick client where a ui-driven test would be required. I know its possible but quite costly due to the need to run the actual desktop client to drive tests. We've been fortunate enough to leverage http calls to represent client traffic.
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Pros
Microsoft
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OpenText
  • It can simulate multiple users at the same time and help understand the performance.
  • It can generate excellent reports and give insights into application performance.
  • It is a fast tool and does not take time to perform its functions.
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Cons
Microsoft
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OpenText
  • HP LoadRunner with new patches and releases sometimes makes no longer support older version of various protocols like Citrix, which makes the task time-consuming when using older versions of LoadRunner for some of the cases. So it should support older version as well while upgrading.
  • Configuring HP LoadRunner over the firewall involves lots of configuration and may be troublesome. So, there should be a script (power shell script for Windows or shell script for Linux users) to make it easy to use and with less pain.
  • I would like to see the RunTime Viewer of Vugen in HPLoadRunner based on the browser I selected in the run-time configuration to make it feel more realistic as a real user.
  • Licensing cost is very high when we need to perform a test on application for a specific group of users.
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Support Rating
Microsoft
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OpenText
Customer service is not that great. It's difficult to get hold of someone if an issue is supposed to be addressed on an urgent basis. No online chat service readily available.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
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OpenText
HP performance center stacks up very well for front end applications. Need more improvements for API performance testing.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
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OpenText
  • The scripts created with traditional web/http protocol are not robust thus re-scripting is required after most every code drop. Troubleshooting and fixing the issue takes more time therefore in most cases we do re-scripting to keep it simple and save time.
  • In ideal world you would rather spend more time doing testing than scripting in that case mostly you could use an Ajax TruClient protocol. This type of script will only fail when an object in the application is removed or changed completely. This way of scripting will save you more time and helps you maintain the scripts with less re-work effort on a release basis. On the long run you will have a better ROI when you use Ajax TruClient protocol for scripting.
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