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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    LoadComplete

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASmartBear LoadComplete is a performance, stress and load testing tool for web and Rich Internet Applications, including ASP.NET, Ajax, Flash/Flex and Silverlight.

    $287

    one-time fee

    LoadRunner Professional

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AA solution simplifies performance load testing for colocated teams. With project-based capabilities, so teams can quickly identify abnormal application behavior.N/A
    Pricing
    LoadCompleteLoadRunner Professional
    Editions & Modules
    Subscription Starter
    $239
    per month 100 virtual users
    On-demand Starter
    $287
    one-time fee 100 virtual users
    Subscription Pro
    $699
    per month 1000 virtual users
    On-demand Pro
    $887
    one-time fee 1000 virtual users
    Subscription Premium
    $899
    per month 2500 virtual users
    On-demand Premium
    $1,139
    one-time fee 2500 virtual users
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    LoadCompleteLoadRunner Professional
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsOn-demand plans contain a $4.99 monthly maintenance fee.—
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    Features
    LoadCompleteLoadRunner Professional
    Load Testing
    Comparison of Load Testing features of LoadComplete and OpenText LoadRunner Professional
    Feature
    LoadComplete
    8.8
    4 Ratings
    3% above category average
    OpenText LoadRunner Professional
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    End to end performance management8.84 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Integrated performance data9.93 Ratings10.06 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility7.84 Ratings9.06 Ratings
    Real time monitoring7.94 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Automated anomaly detection9.83 Ratings8.05 Ratings
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    Medium-sized Companies
    JMeter
    Score8.3 out of 10
    JMeter
    Score8.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    JMeter
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LoadCompleteLoadRunner Professional
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (4 ratings)
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LoadCompleteLoadRunner Professional
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SmartBear
    I think that LoadComplete is adequate when you have Testcomplete. If LoadComplete is not paired with Testcomplete then there would be a bit of a learning curve. People who are already using Testcomplete will find it easy to start with LoadComplete but the tool itself has a lot to improve and support customization to suit our needs.
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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
    SmartBear
    • Easy and handy UI options to select
    • Good support from documentation
    • Eye-catching results
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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
    SmartBear
    • Some graphs remain empty, I would like a description of why a certain graph cannot gather data.
    • Allow user to customize the graph.
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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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    Usability
    SmartBear
    Usability is really good because being an enterprise tool that might be an easy option to convince users to try this tool. It has a lot of easy-to-use, cool options.
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    OpenText
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    Support Rating
    SmartBear
    Customer support is good. If any concerns are raised, they are usually resolved soon, but when questioned about a feature LoadComplete does not support, it usually takes more time to resolve.
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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
    SmartBear
    JMeter is a more flexible tool because it gives the possibility to write scripts.
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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
    SmartBear
    • This tool always yields eye-catching results. It has good support from the documentation. Also, it generates detailed reports which is a very good thing.
    • There is also a record and play feature in LoadComplete which means all applications can be recorded like Applications Servers’ Metric and so on.
    • This tool has a good reporting and record playback due to which I will recommend it.
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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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