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    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
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    LoadRunner Professional
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    LoadRunner Professional
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee
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    LoadRunner Professional
    Considered Both Products
    OpenText
    Chose LoadRunner Professional
    Micro Focus LoadRunner fit well into our portfolio of tools with its long track record, ability to test near any application technology we adopt and allow for a single / cohesive toolset to drive our performance testing needs.
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    Chose LoadRunner Professional
    While soasta is currently being used for cloud related applications, LR is specifically used to address the load testing on on-premise servers in our case.
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    Chose LoadRunner Professional
    Loadrunner stacks up very well against these tools. All software have certain very strong features and that is what differentiates LoadRunner from all of these. It has accurate results and data. Reports are also very well formatted. Different data can be integrated and other …
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    Chose LoadRunner Professional
    The biggest point of using HP LoadRunner is the response time numbers captured after executing the tests were more accurate when we generated the same by using tools like JMeter or NeoLoad though it involves a certain licensing cost but what [we] needed was trust and accuracy …
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    Chose LoadRunner Professional
    HP performance center stacks up very well for front end applications. Need more improvements for API performance testing.
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    Chose LoadRunner Professional
    Most of the above tools are pretty popular in the industry. These are tools that are way cheaper compared to the industry giant LoadRunner. Yet these tools have their own limitations and drawbacks. In BlazeMeter the user load cannot be modified during the test run. JMeter and Bl…
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    Chose LoadRunner Professional
    It was faster to script in HP LoadRunner than in JMeter. The main issue is the expense involved in the cost of the virtual users in HP LoadRunner. In time, it may be more cost effective to switch to JMeter when the number of virtual users increases.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    LoadRunner Professional
    Load Testing
    Comparison of Load Testing features of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
    Feature
    OpenText LoadRunner Professional
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    End to end performance management9.06 Ratings
    Integrated performance data10.06 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility9.06 Ratings
    Real time monitoring6.15 Ratings
    Automated anomaly detection8.05 Ratings
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    JMeter
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    JMeter
    Score8.3 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    LoadRunner Professional
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    LoadRunner Professional
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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
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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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