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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Perfecto by Perforce

    Score6 out of 10
    N/APerfecto by Perforce offers mobile app functional and performance testing, and automation testing. Perfecto was acquired by Perforce in October 2018. The Perfecto product line, now supported by Perforce, includes Perfecto Mobile, and Perfecto Web.N/A
    Pricing
    LoadRunner ProfessionalPerfecto by Perforce
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    LoadRunner ProfessionalPerfecto by Perforce
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    LoadRunner ProfessionalPerfecto by Perforce
    Load Testing
    Comparison of Load Testing features of OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Perfecto by Perforce
    Feature
    OpenText LoadRunner Professional
    8.4
    6 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Perfecto by Perforce
    -
    Ratings
    End to end performance management9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrated performance data10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility9.06 Ratings00 Ratings
    Real time monitoring6.15 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated anomaly detection8.05 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    LoadRunner ProfessionalPerfecto by Perforce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    3.0
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    LoadRunner ProfessionalPerfecto by Perforce
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Perforce Software
    Same test case scripts can be executed on different mobiles irrespective of operating systems and language it supports. This covers a wide range of devices (Android, iOS, Blackberry etc) on which automated testing can be performed in very less time. The test scripts are written written using keyword-based Script Once Technology. The creation of scripts are easy. It saves time and effort. Repetitive testing on each iteration would be now be less tedious. This would also allow QA to focus on quality. It would expand test case coverage in the application and finally release reliable/robust application. In all, improving the app quality.
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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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    Perforce Software
    • Impressive UI
    • Strong support system
    • Wide variety of devices
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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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    Perforce Software
    • It has a lot of room for improvements in terms of reporting and integration with other reporting and defect tools.
    • It should have the capability of capturing charts data.
    • It should be able to do some scenarios that only manual testers can do. Like - use of camera and touch ID features.
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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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    Perforce Software
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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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    Perforce Software
    Perfecto has a wide array of mobile devices we can chose from. Automation is easier using OCR technology. The test script generated detailed report of the executed test script at the end with vast variety of information such as actual results, screen captures in digital format, continuous video recording of the entire script and graphs showing statistics about the execution
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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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    Perforce Software
    • Since the devices are over cloud, it saves a lot of investment on mobile testing.
    • Can be used by testers across the globe.
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