Item: OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Micro Focus LoadRunner (formerly HP LoadRunner)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Micro Focus LoadRunner is one of the primary tools used by our shared services performance engineering team, to address all scripting/execution-related tasks across all the applications of the company that fall under the scope of performance.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Separation of generators, controller, and script builder
Ease of access of different components

Cons

Better configuration availability for script setup
Better customer service

Return on Investment

Go to tool for load testing on on premise servers
Used for 80% of applications with performance scope

Alternatives Considered

Akamai CloudTest (formerly SOASTA) and JMeter

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.

Support Rating

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.

Key Insights

Do you think OpenText LoadRunner Professional delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with OpenText LoadRunner Professional's feature set?

Yes

Did OpenText LoadRunner Professional live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of OpenText LoadRunner Professional go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy OpenText LoadRunner Professional again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Dynatrace, Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring, Akamai CloudTest (formerly SOASTA)

Likelihood to Recommend

Micro Focus LoadRunner is good for scripting and running a load test, but should be providing better customer service in case of user facing any issues.

LoadRunner Professional Feature Ratings

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Perfect solution for on-premises load testing