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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

With various protocol bundles the LoadRunner can cover wide variety of application suits in an enterprise organization for performance testing.Scripts are easy to maintain with Performance Center integration. With LoadRunner thousands of virtual user can be simulated with consistent and repeatable load on the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

The user interface can be improved.Should have an option to see test results live for a particular user than overall response time of the load test. Include integration capabilities with other APM tools like Dynatrace and AppDynamics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I believe MicroFocus LoadRunner is the best commercial industry standard load testing tool available in the market. Nobody can beat LoadRunner so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to understand the performance and capacity requirements for a microservice in cloud foundry. Thus reducing the number of instances and memory resulting in cost saving for the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenText LoadRunner Professional Overview

What is OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

LoadRunner is the industry-standard software solution for application performance and load testing. LoadRunner emulates hundreds or thousands of concurrent virtual users, with minimal hardware, to apply accurate workloads to any application. As it drives load against the system, LoadRunner captures end-user response times for business processes and transactions to determine whether the application can meet the required service-level agreements. Nonintrusive, real-time performance monitors captures real-time performance data from every component of application infrastructure. After the test completes, the LoadRunner analysis engine provides a single view of end-user response time and infrastructure-level performance to identify the most likely causes of performance issues. Learn more at microfocus.com/loadrunner

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Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is industry-standard software solution for application performance and load testing. LoadRunner stresses your entire system to isolate and identify potential client, network, and server bottlenecks, supporting performance testing of new technologies together with your existing, legacy applications.


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OpenText
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1991
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Waterloo, ON
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NASDAQ:OTEX
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$3,109
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OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms. OpenText aims its products at addressing information management requirements, including management of large volumes of content, compliance with regulatory requirements, and mobile and online experience management.


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Recent OpenText LoadRunner Professional Reviews

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4.5 out of 5
"Credible Performance testing tool with proven history and community"
Best suited for large workloads, trusted by testing community for many years
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4.5 out of 5
"A very professional tool to leverage the full length of performance testing!"
The protocol support is pretty good, also love the control and power to set up and execute scenarios to emulate real-world interactions. Once all i...
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5.0 out of 5
"The Lamborghini of Performance Testing"
* The number of supported protocols for testing, there is literary support for testing all kinds of applications * Easy for beginners to learn, Tr...
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional Demo - Test it all
With 50+ protocols, you can easily test a huge range of applications including web, mobile, Ajax, Flex, HTLM 5, .NET, Java, GWT, SOAP, Citrix, ERP and more. LoadRunner supports the latest application technologies as well as the legacy ones
OpenText LoadRunner Professional Demo - Providing a Better Insight in Deep-dive Root Cause Analysis of Performance Bottlenecks
The NV (Network Virtualization) Insights report can help you improve the performance of your application by identifying potentially problematic issues in your transactions and providing recommendations for optimizing network traffic. With the Client-side Breakdown Report your teams can view stati...
OpenText LoadRunner Professional Demo - IoT ready: New protocol – MQTT
MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) protocol is a Machine to Machine (M2M) protocol widely used in Internet of things (IoT). When using the new LoadRunner MQTT protocol, a user can emulate MQTT clients and design and execute performance testing of MQTT-based IoT systems.
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Products used within OpenText Application Development, Test, & Delivery: OpenText LoadRunner Professional, OpenText UFT Developer, OpenText Release Control
What do you like best about OpenText Application Development, Test, & Delivery?

Application Development, Test, & Delivery is used to convert business requirements to reality and helps achieve business outcomes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText Application Development, Test, & Delivery?

The right methodology - Agile vs Waterfall, needs to be adopted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText Application Development, Test, & Delivery solving and how is that benefiting you?

UFT is used for Test Automation and expedite QA cycle, while LoadRunner is used for Performance Testing the application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

* The number of supported protocols for testing, there is literary support for testing all kinds of applications

* Easy for beginners to learn, Trueclient Web protocol with recording by point and click on Web makes it fast to create scripts

* the types of testing supported, you can even use the product to do API testing instead of using Postman

* The product bundle is amazing, by buying the product today it includes SiteScope which is the most powerful monitoring solution and also Service Virtalization (7 services) which you can use to mimic missing test systems.

* Thw powerful Controller software which by easy you can create scenarios to mimic real world use case of load towards a system + the ability to monitor and control an ongoing test.

* The analytics tool of which you can dive deep into the result and find root causes for bad performance and the great ability to create reports.

I highly recommend this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

* Sometimea there are small bugs in the VuGen script error where it throws compilation errors first time and then you compile the same and it works.

* Some people thinks it hard to learn, but becoming a senior expert in Prrformanxe Testing takes a lot of experience, a single to does not make you an expert.

* In some project they want to use Open Source software instead to safe money, but Loadrunner now comes with a community edition which you can use, there can with a purchase of the product be tough for some projects to fully understand the license model and what options to pick. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

* It has solved all my challenges for performance and non-functional testing since I started using the product in 2003.

* It has helped me in over 50 projects to validate the SLA prior to go live in production, has always found issues in each project which by shift left has saves all companies tons of money and potential badwill by customer and employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

The protocol support is pretty good, also love the control and power to set up and execute scenarios to emulate real-world interactions. Once all is done, the analytics are also very good to understand pain points. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

It may be considered a little hard to use, and quite a lot of settings, and options may create a painful experience even for the senior testers. The price is also something to look at, because there are quite a few competitors in the open-source market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

Internal training to teammates was easy. Simulating real users' load in environments about to be deployed, it makes it easier to identify pain points before the real users may experience them. Tests can be run pretty straightforwardly, with lots of configurations and very good analytics at the end. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

The ease with which we can do the enhancement like correlation and parameterisation, Its very easy as compared to the other tools like Jmeter, Soasta Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

All the features are good, only you need a big screen to debug as there are multiple tabs available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText LoadRunner Professional:

Yes, go to tool for load testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are doing Performance testing of SFDC application where loadrunner is helping us to test the application with user load, with which we are helping developers to optimise their code if we are seeing anything degrade Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

Best suited for large workloads, trusted by testing community for many years Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

The price can be aligned to more competitive for users as well more flexible to new days software scenario and lightweigts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

Performance testing of Cloud and on promise applications having very aggressive TPS(Transaction Per Second) SLA. With leveraging this tool for performance testing, we can gauge and refactor our application to meet the SLA. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

Lots of protocols support, easy to use, easy reporting , perfect graphical representation with the Analysis feature, user interface is much better than similar tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

Expensive as compared to other tools in the market, TruClient protocol - browsers needs to improve (does not work as intended always) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use MF LoadRunner for all the end to end testing & optimization of various projects in the organization & it definitely has helped us out in getting to know how the systems are going to respond under load or stress situations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

Good use of human time. No peer tool which supports SQL Server, Oracle,Java, Web etc. Identify bottlenecks of hardware, software, infrastructure, memory etc using good analysis window for response time and throughput. Separation of script, generator, controller and agents. Set ramp up and ramp down strategy as needed.Agent can do things like IP spoofing to make look like load is coming from diff machines. Checkpoints can be image or text. Rendezvous points instruct users to wait during test execution for other users in order to perform the tasks simultaneously. Love that! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

Tool is not open source and expensive. Also Vuser scripts saved in C which is case sensitive. You need to be really cognizant about co-relations planned to be used. Protocol advisor could have been more helpful. Also make sure caching is disabled while running tests. Configuration is little tough to figure out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText LoadRunner Professional:

Nice tool to conduct performance testing and benchmark your other tools. Although learning curve is not steep but the pricing curve is. As said need to be aware of relations while using record playback feature. Also regularly use rendezvous and think statements. Also make sure to add regular comments in code in order for maintainability. Correlation is capture output from prv step and use it as input. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

Testing performance of web applications and RESTAPIs. Great support as said earlier. Fantastic ways to parameterize your inputs and see analysis of response time distribution. VuGen is UI independent and focuses on HTTP requests only. Capability to add user data points and regenerate code. Controller helps to add think time, delays etc. Most favorite part is load simulated from other machines, throttling etc Also the part where you can simulate browser like environment by adding proxies and cookies is fantastic in my opinion. Analysis engine shows response time distribution. It can also be run on public cloud infrastructures.Tightly coupled with HP-ALM and can also import scripts from other tools like Jmeter. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

The ability to manage all the phases of performance testing and ease to maintain scripts in loadrunner and all types of applications support is available in loadrunner. The Analysis provided by loadrunner post completion of execution is the best and very much in detailed which helps resolve performance issues and bottleneck easily.

The ability to convert fiddler file into loadrunner is one of the best feature implemented in loadrunner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

sometimes loadrunner misses few request during recording a script which might leads to the script failure. Sometimes we faced issues while analyzing the results in loadrunner which leads to complete failure of test which is a more time consuming task. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering OpenText LoadRunner Professional:

Script enhancements facility should be similar to Loadrunner in other performance testing tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

Doing performance testing with loadrunner we solved SFDC based application. We recommended other teams too to use loadrunner for SFDC and othe cloud based applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

Simple to utilize/learn interface. Numerous choices accessible to make the custom test contents and test situations. Wide assortment of conventions that covers dominant part of candidates types. All and every one of the a generally amazing device that meets all execution testing needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

I can't think about any of the drawbacks. Be that as it may, if need to call attention to, I would state that test results should indicate data at each layer of engineering like reaction times at application, web, middleware, DB layer and so on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helping clients to get to the execution of uses before they are sent to generation. Ensure application/administrations are dependable and can withstand creation traffic and react inside characterized understandings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

Tool works for all types of application like Web, SAP, DBMS, AJAX, Mail server etc. and the reporting is best in the market. Although there are freeware tools like Jmeter but all those needs lots of customisation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenText LoadRunner Professional?

Performance center hangs often and need to close and start freshly, its not a system issue. Some are known bug in older version Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Its best in the industry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is OpenText LoadRunner Professional solving and how is that benefiting you?

Doing performance testing of any application.

Able to simulate proper load like a real world with help of runtime and schedular settings of the Vugen Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.