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As of January 2025, the mindshare of OpenText LoadRunner Professional in the Performance Testing Tools category stands at 13.0%, down from 15.4% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryPerformance Testing ToolsJan 10, 2025Download
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Manufacturing Company
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HelenSague - PeerSpot user
Senior Performance Testing Specialist at Canadian Pacific Railway
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Oct 30, 2023
A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications

Pros

"LoadRunner is a very sophisticated tool, and I can use many languages. For example, I can use Java. I can use C++. I can test the Internet of Things, FTP, mail, and Active Directory. It is very useful. "

Cons

"IBM WebSphere MQ testing can be a bit challenging. It can handle that, but I hope that they will build more and more capabilities. We do a huge amount of testing for messaging. Just like aviation, the railway industry is based on messaging. There is messaging to build trains and messaging to create some bills. There are many train movements. Everything involves messaging. I wish that it will be developed more for IBM WebSphere testing. Monitoring is okay, but for testing, I currently have to create Java users. I have to load a lot of libraries from IBM WebSphere and so on. "
Kulveer Singh - PeerSpot user
Senior Technical Manager at Amtrak
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Oct 31, 2023
Supports AI-enabled load testing and aids in preventing unexpected outages by ensuring infrastructure sizing aligns with the anticipated load

Pros

"We don't find any features lacking. One of the most beneficial points we have from LoadRunner is we start sizing our infrastructure accordingly. So what we do is when we deploy a new workload, we do performance testing. "

Cons

"The only scenario we see a complexity is when we have single-page applications where JavaScript is talking to the server and coming back. That's the only scenario where we find some difficulties."
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SamirPatle - PeerSpot user
Senior Performance Analyst at EPAM Systems
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
May 6, 2024
Compatibility with C and JavaScript enhances its integration with other tools and offers goal-oriented scenario within the workload model

Pros

"When designing a workload model offers a good range of possibilities for creating goal-oriented scenarios, which helps us understand and meet SLAs."

Cons

"LoadRunner experiences high resource utilization. Even though we have machines with higher configurations, I've observed this behavior. Heavy traffic recording results in the tool hanging. So heavy traffic recording makes the tool slow."
Richard Dachowski - PeerSpot user
Senior Quality & Test Architect at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Mar 10, 2023
Good scripting, allows for various languages, and good performance modeling

Pros

"There are various languages that they allow those programs to be written in, whether you want to use Java or something else."

Cons

"There's a reporting part of the cloud that could be improved a little bit."
SP
Lead Performance Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Oct 31, 2023
Easy to install, offers script reusability and improves product quality through shift-left testing

Cons

"I recently just got to see LoadRunner Developer, but it is still not fully developed to use."
Mahendra Andhale - PeerSpot user
Test Architect at Happiest Minds Technologies
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Jan 13, 2024
Offers good usability and identify and address issues that arise during peak loads

Pros

"I appreciate its ability to handle various internal calls and its user-friendly interface."

Cons

"I also use the TrueClient feature for browser-based testing. I found the TrueClient feature to be a bit difficult to use and not very user-friendly for automating scripts."
Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot user
CTO at Marco Technology
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Sep 21, 2022
Can get things done in a very short period of time and has very little bottleneck issues

Pros

"It has features for recording. The best feature with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is that there is very little bottleneck or overhead issues. With LoadRunner, you can spawn 2000 contributions for one machine."

Cons

"The pricing model, selling model, and business model need to be adjusted. For non-enterprise organizations, Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is too expensive and not worth the cost."
VK
AVP at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Sep 25, 2024
Wide protocol support helps and provides insights but technical support needs improvement

Pros

"One of the most valuable features of LoadRunner Professional is the wide range of protocols it supports, especially the web user v user types."

Cons

"Technical support needs to be faster, and the pricing should be more competitive."