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As of March 2025, the mindshare of OpenText LoadRunner Professional in the Performance Testing Tools category stands at 12.9%, down from 14.9% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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CategoryPerformance Testing ToolsMar 26, 2025Download
ProductReviews, tips, and advice from real usersMar 26, 2025Download
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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

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"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."
Vinod Patil - PeerSpot user
Senior Manager - Performance Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Aug 14, 2022
Is very user-friendly, supports other tools, and provides in-depth and more detailed analyses

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"Scaling is definitely one of the best features of this solution. There are no issues scaling to 10,000 or 20,000 concurrent users."

Cons

"In terms of resource management, you need a lot of high capacity boxes if you need to generate a load of 1,000 or 2,000 users."
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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."
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."
Aphiwat Leetavorn. - PeerSpot user
CTO at Marco Technology
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
Nov 3, 2023
Has more functions than other tools, and that saves a lot of time

Pros

"The most valuable feature depends on what we're doing at the time. In the past, the greatest feature was the ability to record and play back to produce a script. Another great feature is that we can monitor the system. They also support many protocols to perform load testing."

Cons

"The monitoring technology in LoadRunner could be improved. It depends on another tool called SiteScope, but they only took a part of the features of SiteScope. They need to improve on that."
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Performance Architect at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Verified user of OpenText LoadRunner Professional
May 26, 2023
Stable and scalable solution useful for load testing and analyzing system performance

Pros

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. "

Cons

"On a scale of one to ten, where one is low, and ten is high-quality technical support, I rate the support a one."