Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud is used for enterprise performance modeling and validation of enterprise networks and tax applications.
Both the professional and cloud versions of Micro Focus LoadRunner use the same scripting or programming to execute performance modeling operations.
This feature allows users to use various programming languages such as Java, C, or C++, which can run within either of the two environments. This flexibility in the programming language is a strong point of the software.
Enterprise is the next level up for professionals. But if you have the cloud version, you are almost there. Because that was the way it used to be. They didn't previously have the cloud version. You had LoadRunner Enterprise, and you had LoadRunner Professional.
Since the cloud has become more and more important, they have now expanded that, and they have now the cloud version as well. We use both.
There are always areas that can be improved.
One area of improvement in the software's support is the replaying of captured data within the development environment.
It would be beneficial if the replay feature could accurately mimic what the actual application is doing for better analysis and testing.
As web technologies have evolved rapidly in the past few years, the software has included a runtime viewer to debug scripts along with other logging features.
However, the additional logging can be expensive, and the runtime viewer needs to be updated to better support newer web technologies.
The logging feature itself is not problematic, but the discrepancy lies in the outdated runtime viewer's inability to effectively support newer web 2.0 technologies, leading to a less visually appealing and potentially less informative display.
Despite this deficiency, users can still access all the necessary logging information and tailor it to their needs.
In summary, although the logging feature in LoadRunner Cloud is useful, there is a discrepancy in the runtime viewer when dealing with newer web 2.0 technologies. However, you can still access all the necessary logs and set them according to your needs. The main issue is the lack of ease of use in the runtime viewer, which needs to be modernized to better support newer technologies.
There is a reporting component of the cloud that could be improved, but it could simply be different from what I'm used to. I'm more accustomed to using the analysis program included with the on-premise software, whether LoadRunner Enterprise or LoadRunner Professional.
The analysis engine, one of three major components of the entire software package, examines the data collected by the load test, or performance test, I am not familiar with what it is referred to as and produces a variety of reports.
They do that on the cloud as well, but I'm not sure if it's as detailed, and we may not have as much control over what you want.
They do that on the cloud as well, but I don't know if it's as and it seems to be pretty detailed, but we maybe not have such much control as to what you want to get, but I think it's still more than adequate in the in most cases.
I have been working with Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud for more than ten years.
We have both the professional version as well as the cloud version.
It all depends on who you end up with. Each company has different levels of technical support. They have levels one, two, and three, followed by the RND. If you have a basic question, perhaps the level one or level two personnel can handle it. But, if you have anything really technical, you must go to level three, and sometimes it takes a little more push to have that sort of case elevated to the appropriate individual.
It isn't, and they have individuals that will allow you. They have customer success managers, customer engagement managers, or whatever you want to call it who help customers to achieve this. If you are a paying customer for support, they have staff like that who can help move things ahead. Yet, it is one area where there may be some slight improvement.
Pricing is dependent on what you're referring to. If you're talking about the cloud, it's likely competitive. However, if you're talking about the on-premise version, professional or enterprise licenses are required. Prices are on the high side. They are not cheap.
That's one of the benefits of the cloud. The most important aspect of the cloud is that it applies to everything. They take care of the inconvenience of maintaining the infrastructure required to support your performance testing environment, regardless of the application.
I'm familiar with both. I have been with LoadRunner long enough to understand what it's like to manage one of those environments because the cloud didn't exist ten years ago. That's significant time and effort savings for the customer, but you pay for it.
If they don't give it away for free, you have everyone who will have someone do all the maintenance for you, such as setting up your servers and making sure they use to start up the servers appropriately with the right level of software and keep the software up to date, and all that stuff. That costs money, and it is not free. There must be a careful balancing act between how much you will use the cloud and what you will do on-premise.
I would rate Micro Focus LoadRunner Cloud a nine out of ten.
In terms of what it does, it's probably one of the best.
I haven't really compared it to any other cloud version. I'm very happy with it for what it does. I would say nine because it definitely takes care of the issue of maintaining all the servers and ramping them up on a consistent basis. There are very few outages in that regard, which is another good and very positive aspect of the cloud.
