OpenText ALM / Quality Center vs OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise comparison

The compared OpenText ALM / Quality Center and OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise solutions aren't in the same category. OpenText ALM / Quality Center is ranked #5 in ALM , with an average rating of 8.1, and holds a 5.7% mindshare in the category. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is ranked #5 in PTT , with an average rating of 8.7, and holds a 6.3% mindshare. Additionally, 89% of OpenText ALM / Quality Center users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise users who would recommend it.

OpenText ALM / Quality Center

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89% willing to recommend

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

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90% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText ALM / Quality Center

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

205

Ranking in other categories

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (5th), Test Management Tools (1st)

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

5.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (5th), Load Testing Tools (5th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. OpenText ALM / Quality Center is designed for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites and holds a mindshare of 5.7%, up 5.7% compared to last year.
OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, on the other hand, focuses on Performance Testing Tools, holds 6.3% mindshare, down 8.5% since last year.

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Aphiwat Leetavorn.

CTO at Marco Technology

Has an initial setup phase that is easy to manage

The tool has some limitations for the dashboard, especially when it comes to 20 or 25 of them, which is sometimes not enough, and one may have to use a custom Excel to help extend the dashboard. The tool needs improvements since it is an old technology. OpenText ALM / Quality Center's improved version is ALM Octane but it does not support some of the traditional parts of the original product. Some of the traditional parts are missing in a lot of areas of OpenText ALM / Quality Center. It is difficult to directly transfer OpenText ALM / Quality Center to ALM Octane. Some of the classic OEMs have limitations, especially when used in an IDE network. There is a need for the tool to check where changes in UI or UX need to be made. The technology used for UI and UX are not user-friendly.

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VictorHorescu

Chief Executive Officer at iqst

Ability to test almost every tool in the companies I enter and performs well in a distributed environment

It would be beneficial if LoadRunner could optimize resource usage, especially for protocols that require significant resources, like TrueClient, which interacts directly with the UI. If they could improve resource usage, like ingest or for the load generator, using less CPU or RAM memory, that would be great. That's where I have problems. In real time, when they ask for 5,000 or 10,000 concurrent users, I have to provision a lot of virtual machines to define this load. Then there are situations with certain platforms, especially document management platforms, where the technology is so weird that normal LoadRunner protocols cannot detect it. So, in that case, I have to use that special TruClient protocol. I have to use the TruClient protocol, which actually clicks on the object. Despite the SQL technology, I can still create a script and test for performance. So what I would appreciate a lot is if this protocol would require less resources on a normal virtual machine. I can use fewer concurrent users with TruClient protocols as opposed to almost one hundred with HTTP/HTML. As opposed to many more with HTTP/HTML from, let's say, JMeter. So, optimization at that level for resource consumption by OpenText would be much appreciated.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Quality management, project management from a QA perspective - testing, defect management, how testing relates back to requirements."

"The product's initial setup phase is easy."

"ALM Quality Center's best features are the test lab, requirement tab, and report dashboard."

"You can plan ahead with all the requirements and the test lab set it up as a library, then go do multiple testing times, recording the default that's in the system."

"The initial setup is straightforward. It's not too hard to deploy."

"I like the traceability, especially between requirements, testing, and defects."

"OpenText ALM Quality Center is highly customizable."

"I love to use this solution with single projects. It has helped our productivity. With the metrics that I receive, I can put them onto the management model so I can see them there. It has reduced our time for project management and controls by 20 percent."

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"Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is easy to use and has flexibility that allows it to be used on a variety of applications."

"The solution does support a wide range of technologies and protocols. Plus, two features, network virtualization, and service virtualization, are really helpful. Apart from that, the way they have their billing scenarios, like the execution, is very good."

"LoadRunner's UI is project-convenient, allowing easier simulation of real-time scenarios and producing comprehensive reports that are effortless to read."

"It's a very powerful tool."

"We implemented through the vendor, who used highly-skilled professionals."

"The product is very user-friendly."

"Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise Is very user-friendly."

"One of the most valuable features of this solution is recording and replaying, and the fact that there are multiple options available to do this."

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Cons

"Lacks sufficient plug-ins."

"Only Internet Explorer is supported. That is a big problem. They don't support Chrome and Firefox and so on."

"The solution needs to offer support for Agile. Currently, ALM only supports Waterfall."

"The product is good, it's great, but when compared to other products with the latest methodologies, or when rating it as a software development tool, then I'll have to rate it with a lower score because there's a lot of other great tools where you can interconnect them, use them, scale them, and leverage. It all depends on the cost."

"It is not a scalable solution."

"There are cases where the system does not meet our reporting requirements."

"An area for improvement in Micro Focus ALM Quality Center is not being able to update the Excel sheet where I wrote the test cases. Whenever I update some test cases, I'm unsuccessful because there is overlapping data or missing cases from the sheet."

"It is nice, but it does have some weaknesses. It's a bit hard to go back and change the requirement tool after setup."

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"OpenText needs to improve in terms of support. With the same support plan but when the product was owned by HP, support was more responsive and better coordinated."

"More real-time monitoring should be available for the system under test."

"The solution can be improved by making it more user-friendly, and by including autocorrelation capability."

"Integration can be tricky during the setup process."

"I have seen some users report some issues, but I have personally not had any issues."

"The support team needs to be more coordinated."

"The solution is a very expensive tool when compared with other tools."

"The price of this solution could be less expensive. However, this category of solutions is expensive."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's a perpetual license."

"I've never been in the procurement process for it. I don't think it is cheap. Some of the features can be quite expensive."

"The solution was expensive for us."

"If you have more than five users, a concurrent licensing model should be considered."

"Seat and concurrent licensing models exist; the latter is recommended if a large number of different users will be utilizing the product."

"I'd rate the pricing as 3/10 as it's very expensive."

"The licensing fee is a little expensive."

"This is an expensive solution."

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"For Performance Center, you have to add additional load generators, and then you can do more. I think it is a matter of the price, in terms of how many machines you can buy."

"It is a bit expensive, especially for smaller organizations, but over-all it can save you money."

"There is an ROI. What LoadRunner does, is it prevents failures when there are many, many concurrent users in the systems of a company."

"It is a bit expensive when compared with other tools."

"It does everything you could hope for in a performance testing solution. It's not cheap."

"The price is a bit too high."

"We are content with the pricing and find it to be reasonable in terms of value for money."

"LoadRunner Enterprise's price is high."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

63%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

22%

Computer Software Company

18%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Micro Focus ALM Quality Center?

The most valuable feature is the ST Add-In. It's a Microsoft add-in that makes it much easier to upload test cases into Quality Center.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus ALM Quality Center?

The on-premises setup tends to be on the expensive side. It would be cheaper to use a cloud model with a pay-per-use licensing model.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus ALM Quality Center?

The extract format is not ideal, splitting expected results into three line items, making interpretation difficult. Issues with mapping multiple functional test cases to one automated test case nee...

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What do you like most about Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise?

Now that LoadRunner integrates with Dynatrace and other monitoring tools, it simplifies the process of integration into a company, taking merely five minutes to set up. This ease of integration a...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise?

In 2019, I was dealing with the costs of LoadRunner. While I don't remember the exact figures, JMeter being free and RPT being cheaper makes them attractive. The high cost of LoadRunner, in contras...

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise?

While I don't see any issues with LoadRunner's functionality, the cost of the tool is a major factor. Many of my customers have had to switch to different tools due to the cost of LoadRunner, despi...

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Also Known As

Micro Focus ALM Quality Center, HPE ALM, Quality Center, Quality Center, Micro Focus ALM

Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise, Performance Center, Micro Focus Performance Center, HPE Performance Center

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OpenText

Overview

OpenText ALM/Quality Center serves as the single pane of glass for software quality management. It helps you govern application lifecycle management activities and implement rigorous, auditable lifecycle processes.

Your globally distributed performance testing teams have the responsibility of driving quality acrossyour enterprise while testing a broad range of application types, managing costs and deploying applications that meet the performance requirements of your business. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise delivers a collaborative testing platform that reduces complexity, centralizes resources and leverages shared assets and licenses to increase consistency across your enterprise.

Sample Customers

Airbus Defense and Space, Vodafone, JTI, Xellia, and Banco de Creìdito e Inversiones (Bci)

Hexaware, British Sky Broadcasting, JetBlue

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