OpenText LoadRunner Cloud and ReadyAPI are strong contenders in the performance testing and API testing markets. LoadRunner Cloud stands out with its scalability and integration capabilities, while ReadyAPI is noteworthy for its comprehensive API testing platform.
Features: OpenText LoadRunner Cloud offers high scalability, supporting up to 1 million concurrent users; it integrates with monitoring and APM tools and suits agile environments. ReadyAPI provides a user-friendly interface for API testing, combining functional, load, and security testing with service virtualization, and has strong integration with tools like Jira and CI/CD systems.
Room for Improvement: OpenText LoadRunner Cloud could enhance its load patterns, reporting customizations, and backward compatibility. ReadyAPI users desire improved scalability, more robust reporting, flexible security testing templates, and enhanced integration with test management tools and databases.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenText LoadRunner Cloud allows versatile public and hybrid cloud deployments and is appreciated for its proactive support. ReadyAPI, primarily on-premises, is praised for efficient customer service and consistent problem-solving capabilities.
Pricing and ROI: OpenText LoadRunner Cloud's pay-as-you-go pricing offers value through high scalability, though considered expensive for its protocol support. ReadyAPI provides modular licensing, perceived as reasonably priced with positive ROI in enterprise environments.
The ROI is not necessarily cost savings. Sometimes a customer wants to use OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, or it's the only tool that will solve the problem depending on the application.
It is very scalable, and on the cloud, it's even more scalable, potentially unlimited.
I rate ReadyAPI between five to six for scalability due to complexities associated with scripting.
ReadyAPI's performance testing capabilities can impact API scalability assessments.
Once all configurations and preparations are done, it is very stable.
I'm considering the use of AWS and its Lambda functionalities prepared by the vendor.
It's delivering functionality, but we also use JMeter, which is free.
The pricing of ReadyAPI is reasonable, considering its functionality compared to other tools in the market.
Currently, we don't extensively use the performance testing due to license costs.
Its LoadRunner functionality allows us to record a solution's networking protocol and replay them.
It also aids in faster feedback to developers, allowing them to implement developments in a sprint without the need for extensive testing afterwards, thus improving our time to market metrics.
ReadyAPI is valuable for web service automation and allowing us to generate test cases and automate processes.
ReadyAPI is an all-in-one automated testing platform that allows teams to create, manage, and execute automated functional, security, and performance tests in one centralized interface.
ReadyAPI Features
Some of ReadyAPI’s key features include:
ReadyAPI Benefits
Some of the benefits of using ReadyAPI include:
Reviews from Real Users
Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by Dell EMC Unity users.
PeerSpot user Vallalarasu P., Test Architect at a tech services company, states, “ReadyAPI is one of the best tools for API testing because they have made a single platform for functional testing, load testing security, and also service actualization. We also have virtual work that can be an add-in within ReadyAPI. For integration for CACD, they have something called TestEngine, which can also be an add-on for ReadyAPI. We use Python request library and things like that but if you're a bigger organization with hundreds of APIs, then ReadyAPI is a one-stop solution for complete API testing. If you consider TestComplete and other products for an equivalent outcome, you might get something nearly comparable, butReadyAPI is the outstanding product.”
An IT Manager at an insurance company says the solution has “Fast automation, less coding, and is pretty lightweight. When you are working in sprints, you need to have continuous feedback. ReadyAPI definitely helps in automating very fast and rapidly. We have less coding, and we can more easily define our assertions. We don't use it for full-blown performance testing, but normally if you are doing your functional testing, it gives you the request and response time. Anybody who is doing functional testing can see what the request and response times are and raise a flag based upon their business affiliates, that is, whether it is meeting their affiliates. You can identify this during functional testing."
Balamurugan A., Manager at a financial services firm, comments, “We like the user interface. The most valuable features are the integration with Jira and the test management tools.
They have interfaces with our performance tools, so we were able to leverage all of these integrations and plugins. It is very good from an integrative solution standpoint.”
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