We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Professional and ReadyAPI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Performance Testing Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a good and stable tool."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to create performance test cases quickly and then execute them. It provides a lot of powerful features to do that very efficiently and effectively."
"The number of protocols that it supports, and especially, for example, when it talks about SAP GUI-based performance testing."
"The solution supports a lot of protocols."
"Graph monitoring is a valuable feature."
"My favorite feature in LoadRunner Professional is its ability to group scripts under separate IDs."
"LoadRunner Professional allowed us to load test potential new payroll solutions that would be implemented throughout the entire organization so that we knew which was best suited to performing well under pressure."
"Its variety of testing tools for different applications is of great benefit, as well as its integration capabilities with other testing and monitoring solutions."
"The dashboards are very good and consolidate all of the tests that you are performing with the client."
"The Excel sheet feature is good."
"It's easy to implement."
"The performance testing capabilities are very good."
"The two most valuable features we use are the functional test and the security test."
"It's easy to automate for more data-driven testing."
"The most valuable feature has been the assertion as a test step as this has allowed us to increase the scope of testing and validation."
"It is the best solution you can get across the globe for API, test automation, and API penetration testing."
"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."
"Support for Microsoft Dynamics needs improvement."
"The solution uses a lot of memory and then it dies. It's difficult to work with the solution sometimes when you run a scenario it dies. They need to make the solution lighter somehow."
"You should be able to use LoadRunner as a single platform. You should be able to have browser based access. You should be able to run enterprise tests."
"I guess scalability becomes a problem when you use things like TruClients."
"The tool needs to work on capture script feature."
"Instead of having too many graphs and tabs, use the analysis section to get a more simplified defect analysis."
"The product is not stable and reliable in the version we are currently using."
"Version control does not work well."
"The reporting is not very robust and needs to be improved."
"Many users will consider this solution expensive compared to the layout. It is more expensive than other solutions."
"I don't like how they don't have a clear way to manage tests between multiple projects."
"ReadyAPI could improve by having dynamic validation information."
"The solution is made up of multiple tools, and the one additional feature we'd like to have is load testing."
"They have performance testing also. However, it's not that great."
"What needs improvement in ReadyAPI is its load testing feature because there was a hiccup when my team performed some load testing on the tool. My team had meetings with the ReadyAPI team and tried to get that issue fixed, but it still hasn't improved. This is a shortcoming of the tool, especially when you compare it with HP LoadRunner."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 77 reviews while ReadyAPI is ranked 7th in Performance Testing Tools with 34 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while ReadyAPI is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Professional writes "A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of ReadyAPI writes "Allows you to parameterize in one place for the changes to reflect everywhere and lets you customize the environment, but its load testing feature needs improvement, and costs need to be cheaper". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud and Apache JMeter, whereas ReadyAPI is most compared with Apache JMeter, Katalon Studio, Tricentis Tosca, ReadyAPI Test and Selenium HQ. See our OpenText LoadRunner Professional vs. ReadyAPI report.
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