We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Spirent Avalanche based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."I think that analytics is very good and that the analytics features are very powerful."
"Graph monitoring is a valuable feature."
"Paramterization and correlation are important features."
"The most valuable features of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional are scripting and executing the tests."
"It is a good and stable tool."
"What we like the most is that it integrates with UC."
"The ability to do multithreading. That's available in any performance testing tool, but the number of protocols that this particular tool supports has been very good."
"It is actually a very good tool because it will support almost all, if not all, industry-standard protocols, and it is also equipped with very nice reporting capabilities, which is why I like it."
"I find network traffic testing the most valuable feature."
"The solution lacks some form of integration."
"I would like to see better-licensing costs."
"There should be more integration with more open-source platforms."
"The flexibility could be improved."
"There's a reporting part of the cloud that could be improved a little bit."
"I also use the TrueClient feature for browser-based testing. I found the TrueClient feature to be a bit difficult to use and not very user-friendly for automating scripts."
"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."
"I recently just got to see LoadRunner Developer, but it is still not fully developed to use."
"The solution could improve by increasing the Gbps speeds and by having better support for storage."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 77 reviews while Spirent Avalanche is ranked 17th in Performance Testing Tools. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while Spirent Avalanche is rated 9.0. 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 Spirent Avalanche writes "Quality traffic testing and is reasonably priced". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester, whereas Spirent Avalanche is most compared with Ixia IxLoad and Apache JMeter.
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