OpenText LoadRunner Professional vs Worksoft Certify comparison

The compared OpenText and Worksoft solutions aren't in the same category. OpenText is ranked #3 in PTT , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 12.5% mindshare in the category. Worksoft is ranked #8 in TAt , with an average rating of 7.7, and holds a 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 94% of OpenText users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Worksoft users who would recommend it.

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Categories and Ranking

OpenText LoadRunner Profess...

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Performance Testing Tools (3rd), Load Testing Tools (3rd)

Worksoft Certify

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Functional Testing Tools (8th), API Testing Tools (7th), Test Automation Tools (8th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Quality Assurance solutions, they serve different purposes. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is designed for Performance Testing Tools and holds a mindshare of 12.5%, down 15.5% compared to last year.
Worksoft Certify, on the other hand, focuses on Test Automation Tools, holds 4.4% mindshare, up 4.3% since last year.

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Featured Reviews

HelenSague

Senior Performance Testing Specialist at Canadian Pacific Railway

A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications

I do not have any big challenges with LoadRunner. I only have some issues with load generators. It is a very common issue, and I hope it will be resolved in the latest release. For example, when we start to run our tests, users get the message that the load generator exceeded 80% of the CPU utilization. Even when the number of users is less, we get these messages. I am trying to resolve it, but it is not going. It is annoying. It is not a failure, but I hope that it will be resolved. IBM WebSphere MQ testing can be a bit challenging. It can handle that, but I hope that they will build more and more capabilities. We do a huge amount of testing for messaging. Just like aviation, the railway industry is based on messaging. There is messaging to build trains and messaging to create some bills. There are many train movements. Everything involves messaging. I wish that it will be developed more for IBM WebSphere testing. Monitoring is okay, but for testing, I currently have to create Java users. I have to load a lot of libraries from IBM WebSphere and so on.

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Shailesh-Parkhe

Manager-Projects at Cognizant

Powerful automation tool with a user-friendly interface, codeless automation, and adaptability to complex business processes, particularly in SAP environments

The tool itself is highly effective, especially when it comes to comprehensibility for newcomers. Even during the initial learning phase, I found it remarkably user-friendly. It facilitates quick onboarding and training of new resources. It offers features for building automation scripts, such as search and certify capture. A notable advantage is that it doesn't rely on other tools like Micro Focus UFT or Micro Focus ALM for script execution. Worksoft can run independently without the need for support from Microsoft Office, although the option to use it for maintaining data exists. The tool also includes debugging features and comprehensive reporting capabilities, generating PDF reports for easy analysis.

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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

"It is an advanced tool with multiple options available for the performance system."

"The capabilities and flexibility of the Controller, the ability to monitor the systems under test, and the comprehensive results Analysis which saves a great deal of time."

"There are various languages that they allow those programs to be written in, whether you want to use Java or something else."

"The stability of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is very high. It is the leading tool for stability."

"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."

"The most valuable feature depends on what we're doing at the time. In the past, the greatest feature was the ability to record and play back to produce a script. Another great feature is that we can monitor the system. They also support many protocols to perform load testing."

"My favorite feature in LoadRunner Professional is its ability to group scripts under separate IDs."

"I think that analytics is very good and that the analytics features are very powerful."

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"Worksoft Certify supports multiple interfaces and applications like SAP, Web, or Silverlight Java, and Mainframe. It is easily integrated."

"During our yearly upgrades, we have now gotten them down to ten days or less. We have Worksoft run all our integration tests, where it used to take probably six weeks to do that manually."

"With autotesting, we have been able to eliminate duplication of test cases across those four areas. This has helped us knock down our number of test cases. Our test cases are also running more optimally. Therefore, it has very much helped in that sense, so we were able to eliminate a lot of test cases and get out of manual silos by running on autotesting, which is more efficient."

"The turn around time for getting the automation tester familiarized with the tool is very quick, as it doesn't have any coding. It is fairly simple to understand."

"The Worksoft Capture feature is most valuable. For example, if you are creating a sales order in SAP, you do not need to go to each field and do everything. You do not need to write code for each and every line. You can just turn on the Worksoft Capture feature and manually perform your actions. It will capture all manual actions, and it will give you the steps. It will write the steps for you."

"We were able to use Worksoft to automate all of the actions that we would have to take after an SAP refresh. This way we do the refresh, then that night or right afterwards, we run the Worksoft script and it resets all of our testing users. This sets them up with the right access, the right approvals, and just sets up everything on the back-end so we can do our scripts the next night."

"Our business users are doing regression testing as their day job. This is an add-on to their daily work. With everything so pressured in the industry, automation takes the pressure of these users."

"We are mainly using it for the SAP application, and for the SAP application, if you don't have any experience with automation tools, after a few training sessions, you can easily automate the scripts. That's because no specific programming language is used. All resources that I have are specifically SAP resources. They are not from the automation background, but after gaining the knowledge, they are able to develop a script, or when there is any issue while doing regression testing, they are at least able to understand the issue, such as whether the issue is in the code or data."

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Cons

"The solution must be more user-friendly."

"LoadRunner experiences high resource utilization. Even though we have machines with higher configurations, I've observed this behavior. Heavy traffic recording results in the tool hanging. So heavy traffic recording makes the tool slow."

"I would like to have better support for adding more users per load generator."

"Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional can improve the implementation of digital areas, such as digital testing, UI and native application, and native mobile applications."

"Sometimes when we were migrating from one version to another, some of our scripts started failing."

"The flexibility could be improved."

"We still have some issues with integration with things like SiteScope which, obviously, being another HPE product should be very straightforward, but there are always issues around that."

"The tool needs to work on capture script feature."

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"There was a change to Capture 2.0. In the end, there have been some challenges with the newer version. Therefore, the company testers, the local ones, do not want to use Capture 2.0."

"There have been some previous security concerns with the way that Capture has worked. When you turn it on, you don't know what it's capturing. This has raised some concerns in the past, especially in our European regions."

"For Execution Manager, I would like it to be more robust interface and be able to view the remote machines full screen instead of a little window."

"It is very easy to use, but there are some places where they need to improve their security. E.g., the BPP tool is just a URL, which does not ask you for a username and password. Anyone can login and can see it."

"The product had some UI issues."

"We have had run ins with some bugs on Business Process Procedure (BPP) and Execution Manager."

"Reportings are not user-friendly."

"One feature that could be added to Capture 2.0 is generating a PDF file from your capture, so you can see your screenshots and steps."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."

"The pricing model, especially when involving partners, could use some improvement."

"The licensing is on a yearly basis and is relatively expensive."

"There is a licensing cost that is expensive."

"The licensing fees are based on the number of users."

"The solution's pricing is expensive."

"The licensing model is complex. You have to pick up the protocol and the number of concurrent users, and then select the level of concurrent users. For example, there would be one price for 100 to 500 users and another for 500 to 2000 users. If you choose two protocols, then you will have to pay twice the amount depending on the number of concurrent users."

"This is not a cheap product."

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"I don't have much idea about the pricing, but it is a licensed tool, and it is somewhat costly."

"This solution is expensive."

"We no longer need ten people sitting and manually testing something. We can just have one person running the entire regression automation testing suite, and this has saved us dollars."

"If we do one manual process, it could take approximately two hours. The same process using Worksoft probably takes ten minutes."

"Automating our manual processes has saved us 70 to 80 percent in time."

"The tool is not really good at all because you need to purchase some additional tools."

"Worksoft has paid for itself fives times over."

"This solution has enabled our clients to automate and save time (approximately 40 to 50 percent)."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Manufacturing Company

18%

Computer Software Company

11%

Retailer

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?

When designing a workload model offers a good range of possibilities for creating goal-oriented scenarios, which helps us understand and meet SLAs.

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

The pricing should be reduced and made more competitive.

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What needs improvement with Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional?

Technical support needs to be faster, and the pricing should be more competitive. The virtual table server feature should be reintroduced. Some AI capabilities should be added. There should be an '...

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How does Tricentis Tosca compare with Worksoft Certify?

Tosca fulfills our business needs better because it is an end-to-end solution across technologies. We like that it is scriptless, so even non-experienced staff can use it. To put it simply, with To...

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What do you like most about Worksoft Certify?

A specific feature that I found to be the most valuable in the solution for our company's work processes stems from the fact that it is useful as a low-code automation tool.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Worksoft Certify?

The tool is worth the money.

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Comparisons

Tricentis NeoLoad vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 32% of the time

Apache JMeter vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 11% of the time

OpenText LoadRunner Cloud vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 11% of the time

OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 9% of the time

Tricentis Tosca vs OpenText LoadRunner Professional

Compared 5% of the time

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Tricentis Tosca vs Worksoft Certify

Compared 65% of the time

Selenium HQ vs Worksoft Certify

Compared 13% of the time

OpenText UFT One vs Worksoft Certify

Compared 6% of the time

UiPath Test Suite vs Worksoft Certify

Compared 5% of the time

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Overview

OpenText LoadRunner Professional is a performance testing tool used for various software applications, including web-related use cases, API testing, and enterprise performance modeling. Its valuable features include quick test case creation and execution, graph monitoring, multiple protocols, scripting and executing tests, scalability, easy setup, auto-correlation, analysis and reporting capabilities, stability, reliability, and compatibility with various programming languages.

LoadRunner has helped organizations load test potential new payroll solutions and choose the best option, record network traffic of mobile applications, and handle different protocols. It is the ultimate tool for performance testing.

OpenText LoadRunner Professional Will Enable You To:

Drive quality across your enterprise.
Alleviate the challenges of managing many application types, testing tools, licenses, repositories, and systems while working toward unified results.

With OpenText LoadRunner Professional You Can:

Increase organizational efficiency through standardization of tools and resources.
Balance your priorities and improve the results delivered by your testing team.
Increase testing productivity.
Improve collaboration across application teams.
Gain the ability to outsource some or all the tactical work of load testing.

OpenText LoadRunner Professional Features:

Intuitive and Easy to Use: OpenText LoadRunner Professional is intuitive, versatile, and easy to use, which makes it easy for testers to quickly learn the basics and apply them to their testing tasks, while engineers who are more experienced can utilize all the features for the most complex of scenarios.
Comprehensive Enterprise Coverage: OpenText LoadRunner Professional provides support for multiple protocols such as HTML, WebSocket, AJAX, RDP, Database, Remote Terminal Emulators, Citrix, Java, .NET, Oracle and SAP.
Scripting Technologies: Reduce scripting time by 50% or more via OpenText LoadRunner Professional’s TruClient protocol, and automatic correlation, and correlate both front end (user experience) and back end (load) issues.
Extensive and Flexible Test Scenarios: The LoadRunner solution provides several valuable features that let you validate, enhance, and modify your tests. It gives you the ability to integrate external measurements to assess the impact on every application component, extend tests with success-failure checks, and emulate peak loads. You can also apply load on the go and change parameters for better flexibility in order to yield the most representative testing possible.
Realistic Network Conditions: Network virtualization capabilities help accurately simulate realistic conditions for an accurate analysis of both throughput and user response time. Realistic network conditions are predicted using location-aware analytics, transaction analysis and optimization.
Accurate Workloads with Low Overhead: OpenText LoadRunner Professional allows you to run high-scale tests with minimal hardware so that you can apply accurate workloads to any application.
Ongoing Testing Support: The OpenText LoadRunner Professional solution provides continuous testing support via built-in integrations across IDE, CI/CD, open source test automation, monitoring, and source code management tools.

OpenText LoadRunner Professional Benefits:

Quickly deliver enterprise engineering capabilities and facilitate sharing of assets and collaboration.
Reduce complexity and increase utilization of infrastructure and human resources.
Get the big picture with cross-project reporting and individual project drill downs.
Increase collaboration and consistency with unified storage and access to all relevant assets.
Reduce costs with centralized management and built-in support of cloud-based load generation.
Analyze end-to-end performance, including topology, infrastructure-level, and advanced insights.
Incorporate application monitoring and user sentiment data to take a centralized approach to data collection and connect the dots.
Using powerful analytics and insights, gain visibility into the test status across the entire enterprise and performance trending information across multiple tests.

Reviews from Real Users:

"The most useful aspect of the solution is that it provides agents in different geographic locations.” - Head, Testing Centre of Excellence at NIIT Technologies Limited

"The most important feature for us is that it supports a lot of protocols because we support all of them, including HTTP, FTP, mainframe, and others.” - Test Automation, DevOps & Performance Engineering at a financial services firm

"The solution can handle a huge amount of workloads, it's quite scalable.” - Regional Head Customer Experience at a financial services firm

"The reporting mechanism is a valuable feature that generates good reports.” - Senior Architect at a computer software company

Worksoft Certify is the industry's first codeless automated testing system, created for non-technical people to test end-to-end business processes at an enterprise scale.

It was designed to test complicated processes spanning numerous apps and integrating into contemporary DevOps tool chains. Worksoft Certify manages dynamic input, process flows, and frequent variances in business processes with ease.

Worksoft Certify automates the testing of your exact business processes across all of your enterprise applications. This solution makes it simple for customers and suppliers to package a process with all of its related dependencies, sub-processes, record sets, record filters, layouts, and variables.

Worksoft Certify automates tests as effortlessly and quickly as the underlying applications permit, allowing you to evaluate business processes in record time with flawless dependability and consistency. Worksoft Certify speeds up test automation by utilizing a patented Object Action Framework, which effectively models the application under test as a set of pages containing GUI objects and test steps that perform actions on those objects.

Worksoft Certify Features

Worksoft Certify has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

LiveTouch: Without coding, graphically edit and update tests.

No "fail" tests: See fail validations flagged when the end-to-end test continues.

Process comparison: Visually compare tests side by side and eliminate unnecessary tests to reduce maintenance

Magic search: AI-driven process search can find duplicate processes and keep automation libraries clean.

Exploratory testing: Real-time automated exploratory tests.

API testing: Utilize the virtual services and current SoapUI tests.

Test data generator: Obtain data from SAP for testing.

Create content: Make use of the more than 300 prebuilt SAP end-to-end testing scenarios.

Visual capture: Support agile testing by using automation artifacts from process discovery.

Full compatibility: Web, Java, .Net, client/server applications, SAP GUI, FIORI, web portal Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Ariba, SuccessFactors, Hybris, AJAX, and more.

Worksoft Certify Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Worksoft Certify. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Speed: Automate at least 80% of testing to accelerate innovation.

Savings: Reduce overall testing and maintenance expenditures by 60% to 80%.

Confidence: Identify defects faster and reduce production defects by 60%.

DevOps-ready: Run tests as part of continuous integration, testing, or delivery cycle.

Support for RPA: Convert test scripts into robotic process automation.

Reviews from Real Users

Jens N., Enterprise Architect SAP Solutions at a computer software company, writes, “As compared to other tools for test automation, what is very good in this tool is the ability to implement logic into the scripts without coding and learning a complex script language. It is comparable to defining formulas in Excel. It is pretty easy to learn how to make your scripts more intelligent and more flexible as per the situation.”

Aditya C., Sr Test Automation Architect at a tech services company, notes, “The most valuable features of Worksoft Certify are the way we can maintain the processes and sub-processes inside. We can immediately identify and replicate multiple objects in the application without having a major issue with it.”

Sample Customers

JetBlue, GOME, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, RMIT University, Virgin Media

Kraft, Reliant Energy, Richemont, Applied Materials, Siemens PLM, Mosaic, Dow Corning, ebay, IBM, Accenture, Fortis BC, US Government, Southwest Airlines

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