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OpenText LoadRunner Cloud pros and cons

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OpenText LoadRunner Cloud Pros review quotes

MD
Jun 14, 2021
The fact that the solution supports multiple protocols such as open source, VuGen, TruWeb, TruClient, and SAP is very important because these protocols help us to concentrate on what is really needed to produce performance tests. If something is not supported, you have to use other tools or find other ways of assimilating loads.
DP
Oct 27, 2023
The beauty of LoadRunner Cloud is that we can use the load generator that is hosted by us on-premises, and we also have the option to use their hosted load generator. If it is a public-hosted application, we can also use their public-hosted load generator, but in our case, all our applications are hosted in our data center, so we are using the on-premise load generator. We have the option to deploy those load generators as we want.
reviewer2297850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
It is feature-rich. It supports most protocols, which is important because I am in charge of a team at the bank, and we do performance testing for all kinds of different applications. We have tons of them. We even do video streams.
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AK
Jan 14, 2019
Keeping up with DevOps, thus the best feature of StormRunner is that we don't have to build and maintain infrastructure anymore.
Richard Dachowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 9, 2023
Both the professional and cloud versions of Micro Focus LoadRunner use the same scripting or programming to execute performance modeling operations. This feature allows users to use various programming languages such as Java, C, or C++, which can run within either of the two environments. This flexibility in the programming language is a strong point of the software.
Abbasi Poonawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 19, 2023
The record and playback feature is the most valuable feature. It's all driven by the script, so it's a script-based tool where the background tracing starts. Java's background process does a lot of tracing. The process starts in the background. It sees what peaks of volumes that the process can handle. It's easy to use because it's script based, record, and playback. I
AB
Jun 27, 2021
The TruClient feature is the most valuable for us. An application with testing can only be scripted using TruClient, so it's part web-based, but it also has its own protocol combined with HTTP and HTML. So many other tools do not recognize this specific proprietary protocol. Using TruClient, we can still create scripts that cover everything that we need to cover.
Vinod Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 8, 2022
It's a fast product, so you don't have much trouble in terms of maintenance overhead. You don't want to just look into configuring load generators, look for upgrades, and end up having that take up a lot of your time. With this solution, you just log in and you start using it. This means that there is a huge benefit in terms of the overhead of maintaining the infrastructure and the maintenance effort.
AlexLogan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 3, 2024
A vital feature of the solution is its ability to compose realistic scenarios for performance testing
CM
Sep 21, 2020
The most valuable feature is that we do not have to accommodate the load-testing infrastructure in our own data center.
 

OpenText LoadRunner Cloud Cons review quotes

MD
Jun 14, 2021
We are trying to put it into a complete CI/CD pipeline, but there are still some challenges when you try to run it through different protocols. The challenges are around how you can containerize applications. There are some limitations to some protocols, such as desktop. And when it comes to database testing, there are some things that we can't do through CI/CD.
DP
Oct 27, 2023
In terms of new features, they can natively integrate with Chaos engineering tools such as Chaos Monkey and AWS FIS. With LoadRunner, we can generate load, and if Chaos tools are also supported natively, it will help to get everything together.
reviewer2297850 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 20, 2023
Their documentation is not technical enough for us. We would like to have much deeper technical documentation so that we can self-serve without constantly having to go back to them and ask.
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AK
Jan 14, 2019
There is a steep learning curve for the product, too.
Richard Dachowski - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 9, 2023
One area of improvement in the software's support is the replaying of captured data within the development environment. It would be beneficial if the replay feature could accurately mimic what the actual application is doing for better analysis and testing.
Abbasi Poonawala - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 19, 2023
I would like for there to be better integration with other tools so that when you do load testing you can also do a security check.
AB
Jun 27, 2021
Reporting and analysis need improvement. Compared to the old school LoadRunner Windows application, the reporting and analysis are mediocre in LoadRunner Cloud.
Vinod Patil - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 8, 2022
CI/CD integration could be a little bit better. When there's a test and if you see that there are high response times in the test itself, it would be great to be able to send an alert. It would give a heads-up to the architect community or ops community.
AlexLogan - PeerSpot reviewer
Jun 3, 2024
Some improvements can be made to the solution's user interface
CM
Sep 21, 2020
There are three modules in the system that are different products packaged into one, and they can sometimes be difficult to figure out, so they should be better integrated with each other.