We performed a comparison between Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise and Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional comes out on top in this comparison. Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is a mature and feature-rich solution with a proven ROI, whereas Enterprise users report being dissatisfied with the product’s ROI.
"The user interface is fine."
"The most valuable aspect of Micro Focus LoadRunner Enterprise is the overall support it has for a lot of different applications and defined domains."
"We implemented through the vendor, who used highly-skilled professionals."
"LoadRunner Enterprise's most valuable features are load simulation and creating correlation for parameters."
"It offers easy integration with third-party tools like Dynatrace, Splunk, etc."
"It is mostly user-friendly and usable."
"The tool is very easy to set up and get running."
"We can book load generators."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Scaling is definitely one of the best features of this solution. There are no issues scaling to 10,000 or 20,000 concurrent users."
"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 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."
"LoadRunner is a very systematic tool for anyone to use. Even someone who is actually a first time user of LoadRunner can actually get a lot of benefit out of the tool."
"The Analysis feature makes it easy to analyze cross-data and we can pin to the focus period."
"It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance."
"Graph monitoring is a valuable feature."
"OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise needs to improve reporting."
"More real-time monitoring should be available for the system under test."
"We are expecting more flexible to use Jenkins in continuous integration going forward."
"Integration can be tricky during the setup process."
"The cost of the solution is high and can be improved."
"The solution is a very expensive tool when compared with other tools."
"The support team needs to be more coordinated."
"The TruClient protocol works well but it takes a lot of memory to run those tests, which is something that can be improved."
"The tool should consider releasing a SaaS version since it makes more sense nowadays."
"Lacks specific level monitoring."
"If the support of the protocols was the same throughout the other protocols and it was there evenly, then I would rate the product higher."
"LoadRunner Professional's parameter data could be improved."
"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."
"In terms of resource management, you need a lot of high capacity boxes if you need to generate a load of 1,000 or 2,000 users."
"If they can make LoadRunner more comprehensive, it would really help."
"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."
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OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is ranked 5th in Performance Testing Tools with 81 reviews while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 77 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is rated 8.4, while OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise writes "Saves time and effort, and makes it easy to set up scenarios and execute tests". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenText LoadRunner Professional writes "A sophisticated tool that supports many languages and works with all kinds of applications". OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise is most compared with OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, OpenText Silk Performer, Tricentis NeoLoad, Apache JMeter and OpenText ALM / Quality Center, whereas OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter, IBM Rational Performance Tester and Tricentis Tosca. See our OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise vs. OpenText LoadRunner Professional report.
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