We performed a comparison between OpenText LoadRunner Professional and Visual Studio Test Professional based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Apache, OpenText, Tricentis and others in Performance Testing Tools."The Analysis feature makes it easy to analyze cross-data and we can pin to the focus period."
"Enables us to test most of the products and projects that we have across all the different technologies, without having to look at other tools."
"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."
"When designing a workload model offers a good range of possibilities for creating goal-oriented scenarios, which helps us understand and meet SLAs."
"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."
"We don't find any features lacking. One of the most beneficial points we have from LoadRunner is we start sizing our infrastructure accordingly. So what we do is when we deploy a new workload, we do performance testing."
"I like the user interface. I like the way we can divide our scenarios and can tune them. The integration with the quality center is great. These features are really good."
"There are various languages that they allow those programs to be written in, whether you want to use Java or something else."
"The interface is easy to use."
"The tool is flexible and easy to manage. We use it since it is scalable and easy to use. It integrates with solutions."
"The tool has highly detailed debugging features."
"The solution is very useful for compiling existing projects and developing new projects."
"Easy to use and easily scalable."
"The most valuable feature is the in-built support for C# and .NET projects."
"The whole suite is made for .NET development."
"The solution is easy to use and they have also integrated with Microsoft."
"Licensing costs could be reduced."
"Support for Microsoft Dynamics needs improvement."
"There should be more integration with more open-source platforms."
"The product is pretty heavy and should be more lightweight."
"LoadRunner Professional's parameter data 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."
"More guidance on the use of the Tru Client protocol which is used for Web interfaces."
"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."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"In Visual Studio we still don't have anything which can pinpoint memory leaks on a certain code line."
"Visual Studio Test Professional is a little pricey."
"The product must provide more automation."
"I would like to see more integration in the solution."
"Enhancing the support for web application testing and load performance would be an improvement."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"The documentation is limited."
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OpenText LoadRunner Professional is ranked 2nd in Performance Testing Tools with 77 reviews while Visual Studio Test Professional is ranked 6th in Functional Testing Tools with 48 reviews. OpenText LoadRunner Professional is rated 8.4, while Visual Studio Test Professional is rated 8.6. 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 Visual Studio Test Professional writes "Customization is a key feature as is the ability to integrate with third-party services ". OpenText LoadRunner Professional is most compared with Tricentis NeoLoad, OpenText LoadRunner Enterprise, OpenText LoadRunner Cloud, Apache JMeter and IBM Rational Performance Tester, whereas Visual Studio Test Professional is most compared with TFS, Apache JMeter, Tricentis NeoLoad, SmartBear TestComplete and OpenText UFT Developer.
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