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."The most useful aspect of the solution is that it provides agents in different geographic locations."
"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."
"There are various languages that they allow those programs to be written in, whether you want to use Java or something else."
"The tool's most valuable features are scripting and automation."
"Paramterization and correlation are important features."
"It provides clients with an understanding of application and system performance."
"The Analysis feature makes it easy to analyze cross-data and we can pin to the focus period."
"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."
"I find network traffic testing the most valuable feature."
"Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional can improve the implementation of digital areas, such as digital testing, UI and native application, and native mobile applications."
"The pricing model, selling model, and business model need to be adjusted. For non-enterprise organizations, Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional is too expensive and not worth the cost."
"We are going to continue to use the product in the future, I recommend this product. However, those who are looking for only REST-based on the API, I would recommend some other tool because of the cost. There are others available on the market."
"The product is not stable and reliable in the version we are currently using."
"The solution must be more user-friendly."
"Sometimes we are not be able to click on some of the buttons due to the screen mismatching and compatibility issues."
"Micro Focus has two separate products for web and mobile applications, which means you have to invest in both."
"Instead of having too many graphs and tabs, use the analysis section to get a more simplified defect analysis."
"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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