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."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."
"Graph monitoring is a valuable feature."
"The Analysis feature makes it easy to analyze cross-data and we can pin to the focus period."
"There are various languages that they allow those programs to be written in, whether you want to use Java or something else."
"Paramterization and correlation are important features."
"My favorite feature in LoadRunner Professional is its ability to group scripts under separate IDs."
"It is actually a very good tool because it will support almost all, if not all, industry-standard protocols, and it is also equipped with very nice reporting capabilities, which is why I like it."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Visual Studio Test Professional are the IntelliSense and the ease of adding the NuGet packages."
"Easy to use and easily scalable."
"What I like most about Visual Studio Test Professional is the way people publish templates and publish integration."
"I was satisfied with the support given by customer service."
"The solution is very useful for compiling existing projects and developing new projects."
"The stability has always been very good."
"The most valuable features are tools like IntelliSense and ReSharper."
"Its initial setup process is easy."
"You should be able to use LoadRunner as a single platform. You should be able to have browser based access. You should be able to run enterprise tests."
"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."
"The solution lacks some form of integration."
"We'd like the solution to be a bit more user-friendly."
"The product is not stable and reliable in the version we are currently using."
"I would like them to lower the licensing cost and provide better support."
"The technical support of Micro Focus LoadRunner Professional could improve. I had an issue with the licensing and their response time is slow. They can improve on this in the future."
"The debugging capability should be improved."
"There are too many features with the product and I would like there to be less."
"We would like to be able to easily integrate this solution with our continuous integration tools, such as Jenkins."
"The documents on the Microsoft website are not very useful, and they ought to make it easier to find answers."
"The solution is quite expensive."
"It is hard to learn, and you need to invest time to understand it."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
"Visual Studio Test Professional needs to improve its scalability."
"The product must provide more integration."
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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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